mifl THE COLLEGE ATHLETES
Dolap In the Field of Sport Eit
andWeit.
; HARVARD'S NEW ENGLISH SHELL
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) tVark of t CollfW Elas in Tkielr
i Karly Raeea Yal "Iron
Despite the Karller
I Gloom.
Later and Interesting information a a to
the English shell that the Harvard crew
may use next year In It a New London tace
has come to hand. From what can be
I gleaned, externally the English boat does
not differ materially tn appearance from
an American elght-oared ahell. The meas
urements are reported aa being 6$ feet over
all, with a beam of 13 Inches amidships.
Tha depth la greater forward than aft, be
ing H Inches toward the bow and an Inch
IrM toward the atern. In a general way.
American ahella are very much like that.
Ordinarily they are not ao long, but they
are aa wide. The Annapolis boat la prac
tically 60 feet and la exactly aa wide. The
' Columbia boat la on very much the aame
I Knee aa the English craft. Hoyle bullda
the Cornell boata rather stlffer than moat
L. Of the other college ahella. ao that It may
be a bit shorter than either the Columbia
; or Annapolla boata.
The great difference betwen English and
American rowing boata la of course In the
arrangement of aeata. American boata are
rigged ao that the aeata shall be In a
traight line. The English boata have the
aeata ordinarily 1H Inehea either aide of
the line of the keel. That la to aay there
la a distance of three Inehea separating the
Inside edgea of the seats. Then again tha
English boata hare ahorter outrlggera, with
thole pins Instead of the American type of
long, lock outrlggera. It la on these two
points that the argument of American and
English rowing critics la based.
Contention aa to Oars.
The Engllah contention la that with more
Inboard leverage and shorter outriggers a
better grip on the water can be obtained.
The English oars have. It Is understood, a
43-Inch button. They have much more In
board than the American bladea. How
ever, the American contention la that there
Is Just aa much opportunity to use strenitth
with the American oars and furthermori
that with the American system of swinging
force on a straight line directly toward
the line In which the boat la going better
general results may be obtained. There la,
according to the American theory, less
wind resistance with the single row of
backa. That Is from all accounts a sensible
viewpoint. Rowing against a wind .'there
should be loopholes for the air to go
through when men are sitting parallel and
separated by a distance of three Inches.
Of course, there Is not much open space
between the oarsmen, because they natur
ally are broad enough to present a solid
line. But It la a broader solid line than that
tf the Americans.
Mathematically, the . leverage In both
styles of rowing Is practically the same.
There Is, however, the difference as to the
manner In which the force Is applied. The
English do more of their rowing Inside
the boat than do the Americans and therein
perhaps lies some of the difference between
.results here and abroad. Rigging Is what
counts. Is the coachea' axiom. There la
bo wide a difference In rigging the English
and American boats ttyit that ought to
count for something.
Tana-lit by Harvard Trial.
Harvard thta season has 1e.n the trial
house for the preliminary races of two of
the college crews and some yery Interest
ing things as to the probable outcome of
the Poughkeepste regatta have been de
duced from the races of the Crlmaon
against Columbia and Cornell Also there
are things which have been shown which
may hava their effect In that other regatta
on the Thames at London. Columbia beat
Harvard by getting away even with the
, Crimson and rowing the Cambridgettea
. down In the latter part of the race. Har
vard wae too much Inclined to let the
New Yorkers go and take It out in spurt
ing at the end. They were carried too fast
for that. -
That taught a lesson to-Rlchard Glendon,
the Annapolla coach, who saw the race be
tween Columbia and Harvard. He saw
that If the Columbia crew atuek to Its
policy of getting speed out of thirty-two
and thirty-three strokes to the minute that
a crew using a higher stroke all through
should be able to beat the New Yorkers.
