The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-19
CHAMPIONS IN TENNIS COURT.
STANDING WINS FROM GARCTN,
FRENCH TITLEHOLDER.
sharp Contrast In Methods of the Players
Adds interest TO the Match "Opens the
season AZ Racquet and Tennis club
Many Amateurs Watch the Games.

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MANY Amateurs watch tho Games.
George Standing, professional racquet
champion OF the United States, receiving odds
OF half fifteen. beat Ferdinand Garcin. tennis
champion OF France. by ? sets TO o. 10 games
to o. at court tennis yesterday afternoon.
The match was in the court OF the Racquet
and Tennis Club In this city. Velocity and
agility beat elegance and the jeu CGsstQue.
yet il was fine tennis throughout, Modern
tennis, since Peter Latham advanced from
the worlds championship At racauets TO the
worlds title at court tennis. has admitted the
claim OF speed az opposed to the old game OF
! cut and placing. and by the showing OF Stand
ing 1t may happen that the United States will
| develop a worlds champion ut the two games.
His game, while always quicker than the
orthodox court tennis, was always sound in
principles. and its effectiveness brought out
many compliments from the club members
TO the victor.
Half fifteen meant fifteen to Standing on
! every second game, At the call of time from
NJ. s. Paton. the referee, the men took the
court at ? o'clock. Standing, as lusty and
ruddy as an English squire, was a contrast
20 the wiry, petite Zouave who was TO oppose
him. During the few practice strokes Stand
ing broke the strings of a bat and there was
a laugh from the dedans, for some in the
gathering there thought that to break racauets
would be the feature of his tennis. They
were out Of court in this notion.
Garcin, although in a strange court. ex-
hibited every facility In methods and stroke.
but standing often surprised him by his
auickness in takes and In his forceful returns.
In many returns Standing shot the ball from
the bat with the speed Of a rife bullet. yet so
well placed that Garcin had either TO mark a
chase or to make a losing trv to get IL. In
the tenth game Of the Inst set. as it happened
the next 70 the last game, 80" nding by these
tactics atOOO 40. NOW NHTCln. on taxing
a service. jumped into the hsan with every
ounce of force in his body. shooting It on a
was a Standing stroke. backed up by temper
as we'll as the mans iull strength. and the
seSIns 10 SpP bs S%pplaaded vas s0 solely on is
merits. This was in the ninth game. OF the
second set. when in a rally GSSrcln PLAYED e0o =
Standing on guard and his stroke was so
easy that Garcin made a count In the corner
that Standing reached for Il and then clung
like glue to the back wall instead of com
s Sta was so good on takes that he had
Garcin puzzled often, 4 match between
the two on even terms. u one can be arranged
before Garcin sails on January 10, would be
%"DeliShtful stroke," cried Isaac Towne-
front wall. 66ther amateurs at the match
were Charles f. Sands, Theodore, A. Have
RTeyer' R iaISyLd Ri PyPPe e 81 P beS ! T. b bar0 81! 6,
Haven. j. d, FORBES. u. MarkOe., Jr. Harry
La Montagne. w. Dinsm0Ie, IT, william
has taken up court tennis again after some
years. Frank Forester and Robert Moore,
the professionals, were Also on hand.
Standing had his odds of fifteen on every
second game. lie won the toss and made
rs by s fG tSe. d Sdd,Gn 's NSM G SaPReo marked Sy
two chases, better than two and better than a
yard, In playing them Standing lost both;
game 40 all. Carcin then scoring first blood
by vantage and game. standing. by MS
one clever pickup in, the backhand corner
sent parallel to the galleries having forced
G CSsse C 70 %H5E G z RaSo won Ss e chase SS Sorss
than five for l5-40. and he defended the
hazard side chase for $50 Now a clever
Standing ran his count to al, but Garcin
made the nth a loye game; all the counts
%on s Tnd 'p lost t0S Shases. While Standing Won
a last gallery chase and one better than a
yard. He won the latter BY a ball into The
dedans and H. won the game. Standing took
the next and stood So for the set.
After the eighth game had gone to deuce
dateiy after by a beautiful return from a hard
service is new here, He plays a high ball
with a cut from the front court, which al
the hos penthouse iTRouse and %ciIHsins then to tie front
wall, OF he may play IL to come out TO the net
1t is most difficult TO gauge. Standing was
held honors easy in this department. This
was Garcin's last game In the set, Standing
taking three straight and winning by 3 20 3
games.
To start the second set Gsrcin scored IS
by a return dead in the forehand corner,
which Standing cancelled by a stroke to the
winning gallery. Standing now won out by
volleying, game being from Garcin's return
out Of court. Garcin won the second game.
/, in which he gave odds, His first count was
after a long rally, The Frenchman, at the
, end, lobbed a ball Just over the net on the
= forward to take il. As a fash, Garcin took
the return and dropped n soft. twisting ball
into the winning gallery corner. Standing
turned and made pace for IL, but the effort
was plainly futile. In mock an ger, he kicked
toward the ball with his foot, which brought
a laugh from the dedans and a round Of ap-
plause for Standings ubiauity and cheer
fulness. The next game went six times TO
deuce and vantage. Once Garcin gained
, vantage by a play TO the grille and Standing
made II deuce again by gaining the denans. a
remarkable sequence. n anding's last van
tage was by Garcin's return out of court
and he got game by a tw lsted volley that the
Frenchman tent into the net. st anding
now ran the games TO 81 in his favor. Garcin
could not take the returns at all in the NTH
and sixth games, dropping the ball into the
net as fast as snowfakes cover a sheet OF ice
Garcin then CLEANED two games. but Standing
won the set and match by 8 to B. The sum-
mary.