Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-22
Fast Play in Indoor Tennis
Tourney at New York.
DOWN TO THE FINALS
Grenade Saved the Eastern Bettors at
New Orleans.
WAS HEAVILY BACKED TO WIN
Brooke and Fincke in Racquet Finals
Golf at Pinehurst and Palm
Beach-Base Ball Notes.
DOWN TO THE FINALS
WAS HEAVILY BACKED TO WIN

NEW YORK. February 22-Spectacular
racquet work produced exciting sport in
the lawn tennis doubles of the national in
door championship tournament yesterday
on the board courts of the 9Th Regiment
Armory, 66th street and Park avenue.
Two of the pairs. Frederick B. Alex
ander and Harold Fl. Hackett. the pres
ent holders of the titles. and Wylie c.
Grant and Herbert l.. Westfall gained
their places in the final round. The latter
pair won the Welsh covered court cham
pionship last autumn while abroad. and
have been showing remarkable form.
Both of the matches were decided in
straight sets These contests formed the
feature of the days play on the courts,
although the open semi-final brackets in
the mems singles were filled by Morris 8.
Clark and Theodore Roosevelt Pell.
Women's Finals.
Clark net Grant in the upper half this
morning. and in the lower half Pell met G..
Lorraine Wyeth. The final in the women's
championship singles was held over until
1:So pm. Saturday, at which time Miss
Marie Wagner will meet Miss Elizabeth H.
Moore for the title.
The semi-fnal match. in which the
doubles champions defeated Edwin p.
Fischer and Theodore Roosevelt Pei.
brought out unlooked-for weakness on the
part of the former pair. AleXanders half
yolley strokes failed to come off his racquet
with the same crispness and accuracy as
heretofore, while at the net and at deep
court HaCkett was uncertain throughout
the first set. In this set Fischer and Pell
were strenuOusly aggressive. forcing the
games TO deuce and five times being within
a stroke of scoring the set before they lost
II to Alexander and Hackett at o. 1t
was fast tennis and only by good lobbing
during the last the ChamDiOnS
successful In turning the scores in their
favor.
The Summaries.
MEMS championship singles-Third round-Morris
B. Clark, Seventh Regiment Tennis Club. defea ted
II. d. Montgomery, Swanoy Lawn Tennis Club.
B-I. 81. Ga; Theodore Roosevelt Pell New York
Lawn Tennis Club, defeated W. c. De Mile. West
Side Lawn Tennis Club 81, 6-3
Mems Championship doubles-Second round-O.
N. Bostwick and W. c. De Mile. West Side Lawn
Tennis Club defeated William B. Cragin jr.. and
Arthur :. Cragin, Seventh Regiment Tennis Club.
by default.
defeated Edwin 7. Fischer and Theodore Roose-
Welt Pell, West Side and New York Lawn Tennis
club. 81 81; Wylie c. Grant and Herbert l..
Westfall. New York and Kings County Lawn Ten
Mile, West Side Lawn Tennis Club. 63. 81.
Consolation sngles-First round-T Godfrey de-
feated Walter Chase 60. So; Robert T. Bryan
defeated c. s. Schaefer. 81. GO. Ga; NJ. S. Char
William Rosenbaum defeated W. NJ. Hall by de-
fault; A. ]. Delmar defeated o. NJ. BOstwick by
default: Harold Moore defeated Floyd Smith 6-3
20 81; Julio NJ. Schumacher defeated II. L.
Westfall by default.
Second rOund-Harold II. Moore defeated A. j.
Ielmar. 81, O.: Julio VI. Schumacher by default.