Coach Rice of Columbia was not looking
for victory at the price of sacrifice of his
principles. Bo1 when the Annapolis crew
went out at thirty-nine strokes to the min
ute and rowed thirty-seven strokes about
all the- way through, naturally enough Co
lumbia waa beaten. K was a four-mile
crew out only to wn a two-mile race. That
Waa a powerful reason why Rice was not
discouraged by the Result of the Columbla
Annapolla race.'
Coming back to Harvard. It oppeara that
the Cambridge men took to heart the- les
, aon, of the Columbia-Annapolis race. They
saw, there , how they might have beaten
Colombia. In their race with Cornell on
Memorial day the Harvard crew caught the
water at forty-two stroke, to the minute
and proceeded to stroke thirty-seven to the
minute throughout the rest of the race.
t Cornell like Columbia was coached to row
the race as an Incident In - preliminary
training, not a life and death affair. The
Ithacana with their own style were able to
Jold Harvard and then to go ahead after
the vlsltora at Cayuga Lake were passing
way. There waa a length difference be
tween the two crews at Ithaca. Colum
bia beat Harvard almost a length. These
distances mean nothing In comparing Co-,-lumbtft
and Cornell. The racea were rowed
on different principles. They may be taken
to mean aolely that both Columbia and
Cornell are better than Harvard.
,tteanl at Madison. ,
Tn regatta at .Madison served to' show
lOiat Wisconsin has some claims to atten
tion this year In the intercollealate rejattaJ
pne cereai nanoea out to Ryraeuse may,
of course, have been due to the fact that
tha westerners were more-accustomed to
the . roughness of the water pn their lake.
Onondaga Lake, where the Syracuse crews
re trained, almost never la rough. The
' western lakes, Mendnta and Monona, are
jrcmgh pretty much of the time That fact
lias been set forth often by Wisconsin men
)n explaining why their crews are unable to
ft In enough preliminary rowing te be
Iptayers. Of course; Bon Ed Ten Eyck
probably has been training -his 'varsity
uxht with a view to beating Pa Jim's eight
at Madison, but It stands to reason that
ft must be a very good Wisconsin crew
Which can win from Syracuse. Tha Syra
cuse; eight la good.
It may be poor reasoning to lay ao much
stress on -the two mile races-that these
oollegea row. The apologists for the de
feated college always points out that a
two mil raoe and the training for It differ
ao much from that nsosassry for the longer
raoe that they should not be mentioned In
the same breath.. However, It. la agreed
that all tha rowing coachea are glad to sea
bt Wisconsin has a good crew. Although
James Ten Eyck, sr., due not like a little
bit to be beaten, and especially by his own
aon. It la a good bet that h la sportsman
enough to be glad that the race right eut
there at Madlaoa was won by Wisconsin.
Syracuse has ao much prestige In Its brief
eewliuf career that It la a big thing to beat
lb Salt City men. A victory Ilka that
Western League
' Twenljr-two players In the Western league
are batting .VQ or over. One week ago the
records showed twenty. Omaha thle week
Is shown to have three men over the great
line, but two of these are catchers, playing
Irregularly. They are Labrand, credited up
to tha making of this summary with three
games, and Townsend with ten. Townsend
since has been releaaed. Tlat leaves Au
trey the sole regular In Omaha batting .S00
or over, and even Chick has dropped from
.3fiS to .815. Franck cornea next with .SKS;
Dolan next with .21. then Relden 2S3.
Graham managed to fall back from .225 to
.212. and team average la low. Hogrlever
Is leading the league for the regulars with
a record -of .351. Corkhlll of Dee Moines
has Jumped forward with .824. And right
Name. Club. O.P.
Cadwall(der, Blotix City II
Phennon. Pes Moines 10
Wright, Denver 6
Iahrand, Omaha g
Hart, Sioux City 17
Currey, Pueblo t
Wolfe, Dea Moines 8
Hogrelver, Pea Moines 35
Townsend. Omaha 10
Autrey, Omaha 4?
