New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-11

Court Tennis
Battle Decided
In Three Sets
Jay Gould, Champion, Who
Meets the Winner To.
morrow. Referees Match

C. suydam Cutting downed his
brother Fulton in the final round
match Of the national amateur court
tennis championship tourney which was
decided on the courts of the Racquet
and Tennis Club yesterday. The feat
Of Suydam in winning in straight sets,
by Cd, 6-1, Cd, was a complete sur
prise even to Jay Gould, the champion,
Who acted as referee Srydam meets
Gould Iii the challenge round for the
title tomorrow afternoon.
The match brought out brilliant
playing on the part of both brothers,
but the steadiness of Suydam. through
out was a salient factor in his victory.
He paid particular attention to con-
trolling the ball and varied his attack
so often that Fulton was invariably
caught out of position for many easy
aces. large number deuce games
added thrills, but in the ma ority OF
instances it was Suydam who emerged
she victor.
Millionaires Watch Contest
A more representative group of mil
lonaire sportsmen probably never be-
fore attended a match of this kind.
Scattered among the crowd that sought
the best vantage point to follow the
match were Devereux Milburn, Law
renee Whitney, Clarence c. Pell, w. f.
d. Stokes, J. w. Minturn. R. A. Chan
1sr :, Payne Whitney, Henry ". Slocum,
r. D. Wrenn, Philip Stokes, M. H. Behr,
c. c. Cowdin. Rene lie Montague, W.
Eello,,es Morgan, Stanley Mortimer,
Reginald Fincke and John w. Appel.
The victory of Suydam was the sec
ond he has scored over his brother in
a title match within the last two weeks.
IN the club tourney recently Fulton
tasted defeat in a bitter tive-set match
mat necessltated three hours of Cruel
ing play before the victory was known.
III spite OF his defeat Fulton made a
creditable showing in the fight for
points throughout the match. The re-
capltuation table shows that Suydam
collected a total of 1903 points to 9l for
ms brother. with Fulton actually out
scoring his brother by one point in the
first set. Fulton also showed more ac-
curacy IN gaming his winning points
with drives into the grille and dedan.
but Fulton outscored his brother in the
"chases"
fulton made his staunchest bid in
tue first set when he won the opening
game. He held his own during the next
five games, which found the men tied at
Sail. Fulton captured the seventh
game, but at this point Suydam began
his terrific driving, and added the next
three games to give him the match.
Fulton Fights Gamely
Although Suydam succeeded in cap.
turing the second set after seven hands
Fulton put up such strong defense
that three games went to deuce. Full
ton began by taking the first game and
succeeded only after long rallies in the
second and third games. However,
Suvcam's playing would not be denied.
for he swept through three more games,
the seventh three times going to deuce
before Suydam succeeded in gathering
his necessary aces.
The third set taxed the strength o.
the brothers, for it was featured by
long rallies and much volleying, With
the bail almost constantly in the ar
Fulton was at his best here, and his
swift shots seemed to battle Suydam.
However, Suydam relished the speedier
pace, and by outmaneuvring his brother
soon held lead of 5 to 3 in games.
Fulton won the next two games with
fine side-wall attack, although it APP
peared to many as if Suydam was not
offering his best defense The match
ended with the next game. when Suy-
dam brought into execution his best
shots.
The point table follows:
FIRST SET
C.. Suydam Cutting
165 0 4 "a ) 4-3s
Fulton Cutting
A 434 "a ) 2 3 2-33 4
SECOND SET
s sSsde eutt G%'tns i s-ss
THIRD SET
c. Suydam Cutting
"A 6 4 i Al 4-33 6
Fulton Cutting
2s441s 244 80
Summary - Winning points: Grille. G.
Suydam Cutting. 3; Fulton Cutting. 9.
Dedans, {. Suydnm Cutting, 4; Fulton
Cutting, :. Winning galleries. Fulton
Cutting, l. Chascs won, {. Suydam Cut
ting, 81 Fulton Cutting. 8. Chases lost, c.
sudan Cutting. 5; Fulton Cutting, 10.
Referee-Jay Gould, New York Racquet
and Tennis Club.