New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-22
BULL AND WASHbURN
WIN DOUBLES TITLE
Take Metropolitan Champion
ship from Hall and Little on
West Side Courts.
A TREAT FOR THE GALLERY
Spirited Contest Filled with
Spectacular Rallies Brings
Defeat to the Two
Top Glass Men.

Top Glass Men.
Walloping smashes by Charles NJ. Bull,
jr. and singing volleying on the part
Of Watson NJ Washburn carried of the
metropolitan lawn tennis championship IN
doubles yesterday on the turf courts Of
the West Side Lawn Tennis club.
Likewise the victorious pair treated the
gallery to as pretty reversal as has
been turned off this year, for they de-
feated those august personages Raymond
D. Little. nominated for the Davis cup
team and a former national champion,
paired with Walter Merrill Hall, a former
Middle States tiueist and No. 10 on the
national list by the score of 10, %,
81, %.
Before this match was put on, late in
the afternoon. Little and Hall finished out
their postponed semi-hnal contest with
Frederick G. Bases and 5. Howard
Voshen. which was held up at all in
the fourth set on Friday by the storm.
The rating players managed to steady
themselves for the last few games. finish
ing out the match by the complete score
Of g.. IS. IS. 81
Then Dean Mathey and George NJ.
Church had a short exhibition at sin
giles while Little and Hall prepared for
the championship final. Ii was an
nounced that the championship singles
final would he played next Saturday,
June .. with Theodore Roosevelt Pell
and Washbum as the competitors.
The order Of the service in the contest
which decidvd the doubles title was Little.
Washburn. Hall and Bull. There was =
slight iuklins IN the first four games as
10 what was to follow, as Little and Han
managed TO hold the games even more by
luck than good management. II was
when Bull and Washburn struck their
stride that the score shifted. II was new
ertheless a close battle. with the points
standing at 49, TO III
Little and Hall lost glittering chances
repeatedly at the net. IL always seemed
10 ne. in the way at the most critical
times. Little sent the ball slapping into
the net q times and Hall q, while on the
opposing side Bull had total of q nets
and Washburn. the youthful Harvard
star. only 10 Hall piled up total of p
outs. nearly twice the number OF any
other player. chiefly because he was the
target Of all the rallies in the third and
fourth sets.
As the men worked into the first set
the rallies became spirited, interpreted
with plenty Of high lobbing. Bull began
to bring down the ball in spectacular
style The best he could do, however
was TO hold the games even on service
up to Tall. IL was on the sixteenth game
with Bull serving, that Little worked some
streaking drives down the alleys ana
broke through the game for the set.
1t was at the beginning Of the second
set that Bull and Washburn began TO
force the playing upon Hall. There were
rallies In which Little never touched the
ball. but stood alert in his portion of the
court. while the pair on the other slde
smothered Hall under fusillade OF shots.
These tactics carried Bull and WashDurn
along 10 40 on games The rating pair
were Clearly outpayed, and all they could
get out Of the set was the fifth and
seventh games.
Little and Hall retaliated in the thiro
set by keeping Bull on the jump and 1t
was a merry bit of leaping and bounding
on the part of the 2oO-pound Crescent Ath-
letic Club player Bull went plunging
around for the shots as if giving an imi-
tation Of the celebrated china shop cpl
sode. More TO the point Bull smashed
and shattered the assault upon him alleI
3-au on games, so that his side led at
SIS Little tried hard 70 retrieve mat
tiers. He won his service but Han falleo
10 stand against Washburn's cross IRE
drives, and so the set went against his
side. -.
Hall had TO bear the brunt Of the at
tack in the deciding set. lie was not
equal 10 the task. At times Little mois-
tened his fingers. rubbed his hand on MS
trousers leg, gripped his racquet nrrnIy
and sailed in TO the rallies Urine re-
CARELESS as TO whether or not he was
poaching on his partner territory; buIl
whirlwind smashing and Washourn
short choppy placing held steadily TO
the end. however, and the best the top
class men could get out OF the set was
two games. o
throughout the match the men were
beId strictly 10 the service rule, EDWARD
Moore calling footfauts. Three faults
D,ere called on Hall. and Bull lost ser
vice altogether by double fault. Juhai
( Nvrick. acted as referee and p. >.
Vaile. the Englishman; George 5. Groes-
beck and Dimon Z. Roberts as linemen'