New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Mixed Doubles
Are Stopped
By the Rain
Miss Coss and Walter
Hall Hold Lead When
the Game Is Halted
By Fred Hawthorne

A drop of rain prevented Miss
from winning a decisive victory over
Mrs. Spencer Fullerton Weaver and
William Alex Campbell yesterday aft
ernoon in a special exhibition mixed
doubles lawn tennis match on the clay
courts of the West Side Tennis Club
at Forest Hills, L. 1.
Miss Goss and the Middle States
champion had won the first set at GA,
and were leading at So and 4O-30,
with Campbell serving, when a drop
he was getting ready to make the
service. Time had to be taken out
while Julian S. Myrick, vice president
of the United States National Lawn
Tennis Association, who was acting as
umpire, "mopped up" the flooded orb
with towel. BY the time this was
accomplished the rain had grown into
regular deluge, and Myrick, showing
his new straw Denny" under his rain
coat and making a dash for the shelter
of the clubhouse, announced that he'd
tell the world the match was officially
called.
The rain put an end also to the team
match between the West Side Club
and the Cornell University players.
Four singles and two doubles matches
were on the schedule, and several of
the singles were in various stages of
competition at 4:15 o'clock, when time
was called. None was completed, how
ever, but they may be this afternoon
If the weather is more propitious.
Mrs. Weaver, who has held the
womens national indoor doubles
championship three times, was not at
her best yesterday, but even so it was
she who scored the most sensational
"kills" on lobs on her side of the net,
and her close volleying was likewise
brilliant at times. She wished to con-
tinue in spite Of the downpour, but
the others looked so unhappy at the
prospect that Mrs. Weaver finally capit-
ulated and teamed up in a game Of
bridge with her husband, Major
Weaver, in the clubhouse.
Campbell Erratic
Campbell was both good and bad
yesterday. At times his smashing was
very deadly and he accounted for
number of aces in this way, but he
was inclined to be erratic on his vol
leying, and many of his drives landed
out of court. In his anxiety to cover
court, too, Campbell encroached upon
his partners territory, to the detri-
ment of team play and point winning.
Hall was the strongest player in the
match. Overhead he was very deliable,
and even when Mrs. Weaver and Camp
bell tried to keep him away from the
net by tossing deep the Middle States
champion handled the ball with dead
a lot Of "pace," and he followed ser
vice in to the net position with fne
judgment, there to volley brilliantly
for the finishing shots.
Miss Goss was far better on her
ground shots than overhead, and some
of her fore and back hand drives We'd
with Halls in speed and splendid
depth. She and Mrs. Weaver had sew
eral thrilling volleying exchanges at
the net, Mrs. Weaver generally
ending matters by decisive smash.
All in all, when it is considered that
the footing was very treacherous in
the mud, the play was of high calibrc
Miss Goss slipped once, in the last
game, as she was going after one of
Campbell's drives through deep court,
and Mrs. Weaver accomplished most
graceful slide during a particularly
spirited rally with Hall at close quar-
ters. Otherwise there we're no casual
ties. The order of service was: Camp
bell, Hall, Mrs. Weaver, Miss Goss.
The point score of the match fol-
lows:
FIRST SET
Miss Goss and Hall: Points Games
4 4 IS
Mrs. Weaver and Campbell:
4 4 4 / O. 20
SECOND SET
Miss Goss and Hall: Points Games
4 8 ! 3 80 s
Mrs Weaver and Campbell:
3 Q rs