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Show IDAWSON WINS IN TEIISITCH J Lake Forest, 111., Aug. S. Two out- Jj of-town players remained In the men's I II singles after today's play here in the j I twenty-ninth western lawn tennis I j (.hampfqnship. The number will be I i increased to four If Maurice McLough- I jj lin and Kenneth Hawkes of Los An- J I' celes appear tomorrow, aB expected. ' Ward. Dawson of San Francisco and j1 Clifford Lockhorn of Kansas City wont through iheir third-round j j' niatdiGS today in good form, Dawson J j Avon the feature match of the day j 1 1 from A. L. Green, Jr., of Chicago, rtin- I ncr-up to Heath Byford in the Illi-I Illi-I - nois championship, 3-0, G-3, 7-5. j Dawson tried to play the base line exclusively In the first set, but Green ; Avas too active for him, covering the j whole court. Dawson then settled to a waiting game, for he saw Green j was wearing himself out, and took ; the second set, evening it up by these J j tactics. Then came the deciding set, j both fighting for every point, Daw- j Ij son reached a 5-3 advantage, but the Chicago boy played the net so well I) that It went to deuce. Green had j: worked so violently for the two !! gnmea that he was spent, and Daw- ; son quickly put over the deciding j games. J ! Five Callfornlans were entered for the singles, but failed to appear. They i , are IT. V. D.' Johns, William M. John- i . ston, national champion; Roland Rob- erts, Willis Davis and Clarence Grif- v fin, all of San Francisco. Maurice j McLoughlin, former champion, and t Kenneth Hawkes, his protege, both i j of Los Angeles, are expected tomor- row. Their matches are the only ones l not defaulted In the opening rounds, j v each being paired with Chicago and regarded easy for them. |