Tennis

Davis Cup. Not by Jiu-jitsu but by Zenzo Shimizu, Japan shunted Canada out of the Davis Cup play, at Montreal. "Shimmie," Captain of the Nipponese, baffled both members of the Canadian team, Willard Crocker and Jack Wright, in singles matches. Okamoto did likewise, the Canadians' only win being the doubles, against Okamoto and Harada. Score--Japan 4, Canada 1.

At Baltimore, the Australian team --Gerald Patterson, Pat O'Hara WTood, Norman E. Brookes--brushed an ineffectual Mexican contingent aside.

Australia and Japan thus faced each other in the finals of the American Zone. The winner will play France, European Zone winner, and the winner of that match will gain the right to compete against the U. S. in Philadelphia, Sept. 11, 12, 13.

Satisfied that tennis officials now regard him as an amateur, William T. Tilden II, accepted the U. S. L. T. A.'s invitation to play No. 1 on the American Davis Cup team. "Little Bill" Johnston said he would be second racket. The ban on "Big Bill" Tilden for writing about tennis as well as playing it, would not become effective until Jan. 1, 1925 in any case, but his being invited and his ready acceptance indicate that the furor is over permanently.

Southampton. Society milled about the Meadow Club, at Southampton, L. L, babbled on the verandah, clinked its iced drinks, watched leading amateur netmen exert themselves for the Meadow Club Bowl on courts of greenest grass.

The first real cynosure came in the fourth round when Norman Everard Brooks, aged Australian wizard, took the front court against Harvey Snodgrass, of California. Though valiant to the last, Brookes plainly showed that his 47 years hung heavy upon him. Snodgrass crumpled him up 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, later crumpling Robert Kinsey in the semifinal.

But there was another of these California Kinseys in the running-- Brother Howard, who had run off with the Seabright tournament two weeks ago. For two sets of the final, the impetuous Snodgrass controlled him with McLaughlin-like smashes and net-rushes. Then Howard, steady of eye, hand and purpose, forged slowly ahead, wore Snodgrass to a nervous frazzle, won 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-3.

This Howard Kinsey might need a new trunk for his Bowls, were it not that both the Seabright and Meadow Club punch receptacles are brand new, their antecedents having been won permanently last year by "Little Bill" Johnston and Vincent Richards, respectively.

Women's National. Into the Forest Hills, L. I., tennis stadium went the country's 59 leading women players to contest the national title held by tall Helen Wills of California. Helen had been on the grounds since her return from Olympic triumphs, practicing daily against men only. Her strokes seemed surer, stronger, faster, more polished than ever.

Experts thought that the greatest obstacle confronting Helen was not Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, from whom she won her title last year; nor Mrs. George Wightman, her Olympic doubles partner; nor Eleanor Goss nor Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, other members of the American women's team that went to Wimbledon and Colombes; nor Mayme MacDonald, national clay court champion. Experts scrutinized a lithe figure that appeared from secluded practice courts in upper New York State, recognized Miss Mary K. Browne of California, national champion in 1912 1913, 1914.

Turning from tennis to golf in 1914, Miss Browne picked up her racket again in 1917 and toured the country for the Ambulance Fund. She reappeared in 1921 in the national finals against Molla Mallory, vanished again until two weeks ago at Seabright. In that tournament she flashed through a winner in the singles, doubles, mixed doubles; showed her early brilliance undiminished.

Mary and Helen were both seeded in the lower half of the draw, seemed likely semi-final opponents.