The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-20
MURRAY And MAN
REACH FINAL IN
TENNIS TOURNEY
CalifOrnian's Great Service
Makes Victory Over Wash
burn Easy.
BIG MATCH WILL BE
PLAYED on TUESDAY

Robert Lindiey Murray. one Of tho hest
tennis players developed In California.
and Alrick III. Man. Jr.. former New Eng
land champion. reached the fnai round
OF singles In the national indoor tennis
championship yesterday at tho Seventh
regiment Armory and will meet for the
title on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.
1t is coincidental that when Murray made
has famous visit TO the Last in 1914 he
won has first championship here by de-
feating Man in the challenge round for
the New England title and now the SANE
pair meet when Murray is making his
FIRST bid for a 1916 title.
Murray gained his place IN the lower
bracket Of the final By defeating Watson
NJ. Washburn. metropolitan champion
ana m OF the Eastern states team.
WIN ridiculous ease AZ 81. 81. Man
climbed by downing Wylie q. Grant. "A
'ormcr indoor champion, AZ -. Ga.
In the doubles the kim Smith Arthur 8.
Cragin and Or. William Rosenbaum-
Arthur VI. Loyibond combinations
reached the fual round.
The feature match of the dsv. that be-
tween Murray and washburn, proved
featurcless AS a contest bu, bristling with
beautiful play b., the speedy young Cali
iornian. II was a veritAbie procession
for the left handler, who seemed to b. in
every place all the time. lie outguessed,
~outman1uvred and outplaycd Washburn
every moment of tn" match, and those
who saw him fol, that ne was not letting
himself out to the limit IN winning even
by such a one sided score. Murray's ser
vice was terrific and more nearly An
preached ~" cannon ball serve which
made Maurice f.. Mclaughlin famous
than anything that has been seen here
about since Mac used II here two years
ago.
me match was a great disa ppointment
to the gallery. for in spite of the fact that
the crowd expected TO see Murray win
the feeling was that any man in the drst
ten ought TO be able to give hun a night.
When Murray met Washburn on the
Californian's 1914 visit here it took him
three sets to beat the former Harvard
player In the metropolitan championship,
ana II was natural to figure that his IDLE.
ness would not. have improved his
chances against Washburn. Neverthe-
less directly the men finished practice
prior to the match yesterday il was
apparent that Washburn was In for n
beating.
Murray started the service in the OPEN
ing game and ran through five games
before lie let up enough 10 allow Wash
purh 10 save hlins"if from q shutout.
just how strong Murray's service WAS
can be gathered from the fact, that in
tho opening set his opponent scored only
three points of Il in four games and In
the second set scored only five IN three
service games. AS Il matter Of faci
Washburn scored only II points in the
first set and made 10 of them in two
games which went to deuce. In the
second set Washburn collected "a points
and not one OF the games went 60
deuce.
The New York player started with q
victory on his own service and then Muir.
ray finished the match by running sia
straight games. In addition to the fac,
that Washburn could not handle Muir
rays service the former frequently iost
points by the ability of the Californian
to draw him out ~ position and make
clean placement aces
Although there was little of the real
Ihrilliarcc that marked the Murray-wash-
! hurn conflict in tho Man-Grant affair the
latter WAS the more interesting because
II was moro even. During the opening
J get tho men won. each on his own ser
vice until the score WAS made deuce a.
5 all. In 10 that time Grant had a
slight bit the better on points and led ~
SO TO 90. Man was having more d!ni-
Guilty winning IN his service thar was
his opponent. ana 10 the gallery II looke-!
AS II Grant would bc tho moro likely 20
) break through.
Grant. however. went wild in ,,e
eleventh game and his errors enabled
Man to make the first and only break IN
service in the opcnir. set. II gave Man
the lead ~ y 10 > and by steady play
in tho twelfth gam" he took tho &C..
Man PLAYED far better tennis IN the
second set. and after 10 broke through
Grants service IN the titth game, takirg
IN" lead At . TO .. It became u question
lnn1y ~ how sNInu ruI,,.a ,.r.pt ,A,,,l