New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Harvard Club
Man Advances
Il, Squash Play:
Appel Defeats johnson and
Will Meet Tobey irE
Final Round Tomorrow
By A. c. Cavasnaro

John W, Appel, jr., the Harvard Club
squash player, and Harold Tobey, star
of the Princeton Club. have earned
the right to meet in the final round
match for the title as result of vic
tories in the sem-tinal round of the
National Squash Tennis Association
tournamd on the Squash Club courts
yesterdays The men will meet to-rnor-
row afternoon at o'clock to fight it
out for the honors.
Appel came through, as expected.
eliminating Stewart N. Johnson, Yale
Club, by the one-sided scores of l5-S,
Is, ID, but Toby experienced
many anxious moments before he
downed w. II. Wander Poel, Squash
Club, by score of l5-12, Is.
1S-17 Both victors displayed invinci-
Bile squash at times, which bespeaks an
exciting match tomorrow
Johnson played we'll against the moro
experienced Appel, who at no timo
during the match was pressed to show
his best game. The Yale man. who
only recently returned from France,
showed an uncanny ability to make
sensational gets" but he found it ex-
ceedingly difficult to handle Appei's
smashing drives. Appel scored the
greater majority of his points on sharp
'cross-court shots and side wall kills"
Low Driving Big Factor
More accurate and exceptionally low
driving proved a big factor in the vic
tory of Tobey over Wander Poel, the
home favorite. Wander Poel placed 200
much stress on scoring aces through
the use of straight front wall kill"
which often resulted in his driving the
ball out of the boundaries. Tobcy
showed his grit by overcoming leads
gained by his. opponent in both the
first and third games.
Wander Poel scored often at the out
set of the first game with hard smashes,
and as Tobey failed to handle these
shots with any degree of success he
soon piled up an advantage on the
Princeton player. Each point was
hard fought for, and although Tobey
rallied somewhat Wander Poel in
creased his lead to to 4.
& Wander Poel then fell into a spell OF
bad driving, and before he had recov-
cred Tobey, through the use of round
the-corner shots, had assumed the lead.
Long rallies featured the fighting for
the remaining aces, Tobey's left wall
attack aiding, him greatly.
oueS ihe sesGnd ordsr zane gans was decided in
shots, and his kills" also came at
opportune moments. Wander Poel
made his defeat come the sooner by
adding to his rivals lead with inaccu-
rate driving
Hard Fight for Points
The third game was a nip-and- tuck
fight for each point. Wander Poel
was exercising more accuracy in the .
use of his kills" which enabled him to
take the lead. When holding an ad
vantage of 1911 Tobey flashed a
rally that enabled him to. tie Wander
Fpel at 13-all. The pace then became
fYrioous and the battle for each ace
was featured by long rallies Tobeys
playing was not to be denied, and he
continued to collect aces until he led
by to l in the extra set of five aces.
Wander Poel succeeded in again even
ing matters at all, and after each
man had gone a to service three
times Tobey collected his final point
with fadeaway shot into the back
wall corner that Wander Poel could not
return to the front wall.