New-York tribune., 1897-08-19
THE BRITISH PAIR BEATEN.
WARE AND SHELDON DEFEAT NAHUM
AND NISBET
ruf, VICTORY OF THE AMERICANS IN THE CHAM
P1oNsHtP DOUBLES svRPRIsD-BE"lN-
MING OF THE SINGLES IN THE
NEWPORT TOURNAMENT.
NEWPORT TOURNAMENT.
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Eewport r. T.. Aug 1S-The long expected Ma
tonal championship lawn tennis tournament peso'
hera to-day on the courts of the Casino AS usua',
the feature Of the first days play was the h'''
championship struggle in doubles. and neary TWO
thousand enthusiastic spectators sa" "ale , n'a
sheldon defeat Mahony and Nisbet, the Brl'sh
visiting experts five exciting sets, ana mus auu
the National championship IN doupes u ''''
other honors OF the season.
The defeat OF the foreign team was SURPRISE
for ,hev were decided favorltes before the match
began Mahony and Nisbet won the Eastern cha"-
plonship I'm doubles Mt Longwood three weeks ago
over such teams as I.arned and Wrenn and WHIT
man and the younger Wrenn. Ware ana Sheidoh
victory for the Western double championship, az
Chicago the same week. gave them the right to
meet the foreigners here ana the winners were 10
challenge last wears champions the Neel orotherS'
of Chicago for the National championship. OWING
to the absence and consequent default Of the Neels
the title and challenge cups passed into the hahoS
Of Ware and Sheldon after to-days victory
Besides the big double match. AL but one of the
thirty matches in the preliminary round OF the
championship singles were finished. and the dig
tournament Is already well under way. Sheldon was
too much used up after his hard match this morn
ing play again in the afternoon. so his match In
the championship singles against Paret was left
over until tomorrow morning The winner will
have to play two matches tomorrow to catch up
with the other players.
The heavy rains of Sunday and Monday left the
Casino turf i'm a pretty soft condition. and the
courts were slow in consequence. All OF the other
conditions were favorable for good tennis. how
ever and a big crowd turned out to see the inter
national struggle As high three and four to one
were offered the success Of the English team, but
the match did not warrant any such confidence
Mahony distinctly OF color and Nisbet had
TO carry the brunt Of the battle on his side OF the
net.
paFr hot of VI n
Eastern college men. however. Ware being
from Harvard and Sheldon from Yale seemed ncr-
vous. and many strokes were missed through wha:
seemed like stage fright. Nisbets fast service and
ground strokes repeated got past both Ware and
Sheldon. The British players ran off at first with
a lead OF Al before the American pair could get
started. Then. however. the Americans pulled
steadily up on their opponents until five all was
reached. a long deuce and vantage struggle FOL
lowed the Englishmen generally getting the van
tage game as they served first. Finally after
twcnty-four games had been played. the foreign
crs took two in succession and the set theirs,
l3-11
The second set began AT once. and the Ameri-
can PLAYERS had everything their way from
the start. Only two games went to the visitors.
and then Ware end Sheldon ran three straight
games from 81. taking the set easily, o.
The third like the first, except that the
American pair finally won it, The foreigners led
at Al again but. before, the Westerners caught
tbom AT deuce and then finally won out. 81 The
American players seemed to have reganed their
confidence and were playing much better tennis
than In the first set. Mahony was weakening some
what but Nisbet playing as fast and accu-
rately as before.
A short rest was taken before the fourth set be-
gan The Americans got only one game In the
fourth set and the hopes OF the big crowd began
10 fall The NTH set. however was quite the reverse
OF the fourth and everything favored tfe home
team. Mahony seemed about exhausted by the bard
struggle and the American players directed their at
tack toward him. They lObbed repeatedly over his
head. and the tall lrishman unable TO hill the
ball Game after game scored for the Ameri
can side and they soon had safe lead at - The
visitors made nai brace. noweDer @ ana puI@d up
and match three sets to TWO and thiry-three games
Perhaps the most important OF the single matches
was that between g. l." Wrenn. jr. cx-chdnp!on of
Dodge STAYED on defeat for live close sets. and at
time looked as II he might be returned a winner
row the sixteen matches Of the first round will be
played. The most important Of these VIII ne Larned
against c. L. Wrenn. jr.. and this viii take place
summary % to-day's play follows:
Championship doubles 'nnal roundI-,. E Ware and
Mahony and n 4 %isGet champions Of the Fast. Il
cn.ensss hes.Tf Sa1 g b and s. r. Sar hders BY De-
SSamponshiP singles reIl%i9arg y WHIT Whit
man haa W. 3 -
beat f. Stillc G-3 63. G-3; j. {. Goodfeow beat T.
+. Pell B. 6 sn2 81 X WI, Wil,ns , beat u j. r
Hacketi. % G. G-3 6i; John a. Ryerson beat
II H. Little G-3. IL? 3-6. 63. y. \. Wright beat
p Marchall 90. 81. 6-l: W. \. Larned beat Arthur
+ Uawes 62. G3 90 George l.. Wrenn. tr., beat
,i,ren,e f. Dodge f-3 3-G. 6-2. -. 6-3. J. u.
Forbes beat F. :. White. G3. %. e. Paul Mac
Nahon beat Deane Miller by default; Richard Stevens
beat 81 q. ohace by default; NJ. D. smith beat Ralph
NcEift,ick g. -, Ct f.. 7. Fischer beat g. A.
Gould 81 % 63; W: Bona beat A. W Post.
q "a 6-l. i. T. Davis beat Richard Hooker l-6.
q G-i G-i: Wrenn beat r. D. Thurber.
G g GO; Marcus Goodbody beat II. McKi;trick
hv ielauI,. rr ". Y. Faves tctt r H. Stevens. jr..
g ? CO G-s; c. r. Budlons beat W. * Auchncoss,
q t-a G-I. i. =. Nicely heat T.. 7. Cross. Is.
a. e 2-G. 6-3; John G. Davidson beat II. +.
Avery G-I D g: o; NJ wick beat b. Good
hody / % G-3: Holcomb Ward beat Alfred cod
man G-3. 81 6-4; W. ". Reese boat II. A. Plummer.
Tsrowne g. e g.: j. ;. Cnshman beat Rodney
Proctor G-1 e. 6-1; l.. f.. Ware beat r. Fresh
man G-l. g. g. T.. Marshall beat 4. X. McEnroe
by default
Interschoastic championship singles preliminary
ro,nd,-T T. Tell Columbia hrat W. J. clothier Iri-