The sun., 1916-09-24
MACPHERSON MAKES
/. FINE TENNIS START
Wins First Match I'm West SIDE
Championship singles,
Beating Graves.
8. JOHNSTON IMPRESSES

with a scarcity of stars In the cham-
pionship class. play In the annual closed
Of the West side Iehn'H
Ciub was started on the Forest fi"e
courts yesterday afternoon. tn coH-
pc,it,on consists OF three divisions
championship. Glass u and Class I SIN.
giles. Preliminary matches determined
the rating Of each entrant.
A. W. Macpherson. the Russian with
a Scotch name. was h winner OF the
lone match contested In the champioh-
ship division. He defeated Louis Graves.
o-s. Ga, 6--3. Macpherson. despite
his H,eland name. can talk Russian far
more slibly than English and holds the
! championship Of u P~etrograd club. he
let Graves do all the forcing In the hrst
set and Just looked the veteran over.
Then Macpherson began playing some
! tennis on his " account ana Graves
was a poor second. None OF the west
side Clubs recognized stars is entered
this year. The reason no one knows.
In the Glass u singles \. G. Hunter
scored over ". q. Young In a rather un-
evenly contested match. Hunter won the
first set at G-i and then had TO 60
twenty-cight games TO win the second.
f, Julian :. Myrick. president OF the cluo.
began his annual splurgc In the ranks oi
the toilers on { ehoucrt and had to 60 an
extra set to eliminate l.. l.. Reyes 3D.
IS. 6-4. 6-3.
stuart Johnston played some tennis
tina looked q bit better than Class Il.
lie was a double winner. His first VIC
tim MAS n. r. Harrington. "a. q.
Then he disposed Of T.. II. Mo'r. GO.
s.. Take ii from Moir himself, John
ston Is going 20 Join the stars pretty
soor.
In the Class { singles r.. l.. Satteriee
played mn extra set to put T. 4. Nos
worthy OUT OF the running. and pr,
Forbes Hawkes. also pla ycd a third sci
to beat Nelson T. Kenyon.
The women's championship singles will
not lie started until october :. II there
IL a sufficient number Of entries a mixed
doubles tourney will be held In commune
ton with tina, event. The summaries:
West side championship s!nslss-Fir.
,ound-A " .M.cpher.on defeated Loui
elias. r. slngl-s-First round-C. q
Newman defeated Herbert. Chase. 90
81! -; a. L. Durham defeated william
ssea,.a : |, K.ys. ii. ' s'n-s." 60 T.r~,ess. y
s @-H,". Einss' * Norman s,'a' iSnn H5R'ey a. nt I
James :. Earle. ga. ia. Il u. GatcomI
GGsts.a' g. T AS.,ria.s' II: Sow Loa,h nI
s., 90. II W. Warner defeated ". 4
hcurne. -. 80: r. II. Moir defeated Or
e W. pinkham. SO. ~. stuart John
son defeated u =. harrington. So. 6:
4. . Hunter defeated W. q. Young. s-i
i5-.s
c. l. csinpbeii, 81. ~. S%t. {. : Ian
ders defeated Il. Is. Tomiin.. Jr, "a a.
-: Gordon BOYD defeated Charlie
bishop. "a. lo-s; ". J Gallon d.f-a;e,
lewis ". 81. -; stuart John
s'on defeated T.. II. Moir. s.. $. " :
Meli'ck defeated Il. L. strebeieh. 81.
-. ii
Class e s.nsies-Fir.t round-Brun
HUM defeated N: =. Garretscn. 50: SIS
n. J. Daniel. defeated Dwigh: Macdonald
ID 80 A: = Pos,ies defeated r. ,
Coke. 50. -: Richard Eyre desca:e
e NJ. Leask. u. c.
Second kourd1-L j. Carru,hers. def-a'e
won from ~ Kenyon by default: =. p.
Eo"mc defeated L. X. Hammond. T.
ia: n. NJ Grsham d-'Natc l.. y. stryke'
|. .I,t-i. pr. r n H.r.inss- defeated
~ Hisgins 81, 6--S, L. l. H.ye.. Jr
: S~iierie" defeated T A -Noswor:hy. g
60. c. DR. Forbes Hawkes. dr.este
Nelson r. Ken, on. 6-i. IS. 81.