New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-09
LITTLE AND |NMAN
TRIUMPH ON COURTS
Defeat VoSheI| and Baggs in
Match for New York State
Title in Doubles.
MANY FLASHING RALLIES
Skilful Playing of Experienced
Campaigners Seen in Spirit
ed Battle on Turf of
Crescent A. G.

Crescent A. G.
That lawn tennis scores may be de-
ceivlng was illustrated in the match by
which Raymond D. Little and Frederick
c. Inman yesterday won the New York
state championship title in the doubles
on the turf courts of the Crescent Ath-
letic Club, at Bay Ridge. The famous
pair Of players defeated s. Howard
Voshell and Frederick c. Baggs in
straight sets at 81, 60, rs The games
total stood at 10 TO 6, and the points at
80 to g.
AS contest. however, the match was
one OF the best that the great tourna-
ment has produced. 1t was filed with
flashing rallies, well fought, and with
those skillful changes OF pace and length
and direction which bespeak the racquet
work OF the experienced campaigner as
compared with the slapdash perform
ance of the tyro. OF the four. Little.
the former holder Of the national dou-
bles championship with Gustave F.
Touchard. was easily the master hand.
He improved as the match advanced un-
I'll In the last set he alone scored an
even dozen placed drives and volleys. al
ways favoring the corners OF the oppo-
site court. out of the 81 times he played
the ball during the three sets Little
earned 81 points and lost 16 by outs and
nets.
The real beauty OF Littles strokes
showed chiefly in his magnificent pickups
OF the slantng shots that Voshel and
Bags slipped over the net He was
good deal like the little Jack Horner Of
the nursery rhyme, for every time the
opposing pair compelled him 10 dig deep
ly he pulled up a plum" in the way OF
a passing stroke. Three or four times
Little made use OF the centre line of the
opposing court for his shot and never
at this did he fail 10 find both Voshell
and Bags wide u position and without
a chance of reaching for the swiftly
driven ball.
Inman did not shine with the glittering
briliancy OF his partner. He was IN
clned 10 everyday the length OF the
court. and In the lively Tits at lobbing
he was not as certain at handling the
ball. Inman. however, was a biz stronger
on service. and he was the only one on
his side 20 tally a service ace. out OF the
thirty-one times he played the ball he
had a majority of one in favor OF earned
points. There was a period in the third
set when his overland drives. combined
with little terrific volieying. held
Voshel and Bags good two yards be-
hind their base line for the returns.
BY a pretty criss-crOssing of returns,
in which Inman figured prominently in
the early games OF the third set, they had
the two on the opposite side OF the net
cropping wildly for the ball, as II In
game OF blind mans buff In the first
set Inman was slightly superior 10 Little,
and at this stage his alert handling or
the racquet more than turned the tide
against Voshell's flashing volleys.
There was not much TO choose from be-
tween Voshell and Bags. Each had his
moment Ol billAlaIAN,t eha'N '''NAA S-'''N
again under the fire that poured in from
across the breastwork Of the court.
Voshell was wofully weak at the begin
ming. He entered spiritedly into rallies,
only 10 bungle the glowing opportunity for
the aceing return by fiubbing the ball into
the net or slamming II into the backstops
when he had the point almost chalked
I'D on his score.
II was in the third set that Voshell
really struck his gait. In the first game
which he served, he finished up after the
second deuce OF points by three service
aces in a row-a truly noteworthy per-
Torrance OF the fifty times he stroked
the ball he managed to earn only Il
points. Ten OF these points came In the
last set in which Voshell reaped har-
vest by low drives. which had so much
spin on the ball as TO drop right under
the forehand of the men on the opposite
side of the net.
Bags was indIfferently good and bad.
There were times when he seemed almost
somnolent. allowing Little and lnman 70
make him the target OF their returns ana
not awakening until the ball was speed
ing 10 his feet out of the forty-three
times he played the ball he earned only
IA points for his side. He was most mac !
CITRATE in the third set. when Voshell was
battling desperately to escape without a
whitewash.
Straight through the match the rallies
were hotly played In way that renewed
the seemingly one-sided score. The order
OF service changed with each set but IL
did not cut a figure in the final outcome
OF the contest.
The point score follows:
The stroke analysis OF points in games
and sets follows:
FIRST SET.
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