Other Tennis

At Newport, a banished king put on something of his former splendor. This was "Little Bill" Johnston, holder of the national championship in 1915 and 1919. He deposed Harvey Snodgrass, 1923 winner of the Newport Casino invitation singles and, paired with C. J. ("Peck") Griffin (his former national doubles championship partner), seemed about to dismiss two other Californians, the omnipresent Kinsey brothers, from the doubles. That match had gone ding-dong for four sets and nine games when Robert Kinsey, on a stretching "get", was crippled with cramps, had to default.

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At Chestnut Hill, Mass., tennis court-keepers put by their weeding-knives, rollers, mowers and whitewash carts. Out of the Longwood Cricket Club house came many pairs of players in white shirts, white flannels, white shoes. Play began for the men's national doubles championships.*

* The national singles championships begin August 25, at Forest Hills. L. I.