The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-05
Court Tennis Players Reach the Semi-tf finals
TRIO OF NEW WORKERS
STILL IN FIGHT FOR TITLE
Sands, Whitney and Cutting Win Matches in Court
Tennis Championship, and With Joshua Crane
of Boston Reach Semi-fnals.

Three New York players and one
representative of Boston are left IN the
running for the national court tennis
championship as a result Of yesterdays
matches at the Racquet and Tennis Club.
Charles l.. Sands. Payne whitney and
C.. &. Cutting were the successful New
Workers and Joshua Crane kept Boston
In the night. With h exception Of
whitney all the winners gained their
victories in straight sets. whitney had
to 20 the full route Of I'VE sets TO de.
feat ID. I. Rhodes of Boston at Is,
So. 60. So, Is. Sands won
easily from George w. wightman Of
Boston at 6-3. 60. 60. Crane tool
the measure Of Lawrence Waterbury Of
New York at 6-1. s-l, g., and Cut
ting accounted for w. II. r. HUM Of
Philadelphia AT S-2. S-3. 6-3.
The long dra wn out nve set match.
although not productive Of the best ten.
mis- Of the day. was the feature of the
second round. There was not the skilful
stroking to the openings nor the bril-
liant placing in this match hat marked
the Cutting-Huhn encounter. which fol-
lowed II. nor did II have n Of the
display OF cour generalship which
marked the two other matches preceding
IT, The Whitney Rhodes match. how
ever. did have more OF the contest to It.
and It was this that was lacking In the
others.
Both Whitney and Rhodes played some
Of the best tennis Of their careers during
the course Of the match. but Offset this
by streaks OF wildness. whitney started
the match BY winning W long deuce
games mainly BY his ability to win HE
chases. Immediately he had these two
games safely tucked away. however.
he became erratic and by frequently
driving the ball into the net lost n set
liz six straight games. Rhodes then
came upon hard times. and after win
ning two OF the Hrst three games In the
set lost thirteen straight games.
which rave Whitney the second and
third sets and a lead OF two to love on
the fourth.
Whitney showed more accuracy in
finding the openings during this run
Of games. being particularly effective on
finding the dedans on the side wall. In
the second set he dropped two into the
grille that were as pretty as have
been seen on the court In many a
day. His placing TO the corners too
was good and gave the Bostorian plenty
Of trouble. In the fourth set Whitney
kept roing strong enough to gain "A
lead Of 5-3. when Rhodes started a
persistent onslaught on his backhand
and tied up the match by taking four
consecutive games. Ky the time the
fifth set came along Whitney had
steadied. and was getting 9 o much pace
on his strokes that his rival could not
handle them and II soon became a
question only OF how long 1t would
take him TO win.
Cutting in defeating Kuhn played the
prettieet tennis hat has been displayed
in the tournament UP to the present
time. He knew how to find tho OPEN
inEs n made good use Of his knowi-
edge, Both of the men went at top
speed from start to finish and kept
the ball flying around the court In
wonderful style. His placing left little
to be desired and some of the gets
he made were little short of marvellous.
The men were about equal on SER