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Show GRIFFIN IS WINNER CHICAGO, Aug. 2. California's supremacy su-premacy In western tennis was upheld today by the newest star of tho state's great galaxy, Clarence Griffin. Playln through his flrat tournament on gras3 courts, the boyish champion wound up a brilliant campaign by a hard-earned victor- over Joseph Armstrong, whoae game threatened for a time this week to put Minnesota In nearly as prominent a place on the tennis map as the Golden Gate state. The scores of the final match were; 6-4. 6-0. 4-6. 6-1. The biggest gallery of the week overflowed over-flowed the stands and was about evenly divided in its support of the two youths. Armstrong was nearer home and scores of hla frlend3 from the north were among the throng, but Griffin had won hosts of supporters by hia gTeat playing, and applause ap-plause was evenly divided. Maurice Mc-Loughlln's Mc-Loughlln's title- as western, champion falls iib i eJjfcjaf 'i 1 1 "' , i 2nta'?Zthy successor In th0 new holder, u, .J?r""n ls not of the same speed as nls Illustrious fellow-countryman and the hatter's honors as national master are hardly In danger, according to experts. Griffin today played much the same sort o a same that brought him winner through the week's battles. Th coast boj-s reliance today, as in his p'revious matchos. was on his steadiness. Unruffled Un-ruffled by the desperate rallies of hla antagonist, he played with the machlno-llko machlno-llko certainty that solf-confidencfe inspires. in-spires. Kc was wise enough not to attempt at-tempt to keep up a pace too swift. His first set was hard won. but he played a cautious game. In tho second ho cut loose as if to see what he could do and the result, a love set In his favor evidently satisfied him, for In the third he rested, conserving strength for the final teat. Hla generalship was equal to that which. It was prophesied, would be shown by the St. Paul player, and his racquet rac-quet he handled In a manner far superior. supe-rior. Opposed to Griffin's cross court shots and side line smashes, Armstrong pitted drives to the base line. On these he had been returned winner over Walter Hayes and Harry "Waianer and depended on them to win points in the oruclal battle, bat-tle, but Griffin handled the back court balls as If ho liked them and seldom allowed al-lowed them to keep him too far away from tho not, where he was away ahead of the north emer. Armstrong's service formed on that ln-i ln-i Iroduced from beyond the RoclUes by Bundy, was more or less of a failure to-?,J)y;J to-?,J)y;J lt was shaky in his match with Valdner yesterday, and his failure to get tho first ba l over this afternoon forced film to modify the stroke so that It lost Its effectiveness. In any event, it held no terror for Griffin. The western doubles championship was . won by Heath Byford and R. H. Burdlck Y. -anxr cwsy victory l nnal round i Gl 6 e6-! 03 Jhn a wlnston, T"he now champion pair, according to the new card, will compete at Onwentsla Wednesday with the northern champions, . hntavoucnrud and William "Washburn f i t southern pair, Robert Shelton rtndBTrthdcl?- wi" P,aY Clarence Grlf-. Grlf-. champion? Slrachan. the Pacific coast n-ThW)nil,n? tcam8 bat on Wednesday Wed-nesday for the privilege 0f playing Mc-' Mc-' Loughlln and Bundy ior the national Urtamplojuhlp at Nawporjt Aunuat |