New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-10
TENNIS PLAYERS
AWAIT OPENING
OF BIG SEASON
Harlem Club Starts Ball
Flying with Tourney
Starting Saturday.
BY JAMES s. ONEALE.

Tennis in full swing will soon be
upon us. Saturday is the fateful day
in this vicinity, when the annual open
tournament at the Harlem Tennis Club,
previously announced, will begin. On
the same day comes the Harvard in
terscholastic at Cambridge, big
schoolboy event in New England.
The women's metropolitan cham
pionship will commence Monday on
the West Side Tennis Clubs grounds
nj Forest Hills, and on the same day
the New England intercollegiate cham
pionships take the famous courts Of
the Longwood Cricket Club at Boston.
The annual invitation of the Tuxedo
Club. at Tuxedo, starts on May 10. For
the following day two other events IN
this CITY are carded, the Bronx County
championship and the Manhattan dou-
bles, at the New York Lawn Tennis Club.
A full announcement of these matches
appears below. On May % comes the
annual invitation event OF the n py
Hollow Tennis Club, where K. Llndiey
Murray first burst into general notice
two years ago, and the next day ano-
Their invitation, the women's annual,
will begin on the courts Of the Pelham
Country Club at Pelham Manor.
Several other tournaments begin be-
fore Nav fades into the super-tennis
month OF June. On May 26 youngsters
will hold the courts of the Kings
County Tennis Club, Brooklyn, with
might and main as they compete for
a new event, the junior championship
Of Long Island. The next day the open
mems doubles begins at the Elizabeth
Town and Country Club, the open
mixed commences at the Essex County
Country Club, West Orange, the pre-
liminary national doubles in the Middle
Atlantic will start at the Chevy Chase
Club. and several other important
tournaments begin in various parts OF
the country.
On the same day the Marine and
Field Club annual open, announced be-
low. will start. "a will also the cham
pionship of Eastern New York State
at the County Tennis Club of West
chester. at Hartsdale. On the last Day
OF MAY the Great Neck Country Club
will stage the Nassau and queens
County championship.
Announcements for the sixteenth an
nual open tournament of the New YORK
Lawn Tennis Club and the seventh an
nual of the Marine and Field CLUB,
Bath Beach, are out. The former event.
TO be held on the club courts at Column
bia Oval. Gun Hill Road and East 21Oth
Street. will be held on May 20 and
following days.
The events TO be contested are The
Bronx County championship, singles;
the Manhattan doubles championship
a mems handicap and a consolation.
The prizes are The Bronx County
championship trophy for singles, and
the Manhattan championship challenge
bowls for doubles, for the first time:
There will also be first and second
prizes for each event.
All the matches, except the tnals'
will be the best two out OF three sets.
Play will begin az 1880 o'clock on the
opening day. Entries will close at 0
o'clock Thursday afternoon, May Is,
with DR.. Wallace Krugler, 3O2 Central
Park West, or New York Lawn Tennis
Club, Columbia Oval, williamsburg,
New York City. The singles fee is 81
the doubles SO team.
The Marine and Field Club event IN
singles and doubles will start at 3
o'clock May 81. First and second prizes
will be given, and challenge cup in
the singles, now held by Vanderbilt d.
Ward, the noted southpaw. This cup
must be won three times, not necessar-
ily in succession, for permanent pos
session. G.. A. l.. Dionne took the first
and third legs on it, and Lincoln REIN
er tho second. Entries close May rs,
with C. ]. Ranney, Marine and Field
Club. Bath Beach, Brooklyn, N. Y. The
fee Is 81 in the singles, SO team In
the doubles.
The success. from reportorial
standpoint. of the Harlem Tennis Club
event commencing next aSturday is as
sured. f. p. A., the Boss, will enter,
III cnrnn thore too in his liYYer.