New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-14
CHURCH DEFEATS
PELL EASILY IN
TENNIS MATCH
Rain Interrupts Play of
Metropolitan Singles
Championships.
BY JAMES S. O'NEALE.

Still another droary tennis upset
must be written.
At the mems annual metropolitan
singles championships, held at the
Bronxyille Athletic Club, Bronxville
what deceptive name for a place be
yond Mount Vernon George Meyer:
Church, ninth on the national ranking
list. yesterday walloped the fifth mar
and the doubles partner Of j. S. O'Neale
mat IS not the worst The score was
6-1. Ga
As a matter Of fact, Pel was not or
his game. We have proof Of that. II
he were, we are continually reminded
he would not be our doubles partner
AT any rate, il it must be said, clay
courts are just TO Church's liking, foi
the hard surface increases the high
bound on his exaggerated twist ser
wee and his topped drives, and thus
covers his approach to the net, his ia
vorite position. Church. who in the
opinion of experts has advanced half
fifteen in his play by a hard winter o.
Southern tournaments, was going great
guns yesterday.
Rain Interrupts Play.
Church was going almost as great
guns as the rain. which assaulted
BronXville at half-past five, and put
a stop to further play in the after
noon, although hope sprang eternal till
darkness settled the argument. The
internationalst Frederick b. AleXan-
der, three-time metropolitan title hold
er, and Dean Mathey were interrupted
IN the third set of a spectacular match
The score, with Alexanders name first
was &c, 60. %.
Two other matches remained unfn-
ished when the heavens fell. and three
finished contests complete yesterday s
card. In one, Watson VI. Washburn
who has two legs OH the handsome
metropolitan trophy. with just one
more win needed to make it his very
own. defeated Chris Herter. 2, 6 g.
In the other two, which. as Il was ru
mored around the grounds. were played
extremely late Monday afternoon and
not yesterday at all, Edmund s. Peas
lee, the old Yale player, defeated the
llartsdale indefatigable George A. f.
Walker, jr, &c, 6 1, IL, and
Frederick { .lrman, who also has two
legs on the trophy. bested Arthur s.
Cragin. 81. 6 ., O.
Harold Abingdon Throckmorton, the
sensational Elizabeth youngster who is
trying to jimmy his way into the first
ten this year, showed great speed and
great form. That was in the warm-u up
with j. A. Richards, the old Wesleyan
star and former champion of Hawaii
Each man had taken game when the
floods came
Large Galleries Look On.
The Church-Pell and the Alexander
Mathey matches held the attention Of
the large gallery. The famous back
handler, Pell, had his pet stroke under
good control, as always, but with not
quite mid-season sting. Furthermore
long Church reached almost everything
and finished 1t with fnesse most dis
tressing TO Pell adherents. Church
hammered at PelPs forehgnd. and when
Pell streaked for the net passed the
fifth man neatly with slow, topped
cross-court drives or with line siZZlers
With ex-Princetonian Church victor
in very short match, his fellow col
legian, Dean Mathey, took on ex
Princetonian Fred Alexander. There
was 10 college feeling whatsoever, a:
each man, the Davis Cup veteran anc
the comparative youngster, was out tc
win. Mathey swung at once into his
steady, accurate, moderately fast game
and took the first set, GO.
Imperceptibly, however, Alexander
had been getting warmed up and had
been putting just a little more sting
into his shots. In the second set the
internationalist gave everything he hac
and put forth a magnificent exhibition
Of tennis, such as he played once
against foreign foes. In this set Mathey
took only four points and no game. II
is doubtful if ever a set between high
class players was more one sided.
Alexander at Top Speed.
One Of the points was double fault
Alexander did not wait for Mathey Il
make errors. He went right out anC
hammered the ball to untenanted parts
of Mathews court for placements. The
veterans service had tremendous break
,hooting high and fast and twisting
His ground strokes had the peculiar
lift and sudden drop that used to win
national doubles championships, be
cause they were so hard for net men
to play. These drives had sting also
and carried past Mathey when he was
in rear court.
The effort was a great one, and Alex
ander did not play so we'll after the SET
was over The third set stood "a
in Mathews favor, when rain said nay
The summaries follow:
Metropolitan championship Cmens singles; ssoonC
roundl-E. W. Peasleo defeated George A WALKER
IT,. &c. Ct ll-g. Watson " Wsshbum DO
feaied Chris Uerter e.. d-3 George Never
Church defeated Theodore Roosevelt Fell 81
&c. J. A. Richards defeated Francis T. Iluute
By default. Frederick y. Alexander ys Dean Msthcy
%. Go. % (unnnishedl Frederick c. lnmal
O'Ncalc ". George C. shsfer e.. q (unhn-