Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1930, Page 43

SPORTY Doeg Needs Forehand Drive to Become World Tennis Championship Possibility LEFT-HANDED CALIFORNIAN HAS ALL OTHER ASSETS Possesses Deadly Service That Has Won Him Inter- national Fame and Is One of Most Colorful and Popular Pl ers in Net Game. This ie oxe of a series of stories in which Vincent Richards is @nalyzing the playing ability of the men chosen for this year's United States Davis Cup squad. BY VINCENT RICHARDS, International Tennis Star and Former Davis Cup Ace. F John Doeg had a real forehand drive, no player in the world could beat him. Here, in a sentence, you have the low-down on the blond giant of the Pacific Coast, whose service has won him international reputation. There have been many great servers in tennis—Tilden, Me- Loughlin, Williams, Patterson, to mention a few—but it is doubtful if any had a more deadly delivery than the young Hercules from Santa Monica, Calif. The fact that Doeg is left-handed is partly responsible for the | The ball comes at you differently than from success of his service. a right-handed player, and when it is working right it comes with such s get it back over the net. d and so low that it is almost impossible to do more than Because of the lack of effort with| he faces a great task in breaking which he serves, Doeg can keep whip- ping them over all afternoon without tiring. His stroke is as natural and frictionless as the swing of Babe Ruth at a base ball This servi ability as a volleyer, makes him a tough man to beat for any except a Lacoste or a Cochet, and even they have something to think about when they go up against him. It is a tre- mendous handicap for a player to know that he must keep winning his own service games, and that if he loses one through to equalize. ‘When that serve is going right Doeg is pretty sure to win half the games and stay on even terms, and if the breaks are with him the chances are combined with Doeg’s ! that he will win the match by taking a game now and then on the other man’s service. But champions cannot depend on breaks to win. They must go out and earn their points. So far Doeg hasn't been able to go out and earn them con- sistently, and the reason is that his 1 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. Ground strokes are the basis of tennis. A good baseliner generally should win over a good net player, who has nothing but his volley. And Doeg in the past has had little save his volley and serv- ice, and sometimes his volley has falled him badly. When His Game Collapsed. When Doeg first arrived in the East some five years ago every one hailed him as the next national champion. But after two seasons of fair success his game began to peter out, and it looked as though he were on the tobog- gan for good. He simply couldn’t hit a forehand drive, and this so discouraged him that he lost confidence in himself and his whole game went to pieces. Last year, however, in spite of all the discouraging thin:s said about his career, Doeg appcared in the East again, dtermined to redeem himself. He started badlv by losing to Eddie Jacobs twice, n, Wilmington, Del., and in the intercolleagiates at Merion. His star was completely eclipsed, it seemed. But Johnny didn't give up. He did some _thinking and decided to make a big change in his game. For years he had been trying to hit a drive and couldn't, except on the asphalt _surfaces in California. So he made up his mind to use the chop, the stroke he had em- ployed the first two seasons he played in_the East. The difference was amazing. In- stead of being a chopping block for every player, Doeg began to go up the ladder swiftly. He won the Nassau in- vitation tournament, the New England championship at Agawam Hunt, the Longwood Bowl and the Seabright Bowl, and he was runner up at Southampfon. To cap a remarkably successful season he won the national doubles with Lott, and gave Tilden the hardest battle he had in the national singles, leading him 2 sets to 1. ‘Thus the chop stroke, which has been looked down on in tennis has changed the outlook for Doeg. He used the chop almost entirely during the grass court season in 1929, and such was his forehand hasn't been good enough. accuracy in placing it that he beat le news is> out Meet the Don himself v v v Gentlemen we present DON HERNAN CORTEZ! But meeting the Don is only half the treat for you for the Don himself is bringing a new and finer cigar than you®ve ever smoked before. Back of this new cigar is the name of America’s oldest and best known makers of fine cigars. 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He would be far more dangerous if he could develop a sound drive. The chop has its use and place, but it should be employed to ml’é up your game and not as a single et. . There are extremely few players who have got anywhere with only a chop- ping game. ~ Wallace Johnson is one. With his service and volleying ability Doeg can beat a lot of players against whom the average chopper would be lost, but think how much more effec- tive his net game would be if it were backed up by a vigorous drive. It would be a financial asset to have Doeg on the team. He is one of the| biggest gate attractions in the game, with a large following wherever he lays, both because of his service and is personality. It would be difficult to think of a champion closer to the ideal than this young giant, and he probably has more people rooting for him to become chams plon than any other player. 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C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Little Fox Terrier Is Judged Best Among Nearly 3,000 Dogs| By the Assoclated Press, EW YORK, February 13.—Pend- ley Calling of Blarney, a swanky little lady whose tribe is &s - much a part of the Manhattan scene as Grover Whalen's top hat, last night trotted out of Madison Square Garden as grand champion of the big- gest dog show in America. Before a gallery of nearly 10,000 chuckling spectators, she was judged the best dog in the fifty-fourth annual show of the Westminster Kennel Club. And that means just about the bést dog this side of London. There were nearly 3,000 dogs in the show, from all parts of the country. Pendley Cailing of Blarney—possibly “Pen,” for short, although “Blarney” fits better—is a wire-haired fox terrier, with a hammer-shaped head, mutton chop skers, tan ears, curly white coat with a black spot here and there. and the waggingest stub of a tail that ever beguiled a judge. ‘Tugging at a leash along Park avenue any fine Sunday afternoon you'll see two “Pen’s” to one of any other breed. “Pen” belongs to John G. Bates of Morristown, N. J.. who showed her him- self. She won prizes in Europe before carrying off everything in the terrier class and finally the grand champion- ship in this show. No one could look at “Pen” without grinning, and the way she would coyly cock her head and look up at the judge, W. L. McCandlish, a tall and solemn Englishman with a monocle, was irre- sistibly funny. But flirtatious and flippant though she may be at times, “Pen” is every istocrat. She showed 1930, when, as grand champion, she posed | for endless minutes under the klelg lights in a forest of cameras. She was | tired, and she was nervous, and the | lights were hot, but the oniy part of | |her that moved was her tail. And.| inmr all, what are tails for if not to| | wag? Last night turned out to be ladies'| night at the dog show. Four of the six | dogs, winners in their classes, that com- peted for the grand championship were females, as were both runners-up. Meadow Lark Dawn, a shy and weary little beagle hound who did wish they'd | auit making all that racket and let her go away somewhere and sit down to think things over, won second place. She belongs to Louis Batjer of New Brunswick, N. J. Third honors went to Giralda's Lola, | a magnificient German shepherd, the | property of Mrs. Geraldine Rockefeller | Dodge, a New York Social registerite | who as a hobby operates kennels on her | | farm at Madison, N. J. Lola’s performance in the ring was a | sensation at the show. |or leash she went through her paces, obeying without the slightest hesitation | every low-voiced command of her trainer, George Simpson. Lola is & fine example of the new kind of training that is being given shepherds. A few years ago everyone wanted his shepherd to be a police dog, which is how the breed acquired that name. It developed, however, that a dog trained for police work and conse- quently imbued with an intense one- man loyalty and a distrust of all strangers, was not an ideal house dog. Many of them were badly trained, t0o. Without collar | © SPORTS. p-3' | they were going to bite their way into obHvion.” But now they train them to be “com- panion dogs.” And for nearly an hour after she left the ring last night, Lola demonstrated the manners of a “com- panion dog.” All alone she stood, on top of a trunk—without muzzle, leash or col- lar—while mobs of her admirers milled around. 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