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Show M LOUGH LIN AND BUND Y FORCED TO BOW BEFORE JOHNSTON AND GRIFFIN Single Champ Plays Great Game and Again Shows His Superiority Over Pacific Coast Comet; Five Sets Are Required to Decide Winner. By ARTHUR ROBINSON. By lnternn(i"iia News Service. NEW YORK, Sept. R. For the first time In his rareer. Maurice Mr-I,oughI1n Mr-I,oughI1n entered a tennis match at Forest Hills today with the opposition picked t win hy a publii- that was always his- a public that lionized hlni after his wins over Wilding Wild-ing and Brookes In the last rm vis cup matches and still lionise him for his toui-lieartedneen. And for the first time since IMS, when he and Thomas '. Bundy wrested the nattumil double championship from Raymond i. Little and Guetaya f Ton. hard. MOLoUghlin and Ids partner wore defeated. They were defeated by William M. Johnston and 'lu rence .1. Griffin. The score was 2-6, 6-3. 6-4. 3-6, 6-3. And what a match it was! It Is true that It did not measure up to the sensational sen-sational mat rh between Mclaughlin and Johnston of yesterday, but then no other match In the history of American tennis or International tennis ever approximated that wonderful contest for spine -chilling thrills and sensationalism. Crowd Not Thrilled. That was not to be expected of today's to-day's match and because of this the whole-hearted efforts of the players did not grip and enthrall the gallery as they did on Tuesday. Vet It was tennis of an extraordinary sort; it had to be with the 2"-year-old Johnston and the cyclonic cyclo-nic comet as participants. Bundy and Orlftln. too. did their share to make this, the last match of the thirty -fifth annual tournament of the United States National lawn Tennis association, as-sociation, a thriller; but it was Johnston the conqueror, and McLoughlln the conquered, con-quered, in whom the outcome of the matrh was vested. The result was the same as in the final round of the ninnies and the Identical stroke, which concluded the Johnston-McLfOughllri Johnston-McLfOughllri match concluded today's match and It was executed by Billy Johnston, with McLoughlln making a brilliant, but vain, effort to overtake the ball and send It back for a return that would prolong the match. All From the West. That Is all the return of that last ball would have meant ---It would have prolonged pro-longed the match for a game or two, or three at the most. The result would have been the same, for early tn that match it was demonstrated that Johnston and Griffin were their opponents' superiors. su-periors. They came from the west, the four of them. If there are more like them, we easterners want to see them. Johnston opened the match with his service and In the first game Mc Lough -11 n and Bundy failed to score a single point. But In all of the following ones, with the exception of the fifth game, they reeled off point after point and won the set. six games to two. In this set Bundy's craftiness was evidenced. evi-denced. He shot the ball down the center cen-ter of the court and through the slightest openings for points that did not even draw a return, and caught Johnston and Griffin In a position where neither made an effort to send the ball back. That Is the way he placed his uncanny thrusts his opponents each thought the other would make the play. Jolinaton and Griffin won the second set at 6-3 and won the first game by breaking through Mclaughlin's high-bounding high-bounding service. In the following set they dropped four games and went into the lead at two sets to one. In t,h fourth set. with Mclaughlin ii gain serving the opening game, Johnston John-ston and Griffin wavered momentarily before the opposition's furious attack a jnl lost at 6-3. It was due to the comet's irresistible. overhead smashing that the ultimate losers won this match. The laKt and deciding match was replete re-plete with some of the best rallies of the entire tournament. While the hall dew hark and forth across the net, the spectators rose a one and gave vent to their enthusiasm. Most of theae rallies resolved themselves into duels between Johnston and Mclaughlin, with the other two players chiming In with timely assistance. as-sistance. The Summary. A recapitulation of the point score and stroke analysis follows: Johnston and Griffin Seta. 3; points, 1.1S ; games, 23. McLaughlin and Bundy Seta, 2, points, 14 ; games, 22. Stroke analysis: Johnston and Griffin Acta, 1 ; place-ments. place-ments. IS; nets, 46, outs. 46 ; double faults. 4. .McLoughlln and Bundy Aces, 5; placements, 64; nets, 62; outs, SO; double faults, 2. The point score and stroke analysis: First aet-JohnHton aet-JohnHton and Griffin. .4 0 1 0 6 3 2 3193 McLoughlln and Bundy 1 4 4 4 4 6 4 581 6 Johnston -1 ace, 1 place. 4 nets, 6 outs, no double faults, Griffin -No ayes, 4 places, 5 nets. 3 outs, l double fault. McLoughlln 2 aces. 7 placements, 4 net. 3 outs, no double faults. Bundy 1 ace, 3 places, 4 nets, 1 out, 1 double fault. Second set Johnston and Griffin 4 3464253 434 6 McLoughlln and Bundy 2 6232435 2283 JohnBton No aces. 8 points, 4 nets, 4 outs, no double faults. Griffin No aces, 3 places, 3 sets, 4 outs, 1 double fault. McLoughlln 1 ace. places. 7 nets. 5 outs, no double faults. Bundy No aces, 5 places, 6 nets. 6 outs, no double faults. Third set-Johnston set-Johnston and Griffin 4 7 4 4 2 4 3 7 2 4416 McLoughlln and Bundy 6 5 2 1 4 1 5 5 4 2354 Johnston No aces, 12 places, 5 nets, 4 outs. 1 double fault. Griffin No aces. 6 places, 5 nets, o outs, no double faults. McLoughlln 1 ace. 7 places, 4 netB, E outs, no double faults. Bundy No aces. 7 places, 6 nets, S outs, no double faults-Fourth faults-Fourth set-Johnston set-Johnston and Griffin 07124346 3303 McLoughlln and Bundy 4 5 4 4 2 5 6 4 5306 Johnston No aces. 3 places, 6 nets, 6 outs, no double faults. Griffin No aces. 8 places, 5 nets. 7 outs, no double faults. McLoughlin No aces, 10 places. 7 nets, 6 outs, no double faults. Bundy No aces, 5 places, 6 nets, 5 outs. 1 double fault Fifth set-Johnston set-Johnston and Griffin 2 4424441 4296 McLoughlln and Bundy 42140224 2213 Johnston No aces, 5 places. 5 nets, 4 outs, 1 double fault. Griffin No aces. 3 places, 3 nets, 4 outs, no double fault. McLoughlin No aces, 3 places, 4 nets, 6 outs, no double fault. Bundy No aces, 1 placement, 5 nets, 6 outs, no double fault. |