The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-28
BEHR SURPRISES BY
BEATING THE0. PELL
Victor Earns Right ~ Play
Touchard for Middle
states Title.
FIVE HARD SETS NEEDED
Mrs. Raymond First Puts Ont
Mrs. Mclean. Then Defeats
Miss Edith Rotch.
FIVE HARD SETS NEEDED

SQUIRT OtA%OE, y. j.. June % Kari II.
Behr OF tho West side Tennis Club earned
the right TO challenge GustaVe r. Touch
ard for the Middle States title by de-.
featng Theodore H. Pell. also Of the West
Side Club in the final round Of the ;ourna-
ment at the orange Lawn Tennis Club
here to-day. The result 81 the match
came ~ . surprise. The scores were
l0--S IS 3--6. G--o. 81. In the
womeu's Singles Mrs Louise Hammond
Raymond vauqul~hed Mrs. Marshall Nc
Lean IN tho hnsl round at 10, 6--S, and
then captured ihc challenge cup by de-
feating Miss Edith u. Rotch OF the Long
wood Cricket Club In the challenge round
at e. G--3.
II was generally expected that pcll
would win tho singlcS match no,with-
standing the fact that Bohr had been
playing excellent tennis throughout the
tUurnafnCH., ana even when he had
dropped the first set most Of the spec
tators were ready To- attribute 1t moro
20 the fact that pell had not as yet
struck his stride than to steady play
on the part of Bchr. Behr was tho first
TO win game and by his ability 10 get
80 the net and choke or hts rivals hard
snsshes took en- early lead ut Z games
10 ?. Pcll stcadicd down then and in
stead Of sm shing directly at Bchr tried
to cross him.
The new method OF attack worked like
charm. Tor roll made points frequently
that passed the former Davis cup player
with yards to spare. The score was evened
when Fell won the next two games and
tho latter after losing the ninth carried
away the next two, which put him In
front at Go. Then Behr won two and
the lead. and pcll followed his example.
With the score then ut ST In his favor
Pell came TO $50 on the sixteenth
same aud needed only one point for the
set, but failed to take IL and lost that
game and the two right after II.
IN the second set there was another
stubborn night and the advantage favored
first one and then the other Of the players.
The games stood even from two all up
70 rlN all. when Pcll managed to stir up
= latent burst OF speed aud won the set.
Behr started well IN the third set,
winning the first two games quite easily.
The way he was going In these two games
made him look Ike winner OF the set,
but Pei got w into fore court more fro
que1tly and placed his strokes well
enough to win four games Ia "A row. Behr
pulled together then and made a fight
for the neNt game, which h won after II
had gone TO deuce three times, but he
dropped the next two games and peli had
During the course of the fourth set. Pell
failed 10 get y game and had a total OF
only seven points and those who expected
to see Behr wear himself out Inquired that
Pell was playing waiting game and
would go through the last set with "A rush
The latter started the NTH set 10y winning
lave game and there We're already muir
rnurings OF II told you so.' but instead OF
Behr. II was Pell who showed the strain
OF battle ana he failed to take another
game.
Mrs. Raymond played some remarkable
tennis IN both her matches. In the linai
round 'ussle against Mrs Mclean, by out
genersllng the latter, Mrs. Raymond beat
hsr az her own game, OF tho sixteen
points that the New Jersey State cham
pion made In the opening set, thirteen
were gained In TWO long deuce games.
The volleying was long, hui the winner
always managed 20 get In a point winning
stroke where IL counted the most
Miss Rotcn, holder OF tn" title, made
little better showing against Nrs, Ray
mond than did Mrs. Mclean The holder
played steadier game than did Mrs. Nc
Lean, but her strokes we're not as strong
and the new champion found It easy 10
place them on returns. The summaries.
Middle States CAsmponshlp-Mens SINGLES
anal round-Karl Behr defeated Theodore II.
- Il IN II