The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-10
FINE TENNIS SEEN
IN BRONX TOURNEY
yo,hcIl. Present TitlehOlder,
and Stcinkampf Win Way
10 Fifth Round.
". VI. HALL ELIMINATED

Howard Noshell, the playing
,Nrougf champion, and J. II. Stein
sarpf moved all the way out to the
suh round In the singles Of the lawn
,.rn.s tournament for the Bronx county
championship at the Bedford Park
Lawn T,uus club courts yesterday
both Of these players, the only two to
got ir'n tine round before the scml-fnal
won their third and fourth round
matches yesterday in straight sets. The
,,lehc der, playing close to his best
form FIRST beat -. Walker at e.. "a.
and then downed W. Hslsey Wood. for
yner Columbia player. at "a, 6--2
stenksmpf's showing on the number
NJ games lost during the day was a lit
tie better than that Of Voshell. for while
the Borough Park Lawn Tennis Club
nays ,os fourteen games while he
vas winning his two matches stein.
sampf lost only ten. Steinkampf won
in the third round from Harold swain at
Sd 6S and played even faster tennis
IN the fourth round to beat T. NJ Behar
a. 6--3, 81
There was an abundance of good ten
mis-, In spite " the fact that most of the
players hav. not got the kinks out OF
their batting arms yet, and "A couple of
upsets Ono Of the unexpected results
was the defeat OF Walter Merrill Han
nj the West Side Tennis club. who held
the Bronx title year before last, by
Frederick G. Raggs. There were a
great many who expected Hall To- regain
me title, which he dropped to vosheil
last year hut Raggs put him out of the
-unning in n three set match. of which
the scores we're "a s.. los
Hall started to play the match with
plenty NJ speed and power. hut he WAS
travelling under forced draught and
he slowed IN steadily. After tho first
se, was finished Halls game was nothing
Ike what ne ~ capable Of. while Bags
tore around tho court IN great style
and got everything that was offered him.
Just "a no might be expected to i'm
the flush % tho season. Hail made q
title stand ~ the tinsl set and forced
70 10 deuce four times. but his lack Of
speed in getting after the ball made him
Csc lot of points
Arthur " LovihHnd defeated Abra-
ham Hs-sford. Ir. IN tho third round
IN one Of tho prettiest matches Of tho
day. Loyihoud could not get going In
he op"nirg set and lost 1t in a hurry
20 Bassford. hut In the next two he
played All around his opponent and Won
hen With ease ut IS. Is Another
good match was that I'm which Louis
raves NJ tho West Side club quite UNI
'Npcc'cily NhuQuishcd & l.. Johnston.
j.. orst"hijo New England m,ercpllc.
gate champion. This was another three
~ battle with tho sets ou either end
-oug 10 deuce The scores were 81.
s., -. The summaries.
B-onN County rhsmpionship. Mems
-, RIA'Ph l. Basss defeated ,Roh,r'
cs.fs. ch.m TSs defeated non-y ecu pS.
ford. -. ~. IS. NJ T. Fox Jr.. de
Passed Frank oliver. "a. -, {. l..
ichns'Gn dsfeatei Frank Fall; s-4. IS.
b" default
=, N,e,,ogI BoundI,rre! c: Bags. won from
h.fs defeated +. Bellows. Jr-. S., 81
e.. Tout, Graves dsfGstet g /. Johnston.
baum Won from Willard Loeb nv default.
Nsnde-biN Ward defeated r u Pteirer.
N.5,ss.,s- +, tc,. Kf'1 E TS" NJ irG s"b Il
f'.tsd Hardy. 81. g; Alien Behr
Dictated George King. lo-s, Sc. George
,s1', q walker defeated II " u H,s;inrs.
81 90, Abraham Bassford.. ~. de-
b daal',. Jones MsrsSreau iefea,sd q.
Por-er So. t-o. -. II Croley defeated
rhi-i Rouna Fly NJ Behar defeated J.
i,ss,et Hs-oIi swain s-8. "a Aucn
sen fSi'' - w. NJ F'rs a:., e' t 5
ttrsn -. s--i; :. Howard roshe'l de-
i w.', q. .Wsiker. - g Nsndcrhu'
r'hg- VI Ioyihoni defeated Ab-,hsu