Williams and then Johnston triumphed by the wonderful ground
strokes that held back M'Loughlin's attack.

To-day we are still in the period of service and net attack, with
the cycle closing toward the ground- stroke game. Yet the circle
will never close, for the net game is the final word in attack,
and only attack will succeed. The evolution means that the ground
stroke is again established as the only modern defence against
the net player.

Modern tennis should be an attacking service, not necessarily
epoch-making, as was M'Loughlin's, but powerfully offensive, with
the main portion of the play from the baseline in sparring for
openings to advance to the net. Once the opening is made the
advance should follow quickly, and the point ended by a decisive
kill. That is the modern American game. It is the game of
Australia as typified by Patterson schooled under the Brookes
tutelage. It is the game of France, played by Gobert, Laurentz,
and Brugnon. It has spread to South Africa, and is used by
Winslow, Norton, and Raymond. Japan sees its possibilities, and
Kumagae and Shimidzu are even now learning the net attack to
combine with the baseline game. England alone remains obstinate
in her loyalty to her old standby, and even there signs of the
joint attack are found in the game of Kingscote.

Tennis has spread so rapidly that the old idea of class and class
game has passed away with so many other ancient, yet snobbish,
traditions. Tennis is universally played. The need of proper
development of the game became so great in America that the