The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22

Rabbit, had been laying low. He had his '
best tennis up his sleeve and Crane faced
the oockerel as ready for battle as q sea- y
soned gameoock.
To open the frat set Crane won a game,
but, as old birds do not warm up all at once
the youugster stood Al before Crane got
another game. Gould had the set, 60,
but Crane had kept him hustling right
along. Winning the opening Of the second
act after u tremendous battle that went
five times to deuce and vantage Crane won
the set e-3. Crane stood Al In the third
set, the third game having been won by
whitewashing Gould. who was putting in
the way OF a healthy young, gram,pus, when
the eyeglasses dropped an the lad cauGn
in the next game, but he won the set after
vigorous gains by 6-3.
Crane was now playing on his courage.
In a final squirt, as gigantic in its efforts as
the last worry OF a whale, Crane a tne
matters. Getting a half minute rest to retie
his shoestrings, the y%oungster rushed the
games to five all, and, winning the set by
rs, he kept on and captured the fifth Get
and match by 6-2. In but one game, tne
fifth Of the last set, which went six times TO
deuce and vantage, did Crane reveal the
fury of his rushing before the e~pectacles.
had been shattered. Should the episode
end in Gould becoming the British champion
or even CnallenReT 10 ln6 llJleloIuSil SOho
one should write a play about the bits OF
glass, a sort Of tennis tride in the Scrap OF
Paper" style.
To dismiss this gossipy tale of, h
might nave been, the sort OF a chapter
to be heard after every great contest in
amateur sport, THE expedition Of young
Gould Is a very plucky undertaking. Youth
is not a factor to count against any aspirant
in sport any more, for, only TO mention
some recent instances Of the powers q
~-A matt nnlY
champion Of Great Sritain, 4. 6. Barry,
was at school when he won and is now a
freshman at Cambridge. while our w
best amateur golfer and twice amateur
champion Is barely out OF Harvard w1tn
his sheerskin, while William Hoppeis yet in
his teens. Regarding Gould, too, one has
seldom seen 50 young an athlete With so
old a head.
Peter Latham said while here that six
months in the London courts and In the
true tennis atmosphere would make Gouio
the equal Of any amateur in the world. AS
a consequence, for Peter is seldom mis-
taken in this sort off prediction, ~eventhough
Gould should lose this time the Journey
will not be a waste Of time. He is a slim,
but well built lad, only lacking an inch or
two of the six feet mark on the measuring
rod, with a fine pair of shoulders and arms,
the latter unusually strong in the forearms.
Hair and eyes are dark, the latter very. keen
and sharp, while in bearing the boy is al,
WAYS mOQeSI anu duuDlcs hO oPONho.
advantage Of a private tennis court and
a good coach, Frank Forester, always at
hand has made the strong game he .playe
possible. yet but for a special aptitude and
fondness for ennis Jay Gould would not
be the worlds greatest boy PLAYER. His
brother, Kingdom Gould. is by no means 80
keen a player, and jay, although he has also
a private racquet court at LAKEWOOD, Is no
great shlkes at that game.
Dozens Of boys at Tuxedo, Philadelphia
W Z. haxNA Ia eRnr
tunities Of playing court tennis. and do go
Just enough to keen Themselves, warm, :
while there are hundreds of Lads doubtless
who have had equal opportunity in England.
Yet Jay Gould is the only one to come out
Of the bunch as a bright, particular star
The formal rart of the game, which appeals
to the mind rather than to sheer vigor OF
muscles, NAV for one thing deter most
youths from taking up the game In earnest.
But this youngster has the true ~fondness
for Tennis: he would rather play IT than eat,
to use the homely simile, and this Is the
trait that has most impressed the profes-
1 SIGNAL critics, men like Peter Latham, Al
fred White, Tom Petit. Lambert, Standing
Tomrkins, Moore and the rest. A little
more experience among fine players and
in courts where fine PLAYERS are not the AK
c~ertion, with the strength that will come
with age to imrart more severity TO HE
strokes. and the professionals all agree that
Gould will he a world beater. Orr amate'trs
| C0InClCe NllH ltlcl lhpt-io al III hAACA
Gould is a wonder Of the courts.
Great tennis PLAYERS, like great poets,
must be born and thew do not come very
many in a basket. Gould has a knowl-
edge Of every stroke n tactic Of the game;
he lacks only experience with q variety
of amateur opponents and match playing
aboard will impart all this. The tennis
championship OF the United States, nov
held by Gould, has been borne bv but seven
others since it's start in 1902. One OF them
was Eustaoe H. Miles, who was at Tuxedo
In 1900 and has been champion OF England
since 1899. This championship dates only
to 1880, and the names of but five Others
are on the winning record. The gold prize
of the Marylebone Club, which dates to
1857, had hut two winners In all the years
j. NJ. Heathcote and Alfred Lyttelton;
until 1875, when Sir Edward Grey, E. II
Miles and j. B. Gribble began to show
. with Miles the most frequent winner.
The latter, besides views on health foods
Is an exponent OF brainy tennis, and thu
professionals scout at his game as beinn
too radical in its departures from the jet
cisS,que. l|ut Miles has the prestige o.
success and no has been at the head Of TIN
tennis family since 1889, The world know
we'll that "youth must he served and !
NAV be that the Yankee boy H. TO depoee tn
many time leader. All sport loving :Amen
rams will wish success to him, II only mo
vet, but soon" The family OF champions
here and abroad, is such q limited one tina
established good form In the gome is last
fnctcr to help Young Gould. for he know
the game. Joshua Crane. Jr., Charles f.
Sands, ard possibly others have tried an,
failed for tho English tennis c~hainpionshi'
In other years. and Gould should cArtainl,
come nearer 10 winning than any Of tn
earlier aspirants from the United StAte
have dono,