Oehrlng, Pes Moines 18
McDonough, Penver ...12
McOllvray. Pueblo 40
Corkhlll, Pes Moines..1 ,.87
Cassady, penver 28
Ryan. Pueblo 39
O'Hagan, Penver 7
Fenlon, Lincoln 87 '
Cook. Pueblo 40
Zlnran, Lincoln.. Vt
Oagnler, Lincoln S2
Ketchem, Lincoln 87
F.lwert. Pueblo 81
Fox. Lincoln 37
Franck. Omaha.. 41
Campbell, Bloux City 89
Polan, Omaha 87
Foster,' Bloux City.' 2
Pelden, Omaha 42
Bauer, Sioux Cltv .....29
Nobllt, Bloux City.. ......89
Sullivan, Lincoln ...17
Frost, Lincoln 10
J. Bheehan, Bloux City....' 20
Melcholr, Pueblo M
Wheeler. Penver 85
Engle, Penver 8
Wred. Blnux City 89
Welch, Omaha 42
Murphy, Penver,'.. 84
Pavldson, Lincoln...' .....87
Williams. Bloux City 24
Ragnn. Omaha 17
P. Bheehan. Bloux City 29
Oochnaur. Pes Moines' 2S
McLaughlin. Pes Moines 32
Pexter, Pes Moines 3d
Bennett. Bloux City 3
Miller, Lincoln 2
McHale, Penver 35
Moore, Penver 35
Belden. Pueblo. 23
Andreas, pes Moines 37
Yeager, Pes Moines 24
Austin. Omnhs A
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McKay, Lincoln 15
Oraham, Omaha 80
Corham, Pueblo 39
Tonneman, Pueblo..., 24
Paige, Penver 7
Boles. Bloux City .- 28
Hatch, Pueblo 14
White, Penver 19
McNeeley. Omaha -.17
Gilbert, Pueblo ......10
Bmlth, Pueblo SS
Thomas, Lincoln 37
Zalusky, Penver 2ft
Adama, Penver , 11
Sporer, Pes Moines 9
Thompson. Omaha IS
Zackert, Lincoln R
Pnnhwnod, Pes Moines 12
Bohanan. Denver 10
Jarrott. Bloux Cltv ...lj
Sehloke, Pes Moines 37
Clcotte, Lincoln S
Steen. Lincoln 10
Corhett, Bloux City H
Clarke, Pes Molnea R
Toman, Denver 7
Harmes. Pueblo l
Holmes. Lincoln 22
Jones. Lincoln 12
Banders, Omaha 8
Morgan, Pueblo 11
Walker. Pueblo 8
Jackson, Pueblo f
Btlmrnel, Bloux Clty-Llncoln... T
Newlln, Blnux City 9
Olmstead. Penver.'. T
Fttxgerald. Pueblo..- 7
Hall. Omaha 9
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made one
htts. Miller of Des Moines has
summary.
helps to establish rowing at Wisconsin, and
the Byracusana are generous enough to be
willing to be sacrifices for the general
prosperity of the game fn the colleges.
Line on Seven Crews.
There has thus been a chance to see what
the seven Institutions entered in the Hud
son regatta and two In the other regatta
seem to-be capable of doing. Columbia has
a very good crew,-It may be said. Bo has
Syracuse, the defeat by Wisconsin to the
contrary notwithstanding. Cornell plainly
Is not as good as Cornell usually is. An
napnllls may be formidable because the
material In the boat la very high class. It
Is only a question of doing well In the four
mile race. The showing of the Pennsyl
vania 'varsity crew In the American Hen
ley was not encouraging. Reverting to
comparisons again, the New York Athletic
union defeated Pennsylvania's 'varsity
eight very handily on the. Schuylkill the
Quakers being third. Tha Columbia eight
disposed of the 'New "York Athletic club
very easily on the Harlem. The New York
collegian struck to their old 82-33 stroke all
the wayt too. Georgetown did not do well
against Annapolis, although certain condi
tions of the race probably operated tre
mendously against the Waahlngtonlans.
