Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-30
PLAY GREAT TENNIS
Western Championship Dou-
bIes Well Contested.
MAKE A GREAT FINISH
Princeton and New York Players
Give Grand Exhibition in
Final Sets.
MAKE A GREAT FINISH

LAKE FOREST. ILL.,, July 29.-In the
greatest tennis match ever seen in Chi
cago G. NJ. Bull, jr., and Harry Martin of
New York today won the western doubles
tennis championship from G. NJ. Church
; and Dean Mathey of Princeton, 10, 90.
6-3, Is, 81. 1t was a wonderful finish
to the best tournament Chicago has had
for years, and the large gallery was
kept in an uproar throughout the final
set. Both teams were within point of
match no less than four times, and in the
final game the New York pair three tins S
apparently had the championship won,
only to lose 1t through their overanxiety
, to smash the ball. The finish came when
Dean Mathey in his eagerness to clnch
a point completely missed the BAH with
his racket, giving the game to his oppo-
nents.
New Workers Take Lead.
At the start the New Workers took a
| long lead. running the score UP to 81 in
games before their opponents were
started. With the score % against
| them, the Princeton pair began to play to
Bull, who seemed tired from his exertions
Of the previous day, when he played an
even hundred games of tennis, and before
Martin and Bull could pull themselves
together the Princeton men had tied I'D
/ the score, and finally won the set, 81.
In the second the Princeton men won In
easy fashion. Go, Bulls inability to ham
| die lobs counting against his team.
In the third, after the Princeton men
| led 81, Bull and Martin braced and ran
out the next five games in succession,
winning the set, IS.
After the fntermission Bull and Martin
seemed refreshed. but Church and Mathey
were more SO and ran the score I'D to
81 before the New Workers got started
The Gotham pair braced and the score
was tied at 3 all. Thereafter it was min
and tuck up to the finish, first one pair
leading and then the other up to all,
when the Gothamites pulled themselves
together for the final struggle, and ran
out the set. TO.
In the third set Martin played the
| whole court for the first few games
| and ran up the score Of 81 before the
Princeton men pulled themselves to-
gether. In the seventh game of the set
the New York team had three chances
to win the match. but each time in
their anxiety to kill easy shots they
| smashed into the net, and the Prince
ton men finally took the game
The Form Changes.
Then the form changed. Church and
Mathey went like wildfre, and both
Bull and Martin seemed almost ready
to drop from sheer exhaustion. The
Tiger pair ran the score up to s-5 in
their favor, and 1t was only by almost
superhuman efforts that Bull and Martin
! made 1t ALL Then Church and Mathey
came forward again after hard deuce
contest and won, putting the score 7-6
in their favor. The New Workers tied
1t on Martins serve. With Church
serving, the New Workers. made it ST.
Then came the finish. With Bull serving,
the first point went to the New York
- the result of a ball shot out of
bounds by Mathey. The third went to
the Princeton men when Martin at
tempted to smash an easy shot Then
to the corner of the court Dean picked
up a difficult shot for the fifth point.
lobbing 1t high in the air. 1t looked as
II 1t were going to land outside, but
hit just inside the alley. and Martin
Melted 1t, when an inch more would
have driven it to an unprotected spot
in his opponents corner.
With Martin and Bull spread widely
apart, 1t looked like another deuce game
In the next point, but Mathey misjudged
an easy volley. missing 1t entirely and
giving game, set and the greatest match
ever seen in Chicago to Bull and Martin
BY winning today's match. Bull and
Martin took the western championship.
and will represent this district in the
national doubles preliminaries. which
are to be held Tuesday and Wednesday
Of next week.
Bull was absolutely exhausted after
the doubles match, and defaulted his
semi-fnal match to Walter T. Hayes of
Chicago. who played Maurice e. Nc
Loughlin Of San Francisco In the final
match.