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Show TENNIS CHAMPION SAILS FOR ENGLAND New York. June 10 Wallace F Johnson of Philadelphia, who was for merly the Intercollegiate tennis champion, cham-pion, was booked as a passenger on the steamship Kron Ptinzessin Cecl-lie, Cecl-lie, sailing todayfor England, as tho first of four prominent mericnn pla; ers who will enter the all-England Championship tournament which begins be-gins on the courts at Wimbledon Rear London on Monday, June 23. As announced. an-nounced. Maurice K M Loughlill, the Californian. R. Norris Williams. th young Harvard player, and Humid H Hnckett of New York, who have jut defeated the Australasians in the Davis Da-vis cup preliminary, will follow next Thursday on the steamer Baltic to complete the quartet of American entrants, en-trants, und incidentally lo pet practli e for the later rounds in the Davla i up com petitions. McLoughlln proved such a fiery' opponent op-ponent yesterday In adding the thiid and decisive point to the American score In the Davis cup preliminary that th Australasians dubbed him "the California comet." His admirers among his own countrymen today could find no words too strong for his praise, and insisted thai ho was proving prov-ing himself lo be without a peer in tennis the world over. If there were any who posed as critics of his work it was on the ground thai his defense was not quite as strong as his service. His forehand cross court passing stroke was wonderfully accurate bul his backhand stroke was sometimes made too close to the body, handicapping handicap-ping Its effectiveness |
