New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-25
WOMEN BATTLE
AT NET TO-DAY
FOR SILVER CUP
Miss Balm to Meet Miss
Cassel in Final on
Orange Club Court.
Ry FRED HAWTHORNE.


1 Miss Florence Ballin. of the West
/ Side Tennis Club. and Miss Clare Cas-
sci, will meet this afternoon at 2:S0
o'clock on the turf courts of the Orange
Lawn Tennis Club. az Mountain sta
/ ton. y. j.. in the final round of the
women's invitation tournament to de-
eide the ownership of the handsome
silver cup.
Miss Cassel and Miss Marie Wag-
ner won the final round Of the doubles
/ By defeating Miss Ruth Cheeseman
and Miss Georgia Whaley at 6-3. 6 ,.
Miss BALM won her way into the
/ final round Of the singles by taking the
measure OF Miss Florence Sheldon. of
Montclair. by score of 6-1, 6 a. and
/ Miss CasSel gained her bracket by van
! gushing Mrs. Robert lie Roy in a
/ hard-fought match at 6-3. &c. 6 l.
/ Miss Hazel Gardiner and Miss Bessie
! Holden will meet in the final round Of
the consolation singles this afternoon.
/ Immediately after the finish of the
] championship singles match. Miss Cas-
sci and Miss BALM will again take the
court IN an exhibition mixed doubles
match, their partners being either
George NJ. Church. Northwestern cham
/ pion, and Dean Mathey. or Leonard
( feekman, of Princeton. and Harold A.
4 1hrockmorton. national interscholast
/ champion.
The easy manner in which Miss Bal
B lin triumphcd over Miss Sheldon WAS
a great surprise to the gallery. which
/ expected to see the Montclair cham
zion give her opponent bitter fight
/ for the honors. Superior speed and
greater strength in almost every vari-
ETY. OF stroke. however. were the fac
tors that won for Miss BALM. and
after she had finished her match, il
was the general opinion about the court
/ that she will give Miss Cassel stir
ring battle for the chief cup this after
/ noon.
4 Mrs. lie Roy was apparently nervous
al the beginning of her match with
Miss Cassel and did not do herself JUS
tice until the games had gone steadily
against her in the first set. Then she
started TO try for the lines with her
deep drives and began to pass Mss
Cassel as the latter made for the net
position. After losing this set at So,
Mrs. lie Roy played with more con
fdence. timing her shots so cleverly
that her opponent was frequently
tricked out of position.
The games alternated up TO Sail
and then Miss Cassel. won the seventh
and led at 4-3, having the match with
in her grasp at that point. Mrs lie
Roy showed her courage by taking the
next three games in a row, clearly out
playing her rival and bringing the
match even by winning the second set
at e.
The uphill fight she made in the pre-
ceding set left Mrs. lie Roy tired and
she could not cover her court with her
usual speed. Miss Cassel tuned up her
own strokes and piled up the points
rapidly by cutting off her opponents
drives sfrom mid-court and ripping
slashing back-hand shots across tn,
court. Mrs. lie Roy could do no more
than win one game before the New
York State doubles champion won the
set at 81 and the match.
The almost frictionless team work
of Miss Wagner and Miss Cassel in
the final round of the doubles was en-
tirely too much for Miss Cheeseman
and Miss Whaley, and although the
losers fought gamely, the result was
never in doubt. Miss Cassel was par
ticularly brilliant overhead. and upon
many occasions shot the ball squarely
between the opposing pair for place
ment aces. Miss Whalev was the stead
lest player on the court and covered
a great amount of ground in going sf
ter Miss Wagner's hard drives to the
corners.
The point score of the doubles match
and the summaries follow:
FIRST SET
Mis, Wagner ana Mi, Cosssl-
o 4-s 20
0 Go -
SECOND SET.
Miss Wagner and Miss Cas,el-.
Mis-, C6sescmAn and Miss whaley-
won.n.. INVITATION single, sem, Ina. roun e
G-3. 90. st Miss Florence BALM defeated
Miss Florence sheldon. 81. e..
Womens Invitation doubles lsecond round Miss
Glare CsSsel and Miss Marie Wagner defeated Miss
BALM and Miss Jane Rowson. %. -
numphries defeated MIs. Percy Wileolrne and
Miss Corona VIM 6-s. as. 6,n,S; Miss Cs.sel
AID Miss Wagner defeated Miss Hslsey and Miss
Holmes IS 6-l Miss Ruth Cheesenan and Mss
Georgia WhGley defog'ed Mrs. Arthur O. Deans
and Mrs David c. Mills. -. IS G.
Sem! nnal rOund-Miss Cassel aud Miss wagner
defeated Miss Holden and Ms HumPhries 81,
Miss Katharine Potter and Miss Margaret Seymour
Final round-Aiiss Cassel and Miss Wagner de
feaod Miss Chceseman ana Miss Whaley. e-S.
Consolation singles semi final round)-Mls' Be,
U,rN fefar &c.