Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-28
GOULD AND WEAR
PLAY IN FINALS
Local Pair Completes for Final
Honors in Raoquets Doubles
Championship at Local Club
PELL AND WEAR IN FORM

A PHILADELPHIA pair entered the
n final round for the national doubles
racquets title at the local Racquet Club
today when Jay Gould and Joseph w.
Wear played G. c. Pell and Stanley
Mortimer, the national champions.
Pell and Mortimer hail from New
York, and they hail from n school of
racquets that believes in winning, willy
nilly. In other words. the feature Of
their game is aggressiveness and. in the
opinion Of all the experts at the local
club. the metropolitans will carry of
the crown once more. easily.
To those. however, who are getting
their first acquaintance with racquets at
the present matches, Gould and Wear
are expected to give the champions a
hard tussle.
In advancing to the final round the
local pair ousted II. L. Dixon and f.
II. Reynolds of Chicago. The game
scores were. for Gould and Wear, 10
8. 15-7, 1913.
Pell and Mortimer won the other
semi final match over F. II. Frehling-
huysen and NJ. Hecksher, New York,
1913, 1913 and 1914.
Neither Of the winners was obliged
to show his zeal strength Yesterday.
jay Gould scored O number OF service
aces, but Wear really carried the match.
His timely shots saved the point time
and again. In the opinion of the gal
! leryites, Wear is one of the few players
who coulud carry Gould to victory in a
doubles racquets match. Gould is prob
ably the greatest court tennis player IN
the world, but as racquet player,
well. they say he's still the worlds
! greatest court tennis player.
Service Poor
None Of the players in today finals
have shown much so far in the way OF
serving. Pell and Mortimer have al
vanced as they have by virtue Of theiE
telling shots just above the radiator
line on the backwall and the speed oi
their corner placements.
Pell played Wear today, Canny shift
that showed the New Workers. feared
Wear especially. New York pairs have
always been famed for their aggressive
ness and Pcll is the better player Of thu
champion pair. 1t was he. therefore
that was chosen to block, If possible
the aggressive tactics of Wear.
The champions we're expected to play
Gould as much as possible. The lattel
has acquired deal of surplus pound
age and does not star in q racquet
court with anything like his brillianc
on court tennis inclosure.
The so-called STANDARD ball. Il
coming in for considerable criticism n
the matches. This is a bal. which i
made in q standard way in England ant
is designed as softer than the old ball
Formerly the ball was made in Eng
land. These balls were sent oil owe
the world, and when they were wori
out were sent back to be recovered
The older they got the harder and pep
pier they became. \ ball that had beel
around the world several times re
bounded from the racquets and Cemen
walls of racQuets court with the tlasl
and spark of a bullet. It was highl.
dangerous.
Softer Ball
The new ball is softer and take
much of the speed from the game. Be
sides that, no two balls are alike, ii
the opinion of the gallery experts. Th
balls in the matches this week ar
being used for the first time, it i
said.
1t costs about $4,000 to build
racQuets court. and this III itself ha
much to do against the game beinj
pOpularlZeG. II Is DrlCk lncIOSNr
like an empty swimming pool, will
solid brick walls and floor covered
with special black cement. Tit
racquets cost close 10 so n piece fo
the best, with the balls proport!onatcl!
expensive.
Fred c. Tomplius instructor at tn,
Racquet CLUB, has Il new mode! roc,
Quct however. that j. expected to go
long way in populuri2.ng the game b,
making it cheaper.
This new racquet mad rawhide in
laid frame, which can take a terrific
amount of punishment.
One of the new racQucts will stanc
up under three times tne amount o
service one of the old ones will. An or
dinary racquet gets easily broken in
match. but not tho new invention
which will last througH many tuS