Charles S. Garland always defeats Howard Voshell, yet loses to
men whom Voshell defeats. Williams proves a stumbling-block to
Johnston, yet seldom does well against me.

The moral to be drawn from the ever-interesting upsets that occur
every year, is that the style of your attack should be determined
by the man's weakness you are playing. Suit your style to his
weakness. A chop is the antidote for the drive. The volley is the
answer to a chop, yet a drive is the only safe attack against a
volley. The smash will kill a lob, yet a lob is the surest
defence from a smash. Rather a complicated condition, but one
which it would do well to think over.

The most dangerous enemy to R. N. Williams is a steady baseliner
of second class. Williams is apt to crush a top-flight player in
a burst of superlative terms, yet fall a victim to the erratic
streak that is in him when some second-class player plays patball
with him. Such defeats were his portion at the hands of Ritchie
and Mavrogordato in England, yet on the same trip he scored
notable victories over Parke and Johnston.

Abnormal conditions for match play always tend to affect the
better player more than the poorer, and bring play to a level.

The reason for this is in the fact that the higher the standard
of a player's game, the smaller his margin of error, the more
perfect his bound must be, and any variation from the normal is
apt to spell error. The average player allows himself more
leeway, and unknowingly increases his chances on a bad court. His
shot is not judged to the fraction of an inch in swing as is the