The final of the championship played under the auspices of the Shanghai Lawn Tennis Association took place on the Cricket Club court last Friday, in the presence of a very large crowd, and ended in a win for L. Parbury. Both finalists, Parbury and J. L. Wade, were appearing in the event for the first time. Wade has several times reached the semi-final, and each case was defeated by the eventual champion. This year, he has shown excellent form during the competition, and his sevformance in reaching the final yound was perhaps better than that of Parbury, Wade having met and defeated two redoubtable opponents, Tanaka and Sheldon. Parbury's progress has been comparatively easy, his four matches being won without difficulty. The records of the finalists read Parbury beat Caulton 6-2 6-0 6-0 Toussaint 6-1 6-1 6-1 Silva 6-1 6-2 6-0 Roberts 6-2 6-4 9-7 Wade beat Gulick 6-1 3-6 6-2 6-3 Tanaka 4-6 6-1 6-0 8-6 Sheldon 6-3 6-2 6-5 Khrenoff 6-1 6-2 6-0 On the form ho has displayed, it was generally anticipated that Wade would give Parbury a close and strenuous game, but anticipat tions wore not realized, the final score reading: Parbury, 64, 6-2, 6-0.
As the score indicates. Wade's progress was an inversion of the usual order. He began well and though not able to keep the initiative for any length of time, his play was promising. After the first set, however, he began to weaken. It was largely a matter of temperament. Whilst Parbury played throughout with the utmost coolness (figuratively speaking) and assurance, Wade began to suffer from nerves and unnecessarily gave away a number of valuable points. Now and again he scored with retty strokes, but his attack lost its. sting, and Parbury went from game to game with comparative ease. He anticipated most of his opponent's placing and in the few good rallies that took place, satisfied himself with returning the ball and leaving it to Wass to give the point away. A stroke whith the winner used with good effect was a fast crass cut on to Wade's back hand, most of which shots Wade found unplayable. To add to his discomfiture, his service was less effective than usual, and he conceded points with a number of double faults, Wade is unquestionably capable of giving a better display, but temperament played tricks with him. He was not quite in the same class as his opponent, who played clever tennis throughout, and a perfect match game.
Play opened rather sedately and the game quickly went to Parbury, Wade finding the net and Parbury completing tha.game with an ace. Wade opened the second game with two double faults, but recovered and won neatly after deuce had been called twice. Despite double faults (twice) in the next game, Wade scored nicely, chiefly by means of full length driving, and so took the lead. Parbury won the next two games (one a love gams), Wade got on terms, and Parbury went to five-three with two more love games. In the next, he kept Wade busy all over the court, had the advantage in two interesting rallies, and won easily, thus taking the sot at 6-3.
Parbury opened tha second set with a love game, getting Wade in difficulties with his cross cutting, and also making his tricky service more than usually difficult to deal with. The second game was also a love game. Wade won the third, getting in some pretty work at the net. Parbury then carried the score of five-one, playing very steadily and seldom attempting to get points except when obvious opportunities were presented. Wade scored a love game, but did not appear likely to make an effective recovery, and being outplayed in the next, lost the second set at 6-2.
In the third and final set, Wade went completely off form whilst Parbury on the other hand played consistently well. Deuce was only once called, and Parbury took the set and match in six straight games. He has thus gone through the competition without losing a set.
Men's Doubles Championship In the first round of this competition, played off on Tuesday evening, J. Elmore and ©. G. Humphrys beat C. L. Passos and B. L. Vieira, 6-0, 6-1, 6-2; and J. L. Wade and V. Sheldon beat J. P. Hawes and W. T. Manley, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.
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