The sun., 1918-08-29
Hall Sets Gallery Agog by
Eliminating Hayes in Five
Sets in National Singles.
ny FREDERICK G. LIEB.

That Robert Lindley Murray is COM
ing back into his own was amply DEM
| onstrated on the turf courts Of the West
Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills yes
| terday. In the fourth round Of the
| national championship tennis singles
tournament Murray eliminated Theo-
| dore Roosevelt Pell with little more diff
fcuity than II takes the ordinary in
dividuai to roll Off n log. Pell Of the
superb backhand was expunged from
the tournament in straight sets at 60,
60 and 60.
Murray displayed by far the best
| form that he has shown this year, and
| also showed that he needed practice
! more than anything else. The fact that
| the sensational Native Son fell an easy
| victim to W. T. Tilden I'd Of Philadel-
phia at Southampton last Friday caused
much concern among his admirers. who
| feared his lack of condition would be a
serious handicap IN the national singles.
However. his masterful exhibition yes
terday makeB>it certain that Murray
Will put UP warm scrap to maintain
the top place he won at Forest Hills
last year.
Murray was expected TO beat Pell,
but the New Yorker Mt least was ex-
pected to let Lindley know he was in a
match. Pell made a far better show
ing with Tilden last Saturday, when the
pair fought II out in the Meadow Club
final. While Tilden won in straight sets
Pell took ten games T. r. got only two
from Murray yesterday.
The Meteor Again.
Murray again played the dasffing,
smashing game Which made him 10 for
midable In former years. and Pell was
unable to cope with his cannon ball
service or his high powered returns.
| Murray did not look for openings but
just drove right through. When Pell
| did connect with his backhand return
he smashed into the net or out OF
bounds.
Occasionally Pell got in pretty cross
/ court shot when he drove out of Muir
rays reach with his backhand. but T.
r. was unable to follow up an advan-
tage. Murray dashed in to the net a
moment later. and with pretty place
ments again forged TO the front.
Perhaps the biggest surprise OF the
| tournament was the defeat Of Walter T.
Hayes of Chicago by Walter Merrill
Hall, the popular local player. Hayes
won lot Of renown for himself last
week when he defeated Ichiya Kumagae.
the Japanese champion. i'm the Meadow
been defeated by both Pell and Hall.
Hall Won quite a noteworthy uphill vic
tory after a gruelling. hard fought match
by 3-6, g., 0-6. g., 6-4.
After Hayes had won the third set BY
love score, 1t looked as though he had
Hall on the run. but the seven minutes
rest gave the West Slider a chance to re-
cupefate. and he came back strong. play
Ing some of the finest tennis Of the after
noon.
| Tiiden OVtpiays Doyle.
II Murray made an impressive show
Ing. as much may be said for his lead
Ing rival in the tournament. Tilden. who
won in straight sets over Connie DOYLE
the young crack from Washington. TIL
den won by 6-3, 6--1 and IS. The
1.-THE young giant from the Signal Corps
had fairly easy sailing in the first two
sets, but for a few minutes IL looked as
though Doyle might force him to go four
sets. as he led in the third set, So, and
had the service when Tilden started his
march to victory. He simply let out an
other notch. and hs~dazzling speed and
remarkable control were too much for
the sandy haired chap from the District
of Columbia.
Tilden's lightning service drives also
were most confusing to Doyle, who only
niDbled at them In the first two sets. lie
began to fathom them better in the
third set. but when he did get the ad-
vantage he was unable to push it,
The match in which the veteran Fred
Alexander of the navy eliminated Ser
geant Harold Throckmorton of the coast
artillery and the one in which Cadet S
Howard 'Voshell OF the fiers extin.
guished the hopes of Vincent Richards
the boy wonder from Yonkers, were
strikingly similar. Alexander defeated
the young man from Elizabeth by e
IS. rs. 60. 6-3. while Voshell de.
feated Richards at 81. 4-6, Go
CO. rs.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS mater
was a heartbreaker for the younger
player to lose. and he could not hide hi'
disappointment.
In winning his first round mattel
from Harold Taylor. Throckmorton wa,
obliged to play eighty-two games. Yes
terday he played forty-eight games
Throckmorton started of as though hi!
match with Alexander would be q
parade. and won the first two sets N
easy fashion. 1t looked as though th'
dash and speed OF the youngster woult
triumph over the veterans experience
Throckmorton also had the third sc
within hts grasp, but with the set TIED
at SIS, Alexander started on a streal
which did not stop until he had wor
eleven consecutive games, two in thu
third set. six in the fourth, and three
In the NTH.
| Alexander simply played back and lie