DARTMOUTH TENNIS MEN WIN N. E. I. CHAMPIONSHIPS
The New England Intercollegiate Tennis Championships came to Dartmouth this year when Captain C. W. Sanders and W. E. Howe of the Green team came successfully through all the matches, Sanders winning the singles, and Sanders and Howe together the doubles.
In the first day of play, May 23 Sanders defeated Steele, of Wesleyan, by handy scores of 6-1,6—3, while Howe eliminated tridge, of Bowdoin 6—2, 6—4. Sanders next met Davis, of Boston University, whom he defeated 6-3, 6-4 and Howe downed Swift, of Wesleyan 6—4, 6-0. The semi-final matches brought Sanders against Carver of M. I. T., and a sensational match ensued in which the Dartmouth star, after losing the first two sets, staged a spectacular come-back and won one of the most brilliant contests of the series. The complete score of the match was 2-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Howe then encountered Chapin, of Williams, the holder of the championship, and lost, though forcing his opponent to the utmost in the last set which was decided by a score of 10-12. The scores of the other two sets for Howe were 1-6, 1-6.
Chapin and Sanders met May 25 in the final round of the series. Last year the same two men were the finalists with Chapin emerging victorious. This year the Williams star was overcome in a match that necessitated 38 games, Sanders winning 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Immediately following his victory over Chapin Sanders was forced to battle with Howe for the doubles title in a match of 44 games, thus playing 82 games during the afternoon.
Sanders and Howe had started their career in the doubles tournament by defeating Steele and Swift, of Wesleyan, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1. Woodward and Roberts, of Bates, were then set down, 6-3, 6-2, and in the semi-finals the Amherst team of Plympton and Titus was defeated, 6-3, 6-2. The final match was a battle royal between Sanders and Howe and the M. I. T. team, Carver and Brookman. The Dartmouth men were hard pressed by the engineers during the opening sets, but came steadily to the front and outplayed their opponents brilliantly in the final contests. The scores were 2-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Thus for the second time in three years the championships were taken to Hanover, R. R. Larmon '19 and J. P. Carleton '22 having turned the trick two years ago.
