The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-31
LARNED'S SUPERB SKILL
HE VANQUISHED NESBIT, THE EN-
 GLISH CRACK, WITH EASE.

Championship Likely to Remain in This
 Country-The New Jersey Man Meets
 Champion Wrenn To-day for Possession
 of the Longwood Cup-Championship in
 Doubles Also to be Decided.
 Boston, July 30.--In the semi-f1nal round of the LongWood tennis toMna- ment this afternoon William A. Larned of Summit, N. J., defeated H. A. Nisbet of England In three straight sets, prov ing himself easily the superior of the foreigner in all points of the game. An hour or two later Larned had disposed of J. D. Forbes of Harvard In the final round of the tournament, and to-mor- row will meet R. D. Wrenn for the pos session of the Longwood cup, now held by Wrenn, but Tn which Larned has already two of the necessary three legs. At the same time tomorrow q. l.. Wrcnn and Whitman will meet Ma honey and Nisbet for the eastern championship in doubles.
 After to-day's game it seems reason able to say that the tennis champion ship of this country will stay on this side of the water Larned defeated Mahoney with greater ease than he dis posed of Nisbet to-day, and as the lat ter had already beaten his countryman, Dr. Eaves, Larned must be considered considerably the superior of all three of the foreigners.
 The game between Larned and Mis- bet proved a trifle more interesting than the Larned Mahoney match of Tuesday. While the other contest was practically over after the first set to- day, Nisbet managed to keep Larned at work until the last making the third set vantage one. Nisbet to-day seem ed utterly unable to reach that bril- liancy of play which was the feature of his match with Eaves on Tuesday. The audience saw but little of his back court volleying or half volleys, and while Wednesday he had the base line to the fraction, almost of a hair to-day he either overreached 1t, or drove into the net.
 The net play of both men was about on par. The first one that reached it was almost sure of the point, as the other did not seem able to pass him, while neither lobbed to any great ex- tent, Larned played well within him. self throughout, showing little of his customary nervousness.
 The match started promptly at 8 o'clock before large and intensely in- terested audience. Larned had the ser vice and won the game through errors of Nisbet. The next two games also went to the American, but the English man took the fourth, love game. The fifth was also Nisbet's, but after that Larned put on more steam and by a number of brilliant plays, aided by a double fault by Nisbet in the sixth, took the set. Summary of first set:
 Larned-4, 4, 4, o. ?, 4, 5, 4--total 27. Games S.
 Nisbet--2, 2, 2, 4, 4, l.. 3, 1-total 19. Games 2.
 Larned again started serving in the second set and soon had three games to his credit, through very poor playing on Nesbit's part and number of good cross counter drives. Nisbet rallied and showing a bit of his Wednesday, s form, won the three next games, mak- ing it three all. Larned cut off his op- ponent at this point and took the next three games and the set in his famous dashing style. Summary of second set
 Larned-6, 4, 4, 2, 4. 3, 4, 4. 4--total 35 Games 6.
 Nisbet- A, 2, 0, 4, 6, 5, 0, 1, o-total 22 Games 3.
 The third and. what proved to be the deciding set was by far the most inter- esting and exciting of the match. Nis. bet started off by winning the first game. Larned took the next, Nisbet the third, Larned the fourth and fifth and Nisbet the sixth and seventh. Ir these games both showed up in fine form, the rallies being particularly sharp. Larned put on little more steam and soon had the set, 5 to 4. The tenth game was the best of the match started with Nisbet serving He soor had it 40 Love, but Larned managed tc make it. deuce. Four times Referee Eaves called vantage for Nisbet before he won the set, making the games five all. Nisbet took the next game and il looked like a four or five set match but suddenly the tables turned and Larned, with & burst of speed seldom seen on any court took the next three games in rapid succession through mar. velous placing, winning the set and match. Summary of third set: Larned-2, 4, 4. 4, 4, 2, 3, 4, 4, 6, 1, 4, 4 Nsbetm4, l, 6, 1, l, 4, 5. 1, o, 8, 4, 0, o l-total 36 Games 6.
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