New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-02
WASHbURN FIGHTS HIS
WAY TO THE FRONT
Defeats PeII After Losing First
Set in Play for a Lawn
Tennis Title.
SCORCHING HEAT COUNTS
Harvard Sophomore the Young
est Player to Win the Much
Sought Metropolitan
Championship.

Watson NJ. Washburn, the stalwart
Harvard sophomore. won the Metropoli-
tan lawn tennis championship in singles
on the turf courts of the West Side Ten
MS Club, at 23Sth street and Broadway,
yesterday. In the final match of the
tournament the youth, who has not yet
counted his nineteenth birthday, defeated
Theodore Roosevelt Pell by a score Of
10, 6-1. 81, 81.
For the last few days it has been the
general feeling around the courts that
when the match. which had been post
poned, was played, Teddy Pell would
snow under the yOungster, who has been
likened more than once TO the versatile
r. Norris Williams. But there was no
snow yesterday for Pell. Instead. the
most tropical weather of the season fair
ly bistered the players. and scarcely a
dozen spectators languidly sat beside the
court and watched the contest.
Pel started off well against the service
of the youth. He outdrove Washburn
from deep court, and the only game that
the boy got in the first set was the
third. which was on his service. In this
set Pell played up TO his game, although
he slackened considerably toward the
close.
From that point on the younger player
was much the steadier. but both suffered
from the heat At times in the third set
IL seemed likely that Washburn would
collapse. but he stuck to his guns. on
crossing from side TO side OF the net the
two mopped their heads with towels wet
with ice water, and so they continued.
Washburn scored total Of forty-one
placed drives TO eighteen for Pell, which
tells the story. The latter attempted his
old slicing shots down the side lines or
into dep court, but was so used up with
the heat that he piled up thirty-three
nets and ffty-six outs. The only thing
that troubled Washburn was his short
shots and these caused him 10 make
forty-eight nets, a greater number than
Pell.
From his side OF the net Pell could not
resist the impulse to try for kills" AZ
ter the ball had crossed the net a few
times In a rally Pell was seeking for an
opening for a pass or a smash. He was
too fatlgued TO make his shots with any
certainty. however, and Washburn, by
plodding stages. advanced to grasp the
championship title. Washburn is the
youngest player who has ever held this
important championship which is one or
the oldest on the national list.
The stroke analysis and point scores
follow:
FIRST SET.
T F.ii .a.. ....:..s s3S5 81 81 d
Aces. Place.. Nets. Out. 1 fsa5s
T E.,i .'i-n.. ...... . : u s !
SECOND SET.
E Esli ...-,.::... :.5 49,: 10 :
Ace, Places. Nets Outs. faults
Ts1i burn. .,.... Z : - .
THIRD SET. paint. cn.
4Isa. Iseei4-5s o
o4G5l425o4 Isl 7
A,cs Places. Nets Outs faults.
T TrTn .on.. .:.... q II II 3 .
FOURTH SET.
Points. GINS
WI oll..: ::...9 = 81 s-if
Double
Aces Places Nets. Outs. faults
washburn ".... 2 3 = .
RECONCILIATION.
Washburn-Games % Pell--Games, Is
Washburn-Points. 139. Pell-Points, 12l.
Double
Aces Places. Nets. Outs. faults.
Washburn ...... 6 Al ~ %
Pell ............ u 81 % .