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Show American and Australians Split in Davis Cup Play Tilden and William Will Face Anderion and Hawkes in Double Match Today FOREST HIIXB. N. T.. Sapt. ; 1 (By A. 1'.) Prortnf an tinaipootedly formidable menace to America, a ten-nla ten-nla aupramaer, Auatralla'a Onvla cup chaUenaliur force broke oven with tha United Btalaa today In tha two atna-lo matchea marking- th openlna of mi play for the hlatorto trofihy that rarrlea with It th emblem of world a champlonnhlp. William M. (Little BHD Johnaton, one of Uncle Bam'a chief hopea In the title atruBlrla went down to defoat before Jamaa O. Anderaon. AuetreJIan captain. In a apoctacular frtpplne flva-aet battle. 4-1. S-t. V'w,; but William T. Tilden. national cham- glon. evened the cor for th United tates when he cruehed John B. Hawkea In a daaallnf, brilliant exhibition exhibi-tion la atralaht acta. .-4, .-1, S-L-. ANDEPI SON'S WIN is bio euBPBiaa. ""AnderionVTK'torf Bftr III. Cth ' fornlan, who thla year won the tltla of world cha melon at Wimbledon, rame aa B atartlina aurprlaa to tennla follower, who had eonaldered John-1 ton and Tilden virtually Invincible In the realm of International Play. Up-aottlna Up-aottlna the hopoe and calculatlona of tha cup defendora, It faced America with the moat danaoroua ohallenene haa had In tha laal three yeara a challanx mhlrh ran anly be fluna back by victory In two of tha re-malnlny re-malnlny three matchea of the eertea. Today Hawkea and Anderaon will face Tlldea and B Norrla Wllllama. American champion, a new Interna; llonal combination. In tha third match while on Monday Tilden will play Anderaon An-deraon and Johnaton will orpoea Hawkea In the ramalnlnp alnloa matchea. Thua tha winner cannot be determined before MondaT. and ahould Andareon maintain lb Una pac he displayed today the bid of th Antlpodeana for victory wlU b no leas powerful than It is determined. de-termined. TIN TMOU.ANO WATCH PLAY. Taklna rank anions tha aplca of Pavla cup hlatory, the Johneton-An-deraon battle thrilled a colorful al-lory al-lory of about 1..00 fane that filled doe to capacity the hi, new atadlum of the ,Weat Side Tennla club. But throusli Anderaon flan hod ta his moat brilliant helghta In comlna from be-hind be-hind to win after dropping1 two of the flrat three aeta. hla victory In the opinion of ex pert a. waa dua no loan to hla own brilliance than tha fact that Johnaton, for tha moat part, fell far below hla aual atandard of Play. Both playera were alternately erratic and apecuvcular aa they fought point for point, but In the end Anderaon" superior atamlna and greater accuracy accu-racy at crucial moment prevailed. From the atart Johhaton lacked the deadly control that haa Biarked hia brilliant career. HI booming forehand fore-hand ahota carried their ueuaj power, but lacked the relentleea accurecyof okl, and as Andenaon. matching drive for drive, returning Johnaton' awlft-eet awlft-eet forcing ahota with even greater apead, carried th attack to hla opponent, oppo-nent, the American weakened. JOHNSTON BIOiNB TO LOSS OUT. Tha cloao of tha fcrurth sot, which Anderaon won nttar a tone, deuce atniggla, now tha beginning of tha and for Mule Bill. Flva of tha flrat eight gem of th fourth got went to deuce, go keenly did thy battle for point. Anderaon lad nt 4-1 nnd again at e-l. only to have Johnston rally, call on tha utmoet of hlgre-aerva hlgre-aerva and tl tha count at t-hll. Then came tho glavontb game and what proved to ba th turning point of tho match. 'Within two pointo of tIc-tory tIc-tory In thla gam, Johnaton netted an oaay klU. Ho loaned tho gem a away on tha next point And Anderaon won tho game and pat. 7-. on four stralsTht error by tho America a. Johnaton had fivn hla- ail In that fourth awt rallv and whan An.rnoe, eama ba h. ancheka4l. ih American wag unequal to tho tank. Tha fifth act wag a walkaway for tho big Aua-tralian, Aua-tralian, who roe to hla moat daxxllng game aa ha aeneed victory. In the aocond gnroa of thla not ho smaahod aoroaa four pMrcoaalva aorvlna tvoea, a feat that brought him thurtderou an piauaa from the crowd. On only ona of theee bullet-like drtree waa Johnaton John-aton able vn to totirh with hts rao-Quot rao-Quot and than ha h4 no chance) to make a return. LOtIR FIOHTB ' 1 (.AMI BUT LOSE . ' A gal not guch brilliant play Johnaton. wag hopelcnely - bontcn, but, weary under tho AuatraUan'a rolantlaaa altar al-tar k, ha foucht on gamely. He man-atoof man-atoof to take the fourth and. aovanth gnrnao of Ih final aet altar both had gone to donee, but they ware only momentary flaahag of hla tan nig go nlu. Anderaon, bringing all tha craehlng power of hia fore hand a Into play, quickly fUlsbad tha sot and tha male h. Tha defeat wag tha flrat Johnaton hag ever gufferad In Da via cup play. In throe previoue year of competition competi-tion ho had won twelve matchea in Ingle and doubles, tha latter with Tllnen hla partner. Th Tidn Hawkea encounter though It gnr o America a m uch -neoded victory, waa an anticlimax to tha Johlnaton-Anderaon match, which had held tha crowd in euapenao for mora than an hour and a half. Tilden bringing tha full battery of hie brll-I brll-I I nt eiroke Into play, overwhelms! Hawkea a 1 moat from tha atart. The left-handed A wet ra Han proved n hard and aggrasalv driver, but he waa outclnaaod by tho AmerUia chain-pton. chain-pton. BICHAROt IN ' ' FKATURB MATCH. Today'g program In sddltion to th rup doiiblcs match, will include two exhibition attraction. Vincent Richard a, fourth member of the American Uitoi-natloaal team, will I pair with hla - Wimbledon partner, ! rrancla T. Hunter. In a doubt a con- toot with tha roaorviata of tho Aua-traltan Aua-traltan team, Ian Mclnnes and Richard Rich-ard Bchioainger. Manuel Alortao of Stain, will oppoee Brian L C. Norton, South AfrlCdxa atar. ta s e-nglea aa-hlbltion. |