The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-17
Niles and Dabney Outplay New
Workers. in Three Inter-
city Matches.
OLD CHAMPIONS VICTIMS
Touchard Beaten Singly and in
Doubles With Little--A
Set for Mathey.


swamped the West Side Tennis Club |
racquet wielders In the first section Of the |
intercity lawn tennis match at the West |
Side Club courts here to-day. Three |
matches were played and the B'stonians |
won all Of them. Niles, who Is the Mas
sachusetts State title holder, trounced |
Gustave +. Touchard. national indoor |
champion. in straight sets e., e.. and
Dabney. a former Harvard star. defeated |
Dean Mathey, the erstwhile Princeton !
crack, two sets to one. with scores at 1
as. e., 60. Not satisfied with this |
Niles and Dabney then teamed up and |
vanquished Touchard and Raymond d. |
Little, former national doubles cham |
pions in straight SETS at CO. GO.
The largest crowd that has yet been |
out to the new clubhouse banked around |
the two courts on which the matches were |
played and saw some excellent tennis for |
no early In the season. The crowd. which |
of course rooted strongly for the home |
team. went away feeling that the West |
Siders have little chance OF even tying |
the contest, for the visitors still have n
trump card to shoot at the home players |
In the person of Norris Williams Cd. OF
Davis cup fame.
Niles had the easiest sort OF a time |
Debating Touchard. for the Bostonan |
excelled the indoor champion at every
department or the game The main dif- |
ference between the two men. however,
was IN the fact that Niles was crafty an
steady, while the West slider was slow
10 take advantage OF promising situations
and was very erratc. Both OF the men
hit the bali hard. but when Niles hit IL
he knew where II was going. The Bos-
tpnlan placed so well and controlled his
cuts so skilfully that he kept Touchard
bobbing around the court.
Touchard's prima donnalike tempera-
rent too was very much in evidence and
caused him to lose many golden opportuni-
ties. Time and again when he lost a
good stroke through a brilliant return OF
Niles, the Middle States champion was
50 put out that he did not even try hard
for the next three or four shots. Touchard
was altogether lacking In the brlliancy
which usually marks his play In flashes
Two OF the four games that he won went
to deuce. while only four OF the twelve
won by Niles went into extra points
Mathey started we'll against Dabney,
winning the opening game after IL had
gone to deuce. The Bostonan came back
strong. however. and kept the score even
at all. Mathey then played about as
good tennis as he has shown In a long
time and carried off the set by winning
four out of the next five games. This. by
the way. was the only set won by the
West Siders during the afternoon.
Mathey's victory in this set was due to
the fact that Dabney tried to do most
of his playing from deep court and this
style OF play just atted in nicely for the
old Princetonia.. who is a far better de-
fensive than attacking player
Dabney found toward the close OF the
set that he was at fault In his tactics. but
did not switch them until the beginning
of the second set That the new mdous
operandi was better for the visitor was
soon evident for the volleys started to
lengthen out once Dabney started coming
up to the net and Mathey had to work
harder to make his returns. After drop
ping the opening game Dabney took three
In n row. He lost the NTH game after II
had gone to deuce twice, but retaliated by
taking the sixth at love, mainly by beau
tiful cross court drives, This gave him
the edge on the set at 4-2 and az the
next four games alternated he took the
set at 6--4 and tied the match.
The chasing around the court which
Mathey had TO do In the second set in
order to get the fast drives of his oppo-
nent tired him for the third and last set,
and he took only two games Dabney
seemed fresher In the EAST set than he did
in the first, and he lost no chance to use
his speed.
The pretty team work OF the visiting
pair in the doubles brought out the best
tennis OF the day. Little was very weak
in every department OF the game and
even missed many sure kills on short lobs.
The West Side men who won the national
doubles title In 1911 looked as II they had
not played together since. for they fire.
quently crossed into one another's terri
tory and were constantly at loss as -
which should take the return from middle
court. The other men, on the other hand
worked in perfect harmony and moved
about the court as II the match had been
we'll rehearsed.
Play will continue tomorrow morning
with two singles and one doubles match
starting at IL o'clock. Two doubles ana
enc singles contest are scheduled for the
afternoon. The summaries:
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Club. Boston. VS.. Gustave p. Touchard,
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