New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-08
British Players Lose Six
Straight Single Matches;
Are Shut Out i'm Doubles
By Fred Hawthorne


Oxford and Cambridge universities of
England was overwhelmingly defeated
yesterday afternoon by the team of the
West Side Tennis Club, on the turf
courts at Forest Hills. The local play-
ers won all six singles and three doub-
les matches that composed the sched-
ule and let their British rivals down
without set,
VI course, 1t was to be expected that
the West Side Club would have no diff
hculty in scoring over the English col
leglans, for the Forest Hills club put
strong combination of high-ranking
players on the courts, men who have
been trained in tournament play for
years. The visitors, on the other hand.
are practically just beginning serious
tournament play and were never a
match for our men.
The thing that impressed me most
about the playing of the Oxford Cam
bridge students was their inability to
cope with speed. 1t is true they were
playing on courts that were strange
TO them, but even SO, no one of them
showed any real ability to return the
fast, hard-hit shots of the West Side
men
This was particularly noticeable in
the case of Ichiya Kumagae and r. r.
Pell in their singles matches with Fl. C,
Mccarthy and M. D. Horn, respectively.
! of Cambridge. Kumagae was hitting
his ground strokes with furious speed.
occasionally tricking Mccarthy with
| one of his loop" drives, the English
| h0u oI ,,-l,, L
out, whereas, it invariably landed an
inch or two inside the base line for a
placement ace,
Kumagae took his match by score
Of 81, 81, and had he been so
minded he could probably have won
both sets at 'love." There were many
occasions when Mccarthy made no at
tempt to return some of the Japanese
stars fast placed shots that sent the
ball speeding past him at the net. The
Cambridge student appeared surprised
at the pace and little hopeless, yet
his own ground strokes were executed
in good form, although lacking in the
pace so necessary against player OF
kumagae's strength.
Washburn Wins Easily
Watson NJ. Washburn defeated Clarl
Hopkins, an Oxford Rhodes scholar
from Yale, by a score of 6-3, 81
with the final result never in doubt
Washburn was timing his groune
strokes beautifully and when he ad
vanced toward the net to volley he gen
orally ended matters quickly. Hopkins
was not bothered so much by sheel
speed as his teammates, having expert
enced this while learning his game II
this country, but Washburn's cour
generalship and all-round excellence
were too big an obstacle for the 1or
mer Yale man. u,
R. P. Barbour, of Oxford, by score
Of 7-5, 6--1, made the mistake OF stay
ing in the back court and tlyang Z
outsteady his opponent in the hrst nal
of the opening set. At this style o.
play Barbour was easily superior, run
ming into a lead of 81 before Voshel
made up his mind that he must besti7
himself.
Once the American started to force
the net in his customary manner, now
ever, he had no trouble in sweeping nj:
man off the court, winning the next SD
games in row for the set. Still fore
ing the barrier and volleying, cross
counting and smashing, Voshell ran ou'
the next set at 81 for the match
Pell in Fine Form
Pell outplayed Horn by margin OF
6--3, 81, with most of the playing
from back court. Pell's noted back
hand was going faultlessly and with
such speed that Horn was frequently
caught out of position for the return.
Fred C. Baggs worked his bathing
chop strokes persistently against }. n
Lowry, of Cambridge, who seemed ut
L. A1
bounds of the ball. Baggs won at 81
90. LYLE E. Mahan scored again fol
West Side when he defeated S. +. Hep
nurn at i, So, smothering return;
burn at Il, 60, smothering returns
In the doubles the feature was the
return to the courts of the famous ole
"Teddy Bear" team of Peli and Kar
Behr, which defeated Mccarthy ane
Horn by a score of Go. Go. Some Of
Behr's flashing volleys at the net re
called to mind the days when he ant
Pell we're one of the great teams o!
the country.
The summaries follow:
singYes-Iohiya Kumagae CIV. a., de
Watson y NJ. = washharn ~ s.. defeated
Clark Hopkins tOx.), "a, 81; S. How
ard voshell CIV. So. defeated r; pa +
Nv. s., defeated NJ. D. Horn Co. Ga
Cd; Lyle e, Mahan !W, S, }, defeated + ted 5
wv. SIS, defeated Mccarthy and Horn co
Doubles-r. r. Pen and Karl H. Beh
CIV. 50, defeated McCarty and Horn GO
60. 60; Kulnagae and Beals G. Wrig
(w. S.. defeated Hopkins and Barbou
So g S vi NJ M Ha ana ana He Mana
(C.-Ox.). 81. 6--4