The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19
Four of Five Go to Extra
GameS-ScOreS l2-10.
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COMET STILL Is SUPREME
But Sensational Play Of Behr
Makes CalifOrnians Go
at Top Speed.

sEAsRisHr, July ls.-Maurice Z. Nc.
LOughlin OF San Francisco and Thomas
C. Bundy Of Los Angeles. national doubles
Champions. defeated Karl H. Behr and
Theodore =. Pcl OF the West side Tennis
Club middle States title holders. in the
hnal round OF the Davis cup tryout tour
nament at the Sesbright Lawn Tennis and
Cricket Club here to-day. II was one OF
the greatest lawn tennis matches ever seen
end was won by three sets to two, with
scores at 12-lO. Is. IS, -. IS.
The match had been scheduled for the
morning and tho challenge round of the
singles for the Achclis challenge cup. be
tween Pen and II. Norris Williams I'd of
Philadelphia. for tho afternoon. The com.
nittee felt, however. that 1t would be bad
policy 10 have Pcll play in Two long
matches on the one day. and postponed
tho doubles To the afternoon and the
singles 10 tomorrow afternoon
Fully five thousand enthusiasts filed the
stands and blcachers and many of them
felt that the middle States champions had
good chance OF winning. All through
members Of the Davis cup committee on
arrangements acre on hand to get a look
to bc the two best doubles teams in the
country In the hope that they would bs
helped IN making their selection for IN.
International team which will defend the
FAMOUS trophy in the challenge round al
Forest Hills on August ~. n and is
That Bundy and Mclaughlin won. how
ever, proved nothing, for the margin of
victory was too slight to show anything
In the hvc sets which took almos,
I to tYtH..
played and OF these the winners took
| only two more than the yanquished team
VITA thc points AT 22j To 222 The match
itself made II certain that there il only
one Mclaughlin, and that the greatest
player In the country is right now IN
| condition to give any Davis cup seeking
rs the battle of their lives
Bohr was in many ways the hero OF the
match and strengthened his bid for a
place on the interna gional team He
Played startling tennis from tho very
outset or the ma tch. and II he did make
| more errors than any OF the other men
on the court II was due more TO his
anxiety 10 play every place at once
and let nothing get by him than to
any lack Of ability. He starred especially
/ in the way he placed. running I'D y
total Of hfty- four aces by placement. and
in making many OF these he had TO psss
the redoubtabo rcd haired California.
meteor.
Many OF the enthusiasts who had moi
seen Mclaughlin play before and had
heard much about Pells backhand bejne
/ FAR better than that of the Californian
had chance 10 make comparisons for
themselves. Although the New Workers.
backhand was never harder or more
accurate. that Of the Californian did not
suffer anything by comparison. and II was
very evident that McLoughln had been
practising this variety Of stroke. Some Of
the prettlest shots Of tho day were back
band drives By the Californian when a get
seemed altogether impossible.
| The order Of service In the first set
was Poll. Mclaughlin. Behr and Bundy.
| The middle States champions and win
ners Of the test tournament at the West
, chester Country Club gained the first
| three points OF the match before being
scored against. on two errors by the ma
tional champions and placement by
! Bohr Then Mclaughlin slammed one
down the side lines for an ace and scored
again when Pell overhlt the ball on n
return. The pet of Wimbledon hit the
next service by Pell into the net and the
hrs: game was over.
Mclaughlin took his place on the ser
vice line and naturally enough practically
every one in the stands expected to see
the score tied. hut the Californian did not
work his service so hard. and his op-
ponents handled 1t well. with the result
were scored In this game by the national
champions both on placements by Nc
| Loughlin. and he gave the ball such a
| vicious drive for one of them that he
spun around twice,
Four errors by the Westcrners gave the
! West Siders the third game at love.
Things began to look rather dark for the
visitors and II seemed as II they might
not even make "A good showing, They
carried on the fourth game after It had
gone to deuce on Bundy's service. but Pei
squeezed In another winning game. also
after deuce had been called, and brought
the score to IL.
At'this stage OF the tussle Mclaughlin
cut loose with some real speed. He
brought loud and long applause from
| the gallery by many startling get and
frequent display Of rare Judgment. Helped
wonderfully 10y this squirt his team carried
Off the next three games and eVened
the set, The teams divld d the next
two games, winning ON their own service,
Then the Westcrners broke through Behr's
service for love game, putting them
ahead at G5. on the twelfth game they
had the score at go and needed only
points for the set, with Bundy serving
Pell and Behr hraced. however, and scored
4 points In n row, which saved them for
the time being Tho two comblnations
split up the games until all was reached
The middle States champions came WIN
In a point OF the set. after winning the
nineteenth game. for they had the points
at iO---l5 In the twentieth, but the best
they could do was to pull the game 20
deuce four times before allowing the
Westerners to take it.
Mclaughlin and Bundy finished the
long drawn out set by packing away the
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