New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-30
TIMELY BITS OF SPORT GRANT AND SHAFER WIN
Capture Indoor Doubles Title in
Straight Sets.
SERVICE A BIG FACTOR
Rosenbaum and Phillips Fight
Hard in Slashing Lawn
Tennis Match.

Wylie c. Grant and George c. Shafer
won tho frs, Of the indoor lawn tennis
championship titles TO be decided this sea -
son on the board courts of tho 6ath Eegi-
ment Armory. 10Th street and Lexington
avenue Yesterday. for in the final round
OF the open tournament they defeated Or.
William Roscnbaum and Benjamin NJ.
Phillips, the old Harlem Club pair. in
straight sets by a score Of 6-I. s..
81.
Rarely has tho service played such an
, important part as it did in this match.
Grant, who is without peer upon in
door courts in this country. and who
holds the national horo-s II singles foi
the fourth time. was al his best He
pulled Shafer, his new partner. through a
number of hard fought games. The lat
ter. who is the old Columbia University
star. worked q i,uirabIy uith Grant The
result was that the tall. hard hitting Grant
Won his service the seven times he Was
up. while Shafer made good on the six &C.
casions he toed the base line.
OF the losing pair Phillips was easily
tho stronger. lie hit harder and with
greater accuracy. At court covering he
was the best of the four men Phillips
won five out Of his six service games.
while Or. Eosenbaum, in attempting to get
speed and to place the ball at the same
time. lost four of his service games and
won only two. II was in this feature Of
the match that Dr.. Rosenbaum and Phil
| lips suffered in comparison for at rapid
yoleying and general excellence Of driy-
| ins the two pairs were practically upon
! an even basis.
The order Of the service was: Grant.
! DR.. Rosenbaum Shafer and Phillips. The
, victorious pair IN into a lead OF 5--love
| on games before Or. Rosenbaum got into
/ his stride. Then he managed to win the
/ sixth game on his service. helped out by
/ some wonderfully brilliant recoveries on
| the side lines by Phillips That was the
! best the two could do in the first set. as
| Shafcr followed by taking the seventh
| game TO score at 5--1.
! Phillips led of with the service in the
second set in wonderful form. The ball,
] placed Tar DdCk. HtiD pp'I bIdU' dIi'
| Shafer far behind the base line OF the
court. so that both Or. Rosenbaum and
Phillips were enabled 10 pick out the
! vulnerable spots for the returns and score.
/ Phillips also won the fifth game on his
service in the same manner That was
| all they got as Dr. Rosenbaum dropped
/ both Of his games, Grant and Shafer
! smoiher.ng his service 10 win the set at
( e.
! Increasing his speed and placing the
/ ball in the cleverest fashion, Phillips start
I ed the third SGT in the lead by winning
| his service. This held Dr. Eosenbaum
! and Phillips in front TO -. and on the
sixth game the two gave Grant q terrific
I battle His resourcefulness saved him.
! however. after the points had touched at
deuce several times. Then pr Hosen-
baum bungled his service. so that FOR the
first time in the set Grant and Shafer
swung into the lead by winning the sew
enth game 10 the score Of t-3. From
that on Dr Rosenbaum and Phillips bat
| tied desperately They failed TO break
through the ser Ice Of their opponents
however. and lost the set and the match
at st. The finals Of the singles viii be
| decided on SATURDAY,