The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-04
NATIONAL COURT TENNIS.
MATCHES ron CHAMPIONSHIP
At NEW YORK CLIB.
Young Jay Gould and Charles Il. Sands
Poth Win by Love Sets Both the De-
feated Players We're Boston Entrants
Good Uphill Fight by Austin Potter.

At the Opening Of the national champion
ship at tennis yesterday. at the Racquet and
Tennis club, young Jay Gould romped away
from Cairn, all Irish amateur, now resident
in Boston, winning by three sets 70 love,
and Sands, the title holder. also Won by three
sets TO love in his match with Potter OF
Boston, but only after a still contest In Two
of them. Although not forced 10 extend
himself, Gould won In the impressive style
that has marked his tTiumphal progress as a
Junior in the old game, and. as an oniooKer
expressed it, the winner combined the varied
resources.of a professional with the audacity
and supreme confidence OF youth.
An Interested group OF onlookers filled the
dedans, which included the players not in
service and Louis i. Larocque, Richard II.
Williams. James Henry Smith. II. X. and
George Vingut, l.. Gregory, II. NJ. lnman,
Eben Wright, II lrry La Montague, C.. Temple
Emmett. G. W. Vaughn, b. w. Leigh, II. g
Mortimer. NJ. 8. Patton. G.. Hyde Clarke, ii. NJ.
Brooks. De Forest Weekes. II. Il. Duval, g.. T..
Sanction, j. A, G. Beales, A. ID. Irving, H.. w.
Slocum and r. A. Rainey. The members OF
the clubs having entrants in the champion
ship have the spectators privileges for the
tournament, and to-day's match between
Jay Gould and Joshua Crane, Jr., OF Boston. Is
expected to draw u great house. Crane, who
won the title In 1902. 'o3 and '04, ia said TO be
on his best game, and some regard him as the
Joshua who will order the rising sun TO stand
still. Crane has gone back to his slashing
polo get-there stroke with which he won his
championships, and it is reported that the
Bostonian il doing better than when trying
10 PLAY with the nice stroke that had been his
aim after playing In London q year ago.
Floor work and rallies opened the first
set. Young Gould was playing with every
thing up his sleeve, as cool as a cucumber
and ready for a burst OF fast tennis from
the Bostonian. 1t did not materialize. for
the first three games were won by Low bcounts.
Thereafter Gould had time to practice ex-
periments in strokes and places, for he had
learned that by playing safe Cairn might
be trusted to beat himself by misses. The
fourth game " ent twice to deuce and vantage
before Gould gained the winning point by
a miss of Cairns TO the net. The NTH game
was well contested. The Bostonian stood
800. Gould having lost on two chases. one
worse and one better than two. but now the
boy gained the deians by a boast from the
wall. He gained two more points in rallies
and game by Cairns failure on a chase better
than three. To turn the tables so quickly
showed how easy the match was for Gould,
for, while u sound PLAYER, Cairn Is not, WITHIN
thefirSt Two sets by 60 and the last by O..
n playing for the winning openings, be-
sides the stroke TO the dedans that turnei
the tide in the fifth game, Gould made the
detans twice in succession by drives during
the sixth game. In the three sets Gould
had the dedans five times. the grille opening
twice and the winning gallery twice, Cairn
had each OF the three winning openings hut
once, although he made some. fine places
ON the two games lie won i'll the third sci;
He did not do well on the chases, but Gould
sides the nne work in defending them. rhe
scores We're.