The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-01
MURRAY IN FINAL
! FOR TENNTS,TITLE
Defeats voshell in Straight
Sets in National ,Tourna-
! mont at ForestyHills.
KUMAGAE EASY .vIoToR,
Attains Semi-finals sby Rum
ming Away From Mahan
After Losing!a Set. a
NJ FRnDERIcH1ta. LrEB.

Playing . continually improved and
steadier game Robert vLindiey Murray
made his way into the, hnal OF the ma
tienal champlonship tennis. tourney at
Forest Hills yesterday. He. disposed OF
Lieut. 8. Howard vosheli, the Brooklyn,
aviator. IN the semi-nnal of the upper,
half Murray won In straight sets. yet,
all were stubbornly contested. especially
the third. the Californisn's margin being
60. IS and SIS.
Noshsli did not press Murray as much
as did. either Fred Alexander or Nat
Niles, but Murray IL getting better with
his needed practice and Is getting primedi
for the big match. On Tuesday he will
meet the winner OF the Tilden- Kuma gao,
. match. which will be the feature Of tho
Labor Day programme
Before Murray defeated Lieut. vosheiu
kumasae squashed the aspirations OF
the lengthy Lyle e. Mahan. Mahan
got In the first set, 6--3, and also won
the first game in the second set, where's
upon the famous Itchy" removed his
cap. something he seldom does. This.
however. was the cue that the battlo
was about to begin, for thereafter Mahan
took only three games. Kumagae won
at 4-6, 6-3, 60, 6-l. At one.
stretch Ichiya ran on fourteen straight,
games
Best Gallery Of Week.
Despite the threatening weather and
the drab skies the best crowd OF the
week was out. including many of Kumn-
gae's countrymen. who were anxious to
render moral support to "Ichy' in his
little affair with Mahan. 1t must be
admitted that Kumagae gave his friends
q good run for their money. u
In his match with Voshell Murray
did not drive the ball MS nard as he
usually does-perhaps In an effort to
steady his control. His service was rs
speedy as ever. though he GO. only four
service aces-less than n, earned IN
any other match in the tournament
However, many Of the errors chs rge1
against Voshell were vicious service balls
which Howard drove into uhe nets or
outside the chalked lines.
For placing shots Voshell had easily
the better Of It and he got in some
beauties. which stayed just within the
side lines The stroke analysis indicates
that Vosheil landed thirty-nine place
nrentR against thirty for Murray. BIZ.
during the course Of the match 1t seemed
that voshell's lead In that respect was
even more marked.
voshell's Double Faults.
voshell also had an advantage in
points earned. with fortw against thir,v-
four. Murray landed ia points In ths
three sets against a clean hundred for
his opponent
voshell helped to beat himself by his
frequent double faulting. He handed |
his opponent twelve points on doub,c |
faults during the match. seven Of them |
In the third set. which is nc Way to !
defeat a champion.
Especially was voshelrs double fault |
ing sad In the last set. 1t booked q
though he would breeze through with |
this one. as he had the lead at "a, |
but the dashing Murray caught up with |
him. and tied the score. THO Meteor
then got the big edge. winning love |
game. the last point OF which was a
service ace
Voshell made grand come back" and ;
tied 1t up at SIS with another love
game. After that they alternated, but
IN the fourteenth game Voshell botched
things, sadly with three double faults.
The third double fault came with a
deuce score. giving Murray the advan-
tage. and Robert chopped the aviator's
next service over the net for an i'm
possible get for his winning point.
Voshelfs service several times, generally
when It was necessary to do So with
the scors tied at 2-all Murray took the
lead by winning a love game on the
IAeutenant's service, getting two place
ments, while Voshell twice drove into
the alleys. Murray then won the next
game. also q love AFFAIR.
Murray Breaks Through.
The second set began al did the first.
with Murray breaking through his OPP
ponent's service for the first game The
second game was deuced, when Murray
won 1t with two straight points, one on
a service ace and the other when Voshell
over the back line. The third game was
won by Voshell by love score, and the
break came in the fourth game Howard
again had his opponent 6v love 40. when
Murray. serving. cashed the next Ave
points. giving him the lead, 81. He
then played II safe and won this set,
6-3.
In the early set Murray played his
fellow left handler in a way that would
hardly be wise against a sturder op-
for instance. He fire.
quently ran In for volleys at the net
leaving his court wide open. Voshell
court drives which he did not seem to
have a chance to reach. Murray seemed
to prefer to play to Towards back
hand. though the Brooklynites back
hand was far from weak.
Voshell tired after getting his lead in
the third set. and showed II unmistaka-
bly, In the last set. Murray changed his
tactics after Voshell took the lead. play
Ing safer game from back court and
kept racing Howard around with his
low cross court returns. With the score
tied. Murray again took more chances,
and smashed back at Voshell until he
finally wore him down.
After Mahan had defeated Kumagae
In the frst set, many tennis experts de-
SPARED OF the Jap. saying. There Is no
use In denying 1T; the Oriental is not
right" However. that was while "Ishy"
still wore his cap. A rather freak fea-
ture Of that first set was the fact
hat In seven or the ten games the
PLAYER serving lost his game.
Mahan also had the second set,
%. and 1t looked as though the Jap
would have tough time to pull aus--6t
winner in the match. but sOsn he got
warmed up and began play rings
around the New York man. and Il be-
same a procession. Mahan did have
,ome tough luck. as some of his best
shots just managed to stay outside of I
he lines Ia
After the completion Of the semi-finaI
match between Murray and Voshell, Ed
die Conlin, master of ceremonies. put
on an interesting womens doubles be-
tween Miss Eieanore Co.'S and Mics
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