New-York tribune., 1907-08-07
LAWN TENNIS IN RAIN.
DRIZZLE At LONGWOOD.
Whitmon Brothers IN Long Match
an First Round of Doubles.

Boston Aug "a light drizzle kept the attend
ance down at the morning play for the LongWood
Cup and the Eastern doubles title at the Long
wood Cricket Club to-day, but about the middle
of the afternoon the came out and several
matches of the kind that have made this lawn tennis
event famous were played. 1t was the rrSt udy VI
play for the doubles teams, and the presence OF
several crack pairs aroused much interest
Easily the event of the day the match be
tween the Whitman brothers and the johnson
brothers. The match began at o'clock. and when
darkness prevented further play three hours later
both pairs had TO their credit 1t was a
lobbing match from start 10 hnsh, with the John-
son pair directing their entire attack at IL IL
Whitman.
Another important doubles match that be
tween w A Iarned and W. J. Clothier. past and
present singles champions and Ware and Halio-
well. The latter pair are not considered IN lhs
same class with Larned and Clothier. but they
the first set and ran the fourth and last 10
deuce
Wright and Little another prominent pair, came
through the first round easily defeating Jackson
and Read and now have only one match TO
play before landing in the semi finals Grant ana
Westfall, of New York, had TO exert themselves 10
win over Tailant and Terrence, OF the same city
There were no upsets in the singles, except per
haps the defeat Of Nat Thornton. of Atlanta, Ga
who lost 20 N P. HalloweIl jr, Of Boston, because
of lame foot.
w G. Grant, of New York, defeated W. T,
Johnson. Of Philadelphia, only after he had solved
wicked chop stroke which Johnson used 10 eood
advantage r c. Seaver. the Massachusetts cham
pion, and H A Mackinney played the spectacular
match Of the day. Seaver covered great deal OF
of the aces ne ScOTtd "i4l4o Oh
his balance were nothing short of marvellous lie
defeated Mackinnev in three sets out OF four
The summary follows:
Iongwooc Cup singles-Third round.H l. Wes{tal i
defeated E N Fie<man e. 6-l g, " = N M,
defeated q p Gardner jr-. GO. 81! o. . % NsT
defeated r ;. Lowering. g. e3. 81 ~. II. ~
Montgomery defeated ". l. Jennings q O. =
Ga: r. c. seaver defeated MacRinney 6-4' - O.
%. r. lie ROY defeated F J. Sunoway: - -
81 "a. F c. Coston defeated H. A. BTactor3 a.
"a 6-3 &c O. H Torrance. r.. dele4'et 5e
Arnes "a 90 81. Go: n p. HanoWeli IT,. ,,... as
featei Nat Thornton. e-1 s-e 81: w Sra9. Ga.
R H. Palmer defeated A : Dabney ir' 90 %
Fourth roIn9-c NJ Bull jr. defeated D Ii s. Niles
IN 6-2 6-3: r. Le Roy defeated " - - ?, ~
90 e-2 Ga. Clarence Hobart defeated H. = ~
soFegy Fsgi: n9 ebanbonship doubles Tound,-N
+,,S9Iaton 81. 80, 6-4; W J Clotnier ana " .
1arned defeated + c Cost9n and =, s!estsd A "
e 6-4 b. c. Wright and r D Llttle w NJ Dunn
"a p II Palmer defeated L J. Grant ana II 3-1'(
- 3 / s-2 e. II. Miller and r b
<ea+ed II A Bradford and partner. 10 - IEa1a and
w suIlovvav aaT F. 9 Colson dsfeatel - "a NJ r
n e-2 S-1: W p Johnson and fi
srstsr dereatsd II A Davis and A " " eit,,es-e1
3 G-1. " n and II. II. Nhit11ah. ~ .
n Niles and A sw'eetser e-$ .; T;;,,i-+ and II
-. 49, y + West fall defeated II laiIaI' {l-s,r ~
- 75 an, s - score not r.osteD . 2 ana n
5.,eats[ = r spears and G. + Wales - Sss.s NI3-rrg
- u %attletcn and 2 p. IlilI nh o,ns-4 and
- = pat 6-2 G-s 6-2. 6-3. r LegtAI[I Li ~ =
1 - CSard1sr r.. defeated F ! "Toa rIi,s1 lII a. de-
fsatss II A Mackinney and p. l. SchuS'er' - "
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