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Show CREAM OF INTERMOUNTAIN NET STARS MEET IN SEMIFINALS TODAY ... .- - . fTILDEN WINNER in SURPRISE . MATCH . ) Worlds Honors Go to U. S. Veteran in Straight Sets i HriJafl, K. T.. Sept. 1 Kaadlng but on mora victory to clinch poeeeailon of tha Iavieup end with ft world laws tennle aunremacy for another year tha ITnlted fltataa ulnned Ha faith today on William T. THden and Vlnoert Rtcharda, national cham-t.oua cham-t.oua ia tba 4eMb.ee Man aid I- Patteraoa and at o'Hara Wood of tha challenging Australians. Play waa to begin at I 14 o'clork on tha eourta of the Weat 81d Tennle club, racing an almoat hopelene taak aa a leault of their eruahlng defeat In tha two atnglea matrhea that opened tha . International play yeaterday, Patter-a-n loalng to TlWe and James . An-dereon An-dereon to William M. Johnaton In atrala-ht eeta, the Auatrallana wrt determined de-termined to make a "laat ditch" atand agalnat tha defenders. Victory for the antipodean racquet wleldera today would make It naceaaary for America to capture at leaat one of the remaining remain-ing alncles matches, ached u led Wonday, In which Anderaon and THden and Pat-teraon Pat-teraon and Johnaon are paired Tlklen defeated Patteraoa yesterday by acorea of, 7-S, 10-i. -. and John-ton John-ton conquered Anderaon, a-l, 'r .Today Tllden and Vincent Rlcharda. the 1 year-old tennla phenomenon, will oppoae Patteraon and Pat O'Hara wood In tha double match. If the Americana win tha famoua allTer bowl , It will be aafe for another year. The losa of the doubles, however, will put It up to Tllden and J oh nit on to win at leaat ana of the two remaining etn- flee to ha played on Ubor day, when 1 1 den croeaea racquet with Andar-' Andar-' aon, and Patterson with Johnaton. v fourteen thouaand apertatora grouped In tha towering atanda aurroundlng the grandstand turf wltneaaed period a of ramarkabl tennla play In yeaterdav'a ma tehee. There were tlmea In fhe Ttlden-Patteraon match, eapeclally In tha flrat two seta, when a breek In the luck might have given the powerful power-ful Australian at leaat a aat from his ' American opponent. No euch uncertainty eilated la tha - Johnaton-Anderaon match, the lithe, fiery-headed C'allfortilan dashing through three aeu aa though eager to catch a train for tha far coaat befora -dark, MATCH CKTKR OF IffTBRRflT. In meeting Patteraon. tha winner at i Wimbledon, Kngland, thla summer, Tll- den faced tha holder ol what la gen erally conceded to be the world's Cham-pionahlp. Cham-pionahlp. THden bald tha aame honor Ta l.o and Jtil, but ha oid not da. fend thla aeaaon. As a r aeu It there waa double 1 later eat In tha contest and every action and atroke of the two ' players waa followed with exceptional attention. Through tha conflict came Tllden with honors uatarniahed and the, claim of hie admire re that ha la one of tha great eat. If not the greatest, great-est, player In tha world today appar- aatly austalned. While Patteraoa forced him Into deuce acta In the flrat two periods of the match, critical obaervera were Inclined In-clined to believe that TUden always had aorae thing in reserve. Thla appeared ap-peared to be borne out by the fact that when ha turaed on tha full power of Ills offensive his ability to Immediately Immediate-ly check the rallies of Patterson be-0 be-0 cams clearly evident. rATTERSO-l LACKS CONTROL. - While Patteraoa uncovered a tremendous tremen-dous amount of bodily power la his battering of the ball, he did not have the perfect control, change of pace and finease that the American disclosed in tha real pi aches of tha play. A study of tha stroke analysts show that Til dea made approximately a third les errors thaa Patteraoa and almost twite aa many earned point a. Patteraoas percentage ' of earned point a, aa compared with his opponent's oppo-nent's waa less than Ii per cent, while Tildea'a waa belter than St 1 -S per cei.t, Patteraoa depended for maay of hie potnta an his terrific service, which was tha wonder of Wimbledon last June, but deeplte the terrific amount of power he put Into bis stroke he served but slant aca to TUden a ten, ana made thlrteea double faulta to lae phi lade Ipbian's one. Ttldea alao showed far better control con-trol and concept loa of atroklng, alternating alter-nating hard -driven deep-court drives, delicate aiicea and eharply cut balla which barely cleared tha net, and hta change of pace repeatedly caught Patterson Pat-terson out of post lion and unprepared for th unexpected atroke. The Aua--trallan depended almost entirely on bard driving, aad many of hta raturna war too fast and well placed for Tllden Tll-den to rearch, but he failed lamentably whea he endeavored to advance to furca court ana slice uac returns. AKDUtJIOl-f atASV. J Tha Johnston-Anderson match was " snore ar leaa muck of aa anilollmax following the sustained eiruggie which preceded It. It required, one bour and ten minutes for TUden to defeat I'at-teraoa, I'at-teraoa, whereas Little bill raced through hie match la a trifle leaa than forty tnlnutea Juat' how much effect Aaderaoa s recent lllncaa had oa hia play will perhapa never be known, but certain I r the Auetraiiaa aa no matcb (or Jobnstoa yesteruay. Anderaon could Bot match Johnaton'a Speed afoot, his wiaardry with the racquet, or hia genarakahip. The Call for nine raced him from aide to side of the court, puttrd him up to the net with soft shots and thea drove him back with ioba until almoat, every rally ended In a wide opening for the winner' a finiahing atroae. Anderson Improved at the rata of one game a eel, but never was in a poauioa where he appeared ta threaten hia conqueror. He occasionally Uncovered aome pretty idUn paaalng and a few times from cloae to the aet angled off ungettable atrokea. Lmrtng a great majority of the match, however, he waa on the de-fenaive de-fenaive end and piled VP many errors In bla of fort a to atroke Johniton a fiercely drtvea and chopped returna. The Auetrallan made eighty-one error a, more than half of wnich were outa. and earned but seventeen polnte. L-vaa thaa one-fifth ot the opportunities presented pre-sented to him. Johnston, a peraonl-ftcaOoa peraonl-ftcaOoa of ateadiaeaa. made thirty-nine thirty-nine Trorm and thirteen earned points. His peroeatage was exactly one-third of earned points to errors. OvVIStt SlKPRISCa. Anderson s poor shewing wn a surprise sur-prise to Johnaton and other leading tatnnis plare who had watched him In workouta before yeaterday'a matcha fi is game In practice waa far better than (hat of his brilliant teammate. Fatteraun. and he waa expected to force Johnaton to the limit. Anderson himself him-self could not account for the soft game be displayed against 'Johnston. i Juat euid not force myself to my ivest game In the rail lea." he said I be oaijr aaauaeat gflarde bjr oVatter- ' son after the matches was-'Rattllrg was-'Rattllrg good tennis. ehT' Pat O'Hara Wood, who will team with Patterson In th doublea. aald: "Better luck tomorrow, maybe. We hope ta delay the cup game uatU Mon- ftav.' i |