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...rarely occurs. Your extravagant defrauds himself of excitement. He favors unlikelihoods, only to see them crop up at every turn. This paradox of the wise man and his penny is sustained by the fact that it frequently proves untrue. For instance, conservative students of tennis fully expected William T. Tilden to win the National Tennis Championship which was decided last week at Forest Hills. Perceiving a balance draw, with Tilden and Williams in one half, and William Johnston and Richards in the other, they expected that these four players would move smoothly through to the semifinals; they expected that...
...less sensible individuals, eager for the occurrence of an improbability, talked about Wallace Johnson of Philadelphia. Was it possible that he was about to win a National Title? In 1912 he was finalist against Maurice McLaughlin, in 1921 against Tilden. He has been rated in the first ten longer than any other player in tennis. His first appearance in that list was in 1908 when he placed ninth; in 1909 he was third, 1912 third, 1913 fourth, 1914 sixth, 1919 fifth, 1920 tenth, 1921 fourth, 1922 fifth. This season he has been playing his standard game, neither better nor worse...
Anderson is tall as a barber's pole. He often wears a blazer striped like one. With the deliberate elegance, so typically British, which is seen to best advantage in Australians, Canadians, South Africans and Russians, he strides about. dealing titanic strokes. Tilden occasionally hits as hard as Anderson. Few other players compare with him for power...
...front window of a low-grade restaurant employs to turn a pancake. The ball skims the net low, finds corners and clips lines with uncanny accuracy, bounces; extremely low. With it, Johnson clipped down Anderson, 6-1, 1-6, 8-6, 6-4. Next day he faced Tilden...
Acting Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis and some 10,000 unofficial persons, wrung and tortured by the intensity of the spectacle they had witnessed, were heartened by seeing William Johnston, a weaker player than Tilden, walk over Borotra, an abler player than Lacoste, with the loss of only five games in three sets. Lacoste's inferiority to his teammate was further exhibited in the doubles next day. Borotra, quick at getting to the net, was not so quick as either Richards or Williams but, once there, he was forced to oppose sniping by himself, for little Lacoste was nowhere...