The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-21
YOUNG ENGLISH PLAYER WINS.
WHITE DEFEATS FERDINAND
GARCIN, , SETS TO 4.
Interesting Match I'm the Racquet and Ten
mis- Club -FrenchmRn Chagrined At
second Set Not Being Declared VAN
tage-Many Clubmen In the Court.

tsge-Many Clubmen in the Court.
Ferdinand Garcin. the French court tennis
champion. lost a match to John White. one
Of the clubs professionals, at the Racquet
and Tennis Club yesterday. White received
odds OF half fifteen and won by two sets
TO one, twenty-one games to eighteen. Gar
Gin won the first set, eight TO Ave. and he
contended that but for a Misunderstanding
as to the second set not h ving been declared
a vantag &c set, at seven all, he would have
won the match. White began the fifteenth
game so vigorously that he had the score
40 to o. Garcin then made is. but lost a chase
and the game Immediately afuerwsrd. He
said that relying on the set being vantage
he did not exert himself. To Garcin's sur
prise the marker called game and set"
Garctn displayed cha grin and through his
temper White had an easy victory In the
first two games OF the third set. After that
the Frenchmsn played his best game. but
White was now In great form and could not
be caught. The fault for the misu nder-
standing seems TO rest with Garcin. John
Hammond. when calling the second set seven
all. asked Referee Patton II it should be a
vantage set.
Not a vsnta &c set replied Patton from
the dedans. 1T will be eighth and last
count"
Gsrcin was at the grille end. ready for
Vutc , Htlu uu n0L near ibnc COu-
versation clearly. In France" Garcln re-
marked after the match. 1T would have
been a vanta &c set. I was amazed to hear
the call Of game and set. IL was an unfor-
tunate thing. asked White why he had not
agreed to vantage set and he said Il was not
his choice"
IL was Whites best public match in this
country. Alfred and John White came to the
New York club as court tennis professionals
two years ago from the Duke Of Flies court
at East sheen. in England. Young White
and Garcin play, the orthodox tennis, and, as
new new s stroSes T put up n by s Sc S9hnsO the cl UB ses
fine style displayed BY White and his grit in
lockers. There was a good attendance and
I.edEent applause II was a game OF nne
the winning openings on occasions in telling
Incidental. and not forced GSTcin com.
rainy day the court was bright enough.
White made eight counts in the dedans.
two. by the winning gallery and six by the
grille opening. Garcin's cunts by the
winning openings were six to the dedals,
6THE to tn the S Winning gallery and three 70 the he
Garcin's miss and 80 by the dedans. A miss
made Garcin l5--9Oi then. as he lost and won a
dedans gained deuce for. Garcin. when he
won vantage and game. he took more before
when White added to his odds BY codntins
on a hazard second gallery chase and one
worse than two. for 90. Garcin changed
%, play a chase better than the door. when
White gained game by a pretty stroke into
the grille. The nth was a love game for
Garcin. who kept his lead and won the set by
s to 5 games,
A backhanded take by White from the grille
corner had received applause In the sixth
game. The clever strokes in the rallies were
often applauded. especially the kills on the
grille column In the second set White ran the
score to 40. when Garcin changed the situation
to "a and later Is. Now White ga lined a
couple. the last a love game in which Garcin
found the net three times. making the tally
z all. Referee Paton's ruling agai inst a want
age set followed the call. 1t was an odd game,
so the men were on even terms, for White
received his fifteen on every second game.
By straight rallies White stood 90, when
Garcin gained $50 by a drop into the grille
corner. He then became striker out to play
a chase better than the door, which he lost,
and White had game and the set, to Z.
The third set stood 40 for White before
Garoin gained first blood on a vantag e game,
his last point being by a ball into the dedans.
Thereafter Garcin was a vigorous opponent,
but the match still went in Whites favor.
When "a, White made ii Is on a game that
was four times to deuce and vantage. Gar.
Gin made but one count in the final game, due
TO a miss by White into the net. the latter TAX
ing the set by s TO 3. The summary:
FIRsr sEr-oARCIN, 8; WHITE. S-FIRsT GAME.