New-York tribune., 1912-03-03
FAST PLAY At SQUASH
Championship TOURNEY Draws
Out Many Players.
DR.. a. STILLMAN SUPREMEl
smashes Way Through to Third
Round, Defeating 8, n. Bird
and J. o. Low.

In two lively matches Or. Alfred Stillrnsn.
ID. the holder Of the title. came through
10 the third round Of the national squashi
tennis championship tournament yestero
day on the courts of the Harvard Club. No.
q West 44th street. The winning player
was one Of three competitors TO forge into
the round whiclt>is before the semi finals
The other two were George II. Whitney. Of
the Harvard Club. rated as the third best
player In the country. and F. n. Davis In
his matches DR.. Stilman was extended 70
the limit as In the first round he reouiret
three sets 10 defeat s. Hinman Bird. the
new Racquet Club champion, al ID l3-ls,
10
Then the national title holder took OFT
Joseph q. Low. Of the Heights Casino. Ths
BrookIyn player was swift and true in the
opening set He soon tired. however, and
Dr. stillmsn scored at l2-l5, 15-S. $50 4
Davis also required three sets 70 pull
through 10 the third round as in his Sec
ond competition he defeated n. F. Phelrs
at Els is, "a. Whitney PLAYED like
a human hurricane in both Of his matches.
He displayed strength Of wrist and turn
for following the ball which dehed all the
strategy Of his opponents. Whitney frst
DISPOSED of j. W. Burden ar 15-i 15-ii.
and then OF Prentiss Sanger at 15-4. 15-l2
For the first day Of the championship
tournament the same rapid progress
marked the march Of the matches as was
the case last sea son with only the limited
facilities which squash necessarily entails,
all of the first round was cleared, and that
included a total Of fourteen contests In
the upper half Of the draw OF thirty con.
testants John ". Prentiss. who was run
ner-up for the title a year ago, was at the
same hard hitting game. His straight shots
10 the front wall proved marvellously fast,
and his opponent. Harper Sibley. was
simply outplayed in following the ball. ss
Prentiss scored AT 15-3. 15-4.
J. Victor Onatlvia. jr.. the champion oe
the Baltusroi Golf Club. went down in
three sets before D. F. Phelps. 10 the score
Of 9-lj. lj-5 i5-s. Phelps soon found
Onstivis's weakness in his low dropping
back-handers. and il was so that Phelps
dished up the ball thereafter. taking ths
second and third sets with a fair degree Of
case Phelps i'm his next match was tho
victim OF the same sort OF tactics on ths
part Of F. II. Davis.
Another Of the contests which created
some surprise al TO the result was that IN
which DR.. II. s. Satterlee defeated Frank
Kidde, tho Montclair Athletic Club charn-
pion. by the score OF 15-7. 15-1O. At all
stages Kidde was keen on the ball Hs
brought off some sensational gets, and his
corper shots We're sizzlers. DR.. SatterlAsi
adroitly kept changing pace and gsmeJ
winning by his own steadiness and his op-'
to-day.
The summary follows:
National squash championship Cdrst round,--
George Whitney. Harvard Club. defeated j. ".
Burden. Racquet Club. ID. 15-1l; Wendell
Phillips Blasden. Racquet Club. defeated D ~
Harvard aTy Club defeated H D. Bulkiey. coiambi.
Club; 15.l2 s-I5. l5-s; X, Hadden.. Mead9w
f.aed Harpe3 2PeP sey asrsrd cnb &
B. F, Phelps. Harvard club. defeated J vict5r
onatavia, tr, Baltusrol Colt Club. 9-i5. IS o..
min ". Riley. Princeton Club. l5-s. l5-s g.
o. winston. Harvard club. defeated II. Little.
Princeton club & l5-2 lSmS C Gains aims Mont Mont
clair Athletic Club, f5-l2 lbs 15-l2; J. 81.
Bl7dgen. Racquet Club. defeated 8 O Stodfard,
Bridgeport University club, by default; H. $.
Satterlee, Harvard Club. defeated Frank Kid4s,
Montclair Athletic Club, i5-T. l5--l0: Joseph -!
Low. Heights Casino. defeated G. W. Hswley.
Bridgeport University Club. by default; Dr A.
fred Stillman. ID Harvard Club. defeated $
Hirman Bird. Princeton Club. i5--4, 1915.
i5--0: Charles NJ. Bull, jr., Crescent Athlet1
Club. defeated Lyle r. Mshan, Columbia club,
i3-15, 15-to Ia
Second round-George Whltney. Harvard Club.
defeated Prentiss Sanger Harvard Club, l5-+,
l5-l2; F. II. Davis, Ardslev Club. defeated =.
F Phelps. Harvard Club. 12-15, 15-6, l5-4:
DR.. Alfred stillman. ID. Harvard club defeated
Joseph o. Low, Heights Casino, l2-l5, Is .,
I5-1O