The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-01
JAY GOULD PLAYS
SKILFUL SQUASH
Court Tennis Champion I'M
presses Gallery With His
Versatile Game.
III. r. MIXSELL ADVANCES
Reaches Round Before Semi
Final in Annual Open
Tournament.
Ii. r. MIXSELL ADVANCES
by SAMUEL ). BRooKMAN.

Further proof that he must be reck-
oned with In the national amateur
squash tennis championship this season,
was furnished by Jay Gould. the court
tennis champion yesterday. when he de-
feated j. r. Trounstine OF the Yale Club
with the greatest of ease in the second
round of the annual open tournament
be the National Squash Tennis Associa-
ton at the Columbia Club Although
his opponent is a very capable player,
Gould scarcely drew a long breath in
winning by score of 15-5. Isl. and
he might have won more decisively.
too, had he not elected to tune up his
entire stroke assortment and to pay
more attention to change of pace than
to speed The gallery that looked on
left pretty well convinced that the court
tennis champion is playing better
squash tennis right now than at any
time since he began taking the latter
game seriously.
In both games Gould started leisurcly.
Before he settled down. to something
like his most skilful stroking, the Yale
man was out in front by z score of 81,
but Gould quickly drew Up to Ian. and
then made a runaway of the remainder
of the game, winning IL Of the next
IL points scored In the second game
Trounstine placed the first point to his
credit and fought at top speed. all the
way bur without succeeding inearning
another point Gould counted Is points
in half dozen hands and ended the
match only twenty minutes after it had
begun.
businesses Opponent.
The winner showed n varied attack.
placing deliberately in the fastest of the
- h. 1tatk
enc moment and then waiting it out The
next as he figured his position. stroking
it gently for one return and then slam
ming it with terrific speed, and. in
short, keeping Trounstine guessing from
start to finish. In addition to skill
Gov3st showed excellent control. His
service. too, was effective. 1t was a
rs Their slow serve that landed just past
the centre Of the court, and then with
a sharp break slanted into the back
corner of the court. Trounstine had all
sorts Of trouble handling it. and sew
eral times missed it entirely.
The victory advanced Gould to the
third round. in which he meets Clyde
Martin Of the Yale Club to-day. Three
other matches were played during the
DAY. In one Of them r. Earl Fink of
the Crescent Athletic Club, after a slow
start, overwhelmed j. A. Richards of
third games, playing fast tennis. marked
by the speediest sort of court covering
and an/aggressivc alert attack. In an
other Harold r. Mixsell of the Prince
ton Club defeated his clubmate. Harold
'rcbey. in what was perhaps the most
interesting contest OF the day
IL was a hard hitting affair from
start to finish. the ball travelling at
great speed off the walls. IL was sur
prising that the men Were able to keep
the ball going as well as they did in the
wlftest rallies There was repeated ap-
clause from the gallery as the men
made startling gets" In the matter
OF skill and speed there was not much
10 choose between the two Princetoni-
ans, but NIixsell was the steadier. and
control counted most. In the second
game Tobey rallied strongly after trail
ing to 10 and brought the score to 10
all, but there his squirt ended.
OF the fifteen players that survive
ATixscl is the only one In the round
before the final.
The summary -
National Squash Tennis Association. scratch
tournament:
second Isound-Jay Gould. Columbia Club.
Tefeated J. Il. Trounstine, Yale Club, 1.-5
1j-l. Clyde Martin, Yale Club. defeated j.
-. Worcester. Columbia Club. 15-S, f5-a
~. S. Baker. Yale Club, defeated A. NJ
Nidder, Columbia Club, 1873. t5-3. II. Earl
ards, Harvard Club, lib, 15-3, 1J-4.
Third Hound-Harold r. Mixseli Princeton
Club, defeated Harold Tobey, Princeton Club,
1J-5, 15-i1.