The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-12
EASTERN NET STARS
BEST IN SINGLES
By Winning Two Matches and
Losing Doubles, Tie Western
ers in Dual Tennis Matches.
SpecioI DespatcA 70 TINS suS.

CINCINNATI, July 1.-THE Eastern
tennis team evened things In the dual
tennis match for the sectional team
championship here to-day by scoring two
points against one for the West The
score now stands upsticks at three all.
The representatives Of that part OF the
country which Is nearer to the Atlantic
Ocean than II Is to the section cham
pionship. won the two singles matches
but lost the doubles.
Robert Lindley Murray, national
champion. a Californian native son. who
read Horace Greeley's advice about 60
ing West and found that he could not
go any further West in this country
without wetting his feet in the Pacific
and so turned around and went East,
scored one point for the East. The other
point was scored by Wallace It. john
son Of Philadelphia, n dyed in the wool
fastener. who looks upon Warren,
Ohio. as being West. The West scored
a point when Robert Kinsey and Axel
Craven Of California won in the doubles
from s. H. Voshell and Wallace john
son.
The sensation Of the day was Samuel
Hardy, in spite Of the fact that he did
not win. Hardy has been playing ten
mis- for a matter of thirty years AT
any rate he has written a piece about
thirty years of tennis and most of the
young tennis players take It for granted
that he was playing that long ago. The
older tennis players do not wish to dis
cuss the matter. They prefer not to re-
member 30 far back. because they do
not want the new crop Of racquet WELD
ers to know how old they are.
Hardy shows Skill.
Hardy was manipulating the racquet
In days when the only racket that Muir
ray raised was when some one took
toy away from him. Hardy met Murray
to-day and Murray Is willing to argue
that Hardy Is no old timer. Murray, in
spite OF his national championship crown
and his reputation as a fast worker, had
to fight hard in FIVE sets before he van
pushed the veteran Chicago player at
GO, 6-3, Is, Is, 6-1. II was not
case Of form reversal. 1t was pure
cussedness on the part Of Hardy. who
did not want to lose.
1t was evident that Murray did not
take his veteran rival very seriously
for right from the very outset. he at
tempted to play Hardy at the type Of
game which Hardy loves best and which
Murray loves least-the back court
game. 1t is taken for granted that this
Is the type OF game Murray loves least,
I he seldom attempts to play II.
He tried II yesterday. however. and
strange az II may seem to those who
we're not looking at the match. he got
away with II. That Is. OF course. he got
away with II for two sets He was
SNUG about his success and went to the
third set like a cat goes to liver. Hardly.
however, had been learning that Murray
was not as keen on his backhand as he
might have have been and pressed his
attention in that direction.
The result was that the national cham
Pion found himself being swamped
Those who think that a tennis tourna-
ment Is not complete unless a champion
or two meets with defeat settled back
more comfortably when Hardy reeled OF
the third and fourth sets The Chicagoan
was able to do this by virtue OF a
wonderful change OF pace and a remark
able mixture OF short and long drives.
He left Murray so much in doubt as to
whether to play at the net or in deep
court that the champion was all be-
fuddled.