Georgetown's crew. Is very light for the
race, although It was not heavier In 1903,
when the Washlngtons were second to
Cornell on the'Hudson. -
It Is always an unwise thing to make pre
elections, but there Is smalt danger In say
ing that Columbia Is going to be a con
tender at' Poughkeepsle, very much so, un
less signs fall. Alao that Annapolla and
Wisconsin deserve watching. It may after
all be aVeturn to the good old days of 1899
and 1900, when Cornell waa so far from be
ing a contender that the Ithacana finished
third In both 'varsity races. There are
many persons who believe that It would be
a good thing for some other college' to win
the big race and shelve Cornell for the
time being. And Cornell men would not
really andx truly object, except If Syracuse
won It.- There Is no love to lose between
these two Institutions up the state. At
any event, the championship has a good
chance to stay right here In this state, even
If Cornell and Syracuse don't have the best
crews.
. . Yale loks Better.
The showing of Harvard this season has
not been Impressive, but Yale has dona
Very well. In the American . Henley the
Yale Junior eight, from ' which not -many
men are likely to be taken to sit In the
senior boat, won two races In -fine styla.
There Is much to be encouraged over in
that showing asd Yale men have decided
that although the crew is perhaps not aa
good as some other Yale' crews hava been;
that It is a better combination than last
year's. On the contrary, the Harvard crew
Is decidedly not as good as might have been
expected. The men do not row the style
that shoots a boat along and up around
Boston way it has been dubbed the dredg
ing stroke. If the Harvard crew does not
do better nd the Yale crew does not de
teriorate In all probability there will be a
surpriae for the Crimson at Nw London.
And it -la conjectured that it will not be a
pleasant surprise either.
Nothing can bring borne more pointedly
the folly of Judging tha chances of a crew
by Its last year's material than the caaa of
the Harvard boat. Few persons - could be
found earlier In tha season to aay that there
was a half chance for Yale. ' Judging from
the men Harvard had left over 'from tha
victorious 1-J08 crew and the fact that Yale j
was extraordinarily crippled the race ap- j
Batting Record
here It will be well to keep your ye on
that man Corkhlll. If be doesn't develop
Into one of the surest and hardest bitters
In the business he will dlsslpat all signs.
It Is noteworthy to observe that Fenlon.
whom Pa once let go. la 'clouting the ball
to the tune of .807. But tha man Thomas,
over whom Lincoln used to throw three
fits a day, is satisfied with .203. It doesn't
take much to satisfy some people. Jimmy
Austin needs to have a fire built under him.
He never will bat over .227 If he doesn't
get the ball on the ground and keep It out
of the air so much. Roscoe Miller of Des
Molnos has finally got Into the hitting list
He hss made one hit this season, but It
came too late to get Roscoe a place In this
galaxy of great batters. Here la tha com
plete rostert
Runs.
Hits
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peared to be In. as the race-track phrase
goes. Even in New Haven there were seri
ous thoughts that Yale did not appear to
be In It at all. The Harvard crew started
brilliantly, and altogether it was a case of
uch fine material that It was a shame not
to have two first Varsity boata. All Boston
glowed over the prospect of winning two
races In succession, aa waa done some years
ago over Yale.
However. Harvard still has the fine ma
terial. Competent critics have ssld that the
Harvard boatload waa the finest physically
that any college ever boaated. The trouble
s that Harvard has not done much with
its men. while Yale has worked very hard
and is really doing something
Yale left later than usual this year for
Gales Ferry. The crew men arrived there
on June 6. The Yale Alumni Weekly says
briefly of the eight: 'The crew is up to ths
standard of Yale crews at this time of tha
year and at times In the last two weeks
has shown exceptional speed."
BILL SaUiBES' FIGHTING RECORD
Bom. Fact. . i. of th Man from
Australia.
