The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-31
TENNIS MATCHES AT TUXEDO.
FINE PLAY IN FOUR HANDED
AND SINGLE CONTESTS.
GarcIn and sands Defeat M BOstOpians,
Petit and Crane-In Amateur Duel New
Yorker scores brilliant Victory Play
ers and F~ashiOnables Crowd the Court.

ers ana f"asntOnaDies tr0Nu the tourt.
Tuxedo, Dec. sO.-There was an intercity
interest in the court tennis matches here to-
day. New York beat Boston I'm the two
MATCHES. In the four handed match Charles
f.. Sands. former rational and French cham
pion. had the aid Of Ferdinand Garcin. pro-
f~essional champion OF France. The Boston
lans they beat were Tom Petit. former
worlds champion. and Joshua Crane. Jr.,
for four years amateur champion in this
country. Garcin and Sands won by e-l.
60. 60. They made the worlds record OF
seventeen straight games, as Petit and
Crane won the Onlysecond game OF the first
set.
Sands and Crane had a match then, the
best two in three sets. The two champions,
who would still be supreme In amateur ten
mis- but for the uprising Of Jay Gould. had
a splendid match. Sands won by s-3 and
S--5. According to T.. sun ern Taller. presi-
dent Of the Tuxedo Tennis and Racquet
Club. 1t was the best played match he has
ever seen in thisc country. He was referee OF
the two contests. A. Kurtin. tennis profess
slonal Of the Myopia Hunt Club. near BOs-
ton. was umpire OF the services: Robert
Moore. Jr., marker. and X. Moore. Sr, man
ager Of the court.
There was a throng OF Interested onlookers
in the court. With a holiday rush Of visitors
and skating spoiled by q thaw. the tennis
court was the centre OF interest. Seats IN
the dedans were $40 and q In the gall cry.
yet there was not a vacant pla oe. Miss Til
ford. In a red suit that sparkled against the
duh brown Of the grille wall, ma de a bright
bit Of color In the gallery. Women fairly
divided the space for onlookers with the men.
Some at the match were Miss Porter. Mr., and
Mrs. L.. Waterbury, Miss Harriet Alexander.
Mr.. and Mrs. ii. II. Rogers. Jr., W. y. Moore,
Mrs. Norman De X. Whitehouse, MIR and Mrs.
W. q. Loew, Mrs. Pierre Lorillard. +. b.
Keech, Addison Cammack. William Kent. Jr.,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. dward Davis, Harry La
Monta gne. Mr.. and Mrs. Bradish johnson.
William Post. I. W. Porter. f. 4. Irwin. r.
+. Cutting. Jr., II. G. de Rhsm, August and
II. @. Gray and d. waEstaff. Pierre Loril-
lard, Jr., who Is to meet j. Gordon Douglas
for the Tuxedo Club championship at tennis.
was an onlooker, and also Clarence Pen and
Griswold LOrillaTd OF the Harvard hockey
team.
Balls brought from Boston were used in
the days matches. All tennis balls are alike
as TO the wOollen cloth strips. but they vary
In the cloth covers. The Boston balls have
the French cover and are as fast as those
used in the Paris courts. They are faster
than the balls used at New York. Lakewood
or Tuxedo. but not quite 20 hard as the wholly
French balls. while the English balls are
softer and take the cut and twist to a greater
degree, but lose in pace.
Il have learned this court and lts light. "
remarked Garcin before the start. But
now they spring on me the Boston balls. l
am kept guessing always in this country"
Yet Garcin played the best tennis OF his
visit. lie was as brilliant as a meteor in
services and in gets. Sands. who has often
played with Garcln abroad. was also in splen-
did command OF bis game. Both four
banded and in the singles 1t was Sands
- 80 49,. 49,.
sound and steady in his game. but at first
he did not master the gets well. Crane had
his work cut out all the way. In the fury
OF the game Crane took more shots than
we're his port ion. which was "A mistake Of
judgment, for some of the gets would have
been perhaps handled better by PPttit. His
zeal, too, forced Crane to often return TO the
walls, instead OF straight down the court,
collected opponents. The Bostonians have
madeA better team on other occasions. Crane
and Sands used the railroad service, but
Petit and Garcin mixed NJ the style OF their
deliveries. 'GarCin's varied and accurate
services have seldom been equalled IN ala
Petit and Crane made ten points bv the
winning openings. Petit had the dedans
three times and he was once successful in the
grille window. Garcin aud San DIS gained
eight points by the winning openings, Garcin
twice counted in the dedRns, grille and winning
s sadtIe once 9 IL she S 2Sdfs sn Gre Crane w' Rnd s1 T points
by the openings, two counts in each one Of
them. balls out Of court were counted
against Pettit's team three times and four
times against Garcin's team. One OF Pettit's
balls out of court broke a gallery window
Sands's service was In fine working order
in the last two sets and he scored four times
by hicks. Honors In marking .chases were in
favor of Garcin and Sands. also in winning
In the first set Garcin and Sands won. by
game to 80. but the second was won by Petit
aud Crane. Petit. by five kills. ran the score
to 90. He then lost a chase between one
and two, which was the only count the OPP
ponents had in that game. Thereafter TO the
close OF the three sets Petit and Crane did not
win a game. Yet ten OF the games went
beyond deuce and vantage. a fact that shows
the match was not as one sided to watch as it
appears on paper. The Bostonians often
saved their bacon in these matches by brilliant
strokes: the winning point seemed the only
one they could not make. Garcln was always
a true champion. In returns his game was
always superb. Sands made some fine gets
helping land to the French expert. In the
first game of the second set. after Sands had
made IL 1910 by a nick, he returned out of
court. Now deuce. Garcin gained vantage by
a place into the winning gallery and game by
a repetition OF the stroke. The scores follow
FIRST set--Garcin and Sands. Q; Petit and
Crane, I.
Garcin and Sands. .......O o Is 30 tO-GRno
Petit and Crane .........i5 30 80 50 30
SECOND GAME.
GarcIn and Sands. ..........O o
Petit and Crane .,.,...,,,..i Is 30 40 AO-Gam e
THIRD GAME.
Garcin and Sands .......IS Is 80 80 40 Game
Petit and Crane .....,.,,O IL Is 80 80
FOURTH CAME.
Garcin and Sands ..,.....o IS so 90 to-aame