The Washington herald., 1919-06-05
DOYLE
TITLE winner
Captures Tennis Champion
ship Singles from
Fred Harris.

Conrad b. Doyle, washinrton's
sensation. after dropping the nrst
two sets. won the Middle Atlantic
championship tennis tournament at
the Columbia Country Club yester-
day by defeating Fred Harris, Of
columbia, in one of the hardest ten
mis- matches seen in a long while, BY
%, 81 81, 6-s and ~. The
anair was q nip-and-tuck one and
after the first two sets to all appear
ances Connie Doyle looked good for
defeat But the old stamina that
mas won Connie many tennis cham
plonships was still with him, and
many sensational rallies were the
main factors in his victory.
Fred Harris started the match in
whirlwind fashion, outnIs Nv
Doyle by a good margin ana tsE,ne
the set at e-2 In the next the ,s me-
style was started by Harris, but n
did not finish in that fashion DovIe
who had heretofore been PLAYING a
defensive game. showed a bit OF his
Old rorest Hills form and with the
. all. eN Ou'
AT this point the games aIternsted
until hve all was reached Wi,h
harris serving they battled l2 points
before decision was reached. which
nnally went to Harris Doyle reaIi.-
ing what a POSITION he was in. gave
up his defensive game and sttempted
a rushing net game, but Harris was
entirely too steady for him ana basa
side line shots were frequent After
deuce had been reached Harris finally
manaeed to win the game and set by
a neat overhead shot.
Starting the third set DOYLE Iooked
good 10 go down to defeat Tor he lost
the nrst game by a 4-to-2 point score
Doyle,s serve. which had been ex-
treUely weak in his effort, strength
ened and Harris had considerable
rouole In handling it. He also, by
extreme chop strokes to the base
court. led Harris into many difncuit
positions. resulting in points for
Doyle. Doyle took it at So Al this
Juncture different ending began 70
brew. Connie from that time pIayed
an exceptionally brilliant game. MAX
ing many seemingly impossible recoy-
cries, Doyle winning the fourth set
at 6-3.
In the last and deciding set of the
match both men were primed and
befort the start a battle royal set
was assured. The first game, after
a nip and tuck affair. was won by
Doyle. Doyle started serving. Both
mems services were strengthening
and each alternated on same. until
the score stood 3 all. Connie, then
by wonderful net recoveries. won
the next two games respectively to
make il to 3. In the next game
Connie obtained the first two points.
Harris annexed the next one. Con-
ME then, after a brief rally. earned
thesnext point to make it 20 to is
and only one to go for set. match.
and championship.
Then a marvellous feat was exhib-
tied by Harris who gained the game
after the ball had been in play a
good while.
The audience now began 10 believe
that the set was nothing more than
A give-and-take affair on each other s
serve. With the set 5- in Doyle's
favor. and Harris serving, a was an
ticipated. But here old Comics re-
serve was with him, and ne broke
through Harris serve by Al point
score count, to win one of the hardest
tennis matches played in many years
and also win the Middle Atlantic ten.
mis- championship.
Both Doyle and Harris played an er-
ceptionally good brand of tennis, al
though at times Doyle lacked his old
time form. Harris played a steady.
accurate game all through. and had
1t not been for Doyle's abundance OF
stamina the result would have been
vice versa. The lowest score:
FIRST SET