BAN FRANCISCO, June 8,-Very little
L"mr olT kn0Wn about the Anting record
of Bill Squires, the Australian champion,
who Is now in America preparing to flght
the eat man for the champlonahip of the
world. There have been few Australian
lighters who have come , to this country
for big battles and of whom so little was
known as this man Squires. No one seems
to hava been able to gain much knowledge
as to his past record, ,0 that the following
will be of mora than passing Interest to tha
army of boxing enthusiasts In this country
Squires waa born In New South Wales In
1879 and fights around 175 pounds when In
condition. He la not as tall as Jim Jeffries
by four Inches, standing 6 feet 10 Inches In
his stockings. He has only been fighting
since 1902, but in nearly all his battles he
has won by the knockout route. His first
contest of any account was with Blllie Cos
tello, whom he defeated In three rounds,
the following month he met Jack Lanagan
and put him to sleep In two rounds; shortly
afterward he met Peter Mills and fought
him according to the old London prise-ring
rules, defeating him In thirteen minutes;
Joe Sullivan waa knocked out tn three
rounds the following month. In 1903 he mot
Andy Walsh, an Australian heavywelgh.
and beat him in three rounds; - next he
met Jerry O'Toole, the Irish giant, and
fought him London prise-ring rules, win
ning in fifteen rounds, which took Just
fourteen minutes, and he followed closely
afterward by knocking out Jack Burton,
Bob Hllderbrand and Tom Ireland. In 1904
he started off by knocking out Jack Tucker
In one round; Mickey Ryan in four rounds.
Starlight in three rounds; BUI Hacken
berg In two rounds, and Peter Felix In
eleven rounds. Jack Johnson recently beat
Felix In one round.
The following year, 1906, Squires again
met Felix at Sydney and knocked him out
In one round. He followed this by stop
ping Pat Farley In one round and Tom Fen
nessy at Melbourne In .four rounds. Felix
demanded another match and they met again
In the fail of tha year at Sydney, Squires
knocking him out In seven roiinds. In 1906
Squires met Ed Williams at Melbourne and
aeieaiea nun in on rouno. anortiy after
ward ha met Jack Murphy at tha sum
place and stopped him in two rounds. Ha
next met Pater King, whom ha defeated In
two rounds, and Bill Smith and Mike Will
iams tn one round each. Williams was the
last man whom Squires defeated, . J ,
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JAY GOULD'S PLACE IN TENXIS
Miles and Pennell May Come to New
York to Meet Him.
YOUNG BLOOD LEADS C0UET GAME
Peter Latham Also Expected, Xovr He
Has Rea-alned World's Title
Flnrke Has Downed Old
Staarers at Racquets.
Jay Gould's victory In the British court
tennis championship promises to add an
International Interest to the American
championship, to be played next March
at the New Tork racquet and Tennis club.
He will be a Columbia university fresh
man this fall, and next April examinations
will probably keep him from defending
his title at London. In the anticipation
of this contingency it Is expected that
Eustace H. Miles, Vane Pennell, H. E.
Crawley, Major Cooper-Key, or other
amateurs who may wish to again tackle
Jay Gould, will enter for our champion
ship. The presence of the visitors would
really make the American event the cham
pionship of the world.
Peter Latham when here In 1906 saw the
virgin - matches of young Gould; In fact,
played In. them. . He predicted that Gould
would not win the British championship In
1908, but that he woujd do ao In 1907, a
prophecy confirmed exactly. Lack of tour
nament play was the reason Latham thought
that Gould would not win last year when
pitted against the crafty veteran Miles. On
returning; to England Latham said, that he
would not again tour In the United Statea
until he had regained the world's cham
pionship from C. Fairs, which had passed
out of his hands after years of possession.
The match was not an easy one to arrange,
for Garcln had prevlriualy challenged Fairs,
but Latham was as eager as a hound in full
cry and he finally gained the contest. They
met last month In the court of the Prince's
Tennis club, Brighton, for $1,250 a side.
