The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-30
BOSTON WINS AT RACQUETS.
FEARING AND SCOTT RETAIN
DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP.

Boston gained the national doubles at
racauets for the second successive year
yesterday afternoon at the Racquet and
Tennis Club. for the title holders. Gerge r.
Fearing and Hugh d. Scott, won from L..
Waterbury and c. K. Sands. OF the homo club.
by 4 games to 3. The Boston pair won the
first and third games. the New Workers then
reversing the situation by two straight and
leading by 3 to 2. Now the Bostonians won
out the last. q love game, through the heart
breaking run of eleven In the first hand.
There were no weak spots In the court. each
man playing up to his best form, and the final
result was well earned, doing credit to both
winners and losers. The Boston pair won by
i6-s. Sis, 1915. il-l5. 9-l5, 49,. 80.
Fearing is a Boston homebred, well re-
membered as the best all round athlete of the
day at Harvard and for four years winner of
the intercollegiate high jump. but Scott
played his first court games 10 Philadelphia
and was the racquet champion there before
moving TO Boston. Neither has won a national
single at racquets, but they form a great
team. Fearing Is the quickest 10 footwork
and possesses q wonderful reach, although
Scott missed few chances on gets In the match
and stood the pace untirlDgly despite his
weight. After the third game Scott played
first hand, Waterbury serving first throughout
for the New Workers. There was perfect
light for the match. a contrast TO the earlier
ones and due to the change to clear from
muggy weather. This probably helped Scott
some, as he wears glasses. George II. Brooke
was referee and decided the six protests re-
garding lets" very fairly.
Both the galleries were filed when stand
ing called PLAY" This was at 8 o'clock.
and the match lasted one hour and fifteen
min utes. fast work for seven games. Mem
bers of the RACQUET and Tennis Club pre-
dominated in the crowd. but Boston and
Philadelphia were also well represented.
The spectators had their All Of excitement
and partisan feeling ran high.
Guess we're up against it. said the home
guard when Roston took the opening game.
Looks betterl" was their exclamation when
the New York team won the second. IT'S
a frost. all right" declared the prophets
when Boston got the third. hut when Water
bury ana Sands won the next two and led
by 3-2 there was a chorus Of Bully boys"
After the sixth game it was the turn Of the
Bostonians to lead in the applause. but the
New Workers. were still hopeful. The white
wash in the last game was a sad blow. but
woo and to join with the Bostonians in pound
ne HYS the floors and yelling out "Rah' Ran!
,WateIbury's opening service ended in a
blank through a miss by Sands, Fearing
had two on opponents misses. going out on
Fearing's place around the court for a kill
on the backhand wall and another on Sands's
bury by services made it three ali to open
the second hand. Scots place stopping him,
but Sands was blanked by Waterbury, s smash
the hand, getting. the ace on Waterbury's
miss. Scott returning out of court and also
miss. got the score four an. but Boston closed
the hand at 81. and won out after two hands
The Individual scoring was-waterbury,
9 by service and 2 by opponents miss; Sands
by service and 2 by opponents miss; Fear
n men : ! G MISE %ssFV Scott | BY ! s PlHGss and ! p i oy o ana /
10 open the second game Fearing put him
The ball came from the, back wall on his
right side and he ban ged h myself, against the
ing the bat meal while for a forehand stroke:
but the only, way Fearing could have sue
oeedcd T YOU'D kaI ha yer been to to shove 10 the wall al
hands.
opened the fourth hand, No one clicked il,
but 1t seemed an eternity before the ball
was at rest. The four men We're aligned
action. the fast volleys being given and
taken with the vim Of sword thrusts. the only
breaks in the line being to turn for a get
on the an giles or the place on the side walls
for a change from the straight bangs al the
front wall, Not a man faltered and there
bane of rallies in four handed games. Fear
ing had started the melee by a serve to the
him on a swift place TO he front wall, That
rebounded low on the side wall and killed
the ball on the back, wall, about two yards
the ~telltale and BANKED himself, the New
Workers then getting the aces they needed
TO win by i5-5. Waterbury getting four Of
Individual scores We're. Waterbury, 3 by
sseryIoe'; : BY places by onponents miss
Fearing, 0; Scott, 3 by services. > by opponents
miss.
hand the New Workers. made It o all. bur
it was rs far as they got. Fearing made It
pair won by lj.8. The individual work
was: Fearing. 2 by services, ? by places.
by place, by opponents miss; Waterbury,
| by service. l by place, by opponents miss;
Sands. by opponents miss.
the, Bostonians in the fourth game. Scott
had ; before returning to the telIiale to re-
tire h'mTSg aisrE Mhsn sI thg Se witb {Srs sed s Pilsd
followed with 4. The ,Bostonians died hard,
but were beaten out by, ISL. Waterbury
Sands & s by opponents miss. Fearing made
l by service and l by opponents miss, while
sGss, n ssaandsGsy blank fenk'c Of FEARING Fen III In ffRR the sseond
hand by yolleying the service for a kilfwas
In The nth game Waterbury opened with
a zero by returning out of court. The Bos-
tonians had the lead by IS for three hands,
but the New Workers then won the uphill
game in grand style by l5-a. Fearing was
playing high In this game. giving three aces
by plays out Of court and once putting him
self out in the same way. The Individual
work: Waterbury. 4 by service. l by op-
ponent's miss; Sands, @ by service. 4 by OPP |
ponent's miss: Fearing. ? by service. ? by
opponents miss; Scott. 5 by service.
THIS was highwater mark for the New
Yorkers but they fought on in serenity and
dash undaunted by any visions Of hard luck.
The first hand was 2-l for them, Sands
retiring Fearing by a beautiful place down
the right wall. In the next hand Water
bury BANKED himself. but Sands had il 81
before being, out on SCOTS place. Now
Boston gained thirteen, going out at l4I5.
Sands put out Waterbury, but, got two by
the latter getting the game on Waterbury's
miss in the backhand corner. The tally
showed Q for Scott on services. 2 on places
by himself and S on opponents miss, Fearing
had | by service and on his own placing.
Waterbury earned singles by {. service and a
miss by Scott, and Sands had 4 by service and
l on Fearing's miss,
Scott was serving splendidly in the last
game and rot II 70 open with, @ by ser
vice, l on his own place. a shooter into the
corner, and 4 on opponents misses, Sands
returned to the telltale and blanked Water
bury, being In turn blanked by SCOTS place.
The latter then worked the score to 40 by
a service, n place TO left wall and front wall,
that died midway on the right wall and a miss
in the backhand wall by Waterbury. Scott
put himself out by a return 10 the telltale
when Fearing served the final ace. Tho