New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-19
Baseball Athletics Lawn Tennis Other Spe
AMERICAN TEAM LEADS
WINS DOUBLES MATCH
threading Lazcn Tennis Plager,
Beaten for DaUis Cup.

Boston. Sept fS-The invading lawn tennis n,..
ers from Great Britain suffered setback to-ds-
in the continuation of the preliminary round 4
the international tournament for the right n Ca,
Ienge Australia for the Dwight F. Davis Gun No.
last wear in England by BroOkes and Wildt,s
Harold r. Hackett and Frederick p. Alexsuas.
the national champions IN doubles defeated N +
c. Richie and John G. Parke. the English team
in doubles By a score Of 6-3, 2-S. IS. 81
Except for a slump. which began in the second
set ard extended into the third the Americas
team showed the steady. res0urcefaI play whlrs
has been the feature OF its work since Il ar..
paired together for doubles The visitors. whns
considerably handicapped by lack OF team PLAY
showed excellent generaIship. and seldom becsm.
involved They played almost wholly in the back
court only running in for an occasional Kill
Many of the strokes. especially those OF Alexan
der were fairly thrilling while at critical per,oa
in the third set Hackett returned couple a,
seemingly impossible balls far out OF court. which
enabled the Americans TO get back into position
and finally win the point Alexander's errass
play in the second set failed to disconcert his
partner. and this steadiness by Haekett was on
of the contributing features Of the victory.
The Americans started of strongly. running IN az
usual on both their own and their opponents ser
vice. Some of A1exander's cross court strokes, the
extreme length OF both courts brought the Specta
tors to their feet The first set was quickly
played despite the long rallies. for there only
three deuce games-in fact. in al four sets thsrs
we're only five deuce games, and in only one Of
these was deuce called twice
Everything went smoothly for the home players
until the fourth game in the second set when Alex
auder lost his service. Then there started series
of errors continuing through the set, which the
British players won at to 2. and going over foT
three games into the third set before Alexander
pulled himself together and won back his own
vice The fifth game in this SET was the critical
period Of the match but here the visitors. with
Ritchie serving experienced reaction. driving into
the net aud ont Of court. Errors on both sides car
ried the set to five games all. but tire Americans
won the next two easily, and reSained Arm hold
on the match. The fourth and last set was quickly
pIaved for Alexander settled down and made many
brilliant strokes cross court and at the net Wills
EIackatt scored a couple Of service aces
An analysis OF the play shows that AlsKandar
won +vventy-seven points on places made eshtssa
nets and twenty-five outs Hackett scored four.
teen Mace shots. twelve nets and fourteen cuts
Richie made ten place shots. nine nets nlnstseH
outs and one double fault Parke scored sixteen
places. seventeen nets, twenty-four outs and oas
double fault.
The American team won on forty-onA places. On
their opponents twenty-six nets forty-three outs
and two double faults The British players von on
tventv-six places. on their opponents thirty nets
and thirty-nine outs.