Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-15
WOMEN WILL PLAY
FOR TENNIS CUP
Fair Title-HOlders to Meet in
MOntclair Singles Tour
nament.
OTTMANN WINS TROPHY

Women lawn tennis players who
have carried off the important titles
in this country appear in the draw OF
| forty-seven competitors for the
singles trophy of the Montclair Ath-
| letic Club which was made last
night. Miss Marie Wagner the ma :
tional indoor champion, holds a po-
sition in the upper half of the draw
and will meet her clubmate of the
Hamilton Grange organization, Miss
Anne Hamilton, in her first match.
In the same section, Mrs Charles
N Beard, former holder of the New
Jersey State, Middle States and
Western titles. meets Miss Gertrude
Della Tore, of the West Side Ten
mis- Club, who won the Converse cup
last Saturday on the courts of the
Greenwich Country Club Miss Buda
stephens, the cleveland champion,
also has a place in the upper half.
The skillful players are more even
ly distributed in the lower section
of the draw, Miss Barbara Flem-
ming, who carried off the national
indoor championship two seasons ago,
is paired with Miss Elizabeth c.
Bunce. The others are Miss Glare
Cassell, recent winner of the New
Jersey Coast and the Quaker Ridge
championships: Miss Alberta Weber.
the 16-year-old Western girl; Miss
Edna Wildey, of the Plainleld Coun-
try Club, and Miss Teresa r. Kuser,
of Trenton.
William Ottmann, by his victory
over William Moynahan, in the mems
singles tennis champion tournament,
under the auspices of the Deal Golf
and Country club at Deal yesterday,
Il.
blematic OF that honor. Ottmann
won in straight sets, 1913, 6-f and
60. The winner eliminated William
Gallery in the semi final matches by
scores of Ga, 80 and 6--1. Moyna-
han entered the final after his vic
tory in the semi-finals over James
a. Keenan,. CO, ca and 6-S.
r. .. Little and T. r. Pell and w.
J. Clothier and w. 5. Thompson tied
for the first prize in the round robin
tennis tournament played at the
Huntingdon Valley Country club at
Noble Saturday. and Thompson part
rered Clothier yesterday instead of
r. ID. Wrenn, who was slightly in
jured in an auto accident Five
matches were played the hardest
fought one being between George
Wrenn and C. f. Watson and Wal
lace F. Johnson and A. D. Thayer
The first set was nip and tuck all the
way through, although Wrenn and
Watson finally won. Pho. The Sec
ond set found johnson and Thayer
at their best and they won, "a. In
the third set Wrenn and Watson just
julled through. liz. Having been
beaten by Dewhurst and Evans, Lit
tie and Pell next tackled George
Wrenn and Watson, and a fine match
resulted in a win for Little and Pell,
-. %. 6-3. W. ]. Clothier and
W. 5. Thompson defeated L. b Dew
hurst and r. Evans, jr.. in straight
sets. 6-3, 6-3 and w. F. Johnson and
4. d. Thayer, "a, 81, "a.
L. G.. Morris and Roy L. Hoskins
engaged in a desperate lawn tennis
struggle in the continuation of the
annual tournament on the courts of
the West Side Tennis Club. New
York. yesterday. For nearly four
hours the men smashed. drove and
volleyed through a total of fifty-six
games. one of the longest three-set
matches on record, until finally Nor
ris brought off the victory at So,
l0-12, IL. At the finish both of the
were so exhausted that
they had to be assisted from the
courts.