TILDEN BRILLIANT

Evening Post, Volume 55, Issue 55, 3 September 1923, Page 8

TILDEN BRILLIANT

;KEEPS HAWKES CONSTANTLY ON Sfr-v.j; DEFENSIVE. ■

(Exclusive to Australian Press Association.) V;. -^j^NEW YORK, ,31st August.

■i-Haivkes lacked . but Tilden, w,ho,>w'as; right; r ,on, .his. game .from the start/.got; going straight away; and led 5-1. He had no fear of. the Australian's

twisty serve, stepping right into it arid

.. driving deep to Hawkes's backhand. The ? "~ American served to his opponent's back * hand, forcing Hawkes into" a defensive £ shot, while he kept him running by * beautiful" forehand and, backhand driyfs Ing, intermixed with acutely-angled cuts. » He went out in the "first set by severe i. serving. - £ Tilden. continued to'play brilliant ten- %; nis in the second set, going for every\j. thing, his backhand driving being par- *: ticulax-ly severe, and not letting Hawkes £.. get into', the net.. ;The. American got an. %- early lead.

•> :■■" Tilden again got the lead in the rthird •i ■set, and-had an'easy victory,'allowing 5 Hawkes only the fifth game, on his own * service. . . ■' ■ .. '• -. "t . - '.