Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-08
JERSEY TENNIS
TITLE At STAKE
Man, Cunningham and Palmer
Among Competitors in Nor
rist0wn Matches.
WOMEN EXPERTS TO PLAY
WOMEN EXPERTS TO PLAY

Alrick H Man, jr., Of Yale. who
last season captured the New Jersey
State lawn tennis championship
singles, is to strive to retain his title.
Along with a field of sevenfy-two
competitors. Man was drawn in the
singles at the Morristown Field Club.
at Morristown, yesterday, where the
tournament got under way this morn
ing. w. Dickson Cunningham. the
young Yale freshman who has created
such stir at New Haven, and
Richard H. Palmer, who has twice
held the title. are also competitors.
The top half contains several ex-
cellent players in Neil C. Stevens, e.
w. Peaslee. the former Yale player;
Charles M. Bull. jr., the Crescent Ath-
letic Club star, and A. Musgrave
Hyde and FiIlemore Hyde, two of the
former Harvard players.
The draw of thirty-eight compete
tors for the women's championship
title includes Miss Marie Wagner.
winner of last season; Miss Jane
Rawson, Mrs. Marshall Mclean. Miss
Edna Wildey, Mrs. Frederick
Schmidt. Miss A. M. Doyle. OF WASH
ington, and others.
Speeding his drives to within inches
of the court lines, Dean Mathey, the
former Princeton champion. yester-l
day won the first holding of the big
silver bowl offered as emblenatic Of
supremacy in the lawn tennis singles
by the Nassau Country Club on TIM
turf courts at Glen Cove. LonS
Island.
After a hard tussle Leonard Beck
man and Allan Tobey vanquished
Maurice Galyao and Carl Jolliffe yes
terday in the final round of the mems
! doubles for the Quaker Ridge lawn
tennis championship at the New
Rochelle Lawn Tennis Club, in
Wykagyl Park. The victors carried
off the spells in three sets out of
four at 6-S, 4-6. 6-2, SIS.
Interesting tennis was seen yes
| terday on the courts at Nassau
Boulevard. Garden City. Long Island,
| in which residents from that place
and Hampstead, Garden City. Bellows,
and Queens competed. The prizes
for the doubles were won by A. Gott-
schalts and W. Frasher, of Hemp
stead, who beat Nixon and Cornell,
7-5, 1t, 6-5. 20.
Some of the best tennis players OF
Hampstead, Garden City and vicinity
are entered in the tournament at
Bellows, Long Island, in which thirty
are competing. Two rounds were
completed yesterday and a portion
of the third round was commenced.
| Finals in the Sycamore Tennis Club
| tournament. at Lake George. n. Y.
were played Saturday. In the mems
singles G. L. Johnston, jr.. of Brook
Ign, defeated c. p. Bacon, of Middle-
town. Conn, 4-6, So, 6-3, 81.
Mr.. Johnston is three-time winner
of the Lake George championship
cup and takes permanent possession
of the trophy.
Clarence ]. Griffin. Western lawn
tennis champion, was put out Of the
California State tournament, at San
Francisco, yesterday by Norman
Ambrose in straight sets. 81. Ga
Henry Brock gave William NJ. john
son. Pacific coast champion. a hard
fight for two sets. In the third set
the novice weakened. and Johnson
won easily, Cd, ST. 81.
| Maurice Mclaughlin, national
champion. participated in the doubles
with wicham Havens as his partner
and was defeated in the first round
by Byron H. Batkin and Charles f.
| Foley. As. Sc. g..