The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-16
DOUBLES FOR
BEHR AND
WRIGHT
American Tennis Cracks
BeSted Australians in
Close Matches.

LONDON July 6-After each had lost
his single match in the contest of Satur-
day for the Davis cup, representing the
international lawn tennis championship,
Beals c.. Wright and Karl X. Behr. Amer
leans, turned the tables yesterday on the
Australasian team composed of Norman
e. Brookes and A. f. Wilding. n play
ing together In the doubles. won one Of
the hardest contested matches ever wit
n -ssed on the Wimbledon courts. The
scores were SO, 12-l0, As, 60, Ga.
The Australasians took the first set
with comparative ease, and 1t was only
after the most strenuous play that the
Americans were able to place the second
set to their credit. The Australasians won
the third set, and 1t looked as though the
match cup was out of the reach of the
Americans Wright and Behr, however,
then made a great effort and firing out
their competitors had all the best of 1t
In the concluding sets.
To win the right to play the Englishmen
for the Davis cup the Americans must
take both their single matches tomorrow.
When the pairs took the courts at VIM
today, the tennis contingent ex-
pected a repetition of the championship
final earlier on the same courts. That
idea was greatly strengthened when the
Australasians took the first set at Ga.
The service of Brookes was very sharp
and bothered the Americans, used though
they are to the twist. Behr was in much
better form than on the occasion of the
doubles championship final. Then he was
in such erratic mood that he caused the
loss of many points.
His tennis was ever SO much steadier IN
this second set and for the first time since
the Americans came here, 1t may be said
that they were playing in true form.
They showed then that they were just the
least bit better than Brookes and Wild
ing, and after a hard fight they won the
second set 12-10. It was real champion
ship tennis, the kind that an International
contest ought to produce.
The third set tailed off In vigor, as Is
not unusual In such matches. tn Aus
tralasiaf 3 remained always the steadier,
which is a main characteristic Of their
plav. Behr Is brilliant in the extreme
when he gets off a hard shot or fast drive
but his play Is uneven in quality. An oc-
casional lapse throughout the third set was
enough to give the deciding points to the
colonials. and the score of Cd in their
favor.
That was the beginning of the end, be-
cause the Americans got together then and
played great guns. Wright stayed back
ard lobbed everything. Behr came to the
net and made good with his fine smashes
down through the middle court and with
his slow placings and pickups from under
the barrier. It was a match in which the
ALI England champions never were In the
hunt. They got just four games In the
next two sets. and went out of the run
ming as far as the doubles are concerned
as the result of fine and ~clean-cut tennis
of the best typeS. The scores were So
CO in favor of the Americans.
One of the American following looking or
today said after the match: "Wher
Wright and Behr came here We believed
that our only hope was in singles. They
had no reputation at all In the doubles
Now 1t seems that we were just wrong
The third and last day Of play in the
preliminary tie will be tomorrow at VIM
bledon. Behr has to meet the champion
Brookes. Wright plays Wilding. In the
recent singles championship Wright was
put out In the first round by wilding and
later in the tournament Brookes defeated
Behr. In the first days international play
the American players ook on the Austra-
lasians In singles. Brookes beat Wright
easily, but Behr played a five set match
with Wilding before he was defeated. If
Behr had won that match Americas
chances would be brighter.
The score now stands: Australasia. 2;
America, /. The match today is summar-
lied as follows: Beals C. Wright and Karl
Fl. Behr. America. defeated Norman T..
Brookes and Anthony f. Wildlng. Austria
lasia, 3-6. 12-10 As, 60, Ga