New-York tribune., 1910-12-25
LAWN TENNIS.

vviuiann 4 larued by successfully d.
Tending his holding of the national lawn
tennis championship, which gave hirra tne
title for the sixth time added IusIre 10 tho
thfrtieth season upon the American coufIs-
In MANY vavs the national championship
tournament at Newport. r L. was re-
r1arkable The entry reached the recort
| n,arJz Of 1s1 PLAYERS. Larued defended his
! title in singles and Frederick B. Alexander
| and Harold H Hackett did the same fr
| doubIes Iarned's challenger was Thomas
C. ByIndy, OF Los Angeles. who came Eass
with Trowbridge Hendrick to play in tho
doubles This pair had previously earned
the right TO challenge for the NATIONAL
doubles title as the Pacific Coast pair, hav-
ing won the East, West, South and Paciao
Coast preliminary ties
Bundy was easily the sensation OF ths
Newport tournament He came through IN
the lower half. defeating such an abl4
player as Beals C Wright in the fuab
! round by the score OF sc. 6-S, SIS. los.
1t was then that the unfairress OF bring
ing tired player against the outstandinS
champion was shown Bundy. playing ..
heady, aggressive and wonderfully skilfur
game, forced Larued to the full five sstA
before being beaten at 6-f, 81. 60. 6-d.,
6f. To a degree Buudy demonstrated tha:
unless the Eastern players materially I'M
prove the title in another season or two
seems destined TO cross the continent
The doubles proved Disappointing Hen
drick. the partner Of Bundy. was hardly
I'D to the mark, with the result that such
an experienced pair as Alexander and
Hackett scored IN straight sets. q. 6-1.
s-s, s-3. So It was again shown that lcns
association is by all odds the chief asses
upon which doubles must depend.
ia fac
important one. was the clay court cham
piorship OF the United States. a tourna-
ment dus to the perseverance, of the lerx.
Western following Of the game, held on
the courts Of the Omaha Field Club. Ths
fixture brought together more than crs
hundred players. Here. again, the Pacih-
Coast made itself felt, as Melville II Long
won IN such impressive style as to leave
not the slightest doubt OF his ability In
the final round he met Walter Merrill Hall,
OF the Hamilton Grange Tennis Club. Of
this city, and defeated him at 80. 81
6-1- Frederick G. Anderson and Walter
Hayes won the doubles OF this tourna-
ment. defeating Long and Arthur Scrib-
ner. 2-s, 36. 81, s3 SIS
The Metropolitan championship was De-
cided on turf for the first time at the West
Side Tennis Club On this account nearly
al the turf players Of not. entered ard
among the lot was William A. Larned He
and Touchard landed in the final round
Larned, IN his semi-fnaI. met Carlton r
Gardner. ana the Californian led the ns-
tional champion such a pace that hs
sprung tendon. though he was able 20
scratch along and win Larned them
wanted to default to Touchard- The latter
refused 70 accept the default. saying that
f
He did wait. but Larned won easily Alex
ander and Hackett won the doubles WITH
out being extended
A few days prior to the opening Of the
New York State championship on the Cres-
cen. Athletic Club courts the last week IN
July Maurice e. Mclaughlin defeated Beals
c. Wright at Longwood. Il was therefore
concluded that the youngster from the
coast had improved from his previous trip
East. Wright had Just returned from VIM
bledon. where he produced the only inter
national feature OF the year. though hs was
beaten by Anthony y. wildins IN the final
round.
The game was active among the women
Miss Hazel Hotchkiss came from CaIifor-
MIA 10 defend her title IN the wornen's ma
tionaI championship ar Philadelphia She
met Miss Louise Z. Hammond. Of New
York. in the challenge round and the Cali
fornia girl once more proved her super1-
GRITTY. Outside of this Miss Hammond
earned the biggest share OF the hcnors.
winning the Eastern States, Middle Statss.
Metropolitan and other championships.
All things considered. the majority OF shs
tournaments revealed Improvement IN tho
observance OF the rules and In the general
methods OF conducting them The most un-
fortunate occurrence OF the year was tho
passing OF the International matches for tho
Davis International challenge cup. Both
Great Britain and the United States chat
lenged Australia only later to md IL I'm
possible 70 send representative teams to
that far quarter OF the globe. In other
ways the season was marked by widespread
interest and regarded as enc CT adyancs-
menc