Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-10
Penn Doubles Partners Un-
kno,vn to Each Other:
Never Even Introduced;
Social Reforms Suggested
PLAY At HAVERFORD
Ry SPICk HALL


- mon attending. that is. they have
attended and again will attend the
University of Pennsylvania.
Larry and Harry should know each
other. but they don't. They are total
strangers.
And the worst Of it is that Larry
and Harry are tennis partners repre-
senting Dear Old Penn in the intercol-
legiate tournament now in the last
stages of innocuous semitinality.
Larry and Harry lLarry's ultimate
name is Brown and Ilarry's is FISHER
were supposed to meet. not socially,
but in bitter combat kaltcnbach and
Herndon. Of Princeton. in the first
round Of the doubles yesterday at the
Merton Cricket Club. The Princeton
pair were all set The Penn pair were
all unset Larry couldn't find Harry,
neither could any one else.
After Larry had torn out several
strands of brunette hair by the roots
in a vain endeavor to find his doubles
PARTNER. he confessed the appalling
truth-he didn't know Harry, never
had seen him and wasn't even sure that
there was such q person. maven Z
even met him socially said Larry as
he nervously kept taking his racket
out of the case and replacing it, 1T
a shame. have to play, or rather
want to play with partner that l
don't even know. It's scandnlous. AS
Virgil SAYS, Horrible dictu
The outcome of the matter was that
Larry and Harry were detaulted.
Referee Bill Tilden refused to allow
them to play by moonlight. particularly
as there wasn't any last night.
This sad story of Larry and Harry
has n distinct moral-all persons play =
ing tennis as partners should know each
other socially. They should be for
mally and properly introduced. Sup
pose. for example, that Harry had
shown up yesterday. This would have
involved upon one or the other the
necessity of actually "butting in and
speaking to a person utterly unknown'
Such a procedure would have been a
deep reflection on the standing of the
exclusive Main Line club. 1t would
have been stain on Penn and blotch
on the escutcheOn of the butter in and
a social insult to the butter in.
In the future it is to be hoped that
the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis AssO-
citation will appoint committee to see
that all partners are properly intro
duced, thereby eliminating the chance
of one stranger being put in the shock =
ing position of having to accost total
stranger.
Just Yale; That's All
But to get back to earth and that
particular part of the turf covered
earth in front of the Merton Cricket
Club veranda, things are humming for
Old Eli. If Mr.. A. Lincoln were writ
ing about this tennis tournament, and
doing it with the same regard for the
truth that he did everything else, he
would say that this affair is ''tourna
mept of, by and for Chuck Garland,
with Yale getting a little reflected glory
as a by y-product.
"Chuck" has played three matches
get that right, two games. not two
sets. The loss of two games in six
sets is an average of one third of a
game per set, terrific loss. And il
might be mentioned that the game
which G.. w. Helm. of Harvard, got
from Garland yesterday in their third
round match was a donation, pure and
simple; mostly simple, for why should
any one give an opponent anything in al
athletic contest? 1t shouldn't be done
but very often it is, so there you are
But that isn't all about Garland. He
Is paired with X. n. Hawks, another
wearer of the Blue. They play doubles
together or, to be exact, Garland does
They will win the doubles almost as
easily as Chuck will win the singles
Their first opponents in the doubles
were Cornell's No. 1 team, Hanlon and
l.. w. Fisher (no relation to Harry
The, Ithacans had the same chance tC
win as Kaiser Bill has to become
the idol Of Paris. They lost, according
to the score, 60, 6-1. But that does
not adequately describe the smothering
defeat. In the first set Garland drove
into the net twice and slugged one ball
out. That was the extent of his erro =
neous play. All of his other shots were
perfect and most eff them were stinging
ace placements from all parts of the
courts, back and forehand, from the
ground and volleying.
The other features of the day were
Bill Tilden's unsuccessful efforts to get
the doubles started on time and Mrs. r
H. Barlow's presence on the veranda
of the clubhouse.
Those Star Matches
The stage is one third set for the
exhibition matches to be played on the
turf courts of the Germantown Cricket