New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-26
PHYSICAL Culture Students
See Matches in New
York Club Tourney.
KING SMITH AND
WARD MOVE AHEAD
Advance to Round Before Semi
Final-Manhattan Doubles
Will Start To-day.
By FRED HAWTHORNE.

The players in the annual tournament
OF tho New York Lawn Tennis Club, at
Columbia Oval. competed yesterday
among surroundings that reminded
those Of poetical turn Of mind OF
Tennyson's masterpiece, "A Dream OF
Fair Women"
The courts we're surrounded by hocss
Of puichritudinous girls arrayed IN
boomers and MILDLY blouses, ard they
divided their time between playing
lawn tennis and field hockey and
grouping themselves artisticaiiy about
the club courts 70 watch the tourns-
ment players.
The near presence OF 80 much fem-
/ mime beauty and the continual nipple
Of giggles that arose from me group
did much 20 upset the steadiness OF
some Of the more impressionaole young
men among the tournament players.
The hardened, heartless bachelors took
full advantage Of their opponents
errors and piled up the points.
Much questioning and cross-ques-
4 tioning at length disclosed the fact
that the young women were members
Of DR. Savaqe's Physical Culture
Institute. out for their daily "consti,
tutioral." Il was the consensus OF
opinion among the players in The ciuo
tournament that DR.. Savage u entitled
20 qualify as a beauty expert,
King smith. Of the Seventh Regi-
ment. and Vanderbilt 3. Ward. who
won the Bronx County title last week
moved out into the round before the
, serni-fnal. and the others filled the
third round brackets. The Manhat-
tan doubles will start this afternoon.
Smith seems 20 be playing stronger
with every match. Yesterday he first
put Alfred D. Hammett out OF the way
bv score Of @. So and then de-
feated DR.. A. w. Waite, of the Dublin
Lawn Tennis Club. at "a, 6--3. Both
Hammett and Waite are rated as
strong players, but Smith had no
trouble In taking their measure. HIS
ground strokes were undes perfect
control and whenever he charged FOR
the net he usually finished tho point
with a well placed shot for the court
corners.
Ward defeated Charles c. Chambers
in straight sets to gain his place. TAX
ing the opening set at Sc, and the
second at 6--1. Chambers showed un-
mistakable signs Of staleness, having
already played nine sets at other
courts in the forenoon. In the early
stages of the match he managed 20
make an even thing OF it by edging in
clever shots past Ward at the net.
In the second set, however, Ward
started playing his shots with more
pace" fairly lacing the ball with
sweeping drives down the side lines
and then coming 10 the net for the
kill" Chambers could get only a
single game before Ward rar out the
set and match
The summaries follow:
singles (arst roundl-Alfret y Hammett
won from 4 r. f. Hoffman " default;
King Smith won from ". VI. FISCHER ~
default. 4 J Os,eniort won from George
/ King hv default. 4 Bassforl r. won from
] r Katx ny default. Allan Bekr defeatef
II swain t-2 g.. 4 VI. LovibOnd Won
from Edgar Leo BY default
second round-Smlth defeated Hamme,t
-. Ga; J X. Stenkampt defeated Dr
Wallace KRUGER. 60 6-3 I. W. Peasles
defeatel II. " Forster. 81. IS. A BASE
lord. Ir-. defeated A J Ostendort. -. =.
- fovibon1 defeated Allan Behr. IS, GO
THIRD round-Klng Smith defeated Or. A..
" waite. g. 6-3 Vanderbilt y Ward de-
feated Charles C. Chambers. SO. 81.