New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
,u Favorites, Save Daw-
son, Come Through in
Opening Clashes.
pOWLAND EVANS
SPRINGS SURPRISE
oam, Defeats Mahan, but Only
After Stubborn Struggle of
Five Sets.
py FRED HAWTHORNE.

Five Sets.
nv FRED HAWTHORNE.
v.,.,ort. Aug. l6.-The first annual
Ito, lawn tennis tournament on
80 cour.s Of the Newport Casino
-. here this morning with an even
~ .,,vers entered from all over the
country in the draw
r,sourh the national champion
40. will no. be held on the Casino
-. ,bcv were surrounded through
~. mas. OF ;he day by a gallery no
~, brilliant than those during the
~ wears chat the allcomers' tourney
-. this Rhode Island town the lawn
..-,is centre Of America.
c,l.forris was represented by Maui
IF Mclaughlin. rated at the great
-. ,,sver in the world; William NJ.
,.t,,,or and Clarence J. Griffin, chal-
',,gSrs for the national title IN
Jo1b'ss. and Ward Dawson. champion
n Southern California.
Dawson Bows to Evans.
lawson alone was put out Of the
..-r-srer. to-day. the newest player
i---, ,Ee coast going down before Row
- Tvars. of the Merton Cricket
1.rb Of Philadelphia, by score OF
- "a o ? The result Of this
-s,cb was the one surprise Of the
eli -ts other logical favorites
coming through.
Richard Norris Williams, I'd, the ma
.orsl cham-.on, and the strongest
,.-resertat:ve Of the East. defeated
Trsrk ~ Watrous. the former Yale
Saver IN straight sets at 6-3, 6-4,
"a Johnston was too much for
7slrb l Bags. Of New York, and won
sy score OF 6 j. 90, E-2.
The most stubbornly contested match
- the day. and one that found the
men s,ill battling for the points long
otter the sun had gone down, was the
one between Clarence J. Griffin and
Lyle z Mahar. Of the West Side Ten
ris Club Of New York. Ii was not
mil the sets had gone the limit at
81. 60. 6-s, SIS, 6-3, that Griffin
pulled up in the lead. Mahan fought
his s,ocEy opponent almost 10 q stand
sui. and Griffin was a pleased young
nan when his opponent lost the ina!
2oint Of the match by netting Grimm
service.
L was much ike an "Old Home
Week" meeting when the players began
% drift into town this morning. 1heo-
doIs Pell, DR.. William Rosenbaum,
Walter L. Pate, Nahan and Frederick
B. Alexander arrived by the night boat
from New York, and not single one
o. the FIVE got more than couple OF
hours sleep, thanks 70 thick fog that
,verhung the Sound and made neces-
ary the continual footing Of the
steamers fog horn from midnight on.
Several times during the course Of
the day these luckless ones stifed
yswns and stretched YEARLY. Those
Who arrived by the midnight train from
New York Jared little better.
Courts In Fine Condition.
Tom Petit. the Casino professional:
ais partner. Newman, and Willie
Tucker, the turf doctor" had the
courts IN splendid condition for the
week Of play, and the courts never
boxed better.
The stands on either side were fairly
ye.. filed when the first match OF the
day, in which Irving c. Wright, Of Bos-
ton, defeated Dr. William Rosenbaum,
o! New York, az 81, So, 6-3n 10,
vas started
The tuueful string orchestra under
The leadership Of Henri Conrad, who
has been inspiring Casino lawn tennis
players and spectators with ms melo-
dies for years. opened the day officially
a. 1880 O'Clock on the stand under the
great trees back Of the Casino, but
j. was not untl Fred Mansfield. the
perennial umpire at all Newport ma
u0lGl a..comers' &C rnaments for the
lH th.rty-tyo years. sang out his lrst
"Dooz' with the same old rising in
Section a. the end that everybody felt
hngs were as they ought TO BE-.
NcLOugh.us match with Francis
Burke Roche, .u the first round, was
10, put on until late in the afternoon.
Aaurle had motored up from Seabright
z new automobile, IN company with
Williams Ward Dawson and one or
tWo others. each taking turn at
'fylug. and they seemed a trlAe stiff
wen tLeI climbed out of the machine,
n
oosened 900 their muscles.
Mclaughlin. Dawson and Griffin were
playing on adjoining courts at the
same time and frequently took advan-
age Of delays .D their own matches
70 watch each other az work.
Roche No Match for Comet"
Mclaughlin had no trouble in TAX
hg The measure Of Roche and by the
manner 90 which he romped about the
N1i', varying sizzling forehand drives
- tremendous Comet smashes. he
appeared TO have fully recovered from
.Ie tieets Of the heat In his recent
'ITI,ilc match with Karl Behr.
Inc Californian had fine control OF
-' service and scored aces seemingly
. WILL Roche did well to get five
t1mes % the match, and upon more
nan one occasion had the better of
ing sessions at the net
"aiiamS found Frank Watrous a
ssor'hy opponent in the first two sets,
'-s oid Yale captain ripping fast fore
ana backhand drives down the sides Of
e court with so much pace" that the
SIa'.oAai champion had to do lot OF
.aot travelling about his court to re-
I'm them. IN the last set. however,
,Hehard was himself again." and
G.ucE the lines and the corners with
, nc same style that ne had found so
!, al against Behr at Seabright
70 Saturday
aver their matches had been fin
cue, S.so Mclaughlin and Williams sat to-
,.IHSr on a bench and watched Griffin
a., ~ Nahan struggle through their ive
Evans accomplished the defeat Of
BsssSson by persistently driving to the
,'NHG Coast mans forehand, which
l ,.Gg,ed 10 be vulnerable point, and by
g'ousiy avoiding lobs, which he had
-, warned beforehand Dawson
V,lG smear" Dawson lost many
}, utsDie points by his lack Of control