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Ellsworth Vines
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fault probably averted a fourth.
BEAT LEADERS
Crawford, unable to touch the ball POLICE BEATEN BY CIVIL
could only acknowledge the feat. with a bow. This deadly firing was the problem of the match.
But Crawford could serve outright winners too. Not in sequence, for he does not specialise in cannon-balla, but often enough to snatch a vital point.
That he sometimes caught Vines!
out with these expresses must be cealment of their coming by his easy swing and the swerve which he cuningly put on.
attributed to two factors his con
LOVE GAME FOR VINES But though Crawford held hia service in the fifth game. he could only win one point in the next two
More service aces gave Vines a
ford seemed to carry with him the love game; in the seventh Craw
smart of their violence; he double faulted, for Vines to lead 5—2.
The set looked to be America's
| for the taking; a few more burst- ing shells from the long artillery were alone roqquired. The firs! surprise. Crawford's ground strokes quickened; he stood nearer in to the service; göt the ball over. and waited for his chance.
It came by Vines attempting a drop-shot and failing in his range.
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YACHT CLUB SURPRISED
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Figures in brackets denote result of corresponding game last year.
One had seen respect against Cochet-the longer driver missing the short putt.
CRAWFORD'S "BREAK
THROUGH" Crawford followed his firat "break through" by salving his
cwn service after Vinest had a set ball. But he could not stay the torrent from above in the tentk
Vines drew first blond ati game. 6 4.
The second set was an epic one
of twenty games. The value of its possession was visualised by both men; they strove for it like the heroes both were. For Vines to win it would give him Hen on the match; for Crawford to Jose it meant an Everest climb.
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a service-governed set when Crawford, mid a great shout, turned back two cannon-balls and won his two-game break
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jyou see. I told you you would be when you knew me. Oh, but what caused Mlle. Guilberte to loose her is the matter? I would never have judge was relentless in this respect head completely. Sne burst into a told you if I had thought you would At the beginning of the third but the acea came to take him out wild fit of giggling, and, with some be angry. You cannot be really But this gorgeous set of twenty set Crawford rolled up the seeva from fifteen. games was much more than a ser of his right arm another inch. vice duel. Its facets were many, was a signal to his friends that he the sparkle of genius always meant business. Vines had not
I BRW Brookes and Me.
interval, as he usually does. come to the umpire's chair ́at the
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Loughlin serve to each other for thirty games in New York in 1914; | neither had the ground stroke Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & equipment, nor made ita influence
felt, of Crawford and Vines.
Melbourne.
|
TWO BRILLIANT LOBS
all through the eight games. Craw
Crawford's
confused memory of being presented angry about such a little taing as fate Tooked
to the Lord Cardinal on her con- lying abed?" doubtful when he came with-
firmation, she knelt and kissed the Her voice faltered, died away. She In a stroke of losing his own
Marquis's hand.
saw him rise rnd leave ner, heard Her sisters were disgusted and nim make some service game-the fifth of the
mumbled apology ner mother pained at this display to her father about being indis- set. But now sensing the oc
jof casion, well he was
ill-breeding; ber indulgent posed. He left the gallery.
It was WP to
father did his best to excuse her as he had, thought: She was a He was a yielding, Vines almost volley Vines.
awkwardness as the result of being noyden. a perc baggage, an idle, The next four games taking kept much in the background. But silly, chattering slut. It was as ne I think possibly that Crawford two lovely lobs in the fifth game contested.
ford played many delightful shots Crawford to 5-4 were splenedidly Beaux Airs was enchanted with this had thought. He had chosen the
Each man was eager naive act of grateful homage. She wrong one. might have won it earlier, despite reemain in my memory--but some and alert; you could scarcely be.
He was condemned to the Damocles sword always hang of their lustre was lost because lieve they had fought continuously virginal to accord with the wild
alone was sufficiently young and marry a woman he could never love, ing over nis head when Vines was Vines, was resting his guns.
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corner,
which he saw, was cóming.
INCREASING PRESSURE
never nave doubted. He was all he found this time alone. Seizing adoration, and she all gratified ner by the wrists, he forced her to pleasure.
swear on the crucifix to speak the
To
my certain
"
tack; why not let him waste his cartridges against a brick wall?
