Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-13
BEEKMAN THRILLS
TENNIS GALLERY
Youthful New Yorker Gives
Johnston Hard Battle in
Southampton Tourney.
SEVENTEEN SURVIVORS

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| SOUTHAMPTON, Long Island,
Aug. 13-The brilliant showing OF
Leonard Beelxman, the youthful New
Yorker. against William NJ Johnston
was the feature of the Meadow
Clubs tournament on their turf
courts here yesterday in the singles.
1t is true that Johnston pulled out
n victory, but it was only after the
hardest fight he has had in the East
and incidentally the nearest ne mas
come to losing. The match went the
three sets and the scores were. ID,
10-S, 81. .
Johnston started with burst Oh
sneed that evidently was intended 10
take his rival by storm. Beehhiai'
however, had a little speed OF MS
o3,o The opening set had not gone
very far before the young son OF tIle
Golden Gate realized that he had an
onnonent worthy Of his meltle'
Nor had the meteoric sfnashes Oh
80 westerner any terrors Tor the
pronx how. He. too, had stIons
a,.yn and Johnston soon learned, W
bis loss. that when BeehIIid ~
slammed the sphere over the net II
went with some speed.
Henry w. Slocum, who was n u,a,
tional title holder before many OF tle
competitors in the draw were ooln'
after winning easily from L. "
Bowen in the second rouh9, WEI
down 10 defeat before Robert lie
Row. erstwhile intercollegiate cham-
nion in the third bracket. rms
match went the three sets, the
vounger man winning at 6-2, d.
GO.
THOMAS C. Bundy. doubles cham
| ninn with Mclaughlin, had an easy
! time winning from William Mchlin'
the Princeton interscholastic cham
MON at ca. 6-1. William j. Cloth
Ter another former national cham
MON. took straight sets from G. COL
ket Cauer, at Boston, at So, Of
Frederick c. Inman was also a
winner in the third set. He VIII play
Touchard today. The summarizes
Meadow Club Cup, Mems Singles
First Round-H. Hartshorne de-
feated C. Schefmerhorn, Ga, %
10-S: J. c.. X. Lawrence defeated j..
d. e. Jones by default.
Second Round-Richard Harte de-
feated C. J. Wirth 6-1, 6-l; Wen
dell p. Khun defeated F. w. Parl,
al. lie; Wallace f. Johnson de-
feated J. c. X. Lawrence, Cd, Cd;
| Robert LIE Roy defeated w. IL.
| Chambers, Ga, 6-3; Henry w. Slo-
cum defeated /. G. Brown, 6-3,
Go: G. c. Gamer defeated DR.. Ewing
Tayler, GO, 10, Ga; c. f. Wat
son, jr., defeated James p. Lee, CO,
Go; ]. Orr defeated S. Johnson by
default; S. wainwright defeated IL.
II. Whitney by default; A, IL. Ken
nedy defeated s. w. Merrihew. Cd,
6-3; u. Winston defeated II, Harts-
horne, 4-6, rs. 81.
Third Round-Thomas c. Bundy
defeated William M. MeKim, CO,
6-1; Watson M. Washburn defeated
Richard Harte. "a, TO; George M.
Church defeated w. p. Kuhn, 6-3,
6-3, Frederick Inman defeated Hoff-
man Nickerson, 6-3, Ga; Gustave f.
| Touchard defeated G. Kennedy, 6-2,
60; Robert lie Roy defeated Henry
w. Slocum, GO, 81; William j.
Clothier defeated G. c. Gamer, GO,
Cd; William M. Johnson defeated G,
L. Watson, jr., 12-10, 6-1; Leonard
Beelxman defeated T. c.. Thomas,6- 60
60; Howard A. Plummer defeated
defeated William A. Larned by de-
Eric Winston, 81, 6-S.
Fourth Round-William NJ. john
ston defeated Leonard Beekman, If
10-8, 6-1.
Word was received yesterday from
Toxic, Japan, that McKim, of the
| University of Illinois, again won the
championship in singles at the ten
mis- tournament at Karnizawa, which
ended yesterday.
Some fast tennis on the swimming
| Club Courts at Bar Harbor, Me,
yesterday. left Blair and Gardner
Scott and Pyne, Henderson and
Landreth, and Rogers and Campbell
to contest in the semi finals today
for the Maine double championship
The annual open tournament of
the New Rochelle Tennis Club for
the Quaker Ridge Cup will begin on
Saturday, Aug. 80 The cup was
won last year by V. B. Ward. The
events include mems singles. mems
doubles, women's singles, and mixed
doubles. Alexander j. |. Bradley
viii referee the matches.
The Harrington Park tennis team
defeated the Closter Tennis Club In
the annual team matches between
these organizations by a score Of 4
to l on the courts of the victorious
club at Harrington Park yesterday
In the singles Clyde w. Miller OF
Harrington Park won over j. L.
l'Esperanc, James Robertson, Har-
rington Park, defeated Kenneth
Wray, and DR.. A. W. Ward repre-
senting the visitors. defeated Walter
G, Strunk. In the doubles event the
two home teams carried off the
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