Tennis

At St. Louis. It is not good manners to yell at a tennis match--not etiquette to jostle ladies in the stands, to jump upon seats, toss cushions, straw hats into the air. Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended. For 4P: sets Champion William T. Tilden II had been playing George M. Lott, young Chicagoan, for the U. S. Clay Court Championship. The former had been a trifle below form, while Lott had played a glittering, trenchant game, won the first set, the third set, and brought the score to 4 all in the fifth and deciding set of the match. Then it was that Tilden threw down the balls he had been about to serve with and lifted a lean face, whittled leaner by anxiety and irritation, toward the yelling, jostling hooligans in the stands. The umpire besought order; the noise dwindled; again the sping-spung of balls became audible. Lott took the ninth game; the crowd did not whisper now. With wracking caution, Tilden brought the score to deuce. Another game for Lott. Then a sweeping, irresistible rally, three games, the match, for Tilden.

At Brookline. Little men have the name of being compact with greater en- durance than big men. It is not always the case. Last week Gerald L. Patterson of Australia, a tall and sturdy fellow whose white flannels are better tailored, whose blazer is gaudier, than those of any other gentleman in tennis, indulged in an endurance test with wiry Takeichi Harada of Japan, discomfited him, 5--7, 7--5, 3--6, 6--3, 6--1, to win the Longwood Bowl.

Miss Wills, playing in her first Eastern tournament of the year, showed all the poise and bright rhythm that have made her, at 19, the women's singles champion of the U. S. She defeated Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup for the Longwood title, 7--5, 6--2. Once Mrs. Jessup was within a point of taking a set. She whacked a speedy forehand into the left corner of the court--a beautiful passing shot. Two of the linesmen looked at each other with a mute, sleepy question. They called it out.

The Australians Patterson and Hawkes took the doubles from Malcolm Hill and Henry Johnson. In an exhibition doubles match, Miss Wills and Miss Mary K. Browne were beaten by Miss Eleanor Goss and Miss Elizabeth Ryan. The last player, home from England, had not played tennis in the U. S. for 13 years.

At Glen Cove, L. I. U. S. tennis players do not attach much importance to doubles. Britishers, intrigued by the leisured amenity of this form of play, concentrate upon it. The Oxford-Cambridge tennis team, playing at the Nassau Country Club, had no difficulty in taking the doubles matches from a bounding pair from the University of California. The latter won four singles matches, the tournament.

At Sea Bright, N. J. The English youths retaliated, beating a Princeton-Williams team summarily. One John Van Ryn, Princeton freshman, scored a lone victory for the U. S.