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...match in the tennis tournament for the New England championship between Howland and Chace. After the rain a court was scraped and play began. It was a battle royal. Howland smashed well at the net and worked the cross-court to advantage. Chace was steady and used a beautiful Lawford. Howland missed easy returns, but played an aggressive game. Chace won the first set, 6-4. He started in to win the next and had the score 3-1, when Howland rallied. Howland took five straight games and the set, 6-3. Although it was quite dark the third...
...second set Lee won the first five games both by good back hand strokes and by poor playing on Sturgis' part. Then Sturgis braced up, and by good Lawford strokes won the next four games. The score now stood 5-4 in Lee's favor. The next game and the set and match then went to Lee. Jennings defeated Manchester in the second round, 6-4, 6-2, Jennings' steady playing proving superior to Manchester's brilliant, but erratic game...
...Wimbledon last July, and in the double matches and exhibition games that he has taken part in, have shown beyond doubt that he is facile princeps at the pastime. It would certainly be more satisfactory if he played oftener in single-handed matches as a second contest with Lawford, or a set or two with Grimstead would prove very interesting to players generally. The champion appears to combine in his person all the qualifications necessary to make a grand player. Watch his play as critically as you please, and you cannot find a weak spot, Many people have an idea...
Second on the list, and also in a class by himself, we must place H. F. Lawford, the great exponent of back court play. The game owes much to the consistent manner in which Mr. Lawford has argued, and, what is far better, demonstrated, that as good play can be shown from the base line as by the volleyers, Driving the ball hard and low, and placing it with unerring judgment, Mr. Lawford has proved beyond fear of contradiction that it is possible to completely defeat the wily schemes of the "man at the net." E. Renshaw...
...strokes from the back-line? Perhaps not one in six. Of course, the aim of all good players is to deep their adversaries on the back-line, but how often does anyone do it in the course of a rally? I have frequently had the pleasure of witnessing Messrs. Lawford and Renshaw play, and they don't. As regards the subject of volleying at the net, in my humble opinion, perfect back-play will never beat perfect volleying, and a perfect volleyer will (though an equally good back-player) prefer to volley a perfect back-player, just as much...