New-York tribune., 1909-07-02
HARVARD MAN LOSES
DEFEATS NILES
PennsylCanian Wins Semi-FinaI
Round an La7cn Tennis PIag.

Harvard's intercollegiate champion, Nathaniel u
Niles came or second best to Wallace F JOhnson
the young Pennsylvania state champion yesterdav
In a match for the semi-hnaI round Of the BIidIIa
States championship tournament on the courts y.
the Orange Lawn Tennis Club. at Mountain Sta
tion. n J. The three in which these two brill
iant young experts engaged were easily the chief
event of interest which a gallery of two Thousand
spectators witnessed
johnson. strongly aggressive made all Of thu
playing after the first set. and scored Is. s-2 So
over the Harvard man. who had been rated a srrs
fnalist- The match even caused the victory Of the
Crescent Athletic Club champion. Charles VI. Bull
jr to pale into tnsgnihcance. even though Bull did
land the final bracket Of the lower section By
defeating his clubmate Harry G. Martin. 6-4 So
That Johnson should master so successfully tha
solution Of the Harvard mans game was not ex-
pected- The heat was intense when the pair Went
the court. and Niles began with his severe ser
vice and his twisting cut strokes that caused the
ball to bound in bathing curves as Johnson en-
deavored to play from deep court After losing the
first set the Pennsylvania started for the net on
the return of service and following up his own
Taking every the vOley. he literally
smashed and volIeyed out the last OF the
match. His cross shots were true 20 court. and
despite fine effort on Niles's part. he was never
able to quite attain to the speed OF his opponent
The surprising feature Of the last sixteen games
was that Niles failed completely either TO pass
Johnson or check his game by deep Iobbing
Niles his drives with good judgment. bur each
out a candle At close range Niles match
for him. and at the end the Harvard man az
the point of Drostration because OF the heat and
fast pace.
The heat the cause Of a number Of defaults
IN the doubles. In this event the best match was
that in which the Harvard Columbia pair OF vet
Grams, Hugh TaIIant and Lyle E Mahan, defeated
the PennsyIvanians. DR.. P. 3. Hawk and r L
James 6-3 -. In the wOmen's singles Miss
Louise S. Hammond reached the final round. de-
feating a local expert. Miss Gwendolyn Ross. -
Sc. The summary:
Middle states championship Cthird Eound-N Wallace 2
Johnson defeated Thomas " Potter 81 81
Fourth roInd-waIace 2 Johnson defeated Natha1isl
feated otto NJ Hi1ck 50 SIS. Harry c. Martin de-
featsd Hugh TaIIant. 6-1. @
Seminal round-Charles NJ Bull r.. defeated Harry
@ Martin 81. 81
Mems doubles first round)-C H Hinck and Il Tor
IT, defeated P H Palmer and : - " agne1
6-2. 81; e N. Bull. tr-. and II G Martin oereatea
Joseph Borden and william Watson e-3. IS. E
P Larnsd and - z. Watson jr-. defeated D. J. W
Rosenbaum and partner by default; X u smith and
2 s Dyckman defeated L, r. Dreyf1ss ard partner by
default: y W Niles and A. s. Dabney. II. defeated
G G.. Walter and S. Thompson. BY default
Second round-E F. and 3 u Philips defeated
johnson and J. T West. 81. 6-5. 4 H
Hackett D Little defeated H " Hague and Z
II Merrill. h default. G : Groosbeck and F Q
Baugs defeated paul Foerster and H l. Enrich. 80
60: Hugh TaIant and LyIs E Mahan defeated Dr.
P. B. Hawk and r L. James. 6-3. -
womens singles first round)-SI-s George Z. Chap
man defeated Miss Mills. 81, G-3.
Seminal round-Mss Louise S. Hammond defeated
Miss GVend)yn Rses. e. s-6