New-York tribune., 1886-08-27
LAWN TENNIS AT NEWPORT.
THIRD DAY OF THE TOURNAMENT.
PEcULIARIrIEs or THE PLAYERS DWIGHT AND SEARS
WIN THE DOUBLES.
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WIN THE DOUBLES.
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NEWPORT. R. L, Aug. 26.-Of the three
matches played to-day In the National Tennis Tourna
nent two close exciting One decided TO wnom
the first prizes for doubles will 60, and the otner
who will contest to with Beekman In tho nnAi
games In "sngles" The match between ClsrR ana
Taylor was played this morning. The nrst SET
was close, going finally to Taylor BY score OF 90
Clark did not play In good form. His endurance is not
great and may be that the eight hard sets OF yeser
day exhausted him, 1t be that the first set Urea
MIN. tho morning being hot At all events ne uu nos
prove match for Taylor. who won the two iono"'ns
sets by scores Of 63 The difference between Iayors
style OF play and Clarxs decidedly noticeable Isy-
lor tries to win point often with MS nrs'
service. sending It in swlft HIS service
straight hard hit from his head. CLARK seems
satisfied to have his first service returned when ne Re
II In He serves the ball In the way As Taylor In
general playing the latter hits harder than MS oppo
nens of to-day. 1t thought By some' ana
no doubt truly. that Clark did not
play at all his best game to-day His
fault however. Is one OF style. He seems often 10
scarcely moro than place his racket in the way OF INC
ball. there being only slight blow given By the wrist
lie lacSs distinctly the sweep OF the arm wnicn IN
DWIGHT and Sears Is equally graceful and effective u
10 very rarely too that Clark plays with straight
racket, 1t being generally held in horizontal position
while the strikes given. Another peculiarly
Oh his play Is his adherence 10 tho
method Of holding the racket which was generally
In vogue few year. ago. but which 10 now giving place
shifting OF the racket in the hand after stroke mas
ss @ on and si' s 'ss rns Clark
pay as strongly az ne does VIII III bis
natural .ptus.. for the game. II: opponent Taylor,
plays much more nearly like Sears Two year: a9S & no
appear at Newport and probably played only ittie.
II an Interesting fact that at the beginning OF tae
6isque ana beaten by Clark on the grounds OF tne
Young America Club al steuton, Philadelphia he was
The double finals between Dwight and searssnd Brnley
and Taylor were more closely contested than many sa
,@nary practising Of the former or,,v par alone
Sos to sser Of h.9 show sDs rns
OF one or both Of them, however 70 max max,
with their play 1t is also to be noted thst ooLh
sears and Dwight made inexplcable misses OF easy
Unfortunately it Is one Of the necessary attendance
OF amateur championship that suspicion OF playing 0n
TIM: series played in the presence .OtnI@ Of the
ARREST gathering yet assembled on the G erounu: th
matches the Casino grounds, between the large
building In which are the eonrttennis house ana tne
theatre and the horseshoe plaza inns spsce ~
rounded on all four sides By spectators stng IN chas
ss PS tue avn IN many pees o those
Looking toward the horseshoe piazza, over whlea
could be OF the Casino and the odd
clock face, the exceedingly animated. Most
OF the games we're close and many oeautlu
/ OF "ralylng' were gwen. FIVE was CAH-u aut
then Dwight and Sears making stand won two Two
games straight taking the set by the score
struggle was won by Brinley and TAYLOR by the
score Two succession were then taken oy
| Dwight and Sears. who thus won the matcn. Inc
scores we're respectively 7-5 ana Cd. Inc
playing was said by expert to be the beat
he had seen at Newport In d" doubles" A
feature OF that "tossing" was seldom resorted TO
and that scarcely single ball was smashed iayIor
played game OF the beaten pair, when IS not
to he wondered at after three hardf0ught sets Win
Clark under not he was compelled to engage no
! est
twenty minutes The great match tomorrow VIII
be that between Beekman and Taylor, with the odds IN
favor OF the latter has been exhausted oy MS
played to-day The full score Is given below
Singles, fourth ro,nd-Beekman beat Chase o-4
Go. 6-5 Taylor beat Clark, 6-5, GO. 6-3
Doubles fnai-Dwght AMI Sears beat Taylor and
Brinley, 7-5, So, IS, e.