New-York tribune., 1908-12-27
YANKEE CHAMPION WINS
STANDING TOO MUCH FOX
BRITISH RIAL.
Latham Badly Beaten IN Three
4 Straight Sets in Spirited Match
at RacquetS.

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4essiora1 racquet champion Of the United States.
5ssssred Peter Latham. champion of England. IN
three straight the court Of the New YORK
Racquet ard Tennis Club. +9d street near flIu1
s,enue Yesterday. The scores were 1s-11, 16-'
End AZ This the first meeting OF these
Professional rivals for nearly year, and good
sized crowd attended. Latham met with q most oe-
rsst,a defeat The match being of the shortest
On record requiring only thirty-hve minutes botn
men played East throughout brilliant foot"oIA eiN
effective service being noticeable at all times
Ever since he came to this country, nearly tVo
-ronths aEo Latham had been in training as ne
had been engaged by Clarence H. Mackay for the
lsrre-s private oourt Roslyn. Long Island ms
l,7aze- aid not prevent Standing from once again
demonstrating his superiority and proving con
-,usivelv that the professional Of the local cluo
g in s class by himself. In fact Standing sur
--4sed even mis- stanchest admirers, being equally
e@se,-sve with front and backband strokes his
Judgment in Placing rarely at fault ana MS
smashing drives completely bef1ed the Enehsh
champion.
m longer q young man. athletes 60 having
rassed his for1y-5fth year. It Is also 1act Ita1
hA has in 8 sense neglected rackets recently Tor
the less strenuous pastirne Of court tennis ne
missed shots yesterday which would nave 0e
easy FOR him IN rhe halcyon days
During Ihe early part Of the first set L-atnarn r
appeared 10 have Il chance. as he ran the games
I'D 70 1o-love in his favor. Until then stsnoiHs
seemed unable 70 gather himself together. missing
from good returns and on three occasions 1alllng
70 reach Lathams puzzling service- Bur "heN
Standing once got going his lightning play colll-
7,3e4elv eclipsed that his opponent, and during
the rest OF the contest the local man was al no
time in difficulty
From e spectacular point Of view the first Sc
was the best Of the match Latham won tne 'oS9
gnd began TO serve in the right hand court scor-
.7R his first ace on 2 rather easy miss By Stano-
ing The second followed through a we!! oi-
rected shot above the tellJale board, out AaIlall
lost his hand shortly on a failure TO return the
alre5
srsrr return from the hack Of the court me We
itor then began run which nstted him seven aces
and went another miss
An ace by service fell 10 Latharn's lot carrying
his total TO ten when. for the third consecutive
time Standing retired with cipher This proved
The turning point Of the set Latham IN his heno
tailed n en easy return and Standing replied Win
r7-o aces scoring the second on q clever shot
which closely skinned the telltale board STAND
ing's Improvement became more and more pro
-7ounced and he easily frustrated Ilathans attempt
70 score by corner cut which kept 50 low on the
rebound that Latham made attempt 70 reach Il
Two mora aces we're added 10 Standings score
ere he was put out A little later Latham scored
By E wonderful backhand stroke after the ball ap-
rsared lost him succession OF briIant surohes
On the part Of the American champion proved 100
r.,cb for Latham who found # Impossible TO make
=rv bAsavysy AFTER winning his eleventh game
The start Of the second sat proved to De the re-
verse Of the first. Standing appearing al MS pest
He also played exceptionally strong long court
sude-7enr Keeping his hand from the previous
set Standing scored two aces before losing II a
-zt4er Door return. but as Latham failed TO score
on his hand the error did not really affect the
score Standing then ran along with eight aces in
s,co=ssion his brilliant service provoking rounds OF
applause from the spectators
sf+e- several hard and brilliant rallies, during
Of which Standing smashed his racquet the local
nan continued TO draw away, and finally won the
set. Is
BY varying his play and alternating his returns
from the right 70 left Of the back court Stand
ing was able 10 overwhel-n his opponent in the
third ard deciding set The home professional re
ce+ved G lead Of five before Latham began 10
score The latter obtained one blly when he lost
his hand BY driving the ball into the gallery
1 sequence Of six in favor Of Standing fol
lowed and II vTe-elth0ugh latham for a brief
Epen showed a fash Of his old forIn-keeping
Standing on the jump for considerable time. The
decisive point of the match was marked up when
latham drove the ball ont Of court
The scores follow:
s:.a;Gs, -,,-,,,....:::....:5 5ss?9?s III
Aces by ssrv1oe--stendtng. 3 Latham. a Aces BY
---fsses-Ssandtng Z. Latham. 2
SECOND SET.
Aces by ser-4os-sssndins. Z: Latham, | Aoes by
rlzrfrg-Sszndiuz 1: Latham. 3 Aces by opponents
Trisses-stznding. . latham. g.
THIRD SET.
Sts5s,Ts .7se9s .......... i
aess pv serr1oe-ssnding 4 Latham. 0, Aces by
[--TG,.ets-Stsr5f7E = Latham /
Refe-ee-M. s. Patton. Of the New forf Haoque' ana