New-York tribune., 1901-08-17
LAWN TENNIS. {.
NEWPORT FIELD HAS NARROWED
DOWN TO FIVE.
(RY TELEGRAPH TO THE rR1BUNE.l

Newport r l. Aug. 16.-Four more aspirants for
the lawn tennis championship of America oit the
dust of defeat here to-day. and the field has oeeh
narrowed down to just five players, Larned. Ware
wrigbt Little and Hobart Davis. who had been
counted upon as possible candidate for the cham
ponship in the flnal round went down this morn
ing before the aggressive play of young BealS
Wright who is considered by the experts here 20
be second only to Larned in his chances for the
much coveted title.
The Wright-Davis match was much shorter than t
had been expected, and only one OF the tnres see .
played stubbornly contested Wrighe seIara na1 q
handicap to a man of Davs's heavy build, but It Is
doubtful if he needed it. for he clearly outplaSeu
In the first set Wright took lead Of SO SO
While 70 try for the set He did spasmodic
effort toward the end however ana puru civ
The second set was long and closely contested.
The voung Harvard player managed TO win. This This
overWheiming advantage of two sets to love was as
Went down easily the last set After Losing bf bnf
first game to love Love DAYS t5 f0mP %1n easy games in
cession two of them to love ana two & 20 To- ade
me ,n dac effoTt however and pulled the seventh
and eighth games only to lose the next ana match
by the following score;
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T. r SECOND SET
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THIRD SET
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In the mean time Little and Clothier were haV-
ing another close fight in neighboring court
The Princetonian began with rush that fairly
carried Clothier off his feet and secured lead of
So Clothier, despite the big odds, started in to
pull out the set. and got three games, but then
Little managed to win the last one necessary, snn
the his by 6-3. In the second set Clothler
improved rapidly and made good hght: he took
not reaching deuce Then the Princetonian started
in pull the set, and in the next three games
for Little and an easy game for CIother brought
the score to ALL Each got another deuce game
eral times Little close to winning the
back out of danger, until sail had been reached,
when the intercollegiate champion managed to pull
on bit slack, while Ciothier worked harder than
ever. In desperate style he yolleyed some seem
ingy impossible shots, he did yesterday against
Paret, and kept Little largely on the defensive to
the the END OF the set whcn ne LOOK t edsy 6g pose
TO the occasion in fine style, and forced the play
follows:
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SECOND SET.
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THIRD SET.
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FOURTH SET
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The interscholastic championship finals brought
together E P. Larned representing the Prince
ton preparatory schools. and Irving c. Wright of
the Harvard schools. The Princeton representa- a.
tive had the advantage of a good deal of prelimi-
nary coaching by his famous brother, and won in
four sets. He knew he had no chance against the
older Larned. so he defaulted in the championship
singles
In the third round tomorrow Hobart and Wright
will come together and Champion Whitman will
play an exhibition match. On Monday the two
semi-fnal matches will be played, and the finals
on Tuesday. unless rain interferes with the pres
ent programme. The days scores follow:
CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES
Second round-B. c. Wright beat D. F. Davis, 6-2,
Is 6-3.
Third round-L f. Ware beat E. w Leonard. 6-2.
C. 6-1 W. A. IArned beat F. P. Iarned by default;
r. D. Little beat w ]. Clothier, 6-3 10-S, IL, 6-1.
INTERSCHOLASTIC CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES.
round-E Larned. Princeton, I. Wright,
Harvard. 6-S. 6-1. 81, 6-1.