Show FAMOUS NET COMBINE SUBDUED MONARCHIAL REGIME IS HALTED By ny ART CARLSON CLEVELAND April 18 Tennis 18 trIumphant the tyranny tyranny the Tilden Tilden- Johnston combine has combine ha has at lat last been subdued The reigning power of th tho th two Bills Dills that covered a period of five straight seasons has finally been crushed For or one of oC them Johnston Johnston has slid from oft the throne In the 1924 tennis ranking Johnston was placed third giving way to Vincent Richards who not long ago was called the boy won won- wonder den del of ot tennis Tilden of ot course courso gained top honors just as he h has done for the four tour previous sea sea- seasons seaSons sea sons TEST GRE PAIR P IN GAME G The Tho Tilden Johnston en-Johnston duo has long been the outstanding one In inthe Inthe the tho net pastime For six straIght campaigns lug Dig Bill Dill and Little Bill have swept through the fIeld fIeldIn fIeldin fieldin In the national singles event to reach the final round found And on all save one ono occasion 1919 occasion 1919 Bill ha has emerged the victor In Davis cup play the lanky Quaker and the dIminutive Califor- Califor Californian nian nian have carried tho the standards of Uncle Sam In a I most manner Year after year virtual virtual- virtually virtually ly unaided they defeated the tho best I exponents of the game the tho world I could produce In the tho singles es- es especially es especially they were well nigh tn- tn invincible In Invincible s I Since 1915 G eIther cither one or the tho oth- oth othen oth other er en o 0 have been placed with the first two In the tho annual rank rank-I rank rankings ings logs They have been boen right up upI I around the tho top for tor the past 10 20 seal sons Bona Johnston first smashed mashed his als Way Into the highest honors In 1 1915 Th The Tho following campaign he ie was placed second to R It Norris WIlliams the order of ot the prevIous pi-ev- pi previous iou ious year merely being reversed No rankings were made In tn found owing to the war but 1918 found Tilden rated second to R H Lindle LIndley Murray the champion In 1979 1919 Tilden and Johnston commenced theIr supremacy y rank rank- ranking ing log one rl right ht up until 1924 when Johnston as liS mentioned dropped hack back BETTER THAN X WILDING The tennis fraternity has never known a pair pall of who could com compare palO with Tilden and Johnston all things considered True that famous Australian team composed of Anthony Wilding and or Brookes made mado em cot all step stepI I out on the courts court But for con con- coni consistency consistency i of o de performances over a span of vars Irs ars nothing the equal of ot the two Dills Bills has been seen While Johnstons Johnston's star seems now to be fading that of Tilden still glimmers forth as ag brilliantly as ever So even should the little California aco ace pass completely out of the tho picture will still have havo one of o its great duo ready to battle in Its Ita defense for some sometime time to come conic unless of course Tilden follows the tho stylo recently set by Benny Denny Leonard and goes In- In Into In Into to retirement well Then Then well that would be some some- something tomo thing else elso again |