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...Chicago. Cranston Holman of San Francisco devoted 50 vigorous minutes to winning the National Junior Tennis Championship from Harris Coggeshall of Des Moines (who had previously defeated "Sandy" Wiener, a protege of Champion Tilden), 6-2, 6-1, 6-2. Frank Shields of Manhattan, defeated Walter Thomas (another Tilden prottege) to take the boys' championship, 2-6, 6-0, 6-3. Shields and Thomas then paired together to win the doubles title of their division. Holman was not so fortunate. He and his partner, one Pare, relied on individual brilliance to beat the seasoned teamwork of Henry L. Johnson...
...Davis Cup doubles tryout promised, at first, to end in an impasse. First Tilden and Johnston defeated Richards and Williams; then Williams and Richards beat Johnston and Tilden. A selection committee admitted that it could find nothing to choose between the two teams. They began a deciding match. Williams drove, volleyed; Richards served, smashed; they won the first set without loss of a game. "Wait till Tilden gets after them," grinned the crowd. But the Champion continued his erratic tennis. It was Johnston who got after them. His forehand drives were so fast they could hardly be seen; his service...
Briskly he walked to the umpire's chair, removed, for the first time at Glencoe, his shaggy sweater. He called for a pitcher of ice-water, dashed its contents over his head. Rolling up his sleeves, he prepared to serve. "Ooh," gasped the crowd. Tilden put down his rocket, called for a towel that he might dry his hands. A famed actress cried out helplessly: "That man is immortal." Then, deliberately, he served. A great cheer went up. Kinsey, unnerved by this mummery, bungled; superbly the champion swept up the set, the victory...
...often since he took the national title from him in 1920. The score was 6-4, 6-3, 9-7. Johnston stood the grilling pace (which lasted an hour and a quarter) well. He came off appearing fresh, which was more than he did after his defeat by Tilden at Forest Hills last year (TIME, Sept. 8). But he did not have the drive to meet the drive. Tilden said of himself that he played the best tennis that he has ever played at Chicago. Sandy Wiener of Germantown, Pa., protege of Tilden, lived up to his patron's hopes...
...doubles, Howard Kinsey and his brother Robert (No. 16 in ranking) were leading Tilden and Sandy Wiener when Robert crashed full length to the court with cramp in the abdomen. The match went to Tilden and Wiener by default, but Johnston and Clarence J. ("Peck") Griffin overcame them in the final...