The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-10
NILES NIKNB TO MEET GOULD
ENGLISH PLAYER WINS IN COURT
TENNIS FINAL.

Visitor Displays Great skill in DofeatinB
Payne whitney, 0-S. 60, 0-l-Jay
Could FaVOHte for challenge Round
decentralization Meet To-day.
In the final match Of the preliminary ties
Of the court tennis championship at the
Racquet and Tennis Club yesterday Eustace
VI. Niles achieved the object Of hts journey
from England TO New York. II was TO meet
jay Gould In the challenge round, which viii
be played tomorrow afternoon. Miles 10
the final OF the preliminary ties defeated
Payne Whitney by 3 sets TO love, s-S, 60,
Ct.
A few poor games followed the advent Of
Miles 10 this country, but II would now seem
that Miles had attained his best game. In
his matches against young LorlllArd, Sands
aid Whitney the game OF Miles has been
perfect. The way Miles sent the ball into
the always distant corner, thus compelling
the adversary to Jump across the court, was
a lesson In Reometrcal lines, There has
never been an amateur player on the New
York court who has had such control Of the
ball as 10 placing. with the possible excep'
ton Of Jay Gould.
Al the New York court and with almost
all Of the American amateurs Jay Gould Is
the favorite. They say In an outspoken way
that there will be nobody In the final except
Gould. To those who remember that Gould
had TO ask for a rest 10 the challenge round
last year the conclusion seems premature.
Miles in his last three games has displayed
a splendid control Of every stroke and also
great staying powers. Miles has finished
in every match just as fresh as he has COM
menced II.
Whitney made a better fight against Miles
than had been expected. Miles won by s-S.
90. 81. Yet had II not been for bad luck
Whitney would have rolled up more points,
for many strokes Whitney planned only
missed the grille or the dedans by an inch.
Yet Il is hard 10 tell In print OF the consum-
mate ease with which Miles sent balls 70 die
away in the corners as snowiakes vanish
in q river, or OF his superb kills at the foot
Of the tambour or In the backhand corners.
Miles had a distinct command Of the win
ming openings, for he gained the grille win
dow no less than eight times and the dedans
Eve times. WhItney's game was mostly
on the floor, not from intention but because
the twisted balls sent 20 him by Miles could
only be taken by 9 straight bang mostly,
tSSlcs and the dsdans twice, It is odd that
the control OF the winning gallery seems
10 be beyond the powers OF the amateurs.
for TO make this point either direct or by a
boosted force Is a favoHte stroke OF the lead
ing professionals.
There we're not as many onlookers in the
dedans and galleries as had been expected
but every seat in the place has been, booked
for to-day's professional match between
Latham and Standing and for the bout to-
morrow with Jay Gould and Miles as defender
and challenger. e. T.. Sands, was the referee
aud Walter Kinsella the marker.
Beginning as striker out Miles had the
dedans on his first return Of Whitney's rail-
road service. Aided later by the winning
Of a hazard side chase, Miles won the game
by 4 10 1. The next game was all for Whit
ney, he getting II by Al, the final point being
by a stroke 10 the dedans. Thereafter Miles
was quite in command, and he won the set
sided. Miles gaining II by 4 o. and Miles took
the Last set by 6-i. The score by gam1 was;