New-York tribune., 1906-08-17
LARNED BEATS WRTGHT
Sensational Results at Meado5o
Club Lazcn Tennis Contests.
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southampton. Long Island Aug 16-Both Of
the semi-fnaI lawn tennis matches provided SEN
sational results on the courts of the Meadow
Club to-day. William A. LarneSI, the ex-cham-
pion defeated the national title holder, Beals c.
Wright, and Karl H Behr, jr., over Edward
B. Dewhurst, the intercollegiate champion
Larned won his match in straight sets by the
score Ga and 10-S
Three gruelling sets were necessary before the
young Yale captain could make his advance
ment and his score over DeWhurst was 4-6,
80 and 6-3 In nOwiSe was the racket work
or me national champion a disappointment to
the big gallery that crow ded the porch of the
clubhouse. He force3 the playing of Larned
but he was unable TO check the swift driving
Of the ex-ChampiOn, arrl also 10 get his lObS
that the ball fell at the baseline. His fault
was that he msjUdged distance and the ball
dropping short afforded the veteran splendid
opportunities to smash and he was not slow to
take full advantage OF them. Larned was also
faultlessly accurate on his drives for place
In this manner he compelled Wright 10 keep
the from sble to side of his court, and then
getting up to the net, Larned shot the ball over
the barrier at such a difficult angle that 1T was
impossible for the champion TO make a return.
Eehr owed his victory more to his splendid
physical condition than to anything else. Be
fore the competition was finished DewhurSt was
exhausted from the rapidity of the play that
he would gladly have defaulted but for the
fact that there had been considerable betting
upon the outcome of the matches, and he felt
that he must go on to the end. The centre line
drive which the Yale man plays SO well for a
point Garner was much in evidence. From the
start Behr kept the ball going to his opponent
at top speed. In the first set DeWhurSt was
NoAeyed the returns SO sktlfuily for cross courC
shots that despite the closeness of the score
he was able to win the opening set at Ga.
From the beginning of the second set it was
evident that the fast pace was firing the inter
collegiate champion. He attempted to check
Behr by lobbing and also by drives that cut the
lines along the sides of the court. But Behr
came up to the net despite all the efforts Of
Dewhurst to slacken the pace. He for
order, and his constant Volleying straight
through the court of the University of Pennsyl-
Vania man began to wear him down Dewhurst
tried Vaantly to score the second set He met
Behr's rallies with almost equal speed and in
one of them, when the score stood at 6-5 and
3O-lJ in his favor he holding the service, he
points In this rally the ball crossed the net
more than sixty times before Behr won the
point on a prettily played pass, sending the ball
directly under DeWhursts racquet arm
1t after this that Behr began to overtop
and had comparatively easy way to the finish
at 6-3. Two of the teams came through 10 the
semi-fnal round of the doubles, Beals c. Wright
and Alfred Stillman winning in the upper half
and c. Frederick Watson, jr., and Frederick c.
Colston in the lower section In the doubles
Wright better able to do himself justice.
The summaries follow:
Mems open singles (semi final ropnd)-Karl H. Behr
jr Crescent A. c. defeated Edward b. Dewhurst Penn
+ c. defeated Beals c Wright LongwoQd {. G. BOs
Mems doubles ars rogag sgoTsE soEs, 1Ra Ws.,
and II II Boyesen Meadow c. e1l 7-s rs; Edgar
Godse snsS 9efeaed a@d George Clark ana Henry w.
Rookaway II C.. 9-7. G-s, 81; Theodore Roosevelt
Pen Harry Torrance r. New York l. T. and ERsls-
Meadow c. I'll 81: g Frederick Watson u and and
feated '. O. Downey and Il RssgIi,st,r LonT~G0d e & q
William J. CIothier Orange l. T c. ana Philadelphia
Cricket Club defeated l. w Kendall and T. T. Derham.
Harvard lG-I4 rs: Edward 3. DewhuTst ana H. j..
Holt PennsylvanIn and Meadow O. defeated Clarence Pe
ana 8 A. Beardslsy. Southampton C., G-3 6-4.
Second round-Beals c: Wright and Alfred stillmAn,
I6. wood c, G Yale. defeated F. j. Sulloway and
A. -jabney Longwood c. c.. Boston. ell T-6i C. Fred
erick watson tr Frederick Colston. Orange and
Catonsvie c. c. defeated Wendle p Blagden' and
Reginald Fincis Harvard and RockaWAy H. G. G-3 81.
Consolation singles (frst round)-J ~. Morse defeated
D. b. Eddy, e. 6-1; W. johnson defeated A. W. Post.
&c, Co. 6-3.
second round-W johnson defeated J. ~ Morse ca
rs; IT, j. Holt defeated George Atterbury. s-6 SIS
Clarence Pell defeated Waller, O-6, G8, Sd
G. Frederick 1T defeated II. B. Register 6-l
' 10 c.