New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-15
INDOOR COURTS A
BLAZE OF COLOR
Favorites Win in Opening
Tits of Women's Lawn
Tennis Tourney.
MISS WAGNER BEATS
MISS FORCE EASILY
Miss CasseI Also Reaches Second
Round, as Does Mrs. Fred
erick Schmitz.

The board courts OF the 7th Regiment
armory, at 66th street and Park avenue,
where the seventh national indoor lawn
tennis cfsmpiopslhp is being contested.
were ahame with color yesterday as the
feminine wielders Of the racquet fitted
lightly about In the first round OF the
singles
There were no rCversals among the lead
ing players. all of whom went through the
first ard second rounds with dying colors.
Miss Marie Wagner, the playing through
champion had little TO do to gain her
bracket In the round before the semi-fnal.
In the first round she won by default
from Miss Alice u. Damrosch, and In the
second defeated Miss katherine e. Force,
sister Of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, by the
one siced score Of e., 60
Miss Clare Cassel playing dashing lawn
tennis. in which her long and powerful
drives from the base line were always
feature, vanqushod Mrs. T. Cassebeer'
holder with Miss Wagner OF the doubles
title indoors, by a score Of 6-l, 6-i. This
was i'm the first round. In the second the
Brownsville Athletic Association player de-
| feated Mrs l.. c. Morris by 81, Go, her
swift forehand drives down the sidelnes
and into deep court forcing Mrs. Morris
to race from one side of her court TO the
/ other in a vain attempt to return the ball
Miss CassePs strokes we're extremely hard
to handle as her ball broke with sharp
I spin as soon as It hit the floor.
Mrs. Frederick Schmitz played an i'm
pressive game in the first round she
| forced Mrs. Willard Sullivan to succumb
| by a score of Go, 6-l, playing all around
her opponent and never giving her a
| chance to come up to the net.
In the second round Mrs. Schmitz con-
| tinred her winning streak by defeating
Mrs. F.. w. Jenkins strong player, by a
score of 81. Go The victor's stroklnS
in both these matches was forceful and
she had the range Of the court down to a
nicely. generally placing her ball incnes
only from the chalk marks.
Mrs. Charles ~ Beard, former west
ern champion, who has met with grea'
success since he began playing in the
East, two years ago, won both her match
es defeating Miss Elsa Kahn by a score
of 6-l, Ga In the first round and Miss
f. w. Merritt by 60, 81 in the second
bracket
Others to reach the round before the
semi-final were Miss Bessie G. Holden
the New Rochelle player, who defeated
Miss Elizabeth Bunce, former Hudson
River champion, by default in the frs
round In the next bracket she was op'
posed by Miss Helen Bernhard, who
forced her to three sets before victory
came to her by a score of rs, 40, 81.
Miss Florence Balm also reached the
third round, defeating Miss Gertrude
Dele Tore, of the West Side Tennis
Club, in the second round after a spr'
tied three-set match, the score being
So, 3-6, So.
Miss Teresa r. Kuser won both hel
matches, putting out Mrs. l.. q. Murray
in the first round and Miss Margaret
Grove, a former Southern champion, In
the second by a score of rs, 6-3.
The eighth player TO gain her double
brackets was Mrs. ID. e. Mills, who de-
feated Mrs. r. n. Knapp and Mrs. p.
| Wilbourne. successfully.
The tournament will be resumed on
Tuesday morning, play beginning at 1C
o'clock. The players will remain idle to-
morrow on account OF a review OF the
regiment by Mayor Mitchell at the ar
mory.
The draw for the doubles will be held
tomorrow noon. in the armory
The summary follows:
| Womens national indoor championship sin
giles first round)-A1iss Teresa r.. kuser de-
| feated Mrs. L. Il. Murray. e.. 60: Miss
| Margaret Grove defeated Miss Alice Ernstein.
| 81, G-1 Mrs Frederick Schmtz defeated
| Mrs Willard Sullivan. 60. 6-1 Mrs r. w
| Jenkins defeated Miss H. Roosevelt Punnett,
| 81, 60 Miss Florence Ballin defeated Miss
| Amy Harper. Go. Go: Miss Gertrude Dele
! Tore defeated Mrs. W. II. w. Voss. e.
| 90: Mrs Charles n. Beard defeated Miss
| Elsa Kahn, 6-1. e.: Miss Ethel Douglas
Merritt defeated Miss Putnam BY default: Miss
| Helen Bernhard defeated Miss Grace Bastine
| SO. 60. 60; Miss Bessie G.. Holden de
| feated Miss Elizabeth Bunce by default; Miss
| Katherine r. Force defeated Miss Adele Cragn
| Alice Il. Darnrosch by default: Miss Clare
| Cassel defeated Mrs T. Cassebeer. 6-1. Ga
| Mrs l.. G. Morris defeated Mrs. H. r Cooke
| 60. SO. 60; Mrs. d. c. Mills defeated Mrs.
| r. n. Knapp, 6-l. 6-3; Mrs. p. Wilbourne
defeated Miss Ina Alice Kissel by default.
Second round-bfiss Kuser defeated Miss
Grove, rs. G-3: Mrs schmitz defeated Mrs
Dele Tore. 90. SO 60: Mrs. Beard de
feated Miss Merritt, 80. 6-1; Miss Holden
| defeated Miss Bernhard. IS 4-6. 81 Miss
! Wagner defeated Miss Force. e. 60; Miss
| Cassel defeated Mrs. l.. G.. Morris, 6-1 60:
| Mrs Mills defeated. Mrs Wilbourne, Sc. 60