New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-30
Thirty-two, Including Man,
Holder of Chief Cup, En-
ter Invitation Tourney.
EIGHT MATCHES
ARE COMPLETED
Chambers and DiOnne Indulge in
Long Rallies and Fail to
Settle Supremacy.
BY FRED HAWTHORNE.

The annual invitation lawn tennis
tournament of the Edgemere Tennis
Club at Edgemere. l.. l., began yester-
day with thirty-two men entered in the
singles, including Alrick II. Man, jr.,
who won the chief cup last year. Eight
matches were completed. after a late
start, and one remained unfinished
but that was between Charles C. Cham
bers and G.. A. l.. Dionne. so nobody
expected decisive result N less than
two days.
A heavy rain on Wednesday night
had rendered the clay courts very heavy
and mad, fast playing out of the ques-
ton, although several of the matches
were well contested. With clear wealth
er to-day the courts will be well dried
out and the field should be brought
down clo.e 20 the round before the
semi-fnals.
Some of those players who are ac-
customed to swelter through a hard
match these midsummer days found a
welcome change at Edgemere yester-
day. The courts are located right on
the brink of the Atlantic and hard
smashed ball, such a Maurice McLough-
lin INDUCES in, lands with rather
alarming frequency in the tossing
bosom of the ocean.
Indeed, so close TO the sea are the
courts that each year fer the last dec
ade the club has opened up each sea-
son to find il had no courts, the surf
having washed them away. A huge
stone breakwater is now in process of
construction, which the committee
hopes to solve the problem of court
conservation.
Some two hundred members Ct the
Edgemere Club gathered about the
courts when play began yesterday, their
chairs placed on the sandy stretch TO
the west, and the cottagers whose homes
are adjacent 10 the club also watched
the operations from their windows.
Chambers and Dionne, known as the
Alpha and Omega of the courts, because
they are always first to start and last
to inish, tried to settle the supremacy
on the championship stretch of clay.
Chambers took the first set at 6-1 and
Dionne brought the match even again
by winning the second at 6-3.
To the uninitiated the scores indicate
a short match. Such was not the case,
however. The back-court rallies be-
twee the pair were so long, that the
first set occupied almost an hour in the
playing. 1t was no uncommon occur
re'ce for the ball to travel back and
forth over the net fifty times before
the point was decided.
In the first game of the second set, a
woman spectator counted a total Of
seventy-Iine returns before Dionne fin
ished the point by drive across the
court that found Chambers out of posi-
ton. This was announced as a new
record in affairs of this kind, and after
hopping their faces and partaking Of
artiesian well water Dionne and his OPP
pOnent went right back to their task.
II was so dark before the second set
was completed that the men were COM
PEELED to stop and grope their way to
the dressing rooms. The committee
will see to it that Chambers and Dionne
make an early start to-day.
Man seemed TO find the courts to his
liking yesterday, and walked away
from Harold Swain by a score of 60,
90. He was severe in his overhead
play, and his great reach gave him an
advantage when he came to the net.
Swain finding it almost impossible to
pass his opponent.
The most evenly fought match of the
day resulted in the meeting between
Kenneth d. Fisher, the Cornell student,
and Albert J. Ostendorf. Fisher finally
won at 81, 7-5. The points were
scored mostly from back court, and
Fisher was successful in slipping the
ball down the side lines for placement
shots, which gave him the shade on
Ostendorf.
Vanderbilt B. Ward who has made a
specially of winning the chief cups in
the tournaments around New York this
season, defeated Ralph L. Baggs at
6-3, Cd. Ward put great speed into
his left-handed forehand drives. and al
though Baggs succeeded several times
in cutting these off short by getting to
the net his opponent was too luick for
him as a rule and Bags wa. far out
of position as the ball whistled by him.
DR.. William RosenbaUm had an ex-
ercise gallop against Clarence Low,
putting his opponent out by a score of
GO, Cd. Low is a left-hander, with
plenty of speed on his ground strokes
but Rosenbaum's forehand drives had
more power and better direction, and
his net game entirely outshone any
thing Low could do.
The summaries follow:
Mems invitation singles first roundl-Edmund
j Fhman defeated Arthur Schcfcr. 81. 60 J..
20. Kenneth d. Fisher defeated Albert J. Osten
dorf. 80. -. Hugh Tallant defeated Serge
Rupert; %. 81; Or William Il, seubaum de
fested Clarence Low. g. .; II clifford Black
b. Ward defeated Ralph l. Bags. 6-3. "a.