LAWN TENNIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1920, Page 3

LAWN TENNIS.

THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIPS. WHY PATTERSON WENT DOWN. (Described by Mile. Lenglen, one of the World's champions.) The world's championship of lawn tennis is now In the U.S., and is In charge of W. jr. tilden; the doubles world championship is in the same country, In the cure of Garland and Johnston; the mixed doubles world championship is resting half in Australia with Iternld Patterson and half in Prance with myself. All the matches for these honors were played, of course, at Wimbledon, which is the home of lawn tennis. Barely lias a world champion fared so badly inner, I suppose, so inexplicably. The Patterson who went under to. 'fllden on "the afternoon of July a was unrecognisable * pod average club player would not have been proud of some of the shots he played There was something very radically wrong the most disappointed People In that packed centre court must have been those who hail Ifm'l « T" d , e "' " nd s:nv """ '»' the firs time that day. The brilliant, sometimes Z'l v' • nl i v " vs i "«- !Mti "K. Ti/den was naiely seen. It was never necessary. Patterson did not need beating by brilliance- lie heat himself in a way that surprised even lis critics, not to mention ills friends Patterson, oi the lightning service; Patterson'of that freely-taken, beautifully-executed smash e ,i!« i'f /'\ ms " raore oft hls K» m <> would tennis lm « me in championship lawn Jho American played safe, "soft stuff" to l e champion, because Patterson was heating mnself His back-band shot was untaitoi? .1 in. seven times in succession, and gener«,L °" 1 tlle , easlest cf Positions, lie-put it mashes somewhat on the end of his racket into the net or the stand It is doubtful whether ha bad imi'ssed even h n \'y, e d , UI " CS dur "« the week To!da" nr t™ P a i'' y °"° Tll6 »- fOT » moment or two, Patterson would return to the fastest erncc Wlth that eas(J wI «ert at Wimbledon. Tnell| „,,„;„, 1)c » « "P, Playing a backhand stroke which wis merely lamentable. Once, in M,o thitd « with he sanies_ at the critical point of i— •!, the champiim seamed really to come to lumself. Another moment and once Xn he was putting them Into the net. The "an e was watched as sadly a, it was p]a yed it rgreTrpCerfis 1 " 6 »* ~» The first, of my wonderful weeks has come and g„„e. Aud-Quelle .iournees lis e™U th«„ ni'n e „'": ldc ? Km all wnderful to me ',£' I»m " *"d In lawn tenff„i,i 1V n .°, ] "nger. When thev wi u lighten me with stories of those gods of the mt 1 shall no longer listen silently with nde-open cvfe. To-day, that great match .otvvccn Tilden and Johnston and my Zmtrwnen Oobert and Laurentzl it wat jAi call makes history. Ceti.lt magnlftn ,e AmV i,„! evor ' Wl " T fnrgH mn one »troi«: And h„,v your great. Parke beat Johnston' and was beaten by Tilden. - BRITAIN'S HOPE. Kmgscnte, the great hope for your counI, 'i„ ~ l:i| l |la "' ot >'oin' Davis Cup team, tii,i } i er " m ' winning his Tackot for i/V' 10 * , Til<ler ' of the l,! " e bear slim is joyous He loses tho first game am sm.les The huge crowd cheers. Sam tl,ii£ S """- "™ cn h Himself," he v tn u M "f ,'i" le '. l tct!n :md rald ' is-wlmt He n-ol i ,m 1 ° lHislness-I don't know, tain uf lk '° " Beneral ' lhi3 ' y° m cap- ™'., !If! I'll'J'« your English game-bnt so accurate so exact. He plays as from n tele' It" f li ".i 1 " 0^'1 " 5 BMr is ful > " f huf'nKvnv , wl "7 Ul ° flrst of "is Ave sets, the nlh'7 ■? I ', aS '" Worlt - Thls m »" on like f maciru,:. ' S " 0t eXdted - He '""■ HURRICANE HITTINO. "Htai," thinks Tilden. I will also be a " th,c - And lie loses the next set I He beat 'nTn!' bHt A tl , ,e ( , ueil "<lf"l English tennis neat him. Am , tllen wlmt fl , , tcL-if doe ? " ot upset J' OTr wonderful lunßMOte. A place is unguarded. There «nd e r-i„ b r U /' 1C I""" N "» Tilden hesitates! J L gS T" t£ ',' vvho never liesltates, wins the !,, ■ . ' as my American neigliliour nearly the end of the fourth set. Tilden has no sets to one, Ave games to four, arid tie score is 40-301 lam very ill of exlJ 1 ™ 6 " , "h. »Ie beautlfullest Englislf stroke, and Ivmgscote has brought the game :to douce. 1 breathe for a moment. It is >m«de4a turn. v»Am again g»lna tt* jut.