The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-18
Defeats Springfield Champ
in State Tennis
Tournament
WINS FINAL ROUND
IN STRAIGHT SETS
Harris and Vezey, Montreal Champion,
Win Doubles Title, Also in Straight
Sets, Beating Brackett of Brattlebo-
70 and Larmon of Omaha.

Sets, Beating Bracket of Brattlebo-
70 and Larmon of Omaha.
Fred H. Harris of Brattleboro once
more breezed through to the state cham
pionship yesterday, when he defeated
A. H. Chaplin of Springfield, Mass. tea
mis- champion of that city, in three
straight sets on the courts of the Brat
tlebOro Country club. The scores were
60, 60, 6-3.
With Arthur VezeF, champion of
Montreal, as his partner, Harris also
again won the doubles championship.
the pair defeating Roger Bracket of
BrattlebOro and 2. J. Larmon of Oma-
ha, Neb., captain of the Dartmouth ten
mis- team, in straight sets.
The largest gallery of the three davs
of the tournament was present, and with
the exception of the match between
Harris and Fezey the day before, thev
saw the classiest tennis of the tourna-
meat
Harris had an especially strenuous
afternoon but showed the effects less
than did any of the others who did not
play in so many matches as Harris.
The state champion was first called
upon to play Eugene Heine of Phila-
| delphia in the second semi-fnal match
in singles, the other having played the
! day before. He had comparatively easy
work in this match, winning the first
! set without allowing his opponent a
game and the second at 6-3. Harris
continually went to the net and
smashed and placed by his opponent.
lie then tackled Chaplin. In spite of
the fact that the scores make the VIC
| tory appear to have been an easy one
i Harris really had quite battle to dis
| pose of the Springfield man After eacn
had won his service game Harris took
the next four games, but two of them
went to deuce. The seventh Chaplin
won on his opponent 5 service, with
/ Harris able to get only one point Har.
ris broke through Chaplin s service
again in the final game after deuce had
been called twice.
i The second set was almost identical.
J, Each won a game on his own service
and Chaplin won the fourth game on
outs by Harris. Harris won two love
games in this set.
In the last set, after Chaplin had won
a love game on Harris s service, the
champion took the next four, Chaplin
tlring and driving repeatedly into the
net. Chaplin managed to win his service
in the sixth and eighth games, Harris
Iplaying a little carelessly.
Both men stuck to the back court
! most of the time, only occasionally GO
ing to the net to smash Each scored
four service aces.
, Having finished five sets of singles
. Harris Immediately went into the fnaI
! match of doubles This proved little
toT bn n
: the hard smashes of their older and
more experienced opponents without
fiinching and tried for every point. The
conservative play of Bracket was off
, set somewhat by the more slashine
game of Larmon, but Bracket scored
5 the more points by his careful persis
tance in returning balls. Larmon wa'
guilty of driving into the net frequent
= ly, especially when he tried smashing
the ball. With the games four to ONT
against them in the first set Brack ket
and Larmon pulled out the next two
t but could not maintain the pace.
= In the second set the Younger play
e ers resorted to lohbing. winning tw'
g of the games credited to them on thei
skill in that depart nent of play.
c The last set was the hardest Tough
k of all. Bracket and Larmon won tn
!. first game on Bracket s service afte
l deuce had been called five times. Eeze,
h. finally driving out. The champions wol
!, the next three before Bracket again
won his serve. Nezev won hi
/ service game and then the younee
j players pulled the score up to fou
! games all, principally on errors by thei
opponents, who were smashing ever.
ball that came within reach and mos
of them into the net or out of court
The score went to 5-4 in favor of Brack
% EFT and Larmon and then Harris an
Nezey got together again and ran ava.
with the last three games and tn
The summary of the play yesterday al
ternoon:
y Semi-fnals, Singles.
Harris, Brattleboro, beat Heine, Phi
adelphia, Go, 6-3
le Finals, Singles.
Il. Harris beat A. H. Chaplin, Spring
n field, Mass, 60, 60, 6-3.
1t Semi-finals, Doubles.
If
n, Richard Doughty, Detroit, and Chapil
= SO, 6-3, 6-3.
X Bracket and Larmon beat Heine an
90 Wakefield bort, Keene, n. H., 4-6, g.
% 6-3.
% Finals, Doubles.
pl Harris and Vezey beat Bracket an
,e. Larmon, 6-3. 6-3. IS.
RS. Richard Doughty of Detroit won II
he consolation prize by defeating loser
i'll Do~+or of Dl,ilo dolrbio a, S,o,1+r. ~