New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-14
Victory in Straight Sets
Surprise of Indoor
Lawn Tennis Tilt.
SETS A PACE TOO
HOT FOR VETERAN
Bowman Shows We'll, Although
Beaten by Pell, as Big Gal
lery Looks On.
~ Erred HAWTHORNE.

The match that caused the greatest
.monnt OF comment Yesterday al the
rational indoor lawn tennis champion
shin tournament, st the 'th hcSImeI'l
Armory, was the defeat OF NN'e -
Grant By Arthur VI. Lovlbond, IN tne
third round, by score OF ., =
Strictly on their merits theTt was no
reason WHY Lovihond, former reg
mental champion. should not depoSe
Grant. who has undoubtedly seen ms
greatest DAYS on the courts. But
Grant has figured 50 many tunes IN inc
finals Of the indoor championships shu
has been so uniformly successful thd'
his downfall so early In the tourns-
ment was bound 70 be IN the nature o.
8 surprise. ,,
title 'wav hack in 1908. and between
then and 1912 captured the honors no
less than FIVE times. He also was run
,cr-y, three times. In the doubles
Grant. haired with Robert lie Roy, won
the championship in 1902, 1903 ana
1904. won il again i'm 1909, paired with
T. n. Pell. and twice more IN 1918 ana
last wear, paired with q. Carton
Shafer. Four times Grant and ms
nartner we're runners-up for the
This is surely record 20 be proud
Of. and Grant may we'll retire with ms
we'll earned lsurels.
Keeps Grant on the Run.
Lovibond kept Grant cesselessly on 'he
run. and rarely allowed his opponent
20 get the ball overhead, knowing me
deadly sweep OF Grants racquet ne
Games alterrated in the first set, but
Iovjbond. playing with great speed ana
driving accurately 10 the back OF the
court. usually held the upper hand. IN
tbe last set he continued his whlrlwind
mace. and although Grant fought tena-
ciously the Younger man TOOK the sec
ond set at e and the match.
Other matches that stood out prom-
nently in the days play we're those be,
tween Theodore Roosevelt PelI ano
Herbert L. Bowman. Karl Behr ana
Matthew TAYLOR Gustave +. Touchard
the playing through champion. and l.
&. Chambers and BernOn =. irentlce
and c. L. Johnston, jr.
Pell took q default from 6. &. Moore
ir. in the third round, after Moore
had won by a default over Walter Mef-
viii Hall. former Middle States cham
MON. in the previous round In the
fourth round Pell was pItted against
Bowman, the junior indoor champion
and defeated the youth at Go, g
One Of the largest galleries That ever
attended the championships IN the ar
morv was on hand when Pell and Bow
man started 70 trade strokes. Bowman
who 10 still in his teens showed nc nc
traces of nerv business as he faced feii
the internationalist, and charged cour
ageously to the net at every opportu
nifty.
PeIl outmanpuvred his opponent q
all stages, frequently tricking him GU
OF position and shooting his own re
turns through the nsrrowest OF open
inRs with unerring racquet. Bowman
found II difficult TO control his return
from Pell's swift service, but at time
n. surprised the former champion b.
nlunring TO the net and smotherini
Pelps backhand drives.
Behr Delights Gallery.
Behr delighted the gallery by his sen
sstional smashing IN his match agains
TAYLOR, and the brilliancy Of his shsr
drop strokes from close TO the net ha
Taylor foundering about the court ii
his efforts TO get his racquet 70 tn