The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-20
OUR TENNIS PLAYERS ABRoAD
Grant and wright Win International
D0ubles-Miss Moore Pairs With Princess.

Doubles-Miss Moore Pairs with Princess.
The American tennis players Miss Bessie
Moore. Wylie c. Grant and Irving Wright
continue to win their share Of the honors
on foreign tennis courts. All three entered
the various events at Homburg for the
international championship Of Europe, and
the chief fixture, the mems championship
doubles, was won by the American pair,
Grant and Wright The trophy for the
competition was presented by William
Rhinelander Stewart Of this city.
In 1902 this cup was won by the English
team, G. W. Hillyard and G. C. Ball-Greene,
but a year ago Wylie Grant and Robert
lie Roy, the American indoor champions,
defeated all corners and brought the trophy
home with them. Tournament week."
as the week allotted to this tourney La called,
has come to be one Of social as we'll as ath-
letic interest, and the matches each day are
witnessed by big gallery of the elite of all
nations. The meeting usually attracts
entries from all over the world, and this
year there were representatives from
England, Germany, Austria, Russia and
Holland. or the different events the Arneri-
can players took three first prizes and three
seconds, the British players won ten firsts
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frsts and eight seconds. the Russians one
first the Austrians one first and the Dutch
two seconds.
The American pair, Grant and Wright,
easily won their early rounds for the mems
doubles championship. Their first hard
match came against the Russo German
combination, Baron Lersner and Herr
Vladimir Schmitz. A poor start lost the
Americans the opening set. their opponents
forcing the play and winning out. Ga
On the second set Grant and Wright got
together and by better team work reversed
the score. Grants service and fast drives
along the side lines we're the features,
while Wright's backhanded strokes proved
frequent point gamer, With the sets
tied the Americans played sharply and
by fast. hard placing won out at ca. In
this same round the other American team,
De Garmendia and Thomson, were beaten
by the Dutch pair, Boese and Scheubleer,
e-S, Sc, 60. The crack English players,
Ball-Greene and Eaves. who were picked to
win the event were successful in defeating
Schmidt Knatz and Simon Of Germany,
ca, e..
In the next round the Americans were
again forced to the full three sets to defeat
Payn and Chesterman. After winning
the first set, 8-3, Grant and Wright weak
ened and allowed their opponents to tie
matters at a set all. On the play-off. how
ever. the foreigners were easily disposed Of,
60. Meanwhile Ball-Greene and DR.. Eaves
had also moved up by winning from Boese
and Scheubleer, ca, 60.
This left the English team TO face the
Americans in the final round. This match
was the climax of the weeks play, and was
watched by a big gathering Of Interested
spectators. When the British pair won
the opening set, GO, the Americans present
saw small chance OF a victory for their
countrymen. The second set proved a
rafting battle OF fourteen games, and was
finally won by Grant and Wright. The
Americans seemed encouraged by their
success and ran out the next two sets,
8-S. 6-9. Toward the close the team
play OF the Americans was excellent and
their opponents could do nothing with their
sharp drives. Something in the nature Of
a consolation came the day following,
when the Englishmen turned the tables in
Q specially arranged exhibition match by
. two set score. 60. e-3.
Another event in which one Of the Ameri-
cans, Miss Moore, figured as a winner,
was the women's doubles. Miss Moore
paired with Princess Batthyam Strait
mann, and this combination carried off
the honors. Their best match came in
the semi-f1nal round, where they won q
hard three-set contest from Lady Edith
Fox Pitt and Miss Parrish, 40, O., 60.
In the mixed doubles, Miss Moore and Wy
lie Grant combined and reached the final
r round, where the pace was a bit too fast
Their opening match they won in straight
sets from. Herr Boetrom and Fraulein Berg
mann, e., e-3, the latter team failing to
play well together. Bleaching the semi
finals the Americans again scored in straight
sets over Mr.. Thompson and Miss Lane,
e., "a. In the final round however,
MIR. Ball-Greene and Miss Lowther proved |
too strong a combination, the Americans
failing to tally set
For the Homburg cup singles both Grant |
and Wright we're successful in the early |
rounds, but failed to last. or the two, |
Grant did the better work. winning the semi
finals from DR.. Eaves In a rafting match |
Of two sets. l2-l0, IS. DR.. Eaves made a |
hard struggle for the points, but Grant was
= bit better all the way The strong service |
Of the American was the feature In the |
other seni-fnal' Wright was defeated |
by Herr Schmidt Knatz, CO, 80, ca. |
For final honors Grant was opposed by Ball
Greene. one Of the crack English players,
who took the match in straight sets, IS,
So, e-3. This makes the second con-
secutive victory for the Englishman in this
event.