Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1912 — GERMANS EXPERT AT TENNIS [ARTICLE]

GERMANS EXPERT AT TENNIS

Brilliant Players Also Found In Australia, Yet Americans and Britons Receive All the Glory. Australia for several years has loomed up as the largest tennis continent on the map. yet the English and Americans have always been considered the leading exponents of the cleanest sports. And, after all, the Australians are Anglo-Saxons, too. Much talk is being circulated aboßt what the French might do to us if they sdht a team after the Davis cup. Why is nothing being said about the Germans? And why are the Germans not paying something for themselves? In tournaments abroad the Germans are never too modest to be boastful. And the Germans have a gardenful of fine players. The names of the two Kleiproths, Dr. Pippes and Herr Kinzel, are net household words in this land of the free and home of the brave, and probably few Americans have heard of the German champion, Freutzheim; but these melodious gentlemen can slap some nifty wallops over the mosquito netting. In other words 7 the German' tennis players can go some. One of the Kleinroths, for instance, swam across Lake Lucerne and back one afternoon and then won two rounds in the championship of Switzerland. His brother has a little stunt that is all his own. He takes nearly all his ground strokes on the half-volley and his combined speed and generalship make a neat tandem. Dr. Pippes has a service that out-twists any twist serve that 'ever twisted. Not only does .he throw the ball high over his head to slash at it as it comes down and as he doubles up like a jackknife, but he also throws it out to the side so that he has to reach out after it. Meanwhile the man who is waiting on the other side of the net patiently for the serve to land is so interested in watching Pippes tie himself in a bowknot that suddenly the ball smites him In the right shoulder.