New-York tribune., 1916-06-17
Church and Mathey Vic
tors in Doubles i'm
Title Play.
BY JAMES S. O'NEALE.
'ceton still leads at tennis.

princeton stlll leadS at tennis.
Two sons of old Nassau yesterday
won their places in the finals of the
metropolitan tennis singles champion
ship at the Bronxville Athletic As
sociation, Bronxvile, despite slippery
courts and clouds and rain that wished
to sit in on the play.
The Princetonians who will oppose
each other in the finals are the doubles
partners, George NJ. Church and Dean
Mathey. Church, ninth man on the ma
tional ranking singles list, eliminated
the eighth man, Watson NJ. Washburn,
6-S, 2-6, 6-9, and Mathey sent the
hopes of R. C. Van Vliet, jr, of
the University of California team,
aglimmering to the tune of "a, 6-9.
Church and Mathey also, as expected,
won in their doubles fourth round en-
counter, but not before John Henry
Steinkampf and Allan Behr had given
every one a scare in the second set.
The score was 60, 81.
The playing-through champions, Wal
ter Merrill Hall and the veteran interna-
tionalist, Harold II. Hackett, took their
place in the final round by defeating
young Van Vlet and his father, Colonel !
r. c. Van Vliet, commandant at Fort
Slocum, s ?, Ga. Before they play
in the finals Church and Mathey must
stop off for few minutes and wade
through Theodore Roosevelt Pell and
J. S. O'Neale, principally the latter.
An Important Match.
Much hinged on the Washburn-
Church affray Washburn won the
metropolitan title last year, and with
it his second leg on the handsome
trophy. He needed just one more win
for permanent possession. Church, on
the other hand, was out for revenge, IN
addition TO his hope to put Princeton
ahead of Harvard. Last year at the
national championships it was Wash
burn who eliminated the lanky son of
Nassau.
Washburn made a game fight. despite
the fact that he is not yet IN mid
season form During the second set
the imperturbable one got his famous
and likewise peculiar slap-drive work
ing in manner entirely ship-shape, and
fairly burned up the court with low
trajectory and high velocity drives
that pierced below Church's nigh Vlsl-
bility.
In the other sets the aggressive, net
rushing game of the Prncetonian was
too much for Washburn, who under the
strain often hit the top band Of the
net with his ground strokes. At the
same time Church was playing highly
effective tennis, such as he has shown
in all the matches he has played.
The first set was nip and tuck to
three games apiece, when Church be-
gan to nip the lines and tuck the set
with three straight games. Washburn
made six double-faults in this frame,
hitting his service just beyond the
lines. Church's deep-bounding twist,
on the other hand, was almost perfect
mask to cover his long leaps for the
net. He often took the net position
away from his opponent, also, on
Washburn's own service, az the Har-
ward player often did not follow his
delivery in.
The second set found Washburn at
his best, and he passed Church with
regularity. despite the long reach, des.
perate leaps and good anticipation OF
the latter. Church broke through
Washburns first service in the last
set. thus giving him the initial advan-
tage, which he kept by fine play. Then