Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-24
Crack Racquet-Wielders Have
Little Trouble Passing First
and Preliminary Rounds.
lTOUCHARD, INMAN, BULL
AND WARD ARE SUCCESSFUL
Defaults Are Plentiful, Some OF
the Best Entrants Resigning
Right TO Play.

The usual mixture of good tennis.
fair tennis and near tennis was
shown on the turf courts of the Or
ange Lawn Tennis Club, Mountain
Station, yesterday when the prelimi-
nary and first rounds of the twenty
ninth annual tournament for the
Middle States championship were
played.
! The few entrants who are rated
as better than ordinary came
through their matches without trou-
ible, either by easy wins over as
piring young players or aspirants OF
many years standing or by defaults.
There were almost as many of the
latter as matches.
Only one ranking player is entered
IN the tourney. He is Gustave F.
Toucfard, of the West Side Lawn
Tennis Club, New York, who was
placed tenth in official standing last
year. He might have welded his
racquet in his left hand for all the
trouble that Theodore c. Corwin, Of
the Orange Lawn Tennis Club, gave
him in their match. Touchard won
without exerting himself. 81, e..
his opponent showing little skill in
any department of the game. Touch
ard will probably meet HolcomDe
Ward, of the Orange Lawn Tennis
Club. former national champion, on
wednesday, The latter, playing al
most as we'll as he ever did. won as
he pleased yesterday from Frank
Riddle, of the Montclair Athletic
club 6---1, 6--1. Ward will play DR..
William Rosenbaum. of the West
Side Club, this afternoon, and should
have no trouble in winning his
match. DIR. Rosenbaum got into the
second round by beating Carl Koen-
iger, youngster of the East Orange
High School, 81, Ga.
Those in the tournament who are
regarded as experts were fortunate
In their draws for the early rounds.
None of them met any but weak OPP
ponents and naturally came through
easily. Frederick C. Imam, of the
West Side Lawn Tennis Club, played
in the opening match of the tourna-
tnent with H. Mex. Glazebrook, of
the Elizabeth Country Club, and won
sas he pleased, 60. 6-3. Inman to-
dav will face Charles M. Bull jr.,
of the Crescent Athletic Club. VINO
won an easy victory over a club
mate, r. w. seabury, Ga. 6-1, in
the first round. The latter player
snapped one of the strings In his
racquet while practising yesterday,
but this had probably little effect on
the result of the match.
Watson M Washburn, the young
player. of the Harvard and the West
side Lawn Tennis Club who with
Charles M. Bull, jr., won the doubles
championship in the metropolitan
tournament on Sunday, took his
match with Leonard Beekman, OF
Paving School, by default. Wash
burn has been playing fine tennis this
spring, and many believe he will come
spretty close to playing in the final
round of the Middle States tourna-
ement. Another crack who came
through successfully yesterday Is
Dean Mathey, of Princeton. He had
no trouble in taking his match from
7. H. O'Connell, of Princeton, Go
a.. w. P. Burden, Of the Rockaway
Hunt Club, was fortunate enough to
take his match with Theodore Roose-
Welt Rice. of the West Side Club, yes
sferday, by default.
walter Merrill Hall, OF the West
side Lawn Tennis Club. Middle States