New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-19
Junior Honors Theirs in
Clash with Forster and
ThrOCkmOrtOn.
MATCH BITTERLY
FOUGHT THROUGHOUT
Losers Literally Play Them
selves Into Exhaustion, Sub
hitting After Five Sets.

Charles s. Garland, Of Pittsburgh,
who won the singles championship on
Friday, took the doubles title in addi-
tion yesterday. when, paired with W.
Irving Pitt, he defeated George P.
Throckmorton and Herbert W. Forster
in the final round Of the annual junior
metropolitan championship lawn ten
mis- tournament on the clay courts of
the West Side Tennis Club at Forest
Hills. l.. /. Garland and Pitt won at
1-6, -, Ga, 81, GO.
1t was the steadiness and reserve
force of Garland and his partner In the
fifth set that decided the issue. Throck-
morton and Forster had taken the
fourth set by q dazzling display of speed
and hard hitting, and appeared TO have
their opponents on the run. But the
strain seemed to have taken their last
ounce of strength from them. whereas
Garland and Pitt came back strongly
in the final session and broke up the
defence of their rivals by singing
forehaNd drives Of splendid length and
accuracy.
Garland was the directing genius on
his side Of the court. The match be
gan yesterday where il had been left or
on Friday because of the storm with
Throckmorton and Forster in the lead
at 6-1, % on games.
The singles champion and young Pitt
sent forehand drives crashing through
the opposite court with such splendid
Judgment that Throckmorton and For
ster were continually being trapped as
they tried to reach the net, and they
lost the second and third sets after a
stirring struggle for the points.
When Garland and his partner
marched straight ahead in the fourth
set and ran into a lead Of 81 on
games, needing only single game for
the match and the title, it did not seem
that Throckmorton and Forster could
possibly proloug the battle.
But the trailers treated the big gal
lerv to a sensation by coming with a
rush and literally smashing their OPP
ponents into the ground. Terrific
smashing by Throckmorton and sizzling
drives and sharp volleying shots by
Forster earned the points rapidly, and
they took the last six games OF the set
in a row, placing them on even terms
once more.
II was a brilliant bid for the cham
plOnSnlp, DuL lHe very SNNSSS Va nv
zeal proved fatal 10 Forster and his
teammate, for in the final set they
showed the effects of the gruelllng
pace, and Garland and Pitt forged into
the lead at SO on games before the
beaten pair could make stand by TAX
ing the sixth and seventh games. De
feat followed, the Pittsburgh boy and
Pitt winning the last game and the
set, thus bringing TO a close the most
successful Junior tournament ever held
in this country.
The point score Of the match fol-
lows:
T TaEl.Ra md r ana ror;.fs 20
sTOND SET
Garland and Pitt l is1l+ 4st+
Al points. : gSmes
Throckmoron and Forster-i = i
"a points: games
THIRD SET.
Garland ard Pitt Sc
points: games
Throckm6rton and Forster siii / 80
q points: games
FOURTH SET
Garland and Pitt IS lsti
AZ points games
Thr0ckmorton and Forster 3
4 81 points; 7 games
FIFTH SET
Garland and Pitts : / rs points
Throckmoron and FOrster-S 22I4 /
RECAPITULATON
sets Came. Points
qnr1Ra ana F and for.er. e is