Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-18
NATIONAL INDOOR
TENNIS TOURNAMENT

country Is reflected in the entry list fer
the national indoor championship, the draw
for the contests being made yesterday.
while the matches start today on the courts
of the 7th Regiment Armory. Forty play
ers have entered for the mems singles the
largest list in any previous year being only
twenty-six. The women's singles of which
the coming competitions will be the initial
tournament for the hOnors in this country,
begins with eleven entrants among them
being two who have held the national out
door title and Miss Freda Meyer. an English
woman expert of considerable repute. The
championship doubles closed with sixteen
teams. which is two more than in any
other year
singles. Wylie c. Grant. the champion. Is
in the top half of the draw. The draw for
this event is broken in the center of the
first round by the preliminary round. but
the matches have been so carefully adjust
ed as to insure an exciting series. Grant
will play through the tournament. as is the
custom. in this meeting. He appears to
have an easy way to the final unless Rob-
ert T. Bryan, the It'll Regiment champion,
or Charlock of the Elizabeth Town and
Country Club. or r. l.. James of the Bel
mont Cricket Club. Philadelphia defeats
him in the semi-fnals. In the lower half
of this event Herbert l.. Westfall. the young
and promising expert of the Kings County
Lawn Tennis Club, is placed that he may
get to the semi-fnals provided he defeats
William 4. Cragin, jr., whom he meets in
the preliminary round today. His way is
harder than Grants. for he has several of
the most prominent indoor players against
him, including Edwin P. Fischer, runner
up in the tournament last year; P. 3. Hawk
of the Belmont Cricket Club and Richard
Bishop of the Longwood Lawn Tennis Club.
Miss Romans Defaulted.
With Miss Romans. the national champion,
defaulting in the womens singles. the
task of meeting the English woman in
the final may fall to either Miss Elsie Lit
tie. sister of Raymond d. Little. captain
OF the International team of last year: Miss
Wagner or Miss Wilday of Morristown.
Miss Meyer promises to come through to
the finals in the lower section of the draw.
unless Miss Elizabeth H. Moore, ex-national
champion. defeats her in the semi-final.
Frederick B. Alexander and Harold II.
Hackett, last years champions. are In the
doubles. but in their half the upper section
should gain the semi-finalS easily, although
they have such good pairs as James and
Hawk, formerly of the University of Penn
sylvania. and T. r. Pell and E. p Fischer
opposing them. Grant and Westfall, the
Americans who won the Welsh indoor title
last autumn while abroad, are the leading
pairs in the lower section of the draw.
Their strongest opponents are Bryan and
Clark and the Cragin brothers. In all events
appear on schedule time for matches. The
results of the drawings follow:
Big Entry List.
Mems championship singles first roun6D
C. s. Rathbun. 7th Regiment. vs.. Grant
Burns. West Side Lawn Tennis Club; R. G.
Jones, Moyamensing Lawn Tennis Club, VS.
4. Nick. GlazebroOk. Elizabeth Town and
Country Club; T. R. Osborne, Moyamensing
Lawn Tennis Club. VS.. Harold Moore, 7th
Regiment; N G. Johnson. New York Lawn
Tennis Club. VS.. Wylie C. Grant, New
York Lawn Tennis Club: Alexander J. Del
mar. Siwanoy Lawn Tennis Club, VS.. A.
L. Hoskins. Belmont Cricket Club: H. D.
Montgomery, Siwanoy Lawn Tennis Club
vs.. Julio NJ. Schumacher, Hamilton Grange
Lawn Tennis Club.
Preliminary round-Arthur s. Cragin. 7th
Regiment. vs. j. B. Close, Elizabeth Town
and Country Club: r. L. James, Belmont
Cricket Club, vs.. NJ. s. Charlock, Eliza beth
Town and Country Club; Morris s. Clark.
Country Club; Edwin P Grosyenor. 7th
Regiment. VS.. Robert T. Bryan. 18th Regi-
ment; Dr. William Rosenbaum. Harlem
Lawn Tennis Club. VS.. Richard Bishop.
Roosevelt Pell. New York Lawn Tennis
Club. VS.. G. Carleton Schaefer. West Side
Lawn Tennis Club; Calhoun Cragin, West
Side Lawn Tennis Club, VS.. o. NJ. Bost-
bert l.. Westfall, Kings County Lawn Ten
| mis- Club, VS.. William B. Cragin, jr., 7th
Regiment.
First roundup. P. B. Hawk, Belmont
Cricket Club. VS.. King Smith. 7th Regi-
| ment; William C. De Mile. West Side
Lawn Tennis Club. VS.. w. Merrill Hall, It'll
Regiment; r. A. Weeks, Elizabeth Town
and Country Club. VS.. George Fouchard,
Harlem Lawn Tennis Club; L. II. Fitch,
7th Regiment, VS.. Walter Chase, Harlem
lawn Tennis Club; Edwin p. Fischer, West
Side Lawn Tennis Club. VS.. Miss Elsie
Little, West Side Lawn Tennis Club.
Women's championship singles first
round)-Miss Helen Romans, West Side
Lawn Tennis Club. VS.. Miss Edna Little.
West Side Lawn Tennis Club.
Preliminary round-Miss Edna Wlday,
Morristown Field Club, VS. Miss A. L. Fish,
Hamilton Grange Lawn Tennis Club; Miss
Laura Fisher. West Side Lawn Tennis
| Club, VS. Miss Marie Wagner, Hamilton
Grange Lawn Tennis Club Miss Louise
| Hammond. Orange Lawn Tennis Club. vs..
| Miss Freda Meyer, Sussex Lawn Tennis
Club, England
First round-Miss Fanny Fish Hamilton
Grange Lawn Tennis Club. vs.. the winner
| of Miss Hammond-Miss Meyer match:
Miss Elizabeth II. Moore. New York Lawn
Tennis Club, VS.. Miss Clara kutroff, Har-
| lem Lawn Tennis Club.