The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-25
Mclaughlin Is
Victor in Fast
Tennis Match
Californian Proves Too Speedy
for New Jersey Expert at
Newport Casino
LSpeeial Dispatch 10 The Call

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NEWPORT. R. l., Aug. 24.-Winning
( in straight sets in the six round of the
national all corners tennis tournament
! Maurice E. Mclaughlin. the California
interschoIastic expert, defeated Richard
H. Palmer. the New Jersey player, with
scores of IS. Cd. 60, thus becom
! ing one of the four semifnalists who
will compete tomorrow. Both men
! PLAYED good tennis but the GOODNESS
! of the Californian and his accuracy OF
! play were too much for the man from
the mosquito state. and he went down
I to defeat in each set, growing weaker
and weaker throughout the match.
. McLoughlin's skirting of the side
lines and drives into deep court were
features of his play. He kept Palmer
/ well back allowing him little chance
! to come to the net and to work in his
capital left hand cross over volley
! stroke. Mclaughlin was rarely passed
at the net especially in the latter part
| of the match.
PALMER'S AIM FAILS
Palmer had the service when the
/ featured match came on and it speedily
! developed that the service was TO
weigh powerfully in the set. Both men
were stars at delivering the ball and
the server took the games in alter
! nate order straight through until the
set had been deuced. The whole story
of the loss of the first set by Palmer
lies in the one fact that his eye and
aim failed him in the eleventh game
at a critical moment. Mclaughlin had
him 1890, when Palmer double faulted
costing him the game.
This lapse of the service in reality
cost the Jersey man the first set, for
it ena bled Mclaughlin to break through
and then to win on his own service
which netted him handsome service
ace
AS in its predecessor the second sci
demonstrated the Importance of pow
erful service when players were sc
evenly matched. Upon the delivery OF
the ball apparently depended the award
of honors in the first six games, none
of which was deuced.
Then the California university player
with rare judgment, watched an open
ing and. running in when it presented
itself. executed a series of four beau
tifully placed shots, which earned hin
the points. This game went deuce
twice, but at last, as in the critica
game of the other set, Palmer doubled
and the game was lost to him.
McLOUGHLIN PROVES, SPEEDY
Winning the next, another deuce try
out wherein both men took their turr
at making errors, Mclaughlin made
hard try for the ninth, but the Jerse,
experts service was working capitally
and an ace with it helped him to hole
the westerner back. A pair of wei
placed cross court shots that told FOL
aces, however, assisted McLoughlin t.
corral the next, which added another
, set to his tally. In this set McLoughli1
outplayed his opponent in a ratio o.
3 to 3 scoring Is earned points
Relying in increasing degree upor
his ability, now clearly demonstrated
to outplace his opponent rather thar
attempting to play him off his fee
with an exercise of great speed Nc
Loughlin took the first four games O
the third set with comparative ease.
Then a string of misplaced drives of
his racket gave the other the fiftF
game with a margin of two points, II,
made good also for the seventh at Is
but got no farther 1t was quite evi
dent that Palmer had extended him
self to his best in the other set. ane
now found his, chances fast glimmer
ing. The far western crack simpl,
!, overwhelmed him with we'll placed
|, drives and volleys, scoring 10 earne,
points, including two capital servic,
aces in the last game, to three whicl
his opponent was able to achieve.
The score by points:
4 NToIa, . n 4 n