Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-26
NJ 'LOUGHL|N LOSES
CHANCES FOR TITLE
Crack California Tennis Player Is
Defeated by W. A. Larned
at LongWood
Especial TO The Heraldl


BROOKLINE, Mass, July 25.-With
two I.ongwood cups already in his
possession, the national lawn tennis
champion, William A. Larned, of sum
nit N. J., fulfilled the expectations OF
his friends and defeated Maurice Z.
McLoughlin of the Golden Gate Tennis
club of San Francisco in the chal-
lenge round of the Longwood tourna-
ment today after dropping the second
set. The match did not result in the
grueling contest that was predicted
and the sets were taken by rather one
sided scores.
I,arned led off with his service and
ran out the game easily. McLoughlln
followed with a win from his own
forcing strokes and the games ran
to % on McLoughlin's service before
the turning point in the set was
reached. Larned won the westerner
serve after a long struggle, the game
running to deuce several times ana
the vantage point on McLoughlin' s
side twice. With the breaking through
on his own serve the Californian pc
came erratic and Larned ran out the
set 6-2 by letting his opponent toss
the points into the net and over the
line.
The second set produced the finest
tennis of the match and the vantage
points see-sawed back and forth with
few mistakes on either side and a pre-
dominance of aces and kills to run out
the score. Each man took his own
serve and he score ran to 4-all ana
Larned's service. Mclaughlin broke
into his real form at this point, and
let himself out in heavy forehand
strokes that the easterner tried in vain
to reach Larned scored one clean ace
in the deciding game, but the call
fornan placed three and took the Iast
point on an out by Larned. NC
Loughlin served the tenth game IN
brilliant style and dropped only one
point on a crosscourt stroke that
ticked the sideline.
Rain interrupted the proceedings at
this stage of the game, and the play
ers took advantage of the cessation IN
hostilities to rest. The Intervention OIL
this dampening feature told on NC
Ioughlin, and he could not get warmed
to the work afterWard. His disposition
is not of the waiting kind, as he plays
his hest game after a struggle through
a grueling mornings round In Whlch
he has been pressed to the limit.
wEsTERNER LOSES SPEED
The winner was easy to pick at this
stage of the game, as Mclaughlin s
nlaV seemed to be losing speed ana
Tarned was serving and driving easily
and with scarcely an effort. NC
Toughlin would drive through a splen-
did rally and bring the score to deuce
and then aggraVatingly net or out the
next two points. The national cham
pion never displayed such pertectl0n
| in the placing Of his strokes as ne
showed today. He was the cool, cal
cuIating court general as of old and
did not show the erratic streak Whlcn
was so obvious in his match with carl
Gardner in the Metropolitan tourna-
ment a month ago. McLOughlin's fore
hand drive, when he put ms WhoIe
strength into the stroke, brought MN
MANY points, but was greatly offset
Nv his weakness at the net and his
INABILITY to change the direction of his
follow with sufficient speed to cope
with T.arned's sure placing of the
crosscourt drives. Mclaughlin served
several aces, but overbalanced the
enactacuIar side of his serving game
with doubles at critical periods Of the
match. -.,...
The third set was an easy victory
for the easterner, Mclaughlin taking
only the second game on his own
service Larned drove and smashed
with great accuracy and played with
his opponent. The Californian netted
a great many of his strokes and lost
great deal in the speed through
sheer nervousness.
In the fourth set the score ran evenly
IN the seventh game, 3-all and Nc
Ioughlin serving. That game was the
keystone of the match and after a
hard-fought deuce game the national
champion won by forcing his opponent
to the back court and coming to the
net. The last two games were easy
for the champion. and the Californian
fell into an erratic streak, from which
he did not recover. The hnal score
was GO, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3.
From the match today the prophets
are picking the Newport possibilities,
/ and there are those who declare that
/ if Mclaughlin keeps the pace which
/ he has shown in the past weeks pro-
/ gram there will be another match be-
| tween today's stars in the Newport
| tourney, with the probability of a diff