Player. INDIVIDUAL BATTING RECORD OF AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYERS, 1902, 123 474 103/178 14.370 Pickering, Cleveland. 87 352 81 129 819.369 Powell, St. Louis. Sparks, Boston.. 55 191 30 50 5 2.262|| Joss, Cleveland.. 7 261 Butler, Baltimore. Patton, Washington. 6.261 F. Donahue, St. Louis. 11.261 18 52 39 126 35 119] 87 294 30 50 5 2.262 108 391 62 102 7 31115 15 30 1 27 88 10 231 3 PITCHING RECORDS OF THE AMERICAN LEAGUE, 1902. 9918 Tie. 12 7 6 2 12 3 5 1.116 1 115 0.095 01.091 Bernard, Cleveland. 32 12 Hustings, Philadelphia 15 6 Donahue, St. Louis. 11 Wilson, Philadelphia. 4 2000000OCHOTNOON-OOOO 111020ONOOHOOOOHHO000 .480 10 .474 .727 16 19 .457 .714 Wiitse, Baltimore. 15 18 .455 666 Carrick, Washington. 636 Mercer, Detroit.. 13 16 15 18 .625 Sparks, Boston. 7 9 .625 Wright, Cleveland 10 571 .448 .439 .438 .412 .400 .391 .384 .381 .375 .375 .353 2966 808221 .154 .483 Double plays Baltimore, 108; Boston, 88; Chicago, 118; Cleveland, 91; Detroit, 101; Athletics, 72; St. Louis, 121; Washington, 70. Triple plays-Baltimore, 2; St. Louis, 1. THE PACIFIC-NORTHWEST LEAGUE. Following is the complete 1902 record of the Pacific-Northwest League championship race: Put outs. Assists Errors. PB.-W. P. Percentage. The season of the New York League was an interesting one, the special feature being the contest between Albany and Binghamton, which finished only .0008 apart, as close a fight as was ever known in base ball. Clubs. Toronto Buffalo Clubs. The Eastern League enjoyed a very successful season. The Toronto club won the championship after a sensational race with its nearest rival, the Buffalo club. The following table gives the standing of the clubs and the victories won from each club: Athletics GAMES WON AND LOST. Clubs. Clubs. 83.610 Buffalo 78.573 Jersey City. 74.552 Newark 69.507 Providence 9 61 448 Rochester 101 52.585 Toronto 18 14 447 13 151 7 11 881.657 789984 11 721.526 591.424 401.288 10 3 10 671.496 571.429 Per cent. LAWN TENNIS SEASON OF 1902. By J. PARMLY PARET. The lawn tennis season of 1902 furnished the most satisfactory and complete international victory in the sport that has ever been recorded. Great Britain sent her best players-admittedly her best-and they were decisively beaten on American courts-not in one tournament, but in three. There was only one drawback to the brilliant season that the American players enjoyed, and that was the defeat of our leading teams in doubles by the Doherty brothers, which gave them the unquestionable championship of the world at this style of game. The third challenge for the Davis international trophy brought to America at the end of July by far the strongest team of British experts that has ever visited this country. The challenging team was made up of Reginald F. Doherty, H. Laurie Doherty and Dr. Joshua Pim. They were accompanied by W. H. Collins, president of the English Lawn Tennis Association, who acted as team captain, although not a player. President Collins and the two Dohertys arrived ten days before the date set for the international matches. and they went on to Boston for "tuning-up" practice in the Longwood tournament. One of the events in this meeting was for the Eastern Championship in doubles, and the Doherty brothers entered this and won the title, after a close match in the finals against the Wrenn brothers, their victory giving them the right to play at Newport in the championship finals. In this final match, the American pair won the first set and came within a single stroke of taking the second, only to finally lose the match in four sets (4-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-2). The Dohertys also entered at Longwood in the singles and the older brother here beat Beals C. Wright, one of the strongest of the American experts, in three straight sets. H. L., the younger, beat one or two of the second-rate Americans entered and then defaulted, while his brother defaulted after his match against Richard Stevens had been interrupted by rain. The debut of the visitors gave the Bostonians a bad case of "cold feet" in regard to our international chances, but the defeat of Wright, the only strong player whom the visitors had beaten, did not convince New Yorkers that the Englishmen were so sure to win the Davis cup. W. A. Larned. R. F. Doherty. Dr. Pim arrived the following Saturday, August 2, and all three visitors spent the three days immediately preceding the international matches at hard practice on the courts of the Crescent Athletic Club, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where the cup matches were scheduled to take place. As the challengers had named only three players as their representatives, the rules allowed them up to within twenty-four hours to nominate which men they would use in singles and which in doubles. The day before the matches began Captain Collins named R. F. Doherty and Pim for the singles, and the Doherty brothers for the doubles. Curiously enough, H. L. Doherty, the third member of the team, held both the English and Irish championships, although he beat neither his brother nor Pim to win these titles. The American authorities had already named W. A. Larned and M. D. Whitman for the singles, and D. F. Davis and Holcombe Ward for the doubles. As four men were named, no substitution was allowed in the American team, which had to be nominated three weeks before, under the conditions. The opening matches were played Wednesday, August 6, when R. F. Doherty met Larned and Whitman played Pim. The attendance was the largest that had ever attended a lawn tennis match in this country, and the accommodations and management of the Crescent A. C. committee were highly praised. No admission was charged to see the matches, entrance to the grounds being by invitation only. The first day's play was interrupted by a hard thunder shower during the middle of the afternoon, which put a stop to the play. When the rain came, the Americans were making mincemeat of their British antagonists. Whitman had just completed his second set (6-1, 6-1), when the interruption came, and Larned and Doherty finished their second set in the rain, the American winning easily (6-2, 6-3). It was agreed to resume these two matches where they were stopped, the following morning, and to continue the original schedule in the afternoon. Pim pulled out the third set from Whitman (6-1), but the