In the ninth game the backhand 'They were permitted to converse truth, and then demanded which of The prudent general kept back his reserves for the culminating tussle of Vines, under the greater pres apart in a window-seat; sometimes her young mistresses had bathed in sure which Crawford now exerted, he was able, undetected, to hold her a fountain in the park early that By not searching it more fre
at each other, {morning." The fifth set opened with ten-began to bend. If only Crawford hand. They gazed quently Crawford dave his ad-
knowledge, versery open country for his lowe sion hign. Players and the crowd could break it when Vines was and discovered unimagined per
himself serving-i
[fections. They, were ecstatically Monsieur," she replied, none of my While play drives. He increased the arduous alike were keyed up.
The tenth and last game saw happy. He had po need now to mistresses has ever committed such task of defence and seemed to was in progress you could only Crawford inspired and Vines his question her about her bathe, and an imprudence." lengthen many rallies which, with a hear the ping of the ball. The
hapless victim. A perfect lob on even no wish, for, as his passion "Infamous and blasphemous little more pistonage in the back applause was reserved for the end the baseline prepared the way for grew each minute, he discovered in daughter of Judas, you lie!" he Shal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Nagoya hand corner, covered by a volleying of the rallies,
new delicacy, a shouted. "With my own eyes I saw Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
the first point, the second was himself a strange Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
gained by Vines netting on his Lender reverence for the immaculate a lady bathing in the fountain at Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
· Always one game ahead by Educated in four seta, grasping backhand.
** purity of this child-goddess. With the end of the box alley,” Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.virtue of his service, Crawford the Import of every point in the
For the third, Crawford made an the delight of a jaded and world- "That, Monsieur," said she, with Shanghai, Mujl, Kobe & Yokohama.twice came within two points of fifth, the crowd held their breath exquisite backhand pass.
Love weary man, he listened to the artless a very pretty blush, "was no lady, S'hai, Mofl, Kobo, Osaka & Y'hama. Shanghat, Moji,
Kobe &
Yokohama, breaking through the service of while the performers were expend- forty on Vines service. Could Prattle that wished to inform him of for it was myself,"
She would have escaped, but he Vines. That he was not allowed ing it. Never was a fifth set in there be any sweeter music in Aus all her pleasures, all her trials, and Mofi, Kobe & Yokohama. Moji, Robe &"Yokohama.
to do so until the twentieth game my fairly long experience contest.tralian ears? We all strained for even-touching innocence all ber caught her hand and stared at her.
faulta,
while his whole world fell about nis Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
is a tribute to the staunchness of ed under such Ideal conditions; ward at the first match ball. Nong Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,
the American.
and rarely have two valiant man other was required. Vines netted have a multitude of faults fear stance, and power tumbled crashing
she insisted, "Ilears. Birth, tradition, circum Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
[you will not love ma when you round him, and he never noticed ex- know them all. My sisters say. Ifcepted to account the world well lost. answer back though indeed, if, "In that case," he said, "I will'.
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given more value to a gallery.
4
"Yes, indeed,"
for a second time, and the Centre Again the crux for Crawford Court echoed with a hundred He had not the moral value' of a was to captura a service game from cheers. service game won; if he failed to Vines. The task looked, as diff. As the new champion and the they speak, why should I not an marry you. hold his own he was foiled. One cult as before, when the champion old left the court they were salut ewer back? And my father calls Alas! Monsieur, I am married could not but admire the stolid won the second game with whated by more applause as me a chatterbox, but indeed be already to the head footman.!" strength of Vines throughout this must have seemed to frawford like they passed under the archway loves to hear me chatter; and my "What! he cried in anguish. long ordeal. He was up at the net a stream of lava, drama. which led to the dressing room mother complains that I sadly idio: "Docs that clown, that doltish more than in the first set; bia ANOTHER FOOT-FAULT both were still as self-possessed as and indeed. I love to lle abeddo funkey, enjoy the exquisite rapture volleys nearly always were closing. But a little blam was forthcom if the fatch was about to begin, you not love to lie abed? Only this of beholding this nymph clad only in
ing in the third game, when Viner Australians flocked- round their morning I was so shocking idle my her beauty and the dewy morn?” Com-Bat in the twentieth game one cracked three service replies out of here; many Americans added their maid could not get me to rise before “Certainly not, she protested, noted that not one of his first ser- court Was this a sign of ao congratulations." The match could seven o'clock." bad d scandalised.^. “My husband and my» vices fell into court. This meant anxions mind? The Californian have had no more sporting finish; "Before even o'clock?**** 3/4 |self are "honest folk. Neither ha that he did not score an ace The did not show it in the fourth game.and, of course, Jack Crawford has "Yes," indeed.. Was it not shock nur I would dream of his beholding- value of his service arm was there. He was foot-faulted again-the not an enemy in the world.
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