"Peer of Tilden"
Vincent Richards, Yonkers youngster, buried Francis T. Hunter under the most brilliant tennis of the year and won the National Indoor Championship. Score: 6-1, 6-3, 7-5.
The game which Richards played was almost incredible in pace, flexibility, finish. Journalists ran dry of superlative in their attempts to do him justice and paid him the most potent compliment at their command by naming him as " Tilden's peer."
Hunter, defending titleholder, a semifinalist at Wimbledon two years ago, and the conqueror of Gerald L. Patterson at Seabright last August, never showed semblance of...
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