The New York herald., 1921-05-12
ALLEN BEHR BEATS
TENNIS FAVORITE
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Outplays Herbert L. Bowman
in Harlem Challenge Cup
Singles.
CONTEST BASE LINE DUEL
Five Survivors in Annual
Tournament Appear to Be
Evenly Matched.
CONTEST BASE LINE DUEL
by SAMUEL J. BRooKMAN.

SO evenly matched are the flve sur
vivors in the Harlem Challenge Cup
tournamsr.t that one might name any
one of them without hesitation as the
ultimate winner OF the annual event and
feel confident that he has guessed as
right as the next. When the hfth days
play wound up on the Harlem Tennis
Club courts yesterday all had been
eliminated but Kenneth d. Fisher and H.
Don Keresey, who are In one half or the
draw, and Allen Behr Alfred ID. Ham
nett and r. ID. Powers, who have places
In the other half. The supporters OF
Behr and Hammett appeared to be In
the majority but on the form displayed
thus far In the tournament there Is no
reason for giving the other three less con-
sideration.
1t was perhaps the most eventful
day of the tournament. with Herbert l.
Bowman's defeat furnishing the feature.
Following his decisive victory over the
cup holder Frederick G. Anderson, on
Monday Bowman became the logical fa-
vorite for the challenge cup. One or two
others were expected to extend him to
reach the final but II was the feeling
right along that IL any one succeeded In
defeating him the result would have 10
be classed as an upset Well. II hap
yesterday, with Allen Behr playing the
role of the upsetter. In a base line duel
never varied throughout two sets, Behr
outsteadied Bowman and won with
plenty to spare. Ga. 81. Had he
elected to come to the net when some of
his drives forced Behr out of position,
Bowman might have done much better
than he did might have won, in fact
Apparently. however. he had little con-
fidence in his ability to carry his at
tack successfully to the forward court,
for he stayed back rellgiously. In the
exchanges Behr played safe. Bowman
took the chances, and with the formers
control the better the result was inevita-
BILE.
For the second day In succession Don
Keresey fought off impending defeat,
this time at the hands of A. l.. Won
Bernuth. who took the first set easily
at Ga and was within two strokes OF
winning the second and the match.
Keresey held on tenaciously, however.
stroked boldly despite the fact that he
had almost beaten himself on errors, and
emerged victorious finally by a score Of
3-6, S-6, Cd. In the early half of
the match Keresey failed TO get the
range Of the net and drove time and
again into the obstruction. He broke
racquet late in the second set, but, para
doxical as 1t may sound, 1t was for
tunate occurrence, for from the time he
brought the second racquet into play his
game improved remarkably in the mat
ter Of control, which was all he needed
Won Bernuth was exceptionally steady,
anticipated well and covered a lot OF
ground, but Kerescy's blocking at the
net gave the latter an advantage that
earned the victory for him IN the end.
Alfred Hammet had a sharp three SGT
tussle with Leslie v. Robinson, the re-
suit being i'm doubt until the last two
games of the match With the score
ALL in the third set Hammet broke
through Robinson's service after the
game had gone to deuce three times and
then on his own service won at love and
ended the contest In his favor. Hammet
meets Powers in the last fifth round
match to-day, and the winner meets
Allen Behr tomorrow Kenneth Fisher
and Don Keresey are TO play the first
semi-final this afternoon.
The Summary.
Harlem Challenge Cup. singles-Fourth
Round-Herbert l.. Bowman defeated j.
Natheys Eco5 c. 7o E r. a,,IaS Powers defeated
defeated Leslie v. Robinson, Go, 4-s, e.
Kenneth y. Fisher defeated O. NJ Wood. Jr..
co, CO: a. J.. Won Bernuth defeated A. L.
Bruneau, Sc, Sc, G-4.
Fifth Round-Allen Behr defeated Herbert
y. Bowman, 6-f, 6-i; X. ID. Fisher de-
feated e. J. Mccall. 6-3. G-1: II. Don Kere-
sey defeated a. l.. Won Bernuth, SO, Sc,
84-
The point score OF the feature match:
FIRST SET.
Bol5r B6Hnaa.. nan; "a tassS4f t6sELs &C.,
SECOND SET.
Bowman. Bonr riii........... HEi+f H