Evening star., 1911-06-04
GUSTAV F. TOUCHARD REMAINS
DISTRICT TENNIS CHAMPION
Wins Two of Three Matches From Connie
Doyle in Playing for Title in
Chevy Chase Tourney.

A gallery numbering fully five hum
dred people was on hand at the Chevy
Chase Club courts when play was con-
tinued in the annual spring tourna-
ment yesterday afternoon. and those
who were there were treated to such
tennis as they probably had never seen
before, Gustav F. Tourchard, the metro
politan champion. successfully defend
ing his title in the challenge round OF
the mems singles against Conrad b.
Doyle, winner Of the tournament. after
four of the hardest kind Of sets had
been played, three Of which ran into
deuce and called for extra games. Two
other brilliant matches were decided,
Miss Edith Rotch Of Boston winning
from Miss Marie Winner I'm the chal-
lenge round of the women's singles and
Miss Winner and Harold E. Doyle de-
feating Miss Rotch and w. H. Connell
in the final round of the mixed doubles.
All attention was. Of course, centered
on the Touchard-Doyle match, which
thusiasm than all of the other matches
Of the tournament put together. 1t Is
difficult to adequately describe the game
that Touchard plays. He apparently
wins in the cleverest fashion. His
match against Doyle was filled with
surprises for the large gallery which
surrounded the court, and likewise Tor
Doyle at times.
! Whenever Doyle believed that he had
solved the line of attack that Touchard
was next to develop he was compelled to
guess again, Touchard turning drives
into volleys. smashing straight at ms
man when he might easily have placed
| the ball, or popped up lobs from the heat
of a rally where a drive for pass SEEM
ed the natural return. On the other
hand, Doyle was there W1tn tne mead
work and the prettiest kind of play re-
suited. He managed to keep Touchard
away from the net, passing him time and
again as he attempted to gain It, Doyle
hit the ball hard and set terrihc pace
at the start, taking the set after four
teen hard, close games had been played
In this set Doyle fairly fiogged the ball
for cross court shots, and continually
forced his opponent out Of position.
In the second set Touchard was return
ed the winner by the same score that
he had lost in the opening, St. In
his efforts to win this set Doyle seemed
to suffer in his accuracy, as he virtually
gave Touchard game after game by MS
careless play, knocking no less than sew
enteen balls out the back line, eight out
the side lines and fifteen into the net.
When Doyle did get 1t In, however.
ne New Yorker had his hands iuii IL. IN
brilliant work from the back court. but
in Yesterdays match the local crack
showed up every bit as well. making
some shots that the gallery will talk
about until the tournament rolls around
again. After Doyle had cut down Touch
ards tlree-game lead and tied things up
at fall the men seemed to settle down
somewhat and to play q more careful
game, and from this point on both being
willing to exchange shots from the back
court, sacrificing speed for accuracy, un-
til they found a weak spot in their OPP
ponent's defense and then sending the
ball through with amazing speed. Alter
the score had 'see-sawed" from one side
to the other several times itle-holder
managed to take two straight games
anI win the set.
The third set, which Doyle lost, Is.
was also a good one, although the eff
fects of the two previous ones We're be-
ginning to affect the work OF both
playerS to certain extent. In this
set the local man again appeared over
anxious Touchard scoring his points
almost as frequently on Doyle's mis-
plays as on his own good ones. Doyle
had a chop stroke which he used to
good advantage. dropping several un-
expected short ones over the net when
he caught his adversary playing too
far back. and again catching him by
iobbing them over his head when he
was too close but Touchard always
managed to weather the gale and come
out on top before it was too late.
In the fourth and last set Touchard
appeared at his best, and 1t was in this
one, and this only. that he outp1ayed
his opponent. In this set he had things
his own way, at times making Doyle
appear rather an ordinary player. The
last two games were the best, Doyle