At Longwood

Scratch a Californian and you find a tennis player. Last week more tennis laurels went West. The ubiquitous, indefatigable, highly skillful brothers Kinsey--Robert and Howard --convinced all comers at the Longwood Cricket Club (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) that the national doubles wreath ought to hang on the Golden Gate beside Helen Wills' national singles, doubles and Olympic foliage and the numerous, though more withered, prizes of Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy, Maurice E. Mc-Laughlin, "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin.

Had it not been for the Kinseys, the doubles title would have gone as far West as Australia. Gerald L. Patterson and Pat O'Hara Wood were thought to be in their most invincible Antipodean form when the finals came. But the brothers Kinsey pulled themselves together after three battering sets, brought out their lobs and fighting spirit, saved the day by this score : 7--5 5--7, 7--9, 6--3, 6--4.

Nothing startling came from the French Davis Cup players, Borotra and LaCoste. Westbrook and Snodgrass crushed them before the semifinal. William T. ("Big-Hearted Bill") Tilden II, National singles champion, played with his 1924 protege, young Sandy Weiner of Philadelphia, and got nowhere. "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin, 1921 champions, went down before the Australian onslaught in the semifinal.

P:Play for the national mixed doubles title was interlarded with the men's matches. By the end of the week young Helen Wills and young Vincent Richards were left to face the 1923 champions, Molla Mallory and "BigHearted Bill" Tilden. The younger pair, on a hair-trigger edge, fired away brilliantly, bagged the title.

P:National Veterans' Doubles Champions : Walter C. Pate and Sam Hardy, of New York.

P:Father and Son Doubles Champions: A. H. Chapin Sr., and A. H. Chapin Jr., of Springfield, Mass.

Longwood Cricket Club was also holding a women's invitation tournament and the galleries got their first glimpse of 16-year-old Helen Jacobs of California, heralded as a Wills-like prodigy. She reached the finals, stopping several good second-raters, but lost flat-footed to Miss Eleanor Goss. Experts said: "A fine showing for one so young and not accustomed to turf."