By defeating Edmund Levy and Wallace Bates of the University of California in the final doubles match J. Brooks Fenno Jr. '21 and E. W. Feibleman '21 won the Intercollegiate Doubles Championship. The match was played on July 2 at the Merion Cricket Club, at Haverford, Pennsylvania. Just previous to the doubles contest Fenno went down to defeat in the finals of the singles championship at the hands of Philip Neer of Leland Stanford University.
In the singles, the match was about even until the fourth set which Fenno took 6-1. From the play of that set it seemed as though the University captain was to win but the Californian came back strong in the deciding set and by his fast serve and back-hand cross-court slicing, won out 6-1, there by gaining the match and championship.
Crimson Players Win Doubles
Wet courts slowed up the play of both men for Neer was unable to show his usual aggressiveness and Fenno was handicapped in net-play, his strong point. The final score of the match was 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 1-6, 6-1.
In spite of the five, exciting sets in the singles match, Fenno was still strong when the doubles championship started. It was Feibleman's fine net play that gained the first two matches for the Crimson but later he became erratic, losing the force to his drives and leaving openings for the Westerners to gain points by playing the alleys. Levy of California was the star of the match, forcing the pace at all times by his fast service and drives, while the others played a more conservative game. The final score was 6-4, 7-5, 10-12, 3-6, 6-4.
Win From Englishmen
After losing two out of three doubles contests, the combined Yale-Harvard tennis teams took the measure of the Oxford-Cambridge net-men by winning four of the six singles matches. The matches were played on July 5 and 6 at Newport. Fenno and Captain Morris Duane '23 were the only doubles team to win for the Americans. They defeated McCarthy and Horne of Cambridge, 6-2, 1-6, 6-3, 8-6. The home players had little difficulty in disposing of the invaders except in the second set, when McCarthy's peculiar lobs gave them trouble. Hopkins and Barbour of Oxford won from Williams and Bundy of Yale in a close five set match, the scores being 0-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-8, 6-4, C. P. Holmes '22 and Wheeler of Yale were easy for Hepburn of Oxford and Lowry of Cambridge, the sets going 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 in favor of the Englishmen.
Final Match Decisive
With the score tied, the final outcome of the match depended upon the result of the contest between Wheeler of Yale and Hepburn of Oxford. The former started well but lost his control during the third and fourth sets. He finally gained the next set 6-3, and that gave the Yale-Harvard 5 to 4 victory. Duane and McCarthy showed splendid tennis in their match, the Cambridge man finally winning. Fenno showed by far the best playing of all.
The scores follow:
Doubles--Fenno, Harvard, and Duane, Harvard, defeated McCarthy and Horne of Cambridge, 6-2, 1-6, 6-3, 8-6. Hopkins and Barbour, Oxford, defeated Williams and Bundy, Yale, 0-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-8, 6-4; Hepburn, Oxford, and Lowry, Cambridge, defeated Holmes, Harvard, and Wheeler, Yale, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2.
Singles--Fenno, Harvard, defeated Hopkins, Oxford, 6-0, 6-2, 6-4; McCarthy, Cambridge, defeated Duane, Harvard, 6-1, 9-7, 4-6, 6-3; Williams, Yale, defeated Barbour, Oxford, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3; Horne, Cambridge, defeated Holmes, Harvard, 6-1, 6-2, 6-1; Bundy, Yale, defeated Lowry, Cambridge, 6-4, 8-6, 6-3; Wheeler, Yale, defeated Hepburn, Oxford, 6-0, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3.
