New-York tribune., 1921-07-03
College Tennis
Title Captured
By Californian
Harvard Pair Victorious i'm
Doubles; Cambridge-Ox-
ford Team Loses to u. S.

PHILADELPHIA, July East and
West divided honors in the intercol-
legiate lawn tennis championship
tournament on the courts of the Merton
Cricket Club at Haverford, to-day.
Philip Neer, of Leland Stanford Uni
verslty, California, won the singles
title, while the doubles championship
went to Harvard pair, j. B. Fenno jr..
and E. w. Feibleman.
Neer defeated Fenno in the final of
the singles in five set match, So,
6-1, Cd, IL, 6--1. The doubles
final also went to five sets, Fenno and
Feibleman winning from Edmund Levy
and Wallace Bates, of the University
of California, 6-4, 7--5, 1912, 8-6,
Cd.
The match progressed evenly until
the fourth set, which Fenno took, six
games to one, and many believed his
easy victory in the set assured him the
title. But Neer rallied, and by employ
ing a fast service and a backhand
cross court slice, won the next set and
match. His cross court chop passed
the Harvard player many times when
he tried to fight his way to the net.
1t is the first time the American in
tercollegiate title ever has gone to
teen times. The point score:
FIRST SET
Ssano... FssE;'.. ! 3 g s-ss-s s-ss-s
SECOND SET
Fssao:::::::::: Fssa; ;:: s ! 5 t-i7-f t-i7-f
Fssas Sss5; : sss I I s-:s-s s-:s-s
FOURTH SET
Fsano. FssT; T;;: Z : 3 z t-55-s t-5s-s
FIFTH SET
Fenno. ..:::.::. " 2 4 . / 5-1s-1
Fenno showed no i'll effects in the
doubles because of his strenuous time
in the singles. In the early stages of
the match it was the fine net play of
Feibleman that saved the first and sec
ond sets from going to the Pacific Coast
racquet wielders. Yet it was this same
player who caused the match to be
prolonged until almost sunset, for he
failed to put steam enough behind easy
kills, thus left openings for the Cali
fornians to drive down the alleys.
Levy's work, however, was the feat
ure of the match. Instead of playing
a conservative game, as the other three
did, he smashed the ball whenever the
opportunity presented itself
The all-American collegiate tennis
team won seven out of nine matches
bridge team Of England later in the
day on the same courts.
The British players showed deep
court game in the singles, relying upon
fast driving to overcome the Amer
leans net play. The visitors were not
i'll their best form, as they have had
only one workout since their arrival,
nor were the courts, heavy with the
recent rains, in the best condition for
play.
H. c. Mccarthy, of Cambridge, who
captains the team, appeared to be the
best player of the lot. Mccarthy,
whose home is in New Zealand, never
theless was twice defeated here this
afternoon, first in the singles by Philip
Neer, of Leland Stanford University,
who earlier in the afternoon captured
the American Intercollegiate title, and
M. D. Horn, of Cambridge he lost
again to Neer, paired with another
Leland Stanford player, James Davies.
One of the visiting team members
who won a match is an American, now
a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. He is
Clark Hopkins. of New Haven, Conn,
who defeated Carl Fischer, of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, IS, Cd.
The only other member of the English
team to win was R. R. P Barbour, of
Oxford, an Australian, who won from
w. T. Mallery, of Cornell, 60, 6-3.
Fritz Bastian, Indiana University, de-
feated j. w. Lowry, Cam bridge, 6-f, ,6-1.
Andrew Morgan, University Of Pennsyi-
vania, defeated NJ. D. Horn, Cambridge,
As, "a, 6-3. r. N. Bradley, Harvard,
defeated c. T.. Hepburn, oxford. 10-S.
6-1. Mcneil Drumwright and C. E.
Granger. of the University of Texas. de
feated Clark Hopkins and r. r. p. Bar
bour of Oxford, 6-4. 6-1. ]. Davies and
p. Neer, Leland Stanford, defeated H. C.
Mccarthy and NJ. ID. Horn. Cambridge.
6-1, 81, 6--2. Carl Fisher and Andrew
Morgan. University of Pennsylvania. de-
feated J. w. Lowry, Cambridge, and c. F.
Hepburn, Oxford. 6-8, 6-3, 60.