New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-09
Defaults to Lowe After
Losing First Two Sets
to Britisher. -
PARKE ALSO WINS,
DEFEATING DUNLOP
Brookes and Wilding, Afraid OF
Staleness, Send Second String
Men Out TO Defeat.
BY FRED HAWTHORNE.
T BY Telegraph to The Tribune


A II. Lowe, Of the British Isles team,
and Stanley n. Doust, of the Austria
liam forces, came TO a sensational end.
/ ing in the third set, when Lowe led
with the first two sets and the games
score 7-sll in the third.
Doust, after taking the fourteenth
game by great burst Of speed, sud
( denly stumbled toward the net, holding
out his hand to Lowe and saying he
was unable TO 90 on because OF the
terrific heat.
Lowe did not understand at first, and
I for a moment the two players held
| hands across the net, with Doust as
/ surfing the Englishman that he had de-
( faulted the match. Lowe realized then
that his opponent had succumbed TO
/ the intense humidity, and the two
walked of the course together with
loves arm flung over Doust's shout
der.
Thus did the British Isles win their
first match Of the series with the Aus
! tralisns, and in another two hours
| Cecil Psrke, the English team captain,
had chslked up another victory for the
mother country, defeating A. w. Dun
lop. the fourth man from the sntipo-
des, in straight sets at 60, IS, 6-3.
This made a total Of three matches
for Australia and two for the British
Isles. .-
II was known late last night that
Brookes and Wilding. the msinstays OF
the Colonial team, had deciSsd 20 take
a rest from their ceaseless match play
ing and let the second string men face
Parke and Lowe, as the series was al
ready won.
Wilding has recently given unmis-
taxable signs of being slightly over
trained, and rather than risk the chance
of not being at their best in the chai-
lenge round against the United States
at the West Side Tennis Club next
week, he and Brookes sent their sub
stitutes to the course this afternoon.
The sun beat down upon the court
with a sullen, braZen glare, and there
was not breath of air to abste the
dense humidity. Even the two or three
thousand people in the stands suffered
throughout from the trying conditions,
and to the men on the court it must
have been almost unbearable.
Lowe started the match in the typt-
cal English manner. laying well back
by his base line, from where he rxket
Doust's court with deep drives that
carried lots of speed and a top spin
that made them difficult to handle
Doust tried to Offset this attack by
going in to the net at every opportun-
ity for his points, and he was fairly
successful in cutting off these drives,
but Lowe always held the upper hand,
his game showing an au-round I'M
provement over his first appearance
here against Wilding on Thursday.
The Englishman went at his fore
hand drives much in the same manner
that the Californian players affect,
slashing at the ball vieiously and using
decided follow through. His excel
lent placing of the ball as Doust
rushed for the net often caught the
latter far out of position.
With every game hard fought, Lowe
took the opening set at Ga, but in the
next session Doust, playing with more
speed and greater snap than he had
been, partly broke up loves forcing
tactics by the superiority of his ne.
game, and after the games had reached
. ALL, Doust, leaping from side TO side
cf his court, smothered the long side
line drives from loves racquet and
won the last two games and the second
set at ga.
The two men were employing exactly
the opposite court tactics, yet Lowe
from the base line always seemed to be
able to bring of the points when the
necessity was at hand. Often he would
play listlessly for two or three games,
making no attempt TO go after the
Australians placement shots. Sudden
ly he would come to life again and dare
Doust by the ease with which he passed
him clear with both forehsnd and back
hand drives.
Shortly after the third set began,
Doust began to show signs of wear,
often stopping to mop his face with a
wet fowl. The tall Englishman, his
immaculate white shirt hardly damp
and his hair parted with mathematical
care, continued playing like an automs-
ton, without change Of pace or express
sion.
Doust fought gamely against the ef-
fects of the heat and held his own oy
virtue of his ability TO run after every
thing his opponent sent into his court.
The effort was too much, however, and
after evening the score at ALI, he
defaulted.
There was long wait after Doust
and Lowe hed left the court, and there
were rumors that Psrke and Dunlop
, would not play their match, owing ia
! the heat Many of the crowd left the
stands and made for the exits, but
( shortly aftervard Parke and the Aus
! tralian showed their way through the
crowd and started right in playing.
| Parke was in superb form in the
first set and swamped Dunlop under .
: severe and constant bombardment Of
, forehand and bsckhsnd drives made
; while on the run, IS only Psrke car
make them.
. Six straight games went TO the big
: Irishman in this manner, and OF 81.
nine points that Dunlop managed T.
gather in this set several were con.
! tributed by mis- opponents netting Of
= the ball.
: Dunlop could not find an sdequat.
l defence against Parke's fierce attsci
in the opening set and acted as though
he knew the task he had been sent &
do was too much for him.
4 The English team captain had
wild period at the beginning of III,
!, second set. and before he could gail
control again Dunlop had taken tw.
games, covering his court with re
, marksble speed and playing well VI
to the net.
|, Psrke then gained the range Of tn
!, court once more and began TO pierre
? the Australians court with his ter
rife drives, drives that rarely MISE
the side lines by more than inehe
y and that generally eluded the tip o
> Dunlops racquet.
Once. with the game at Sd in nj
o favor, Dunlop was within a point @
= the set, and many looked to see hin
v take It, but Parke did not allow thi
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