New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-18
NILES CATCHES TARTAR
Beats 18-Year-0Id Boy, but Only
After Three Hard Sets.
OASHING PLAY ON COURTS
Inman, the Playing Through
Champion, Also Forced to
Limit to Beat Leonard.

defeating Raymond d. Little. only re-
| llnquished his place In the metropolitan
championship 10 Nathaniel ". Niles. yes
! terdav. after he had extended the latter
TO three heartbreaking sets. In the sec
! ond round Of the tournament on the turf
courts of the West Side Tennis club, 23sth
street and Broadway. the boy made Niles
| fight. and fight hard. for every point be-
| fore the Massachusetts State champion won
| at 2-6. s., 6-3.
! The thrills of this contest were practi-
cally duplicated i'm the same round when
| Dean Mathey. the Princeton title holder,
caught Tartar in Ralph l.. Bags. The
latter was experiencing one Of his circus
ring" days. He brought off all sorts OF
| fancy shots and Msthey had TO work for
all that was in him to score at Is. 81,
6-love the points falling more closely than
the games indicate.
! While these two matches stood out prom
| inently above the others i'm the second day
of the tournament, there was no lack OF
stirring contests In the first round Fred
erck e. Inman. the playing through cham
pion. met and defeated Edgar W. Leonard
at S.. 50. after Leonard had run him
miles about the court by his placed shots.
Then Dr. Alfred stllman. ID. the national
squash champion, made the sting Of his
smashes and drives effective I'm two
matches He first disposed OF &. W Is
bell at So, s., and then Of Arthur :.
Cragin. who was hitting wildly, by the
score Of So. SO
Passed along TO the second round on
byes, G. x. =. Andrews. the clever and dash
ing Englishman began by taking the meas
ure Of A Norton a s-3, IS, and then
OF Walter l.. Pate at So 50
Raymond n Little. the share holder IN
the national doubles title. had hot ses-
zion with Alfred u. Hammett the former
New York University star. before he came
through To the score Of 50. St BY the
hardest sort Of work Harold II Hackett
managed 70 save mis- match against the
Rev. Edgar A. Lowther from going three
sets, as In the second set his opponent led
up 10 81. when Hsckett made a Garrison
finish 20 score at SO -
No DELAYS were brooked by Or John
Billings jr. in working Of the matches
He was liberal with the defaults against
delinquent players, ten being recorded I'm
the first round and eight In the second
He rame near 10 clearing IN TWO full
rounds for the day. SO that the original
field Of eighty-hve players practically was
cut In half
Washburn's match against Niles easily
eclipsed all else II was the Juror ~ the ar
ternoon. FOR the eighteen-year-o boy who
has Just entered Harvard handled Niss's
fast. twisting service like veteran right
through the match Niles on his side %
the net experienced considerable difficulty
in digging up the low bounding drives
which washburn shot over % him. At
times Niles attempted 20 gain the net in
the first set. only 10 be passed or driven
back on a perfectly placed lob, - that the
first set went against him.
In the second set Niles managed 70 cut
the Ines more surely and his speed mate
rally Increased The Boston man set
furious pace, and while the boy followed
him Il was too SIM for him 10 stand
against Niles won the first Two games ~
the third set when the boy made a wonder
ful stand lie carried the games 20 all
winning tho last hy A love score, more than
matching his opponent ~ placing Wash
burns deep shots were deceptive and he
kept forcing Niles so cleverly that the games
q
ing another love game Then It was that
Niles worked his chop strokes splendidly
and 50 steadily as 10 finish ont the match
az 6-3
Several Of the PLAYERS who watched s
Howard Voshel begin a match against Or
Ewing TAYLOR we're surprised AZ the lack
Of action on the part OF the former. They
learned that Voshell had badly strained his
right ankle In his match against Benny
Phillips on Saturday. and II is likely that
he will have 10 default his place in the
singles and doubles.
Much 10 the disappointment or the crowd
r Norris Williams. the youth who recently
won the Pennsylvania state championshop
title IN q streak of phenomenal playing,
failed TO appear. His place was taken by
craig Biddlc. OF Philadelphia, who defeated
Preston Cumming. jr at SO. 81.
The rule that CLUB cards must ne SHOWN
or an admission fec paid AZ the gate
has caused an apprecisble increase In
the receipts. Many OF the members for.
get their cards, but arguments are OF
no avail Harry Parker after contro-
verev finally paid 10 get into his own club
Yesterday afternoon and the rain came
down ten minutes later and stopped the
fun for the day The doubles portion OF me
tournament will begin this afternoon.
The summary follows:
Metropolitan mems Championship singles mrs.
Purchard Ly default. Nathaniel " Niles De
featsd Charles Edwards by default; 9. A. Lind
ley defeated Colonel " A Bethel 6y d,t3ult'
ga Go Dr. William Rosenbaum defeated F
W Ciwvnne G-6, "a. 81, Ralph L. Bags
defeated A. ". Warden, g, g. Nell stevens
defeated Frederick 2. De Rhsm by default
Frederick c. Inmsn defeated Edgar ". Leonard.
s-s %. william 3 Crssin IT., defeated ROB
ct 10 Roy by default; II. d, smith defeated A
Runyon BY default; G. 7. stewart defeated
Richard Bishop by default; Frank b. Wsshourn
defeated DR.. Augustus Waas"9rtG og osta1 aI
fauit; Or Alfred stillman. "a. defeated G W
i'S second round-pr. Ewing Taylor defeated
William .. Bourne 50 81 9 X F r,i Ant
Rs1n.v defeated Newton Rae by default. Harold
II Uackett defeated the Rev Edgar Low
Their 60. 10, walter Merrill Hall defeated
George IT, Bartholomew by default Raymond
e 4. craig Bidde defeated Preston Cumming:
a. 40 81. Nathaniel W. Niles defeated
Wst,on H. Washburn, 2-6. 90, 60; Gustave
y Touchard defeated c. A. Lndley So, 81
So, 90; Or Alfred stlilmsn, "a defeated
er,Lrr C.raxin 81 60: Arthur 8 Dsbney
debated O. w. Wlghtman, Go. SO; Wylie G.
Grant defeated G! a. l. Dioune, SO IS. So;
ysnIte charles r. Leonard defeated Alan Fox by
6a,a,lt, lanes s. Cushman defeated John
Rescs "a 81; G. A. Sparks defeated Walter
Toherts by default; d. l.. weaver defeated FL
win p Iarned by default g. Frederick Wat
SON ir.. defeated Miles s. Charlock 81, 90.
-" 'r,,adsrer defeated George Clark by default.
'rbird round-C. X. T. Andrews defeated Wal
o.. pate 90 90; Harold II. Hackett de
,.atsd A Elliott Ranney, 81, 90; c, Frederick
Watson. r., defeated A. a. pederer' VI ~
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