American, thoroughly aroused, ran away with the deciding fourth set (6-0), scoring the first victory for the home team. In the meantime, however, Larned was slowly losing the big advantage he had won the day before. With much improved play, Doherty steadily pulled out three straight sets from the American, and took the other match of the first round (2-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4). The afternoon brought Larned against Pim and Whitman against R. F. Doherty. The American champion was in rare form, and Pim never had a chance against him, being beaten in three straight sets (6-3, 6-2, 6-3). This left the score two matches to one in favor of the American team, and Whitman had a chance to clinch the victory by defeating Doherty. This he did by the cleverest kind of play. He beat the brilliant Englishman in three straight sets, the last two of which were both close (6-1, 7-5, 6-4), and the international championship for the year was won for America, amidst the greatest enthusiasm of the big crowd. The doubles match was played as scheduled, although it could not have any bearing on the result of the series, since the Americans had already won. For this last day's play the crowd was much larger than either of the preceding days, and the enormous capacity of the grandstands was taxed to its utmost. The Doherty brothers met Davis and Ward, the American champions, and beat them after a brilliant match that showed the Americans to advantage at first, but which finally wore down their brilliance and permitted the untiring steadiness and consistent play of the British experts to pull out a clean-cut victory. The detailed score follows: Doherty Bros. Ward and Davis.. FIRST SET. .2 3 3 4 2 4 4 4 2-28-3 Doherty Bros. ..4 5 5 1 4 0 6 2 4-31-6 Ward and Davis.. SECOND SET. Doherty Bros..4 011444150 454 452 4 4-56-10 Doherty Bros.. Ward and D...14440114341706341 1-49- 8 Ward and Davis. THIRD SET. 4 2 4 1 4 4 4 4 4-31-6 ...0 4 2 401162-20-3 FOURTH SET. 25641 51 554-38-6 .4340 4 3 4 7 3 1-33-4 The following week the three visitors played at Southampton, but both of the Dohertys defaulted in the semi-final round, and Pim was beaten in the finals by Larned again, if anything, easier than at Bay Ridge. The Doherty brothers easily won the doubles. The American championship tournament at Newport followed the week after Southampton, and the meeting attracted the largest list of competitors ever turned out for a Newport tournament. No fewer than eighty-three players entered for the championship, including many champions and ex-champions of England, Ireland and America-unquestionably the strongest entry ever received for any tournament in the world. The luck of the draw brought all three of the Britishers on the same side, and ex-Champion Whitman on the other side. Whitman had little difficulty in reaching the finals, but Pim was beaten in straight sets (7-5, 7-5, 6-3) by L. E. Ware, of Boston, who succumbed immediately after to H. L. Doherty. The two visiting brothers came together in the semi-final round, and the younger defaulted to R. F., who went into the finals against Whitman, the same American who had already beaten him at Bay Ridge. In this final match Whitman showed the most surprising reversal of form he has shown in five years, while Doherty's play improved fully half-fifteen over his skill shown in the internationals. The result was a decisive victory for the Englishman, who lost only the second set (6-1, 3-6, 6-4, 6—0). The challenge match between R. F. Doherty and the former American champion, W. A Larned, proved to be almost as surprising as the Doherty-Whitman final. The extreme heat hurt the visitor's chances, and he suffered a good deal from that and the fatigue due to his match of the day before. Larned, fresh from the most careful training, played an almost faultless match and scored a well-earned victory over his formidable challenger (4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6), and so upheld the American championship for the Americans. The title in singles has never yet been won by a foreigner, although many determined efforts have been made by strong British players to win it. In the doubles, the Americans did not fare so well, and for the first time in the history of the game on this side of the ocean, the championship was captured by foreign experts. The Doherty brothers (winners of the Eastern championship) played Kriegh Collins and L. H. Waldner, of Chicago (winners of the Western championship), in the final round, and beat them after a hard struggle (2-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3), and then met D. F. Davis and Holcombe Ward, the American holders of the title, whom they had already beaten in the international matches at Bay Ridge, and won again in the challenge round (11-9, 12-10, 6-4), and so captured the American championship. In doubles the Doherty brothers certainly showed better tennis, of the match-winning kind, than any of our teams, although some of the American methods are noticeably better and our leading American pairs have probably greater possibilities in their play than the visitors when they learn to cultivate some of the steadiness and the energy-saving ability of the foreigners. In singles. Pim was clearly outclassed, although rated abroad as strong as the Dohertys and supposedly even with any other player in the world, amateur or professional. American cities saw too little of H. L. Doherty's play in singles to get any clear line on his comparative skill, but his brother proved himself to be practically even with the two American leaders. He beat Whitman at Newport and lost to him at Bay Ridge, and lost to Larned at Newport and beat him at Bay Ridge. The international matches of 1902 were the second series for the Davis international trophy, although the challenge was the third. In 1900, the year the cup was first offered. an English team was beaten by 3 matches to 0 and 10 sets to 1. In 1901 the English Lawn Tennis Association challenged for the cup. but failed, at the last minute, to send a team. The cup is recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as emblematie of the world's international championship, so America has now been the champion nation for three years. date stands as follows: The championship tournament at Newport was the twenty-second for American supremacy. The record to AMERICAN CHAMPIONS AT LAWN TENNIS. |