New-York tribune., 1901-08-14
LAWN TENNIS.
OPENING OF THE NATIONAL TOURNA-
MENT AT NEWPORT.
WARE AND WRIGHT BEAT LITTLE AND
ALEXANDER IN EAST VS.. WEST
DOUBLES


rRY TELEGRAPH TO THE TR1BUNE.l
Newport r. l. Aug. 13.-The first days play In
The tweaty-first annual tournament for the lawn
tennis championship of America took place at the
Casino here to-day under the most favorable con-
ditions with bright skies eood courts and an en-
thusiastic crowd to favor the players. Little and
Alexander the crack Princeton pair, who were
eeneraIIv expected to win in the East West final
match In the doubles. were beaten after close
fve-set match, by Ware and Wright. whose VIC
tory gave them the right TO challenge Davis ana
Ward for the national championship in doubles
This challenge match will be played tomorrow
morning the general impression among the critics
here being that the holders have slight advantage.
OF the original ffty-six entries for the singles
only thrty-one players remained Tonight arter the
preliminary round finished. None of the crack
players were beaten. and the only men Of rePuta-
ton to fall by the waysde were Childs, the Yale
champion: Leroy, the Columbia interscholasuc
champion and Sands, a veteran expert, who re-
turned to the game again this season. T. r.
Fischer of New-York; Kriegh Collins, of Chicago;
r c. Seaver, of Boston, and H. H. Hackett. OF
New-York, all defaulted in their preliminary
matches.
Sands was watched anxiously by some Of the
veterans who wanted to see IL he would show any
thing like his old form when he won the Middle
States championship ten or twelve years ago AT
Hoboken Sands has since been playing a good
deal abroad mostly in Paris but his game has not
improved by his practice there. He was not IN
good shape to-day, anyway and ]. P Paret beat
him easily in the preliminary round, Sands getting
only eight games in the match.
The presence of John Jacob Astor, Harry Oel-
richs D. F. Appleton jr.. George Grswold. jr, and
several other Newport society men in the singles
interested the summer cottage colony here ana
they focked around these courts as well as that
on which Sands was playing in order to see the
men they knew best work None of the local
experts seemed 10 be dangerous candidates for,
championship honors, however.
The feature of the day was the East West
doubles match and this was given the position of
honor on the championship court Before the play
began there were many bets recorded on the result
mostly at even money. Ware and Wright were eX-
pected to make up in individual skill what they
lacked in the team work and tournament expert
ence of their opponents However Little and S Alex
ander had been ta P9ynE RneWn of her form
The result proved that odds on either side were
tory going to the Eastern representatives from
Harvard only after desperate struggle. Az nIsI,
il seemed if the Eastern pair were going TO nave
matters much their own way. and the first set was
won almost before the crowd settled down TO watch
| the match. The Princetonians, however improved
rapidly in the se4ond SET anG oOf9 be penduum
/ swung the other way again in the third set, and
Ware ,6t ag6 WSns sdmes IN a9 zig Hme Then came an7
| other reaction, and before the Harvard team got
50 on the fourth set The Eastern pair made a
g03d ng pTe the next two games but could not pull
out the set, which ultimately went to Little and
In the NTH set both sides played ysry carefully
and the strain of the match was teLIlnS soIneWhaI
and he forced the attack for his side with excel
t ie5 drive the bali right through his opponents and
| two or three wild drives from him hurt his team s
| chances materially. Little was steady, as usual.
| but lobbed short number OF times, and Ware
love love ber opponents Eroke through their run of
set and the match went to Ware and Wright with
| the next two games. The points in the games were
FIRST SET.
| Wara and Wright. ..............5 6 . 4-32-d
| Little and Alexander. ..........3 0 D Isl
SECOND SET.
Ware and Wright 1agd6d:, ,........i4 . Z ! 95S-S
| THIRD SET.
WaEs and Wrisa5i sIasabisf iS 4iS-S
FOURTH SET.
Ware and md Wright; g1s3sodsr 3 8 3s4t EsEt
| FIFTH SET.
Var and and WEisn5d Hlssa4dsr t t-fEf
The scores of the first days play follow
CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLES.
Final round Ware and B G Wright eastern os.
| ern cbamplons). G-1. 2-6 60, 4-6, 6-l
CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES.
Preliminary round-F G. Mahoney oeat r g seavea
Ga; e. " Leonard beat Ewing stnle, BY default: r G
Sa9EfGH e bS' Wright s6aTseFa Seat r. fS r. Peu - 20
| G4: Richard Stevens beat Robert Leroy, e e. e3
+ b Ass9n4fF bss9 a. peat meGnIsy 6 ns 90 "a S-2 6
fidFs F beat fsss GsGrEe j. Fs%9a HsfS4 "a r. a. < mo NC
En-oa heat H. II Hackett by default: e. P Iarned beat
ISa6:3n F859e9 & "a d 5 & O. 4P'sSa s Be- beat SFn Z
TI3.a T%sFdqs rs BY default W KariH MuRes bes o
| a1ney 6&i % 90 W. !. Clothier c. s Lee
Ssd 81 3 Si fars af5s beat S's Sands Sss' ea 2 EGse
b. Read Kregh Collins by default D. F. Davis oea
cvSs whPDf bT ffSul5 g Wright Bsa l. 6hilds s
| ga 6@1: p Pierson beat H. A. Pummer by default
| Il