New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-29
elizabeth Youth, However,
Is Forced to Bow in
Turn TO w. E. Davis.
mlRRAY SHOWS A
LACK OF PRACTICE
-,lifornia State Champion Will
Meet Church in the Final
Round Tomorrow.
Bv JAMES s. O'NEALE.

Iindley Murray, the great Meteor
= ~. tennis courts. was reduced yes
..,,,v 10 a meteorite, fallen meteor.
r,,ols Abingdon Throckmorton. the
,,,,s,ional, graceful Elizabethan
auth. did the reducing and made
-,h,v fine Job Of it. The scores were
"a SIS. The exercise took place
:. The annual invitation tournament of
=, Sleepy Hollow Tennis Club. Scar
,s,cush OF he-Hudson.
Bu, Throckmorton's day was an up
,.s down affair His upset match with
Il, Pslo Al.o jackrabbit took place in
"a. morning. In the afternoon Willis
Z Davis. the newest Of the speed-msd
CsEfornisns. California state champion
~ virtue Of his desperate fve-set en-
,,,ounter with Murray last year on
q, Coast, took Throckmorton on a
I'D down Defeat Alley. The scores
,bs time were 6-3, 81. 60. Davis
f1igreQ ~ aIoN OF eNttN-
The vis-Throckmorton ARRAY was
Il the semi-fnal round, but the two
ridistors agreed 20 make the issue
ne best three out OF five sets, instead
u the customary two out of three.
Davis will play the final round with
ne tall and springy George Meyers
Church tomorrow. Each Of the two is
essentially a net player. and the most
spectacular tennis of the year should
result
Lack Of Practice.
While due credit must be given
Ihrockmorton for furnishing an upset
match. 10 must be said that Murray
lhoged plainly the lack Of practice
necessitated by his recent trip TO the
Coast. when he was married. The
great Meteor. national indoor champion
and hailed by many as the coming
daddy Of all the tennis players, could
rot meet the flying ball with his Gus
ionsry skill.
In addition, since his first fash in
;aLiS heavens In 1914. when the
Meteor a. once took his place as one
Of the FIRST four performers in the
land, Murray has stuck pretty closely
70 business, and has not played as
much tennis as he might have. Last
year he played little on the Coast,
ard lost TO Davis in a sensational,
close limit encounter
hrockmorton jumped into the
reach yesterday and hammered out
he victory The handwriting had been
m the wall slI week, for Throckmor-
ION had been playing super-tennis and
fulfilling Frederick B. Alexsnder's pre-
dciicns and Walter B. Mahony's
hopes. Murray, on the other hand. in
his first match Friday. against Robert
lie Roy, barely beat the former inter
collegiate champion, although the
slew, slippery court hampered the
long leaps Of the Coast jack-rsbbit.
Murray had the misfortune to gel
the same sort of playing surface yes
urday. and it bothered him not .
little. ]. was a long time before II
was decided 10 put on the match a.
all, because rain crept up on Sleepy
Hollow the preceding night, while al
he ncichborhood slumbered, and thor
rughly wet the courts.
Meteor Is Wild.
The Meteor. from the first game
which he served. showed that he was
wild and not quite his CUSTOMARY
meteorological self He won the in
i.isl game. however, after IL went
three times 10 deuce. Then Throck
rtrtor, whose delivery was we'll PLACED
and elusive, won il. He dropped HI:
service only once in the match, a love
game the next time he set 'em up
and took three Of his deliveries al
love.
Murray's hump-jump, on the Other
hand, did not have quite its customary
pristine sting. and he dropped 1t five
times. None Of the first set games, e1-
cspt the first, went 10 deuce, and raj
lies we're not very prolonged. The slip
perry going bothered both players, but
Murray most, because Of his spectacu.
lar style Of game and long strides and
leaps, Throckmorton contributed a
little Of the spectacular also, as he feli
confident, saw how things were goine
and hurried 10 force matters home.
There we're three deuce games in the
second set. two on Throckmorton's ser
vice, when Murray was beginning 70
come periilousiy close TO starting an