Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1914 — TENNIS MATCH THIS WINTER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TENNIS MATCH THIS WINTER

European War Prevents Return Gams Between Jay Gould and George Covey, English Champion. The war in which England Is now engaged is likely to make it impossible for Jay Gould to play a return match for the world’s court tennis title this winter, as he agreed to do when he won the open championship from George Covey, the English professional and champion, last March. As a consequence, this part of the agreement is virtually void and an effort will likely be made within the next month or so to arrange a match between Gould and the best American player to take place at Philadelphia. When Mr. Gould won last winter the duke of Manchester, who attended the match, announced that he was ready to match Punch Fairs, his own professional, and the man from whom Covey took his title, for a trial at the championship with Gould. The duke of

Manchester now is in New/Vork, and it is believed that he still ip anxious to match Fairs, but it is not probable that he would feel justified in taking such a step in case the war still is in progress. American professionals admit that Fairs is the only professional In the world capable of giving Gould a battle, and Baerleln, the winner of theBritish amateur championship, when he defeated Joshua Crane of Boston, Is probably the best amateur to pit against him. ' i

Jay Gould.