The . conditions were the best of thirteen
sets without advantage sets and four sets
to be played each day, but should a decid
ing set be necessary it should be played
Immediately after the score had been called
"alx sets all." Jay Gould served as referee.
Latham led from the start and won by 7
sets to t, fifty-one games to forty-six. re
covering the title, which he held from 1806
to 1916.
When Fairs Heat Latham.
When Fairs beat Latham for the cham
ptnoshlp in 1905 the latter was In poor health
and not quite ready, but' when he entered
the court last month he waa obviously, In
better condition. Fairs beat him In a home-and-home
match, following the precedent
of the George Lambert and Charles Saun
ders championship match of lS.'fi, played
at Prince's club, Knlghtsbrtdge, and Queen's
club, London. As the hoMer Fairs pre
sumably made the terms, and It was a con
cession to play at Brighton, Latham's fav
orite court. It was the fourth champion
ship he had won there. After Tom Pettlt
beat C. Baunders for the championship In
1880 at Lord Iveagh'a court, Dublin, the
latter resumed the title on Pettlt's return
to Boston. Latham callenged and -come
world's champion at both racquets
and tennis by beating Saunders at Brighton.
In the same court he beat Pettlt later, when
he went over from Boston to spring the de
veloped railroad service, the pride of Bun
ker Hill, on the Britishers. , Again, in 1904,
Ltham won his third championship at
Brighton by beating C. Fairs. After being
outplayed on the first two days Fairs nearly
saved the match, and at one time was wlth,
tn a stroke of making it "six aets all," . but
he finally lost by seven sets to five.
Fairs learned tennis with ttrat prettiest
of players, the late C. Saunders, and aa he
was at Tuxedo in 1903-4, many In America
know his game. He is ten years younger
than Latham, who passed his 42d Wrthday
during the match, and as there la no rising
star In view. Fairs is apt to be champion
sometime again. Should Latham tour here
it will be a series of well attended matches
with the best men we have, and aa Jay
Qould will probably be In the four-handed
L2
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games, somo of the contests will be very
high class. His last American tour was of
higher Interest than that of Ferdinand
Garcln last winter, for the Englishman has
the more dashing game and Is constantlv
playing strokes that border, on the super
nuuinii,
Sbiue Detail of the Match.
Gould s policy in the final of the amateur
championship was to play the floor game
from both sides of the net and when he
had the attack to constantly return the
ball to Miles' backhand, which Is not as
strong as his forehand corner. A detailed
account of the cramp incident In theflfth
set-is not as sensational as the scraps sent
at the time by cable. Field states:
The result of the contest .was not unex
pected, though many good Judges familiar
with the pluy of both combatants thought
l!at lt a "ttn e' ad to be played Mr.
Miles, with his superior physique and much
longer experience of the game In general
and mutcn playing in particular (offset,
however, by a disparity on this occasion
of nlneeen years in ae), would probably
win It. And, Indeed, it is not easy to un
derstand how he did not manage to do so
fcuimi uirumuaianct's or the
cae. At the md of the fourth eet some
ti mi i hi uci bo me
time was epent in taking rest anU plenty
Of thf! flfrtrSnM rafr.alimar.ta n-
- - - .v v i v.oiiiiirin.j. iJu i . m lies.
of the two, certainly did not appear to be
Allies,
..... cmusitu, unu as me nnn set
proceeded Mr. Gould gave bIrhs of that
most unpleasant form of fatigue cramp In
In t ho inuHCles of the hand and forearm.
He had a touch of It at the beginning of
the fourth game and In the sixth play was
stopped for a minute or so In order that
his arm mlRht be rubbed. In the ninth
gamo play was again suspended for about
four minutes for more rubbing and bathing
with hot water.
Against an opponent so disabled at a
critical stage of a match a player In the
ordinary course mltjht well have felt con
fident of winning the set. As a matter of
fact, Mr. Miles, who deserves all praise
for his courtesy, patience and good humor
under trying circumstances, was decidedly
put off by the stoppages (In a way familiar
to match players ut tennis, or. Indeed, any
strenuous games of the kind), while Mr.
