The Washington herald., 1908-08-20
CLOTHlER CAPTURES THREE
Wins q Place IN Semi-fnal Tennis
Round at Newport.
Former Champion Defeats Raymond
d. Little with Ease-some
Fast Matches.

Newport. r T. Aug. 1s.-WIliam J.
ClotEier. a former champion. won a place
n the seuli-fnal round Of the Ail-coulers
National Lawn Tennis Championship sin
gles to-day. CIothier defeated Raymond
D. Little with what appeared 10 be uneX-
pected ease when one remembered that
less than two weeks ago the same Little
had defeated Beals c. Wright il the
I Longwood finals
i Little was erratic 70 fault. and Cloth
/ Ter won BY a score Of So; 50; 6-3-
Coupled with The playing OF the fast
matches in the singles 20 which the sec
oud day oE the tournament was devoted
the day also witnessed an almost ruthless
defaulting Of competitors who failed 20
appear on time for their matches Practi-
calIy the entire list was brought down 70
the fourth round and round day here
after viii be the order.
with the long list becoming shorter the
victory Of CIothier attracted the most
attention owing 10 its bearing on the fg-
ture OF che tournament It was a popular
victory. especially as Frederick 3 Alex
auder remained in the singles. and the
two are almost certain 10 meet in the semi
finals. which are expected 10 be decided
Saturday.
The Clothier-Lictle match drew a large
= gallery Clothier was especially clever
at forcing Little out OF position and
. making him reach for the bali With a
shade more steadiness. It would have
been possible for Little 10 have al Iesst
, pressed the match 70 the limit OF nv,
sets
on the whole. Clothier has played bet
! ter tennis on the same court, and in IN
Lopinion Of the experts. he win have q
show a better game than he did to-da.
h 20 defeat Alexander The summary:
- Al-c-us-s national chau,pi1nship sinsses-Fs-
g rc-nd-Tillia7n J. Cl0thier defeated Rayu51d II
second aazd-T- X Miller. IT,. defeated Goel,
% Williams by defallt. ta-iae- Beals defeated 4.
Stiness b. dsfzalt- Robert Leroy defeated Cyr
IS Hatch b. default. = " Watrous defeated k
.s Dz-rzsh. s-z 60. 60. @. %. Wagner defeat,
= Wilson defeated R G. sever b. defzuit. @. )
sh-rch csf1atcd r. I. Day. 81. 90. 81 villa
J. Clattier 6sfe4teE J. =. C-shnan. 81. 50. g.
ID ! C. Wrigrt defeated Nathaniel W. Niles. s-s 3
l. IS. -. J. o. Auss defeated e.. ?. Parish g.
20 -. 60 = A O. Coist1n 6rfeste5 A L sand
IL 90, 81. -. MAJ Emerson defeated Z. : Bls
- - IS. 6A 81. F7vdeTics G. Iuman defeat
= R r LlEiuEstcn- 81 81 6-l- Charles N b.
y f.. defeated z 4 WhitnrJ- 50 Is. - G.
80; Dolsl=11 CLARK defeated Victor So-chan
dsfaulti l. g Jennings defeated z C. DAVIS
default. B-s5ale Fenninan defeated Regina
l. H-ooLs b. default Seyr11Er Ictns11 defeated 2
Durham By default. II. c. johnson defeated G.
III Thom7scu rv default: = =. Z Jones defeated II.
g d--e R1ozsvslc Pei D. defs1lt- NIiss : Cla-i-
~ defeated J. FhipTs ~ default; -. Hale defeat
= b Fre-ch- T.. 6-I 81. 81. Richard ga
u bril- defeated Z O. MacEnroe hy default. Z
- B-tle- defeated z " Hartman b. 5efsul-.
IN Babcock defeated 7 T. Knapp b default Hz
:. Torrance. =. defeated B. Buckwalts-. s-5. s.
Is s-3. " H Tre1tts- defeated a Thu-be-. 80. 3
20 80 Aimed Stillmazs =. defeated " D Boz-
f. sc. 50. I6-Is 4 Mackiz1ey defeated y. 2
pie-o1. So 81. 60, r l. James defeated Z.
n F1;ls-ue l~T default
Thi-5 rounds z HlacEley defeated r. "
ut ham. 90. 80. 81 Dean Mstchev defeated 7.
81 fcared r. E Pcars-u. 80. 6-5. 81 Gard
- Bs1ls defeated Msrsin White b. default. Hsrry
= Martin defeated B n Grant. By default; 4
- H0skI1s defeated Z. c. Pei 2. 6-5. 80 e-S. :
es. 90. Fra1E Sallcvly defeated Tir T. p. HGrk 8
er- 81 6-5. Robert Locey defeated 2. " Watrc
50. So -. Nat Tlo-rtou defeated q. .. "
by nsr. s.. s-5 -. - tizstave F Touchard
- Tested R. I. ASassiz- b. default. Herhe-t l. "
fall defeated a : Dsbney. IS. So. 80 Ke
as Russ defeated William Jordan. - 81. 6-s, J.
ald An-es defeated CrsiE Blade. -. -. IS. S
er. Mantle FEEDING defeated Donelson Clarke. 80 s
rs 6-2- George Il. Nettetou defeated L. G. JeEui.
IN b defsult- Richard Stevens defeated A. D. Tha
81 Go. 81. T. =. d. Jones defes-cd H
J0huscl- 81 6-S. 10. HuEh Tallsut defea
N :. Chsrlock. s-3. 50. -. -. Wallace
} ID johnson defeated C. O. Cooke 81 SIS. 81. r
iC Wrirht defeated William h Council. 81
90; C. Hale defeated Norman e. Johnsou.
aeE sc 6-s. a-1. Harry Tc--znce. =. defeated "
Trutter 81 -, s.. r L James defeated
-. ". Thomas. 81. 81. 6-2