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Show i M'LQUGHLIN WINS LONGWOOD BOWL One More Victory Gives Per manent Possession of Trophy to Californian. Boston. .July 29 -The custody of the fifth Longwood bowl, famous as a tennis trophy, wa6 regained today by Maurice E. McLoughlln of San Francisco, after a brief and some what uninteresting match with the holder, William M Johnston, also of San Francisco. McLoughlln needs another an-other victory to obtain permanent possession of the trgphy. He won a leg two yoars ago. but defaulted last year lo Johnston. In bts successful career through the Longwood tournament this vear. McLoughlln Mc-Loughlln met and defeated In straight sets N", W. Niles. T. C. Bundv. A S Dabney, N R Williams R. L. Murray Mur-ray and W M. Johnston He appeared ap-peared to exert himself less today than in an-, of the five previous con- c tests with the exception perhaps of usf that with Bundy. Johnston handled McLaughlin's cannon ball service as well, if not better, bet-ter, than either Williams or Murray, but he was weak at the net when h-dashed h-dashed in 2nd lacked the strength of Murray to drive from base lines At no time in the match was Mclaughlin Mc-laughlin pushed nearly as hard a in his contests w ith Murray and Williams Will-iams Even in the first set when Johnston took three games in succes sion and made the score four all. the champion captured the next two and1 the set without Jumping into- the air or making any unusual effort, In the last two games in that set McLoughlln Mc-Loughlln earned lx out of 'the thlr-j thlr-j teen played points, and made hut three errors. His only slump in the match was in the eighth game in the second set, when two nets, three outs and failure fail-ure to handle two of Johnston's service serv-ice drives, gave the latter the game and tied the score for the set. Again McLougblin came back in the next two games with four pface shots, catching Johnston off his foot in each case and rattling the younger player into making a double fault. |