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break service still puzzled them, and inter- 

 changing with Wright's fast straight serves 

 found them worse off. Wright played bril- 

 liantly, far better than Ward, and the wonder 

 is that their opponents were able to win 

 the two games they did score in each set. 

 Besides having an immense advantage in the 

 disconcerted work of the French pair against 

 their service, they varied their pace with 

 splendid judg- 

 ment, changed 

 from volley to 

 lob and back 

 with puzzling 

 frequency. A s 

 the play pro- 

 gressed, instead 

 of gauging their 

 play better, the 

 French pair did 

 rather poorer 

 work, and their 

 defeat was ap- 

 parent in their 

 half-hearted ef- 

 fort when the 

 match was half 

 over. 



Having won 

 the tie, there 

 was little inter- 

 est displayed on 

 either side in 

 the outcome of 

 the third day's 

 singles play. 

 Germot won the 

 second set from 

 Clothier, the 

 two making a 

 very hard fight 

 for it. Every 

 game but three 

 were deuce 

 games and sev- 

 eral went to 

 deuce two and 

 three times. 

 Germot finally 

 w o n 7 - 5 



through a bit of good placing along the side 

 line each time from a difficult position by ex- 

 cellent backhand strokes. 



Meantime, Australia was having about as 

 easy a time with Austria. N. E. Brookes 

 outplayed Kinzl decidedly, winning two sets 

 and losing but a single game before he let 

 up a bit. Kinzl then took two games 

 straight in the third set, and this seemed to 

 wake the Austrian up, for he took the next 

 six games and the match without an effort. 



C. von Wessely got the start of A. F. 

 Wilding by a streak of brilliancy after the 

 colonial player had the games 4-1 in the first 



set. He took game after game without allow- 

 ing the Antipodean a breathing spell. The 

 second set reversed the order, but the 

 Australian again struck his pace in the third, 

 and made a game fight for the set. It was 

 five games all before he weakened again and 

 before he regained his pace he had lost the 

 set and five games of another. His rally 

 then was another brilliant display, but he 



lost an ace on a 

 ball that struck 

 just outside in 

 the next game 

 and scored a 

 double out fol- 

 lowing that 

 cost him the 

 game and the 

 match. 



On the 

 ond day 

 Austrians 

 better 



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R. F. DOHERTY. 



sec- 

 the 

 did 

 the 

 doubles. In the 

 first set games 

 were inter- 

 changed, each 

 winning their 

 own service to 

 the tenth game. 

 With the games 

 five all, the 

 A u s t r a 1 i ans 

 won their oppo- 

 nents' service 

 through 

 Brooke's b r i 1- 

 liancy ; but the 

 Austrians re- 

 turned the com- 

 pliment and it 

 was six all. 

 Austria won the 

 vantage, but 

 Australia even- 

 ed it at seven 

 all, then took 

 the vantage 

 game and the 

 set by virtue of 

 Brookes' fine play at critical moments. 



Austria made a lame effort for the second 

 set, but put up another game fight for the 

 third, coming within an ace of winning the 

 vantage game with the score five all. A 

 bit of hard luck cost them the following 

 game and the match. 



Like the American-French series, there 

 was nothing to the third day. Brookes again 

 played brilliantly and won easily, while Kinzl 

 made a good fight for the first two sets 

 against Wilding. Then he lost his speed 

 and the match in short order. 

 Judged by the showing of the four teams 