Gould, on the whole, benefited by the rest
obtained from them; indeed, he could not
have played to the end of the match with
out It.
Except on his service, which rarely put
Gould on tha defensive, Miles never played
better. Gould won by three sets to two
6-4, 8-6, 1-8, 6-2. 6-4. This makes the games
22 all, and the strokes wre: Gould, 1B7;
Miles, 163. Gould's victory made the sec
ond prize vacant, and the losers to him,
which has not as' yet been reported here,
played to decide who should hold It for
the current year. Vane Pennell, whom
Gould deposed in 1906, won the second
prize.
Old Goard Is Passlnw.
In gaining the Tuxedo gold racquet and
the amateur championship in 1P06 and re
peating this year Jay Gould marked the
passing of supremacy , in the game of the
"old guard," In which te leaders rank
ings were Joshua Crane, Jr.. and Charles
E. Bands. All next to them of class were
bunched, New Yorkers especially promi
nent being T. Suffern Taller, J. H. Morgan
and Ernest A. Thomson. Gould Will prob
ably have a following among the younger
set, the most notable so far being Pierre
Lorlllard, Jr., who has secured the club
championship at Tuxedo, a title held since
its Inception five or six years ago by T.
Buffern Taller. Now that the path has
been blazed and the difficulties revealed
not to be Insurmountable, there should be
an Increase of Junior players In the courts.
Bcores of youths who now have access to
the court tennis courts ajill turn their
bucks on them, however, for the less Intri
cate sports of the open. The zealots of
the aristocratic pastime are in hope that
Jay Gould's example may arouse the
proper enthusiasm among "our boys."
The prevalence of squash courts nmy also
help. Equash is the best noSHlble nrartl,-
for racquets, for it teaches the straight
stroke down the side wall to a novics far
better than to begin, play in a big court,
and it is also good practice for tennis. In
the mental, effect squash la also of aid to
racquets and court tennis fnr ft ( i.w
elemental to satisfy after the knowledge
nas been obtained of how to handle the bat
and serve the ball.
In American, racquets this year R. R.
Fincke has effected ths same revolution
Jay Gould has caused In court mnn'i
Twioe national squash champion, Fincke
started an unknown factor in the national
racquet championship aad won It from
off MeoldDl"
George H. Brooke, the Philadelphia war
horse, in the final. For some years the
pre-eminence In the game had been
claimed by C. H. Mackay. Payne Whit
ney, L. Waterbury, M. S. Barger and two
or three more from New York, while
Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago sent
along the same veteran players each year.
P. D. Houghton, who is by no means a
Junior player, also put the noses of this
racquet confederacy out of joint last year,
but when partnered with Qulncy A. Shaw,
Jr., formerly a national champion, be lost
In the national doubles.
. Fincke and R. D. Wrenn, a recrtilt to
racquets from lawn tennis, made good for
the young blood by winning the national
doubles. They won from George R. Fear
ing and Hugh Scott, who had held the
title for two years. Fearing Is a Bos
tonlan and In his day the best all-around
athlete at Harvard, for four years winner
of the Intercollegiate high Jump, 8cott
playing racquets at Philadelphia beforo
going to Boston to live. They form a. per
fect team and for young blood to forgo
to the front In the doubles waa as mo
mentous as for the newcomer, Fincke, to
win In the' singles.
Play In the courts is now over until the
fall, when details will be the opentng of
the new and elaborate house of tha Phila
delphia Tennis and Racquet club and the
opening of the court tennis court under
construction for Clarence H. Mackay at
Roslyn. Next In consequence to the Inter
national matches promised for next sea
son will be the performances of the
younger set in the racquet and tennis
courts.
CLOTHIER WANTED FOR TEAM
Philadelphia Player Asked to Go to
Engrland.
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being taken by lawn tennis players toward
securing from William J. Clothier his ac
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challenging International team. While the
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