New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11
RECORD ENTRY FOR
LAWN TENNIS TILT
Seventeen Schools to Com
pete for the League
Championship.

Seventeen high schools will compete
for the lawn tennis championship Of
Greater New York this year, accord
ing to the schedule announced for the
season yesterday. The entry is the
biggest since the organization of the
schoolboy league.
Play will begin on May and con-
tnue for FIVE Saturdays, when the sur
vivors in the three divisions will play
off for the interborough and city cham
pionships on June and -. Three
singles and one doubles match will be
played and il has been decided that
no one boy can compete in two matches.
One point will be awarded for the
victors in the singles and two points
in the doubles.
Failure Of the home team 10 notify
an opponent five days in advance Of the
series as to where it will be played
will be classed as a forfeited match.
A plaque will 90 to the school winning
the city title.
The schedule follows:
MANHATTAN- BRONX RICHMOND DIVISION
MAY DE VIII Clinton vs.. Curtis. Morris ".
roHnssnd Harris. Commerce IS Stuyvesant. -
Witt Clinton Townsend ". Commerce.
NAV l5-Curtis Va. stuyresant De witt Clinton
May 22-Stuyvessnt Townsend Harris Morris
vs. De Wit Clinton. Commerce vs.. Curtis
rs vs. Curtis. DE Witt Clinton IS. Commerce.
BROOKLYN DIVISION
Msy Eastern District Bushwick. Bay Ridge
vs. Manual Training Boys Hish vs. Erasmus Han
Ridge.
EN- District vs. Bay Ridge. Erasmus Hal 7s Bush
MAY e2-B.y Ridge IS Erasmus Hall Manual
Training vs.. Eastern District. Bushwick vs.. Boys
May 2s- Erasmu. Han rs, Eastern District. Man.
usl Training 1s. Bu.hwck Bay Ridge VS. Boys
QUEENS DIVISION.
MAY l-Jamsica IS. Nestovn. Far RockaWay rs
Richmond Hill. Flushing bye.
vs., Far Rockaway. Jamaica bye.
May l5-Fsr Rockaway IS. jamaica, Flushing
MAY 22-NeVtOwn Richmond Hill Jamaica
s, Flushing Far Rockswsy bye.
MAJ 2s-Flushing ". Far Rocksway. Richmond
HI vs. Jamaica. New town bye.
June 5--In,srborouEh championship.
June l2-CiU championship
Norman Meany, the star pitcher Of
Morris, is out to make a record on the
mound during the coming season. In
two games to date he has allowed his
opponents only five hits. while he has
passed only one man in eighteen inn
ings. Twenty-Five rival batters have
been struck out. Meany is a giant for
a schoolboy. standing feet . inches
high and weighing 1870 pounds. He
has still to reach his eighteenth birth
day.
The swimmers OF the elementary
schools are waiting for the indoor
champ ionships, which are to be held
at the West SiXtieth Street baths next
Saturday morning. Over two hundred
entries from fifteen schools of the city
have been received.
in the thick of the fight of the cham
pionshlp. but keen competition can be
expected from the boys of this bor-
ouRh. who have been showing up we'll
during the practice periods. With the
rapid improvement shown by the young
boys. it is expected that a new record
or two will be established.
Edward Warnke. Of Richmond Hill
High School, who finished third in the
'cross-country championship run last
fall. has enjoyed much success in open
competition during the last few
months. Warnke started in two middle
distance races. taking one third place
in one and leading his field home in
the other, l,000-yard run.
Interclsss baseball has begun al the
Erasmus Hall High School with TWEEN
ty-nine teams taking part in the tour
namsur