Evening star., 1902-08-14
In Tentlis Match With En-
glish Champion.
PIN -LARNED CONTEST
WON Blythe LATTER WITHOUT
DIFFICULTY.
Tomorrow It is Expected That Larned
and Doherty Will Be
Opponents.

match between r. +. -Doherty, the FORMER
English champion, and Malcolm D. Whit
man, the American champion, was Of chief
interest today in the Long Island tourna-
ment now in progress on the courts of the
meadow Club. The Englishman has shown
exceedingly good form throughout The
week and Whitman, while fit, is hardly up
to the form he exhibited two years ago..
The steady playing of the Britons has won
Tor them many admirers here, and in the
numerous small bets that have been laid
H. f. Doherty is well backed to defeat
Whitman.
The turf courts are in excellent condi-
ton, the day Is warmer than on any pre-
vious one of the meeting and there is no
breeze whatever.
When play in the Doherty- Whitman
match began the Englishman began the
service and by his lengthy place shots took
the opening game at love. He was in much
better stroke than his opponent who lost
the second game of the set on outs and
nets.
Whitman Then Braced Up.
Whitman then braced up. and by working
his passes along the side line took the
game at 10
The Englishman took the fourth and fifth
games, the last being by love score.
Poor judgment as to speed appeared to be
Whitman's great fault, sending the ball
out Of court or into the net with great fire.
quency. The rallies were exceptionally good
in the sixth game. Whitman played his
ground strokes to perfection. with an occa-
sional smash, and finally took the game,
after deuce had twice been called. By the
cool judgment in the placing of his shots
Doherty captured the seventh. eighth and
ninth games and the set at 6-3.
In the second set Whitman started Door
ly, but strengthened his attack in the third
game and by hitting the bali very hard took
the second set at 6-3
At the close of the Whitman-Doherty
match the two Dohertys decided to with
draw from the tournament and R. F. Do
herty defaulted to William A. Larned, while
the champion of all England, H. l.. Doher-
ty, defaulted to Dr. Joshua PIN. In view
of this action the committee decided to put
on the match between Larned, the Ameri-
can. and DR.. PIN, Hthe Briton, at once and
thus decide the holding Of the Long Island
title in the singles.
Larned, by. cleverly placing his returns.
won the opening game. In the second game
they scored evenly until deuce had been
called three times. Larned finally winning
it DR.. PIN captured the next two points
and In the fifth game cleanly Outplayed
Larned.
Larned Made a Mistake.
In the following game Larned made the
mistake Of sending up lobbs that fell near
the net, and DR.. PIN scored a love game
Larned then madesa determined attempt to
gain the net and she camped there, cross
courting and smashing the ball until he won
the set at CO.
The score first set:
w. A. Larned A 4 2 0 Le9-e
DR.. Joshua Pim..1 5 2 2-22-2
Larned got into his game In good style in
the second set and took three games before
Dr. PIN was successful in making his
passing strokes count Larned was able
to hold to his lead by the spirited work he
did at the net. The Englshman pulled up
to 4-5, but although he tried desperately
to bring the games to 5-all, he was beaten
again at 6-4. The score:
Second set:
w. A. Larned. A 9 4 2 1 421 1856
Dr. Joshua Pin. L 4 4 4 3 1 4 4 5-31-
Both men showed up we'll in the third
set. Larned played from his base line. and
was very brilliant, playing the majority of
the Englishmans returns for passes. In
these he was uniformly more successful
than DR.. PIN, who was being outplayed at
his own game Then the American had q
lapse, and smashed all his returns into the
net. with the result that DR.. PIN eyened
the score at games all.
By hard-played rallies Larned earned the
points of the seventh game. which he took
at Is. He took the eighth and ninth games
by cross-courting and smashing the ball
for love scores. The score, third set:
w A. Larned. A 4 o 4 40 G
Dr. Joshua PIN. 2 4 4 8 / o 90 8
No other matches were completed during
devoted to the championship doubles and
mixed doubles. In the Championship
doubles William A. Larned and Malcolm
D. Whitman will probably meet the Doherty
brothers in the final match. This competf-
ton is scheduled to be the feature of to-
morroWs play.