The San Francisco call., 1909-08-27
Mclaughlin Is
Beaten in the
Final Battle
In Magnificent Contest of Four
SefS CIofhier Wins From
Young Californian
ESPECIAL Dispatch 10 The Call

NEWPORT, r. l., Aug 26.-In a
magnificent contest of four sets Will
liam ]. Clothier of Philadelphia de-
feated NJ A. McLoughlin of California
in the final round of the all corners
tennis tourney on the Casino courts
today, score: rs, 6-4. Eli, 6-S.
Not since the days of the champion
ship visit of the English players, r. L.
and r. F. Doherty, has this country
seen such an exhibition of tennis as
was put up today in the finals. The
battle was waged before the largest
gallery ever seen here.
Never before in the history of lawn
tennis in this country has there been
such scenes as We're witnessed in the
final match. The decisions of the lines
men against the young Californian
We're SO frequent, the calling of foul
faults was so common and the spec
tators We're so convinced that Nc
Loughlin was not getting a fair
chance that they Missed many deei-
sions and called for change of lines
men. Time and again was McLough-
lin penalized for faults or outs with
which the gallery did not agree, but
he kept right at his work, rarely
seeming distressed at the decisions
against him, and going at the veteran
with vim and driving him TO his ut
most to win
The interscholastic champion was
working his cannon ball twist service
for all it was worth in the first set,
and in the sixth game it enabled him
to score pair of pretty aces and aided
him materially in taking the game as
well as the eighth. He had scored
four clean service aces in these eight
games and Tailed eight points in
places and passes to Clothiers five in
the same series.
In the second set Mclaughlin was
successful in negotiati ting many fancy
shots that went over the net with
speed or else were delivered in cross
court fashion. Time after time he tai
lied an ace in this manner. Nor was he
wanting in variety of strokes, inter-
spersing his savage drives with a
short chop that possessed pro-
nouncement, which hit deeply into the
turf and was responsible for numerous
returns into the net of Clothier's rae
quet. The Philadelphian seldom. II
ever. resorted to lobbing, for he rec
ognized that the westerner's style of
overhead game was almost faultless.
Where the Pacific coast sharp fell
down chiefly was in his anxiety to get
his hard drive over with its best
speed, an ca agerness that sent the ball
out. or into the net of 10.
The third set was destined to prove
the longest engagement yet played on
the exhibition court. When, with a
love game won off C1othier's service,
of alternating games that had lasted
from the eighth to the nineteenth
game the crowd fairly went wild, and
again cheered him when he won the
next set.
Try as he would, Mclaughlin could
not seem to gain control of himself in
the fourth set. He continued to sub
ordinate sureness to speed and was
forever hammering the net, or driving
out. The process was costly In the
extreme In the set he tailed 20
earned points to Clothier's 10, but his
besetting sin of carelessness meant his
undoing, and so in the last analysis
the east, with carefuiness on its side,
won over the west with speed alone
as an asset.
Score by points:
First set
Steie,ss MeIonghiin 8 Q zsz14 al
Second set
Gefonshlln SlSfelsF . ....... SO Is
Mclaughlin ...os2 $50 $40 4s5 o42 41s A-ss- IL
Fourth set
Clothier .............. 41o544 6ISs-6
Mclaughlin .......... 4--oo-o
That Maurice E. Mclaughlin and
Melville Fl. Long will be members OF
the professional team selected to visit
Australia If America is victorious over
England in the preliminary tie con-
tests in the Davis cup series at Phila-
delphia next Monday, is authoritative
ly stated by DR.. James Dwight, presi-
dent of the United States national
lawn tennis association.
TT is definitely settled" said DR..
Dwight. that both Mclaughlin and
Long will be on the Australia bound
team If we have one
Californians Among Victors
NIAGARA ON THE LAKE. Ont, Aug.
26.-Play was continued here today in
the international lawn tennis tourna-
ment. In the international singles
Hodge of Buffalo defeated Captain
Foulkes of Ottawa, Canadian champion.
Results:
International singles. men's-Hodges.
Buffalo, beat Foulkes. Ottawa, As,
6-4. 6-4; James. California. beat
Marshall, Chicago. 6-3, 60.
Mems doubles-Beals Wright and
Little beat Dimes brothers, 6--2. Ga;
Stafford and Bryant beat Bryant and
Forbes, New York, and Neely, Chicago.
6-3. 6-3
Mixed doubles. international-Mi
Sutton and Sinsabaugh, California, beat
Miss Hunt and Bridges, 6-2, 81.