New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11
Springs Surprise on Uni
versity Heights Courts by
Defeat of LovibOnd.
TAKES FIVE SETS
TO DECIDE MATCH
Forehand Drives Of Cornell
Player Carry Him to Vic
tory Over Veteran.
By FRED HAWTHORNE.


challenge cup yesterday by defeating
Arthur VI. Lovibond. playing-throuRh
champion. in the final round Of the
University Heights Tennis Clubs open
lawn tennis tournament
Hunter was victor in a thrilling
struggle by a score Of 6-4, 2 6, 81,
G-l. 3. and besides being the first
player whose name will be engraved
on the new challenge cup he captured
the championship OF the North Side.
The singles match was the only one
played Yesterday. but the doubles will
be completed this afternoon. Here
again Hunter figures. for he and Al
bert J. Ostendorf are in the final
round. After the championship in this
division is finished there will be a spe-
cial exhibition mixed doubles match
between Miss Marie Wagner and A. j.
Ostendorf and Miss Margaret Grove
and J. II. Stcinkampf "for the cham
rionship OF University Avenue
Hunters defeat Of the veteran Low
bond came as a stunning surprise to
the big gallery that sat twenty deep
behind The backstop nets and along the
University Avenue side Of the courts.
Almost every ono appcarcd to have I'M
plicit faith in the pIaying-through
champions court Ceneralship, his plac-
ing and his all round playing ability 10
bring him through successfully against
the younger man.
When Lovibond. after dropping the
first two games Of the fifth set. ran
out the next five in a row and held tne
lead at .. there were perhaps ten
PERSONS among the several hundred
watching the match who conceded Hun
ter an out side chance.
The fact that ne vas facing what
seemed almost certain defeat did not
bother the Cornell man. however. Tor
after .akIng the eighth game at love
on his own service he launched hlm-
self into the attack with all the fury
that had distingu shed his playing IN
the first and fourth sets. with the re-
suit that Loyibond never got another
game.
Everybody agreed after the final
point had been scored by Hunter that
the. match was the most stirring that
had ever been staged n the history of
the club. II was anybody's victory un-
I'll the last drive INTO the net by
Lovibond, as he made a desperate
lunge after one Of hunters wicked
forch1nd cross-cOurt drives.
Even Frederick B. Alexander, the
international player, VINO has seen and
competed against the greatest players
in the world, was moved TO applaud
frequently as he sat beside the court
He also expressed himself as greatly
impressed with Hunters future posi-
biIties on the courts. The boy GER
tainly has a terrible forehand wallop,
be said, "but he SHOULD develop his
backhand and his overhead play a
Bit"
That the struggle was to be bit
ter one was shown in the very first
game, when Lovbond started the SER
vice. but lost the game after deuce
had been called eleven times.
In this first set Lovibond made the
mistake that later cost him the match
and his title. Hunters forehand is his
most powerful weapon of attack. In
TACT, it is practically his only stroke
as a point winner. His backhand Is
weak and he uses it only when forced
TO. and then purely a. a defensive
stroke.
/ Loyibond knew this, yet he persisted
in hanging back by his base line after
playing to his opponents backhanI
with Hunter on the defensive. With
/ the Cornell student taking the ball or
F his forchand, however, LovibOnd rush %
for the net. only TO be passed time and
again as Hunter ripped low drives over
+ the net that carried world of speed.
In the second and third sets Low
bond changed his tactics and dominated
4 the court by intrenching himself al
+ the net and dazzling the younger PLAY.
/ or by a maze of sharply played shots
across the court.
Hunter was or blood in the
fourth set, and II the games mac
/ reached 3-all he let out an added bust
Of speed and captured the set at Ga
putting him again even with the cham
pion.
Tie last set found Hunter apparently
/ firing from his great efforts IN the
/ earlier stages of the match and Low
bond holding command easily. Their
conditions were reversed. and it wa;
Hunter who electrified the spectators
by the sensational manner in whlcr
he scored kills" with terrific forehanC
drives that passed the fast firing char
pion with merciless regularity.
The point score OF the match follows:
FIRST SIT -.
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