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=243. Tennis.=--In reporting tennis matches one may use the following as
an acceptable guide. The summary by sets at the end of the story in all
probability was obtained from the scorer.

| =JOHNSTON WINS CHAMPIONSHIP= |
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|William M. Johnston inscribed his name upon the |
|classic national tennis singles championship most |
|impressively yesterday, using a forehand stroke that|
|left no dispute as to his right to the title. The |
|young player, who two seasons ago was hailed as the |
|successor to Maurice E. McLoughlin, made good the |
|prediction by the score of 1-6, 6-0, 7-5, 10-8, |
|while thousands cheered the vanquished McLoughlin |
|and the new holder of the highest honors of the |
|American courts. It was a memorable battle and an |
|inspiring scene at the climax on the field of the |
|West Side Tennis Club, at Forest Hills, L.I., when |
|the two men fighting for a sporting honor, and |
|fighting with all that was in them, almost collapsed|
|at the end, and hoisted on the shoulders of their |
|comrades, with the cheers of the 7,000 spectators |
|ringing in their ears, were carried from the field. |
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|While the homage paid to Johnston for winning one of|
|the greatest matches the All Comers' tournament has |
|ever known in its thirty-five years was sincere and |
|true, still on all sides there was regret that |
|McLoughlin, the hero who overwhelmed Norman E. |
|Brooks and the late Anthony F. Wilding in the great |
|Davis Cup matches last year, would not have the |
|permanent possession of the All Comers' Cup on which|
|his name is twice inscribed. |
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|It was not the same McLoughlin who stood in the |
|court yesterday that overwhelmed the famous |
|Australasians a year ago. Time had taken something |
|from his game, and as ever youth must be served. In |
|this instance it fairly leaped to its reward. Except|
|for the first set and the briefest of intervals |
|thereafter, Johnston was always the master of his |
|mighty adversary. He knew the game of his opponent, |
|and as in the an