The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-09
JAY GOULDS PLACE IN TENNIS
MILES AND PENNELL MAY COME
TO NEW YORK TO MEET HIM.


Jay Gould's victory in the British court
ennis championship promises TO add an
international interest TO the American
championship, TO be played next March
at the New York Racquet and Tennis Club
He will be a Columbia University fresh
man thisf fall. and next April examinations
will probably keep him from defending
his title at London. In the anticipation
of this contingency it Is expected that
Eustaoe H. Miles, Vane Pennell. II. e.
Crawley. Major Cooper-Key, or other
amateurs who may wish to tackle jay
Gould again. will enter for our Champion
ship. The presence Of the visitors would
really make the American event the cham-
pionship Of the world. -
Peter Latham when here in 1905 saw the
virgin matches Of young Gould; In fact,
played in them: He predicted that Gould
would not win the British championship in
1905. but that he would do so in 1907. a
prophecy confirmed exactly. Lack Of tour
nament play was the reason Latham thought
that Gould would not win last year when
pitted against the crafty veteran Miles. On
returning to England Latham said that he
would not again tour in the United States
until he had regained the worlds cham
pionship from C. Fairs, which had passed
out Of his hands after years Of possession.
tt match was not easy to arrange, for
Garcin had previously challenged Fairs,
but Latham was as eager as a hound in full,
cry and he finally gained the contest. They
met last month in the court OF the Princes
Tennis Club, Brighton, for 81, 250 a side.
The conditions were the best of thirteen
sets without advantage sets and foul sets
to be played each day, but should a deciding
set be necessary it should be played i'm
mediately after the score had been called
six sets ALL" Jay Gould served az referee.
Latham led from the start and won by Z
sets to 3, 81 games to 40, recovering the
title. which he held from 1896 to 1905.
When Fairs beat Latham for the cham
pionship in 1905 the latter was In poor health
and not quite ready, but when he entered
the court last month he was obviously in
better condition. Fairs beat him in a home
and-home match, following the precedent
Of the George Lambert and Charles Saun-
ders championship match of 1885, played
at Princes Club, K~nightsbridge, and Queens
Club, London. AS the holder Fairs pre-
sumably made the terms, and it was a con-
cession to play at Brighton, Latham's fav-
orite court. 1t was the fourth champion
ship he had won there. After Tom Petit
beat c. Saunders for the championship in
1890 at Lord lveagh's court, Dublin, the
latter resumed the title on Pettit's return
to Boston. Latham challenged n be-
came worlds champion at both racquets
and tennis by beating Saunders at Brighton.
In the same court he beat Petit later, when
he went over from Boston to spring the de-
veloped railroad service. the pride Of Bun
ker Hill, on the Britishers. Again, in 1904,
Latham won his third championship at
Brighton by beating c. Fairs. After being
I'D IL N1I ~ l. G--N - 49, -
saved the match, and at one time was within
a stroke of making it six sets ALL but he
finally lost by seven sets to five.
Fairs learned tennis with that prettiest
OF players, the late G. Saunders, and as he
was at Tuxedo in 19O3-Oi, many in America
know his game. He is ten years younger
than Latham. who passed his forty-second
birthday during the match. and as there is
no rising star in view Fairs lie apt to be
champion sometime again. Should La
attended matches with the best men We
have, and as Jay Gould will probably be
in the four handed games. some Of the
contests will be very high class. His last
that Of Ferdinand Garcin last winter. for
the Englishman has the more dashing game
and is constantly playing strokes that Dor
der on the superhuman.
Gould's policy in the final Of the amateur
championship was 10 play the floor game
from both sides of the net and when he
had the attack TO return the ball constant
ly to Miles's backhand. which is not as
strong as his forehand corner. A detailed
account OF the cramp incident in the fifth
set is not as sensational as the scraps sent
at the time by cable. Field states:
THE result Of the contest was not unex-
pectedi. though many good judges, familiar
with the play Of both combatants, thought
that, If a fifth set had TO be played, Mr.. |
Miles, with his superior physique and much
longer experience of the game in general
and match playing in particular (ofset.
however, by a disparity on this occasion
OF nineteen, years in age. would probably
win it. And, indeed. it is not easy TO under
stand how he did not manage to do SO
under the peculiar circumstances of the
case. At the end Of the fourth set some
time was scent in taking rest and plenty
of the aforesaid refreshments. Mr.. Miles.
of the two. certainly did not appear 10 be-
the more exhausted, and as the fifth set
proceeded Mr.. Gould gave signs of that
most unpleasant form of fatigue, oramp
IN the muscles, OF the hand and forearm.
He had q touch OF il at the beginning OF
the fourth game, and in the sixth play was
stopped for a minute or 80 in order that
his arm might he rubbed. In the ninth
game play was again suspended for about
ing with hot water.
Against an opponent so disabled al a
critical stage of a match a player, in the
ordinary course, might we'll have felt con-
lluenJ OF winning the set. AS q matter OF
fact, Mr.. Miles. who deserves all praise for
his courtesy. patience and good humor
under trying circumstances, was decidedly
put OF by the s~toppages lin a way familiar
TO MATCH players at tennis. or. indeed, any
strenuous games of the kind, while Mr..
Gould, on the whole. benefited by the rest
obtained from them. Indeed, he could NOT
have played to the end of the match with
it,"
Except on his service. which rareIy NIT
on the defensive. Miles never played
Gould won by 3 sets to 2, 81, S-e.
10. 60, e.. This makes the games
% all, and the strokes we're: Gould, ISL:
Miles, 1853. Gould's victory made the second
prize vacant, n the losers to him, which
has not as yet been reported here, PLAYED
TO decide who should hold il for the current
year. Vane Pennell. whom Gould deposed
in 1905. won the second prize.
In gaining the Tuxedo gold racouet
and the amateur championship in lp0s
and repeating this year Jay Gould marked
the passing OF supremacy in the game of
the "old guard" in which the leaders in
were Joshua Crane, Jr., and
Charles F.. Sands. All next TO them OF class
were punched. New Workers especially
prominent being T.. Suffern Taller, j, II.
and Ernest A. Thomson. Gould
probably have a following among
the younger set. the most notable 40 far
Pierre Lorillard, Jr., who has go