"Peer of Tilden "

"Peer of Tilden"

Vincent Richards, Yonkers youngster, buried Francis T. Hunter under the most brilliant tennis of the year and won the National Indoor Championship. Score: 6-1, 6-3, 7-5.

The game which Richards played was almost incredible in pace, flexibility, finish. Journalists ran dry of superlative in their attempts to do him justice and paid him the most potent compliment at their command by naming him as " Tilden's peer."

Hunter, defending titleholder, a semifinalist at Wimbledon two years ago, and the conqueror of Gerald L. Patterson at Seabright last August, never showed semblance of breaking through early in the match. With his title slipping from him in the final set, he stirred himself to the form which served for his defeat of Patterson. Richards, responding with that touch of genius which completes the equipment of a champion, forced his own game one notch higher to win a deuce set and the title.

The victory gave Richards his third national championship. With Tilden he already held the indoor and outdoor doubles titles. He is 20 years old.

Jay Gould, 34, Philadelphian, won the National Court Tennis Championship for the 16th successive year. His opponent in the finals was C. Suydam Cutting of New York.

The Oxford University team which sails this week to compete in the Penn Relays at Philadelphia on April 27 and 28 included W. E. Stevenson, formerly of Princeton. Stevenson will run the half mile in the distance medley.