The sun., 1916-08-22
Few Stars Land in Upper Half
With the Former Holder
Of Title.
LIST INCLUDES 1923 MEN
~ DANIEL,

ny DANuEL.
III Richard Norris Williams "a IA 10
reach the nnai round for the national,
lawn tennis championship In the tourna.
Heht which 10 to be started next Mon
day. he will have to dispose Of Clarence
J. Grimm. Williams and Griffin we're
among those placed in the upper half In
the blind draw held yesterday afternoon
IN the onces Of the United States Ma.
tional Lawn Tennis Association, a. 20
Broad street.
Inere are several others In the upper
half who may make trouble for WILL
iams, but Grimm appears to be the only
man who Is sure Of giving the former
champion a hard night, and possibly
beating him. Grimm has already taken
"illiams's measure twice this season.
Every player Of prominence In this
country was included among the 1873
lanes drawn for the championship sin
giles. In addition there were the two
japanese stars. 1chiya Kumagae and
Haehishiro Mikami A. W. Macpherson,
one Of the doubles champions Of Russia,
and Count Otto m-Hoogstraeten Of
Austria.
One look at the draw 10 suficient to
convince the most sceptical that II was
As blind" rs blind could be. Several
tennis writer's and other followers Of
the game looked on while the names
were drawn. The tournament and the
game might have been served better IL
the eight leading players had been dis
tr'buted to various eighths of the draw.
A. II IL. most OF the strength lies In the
lower half. and even that 10 not well
balanced.
Dawso In Upper Half.
In the upper half Williams No. 2. IL
the leader In ranking with Grimm, No.
Z. and Walter Merrill Hall. No. 10. the
other members OF the hrst ten. Williams
had a close shave from being drawn
In the lower half as the draw split
at No. 81 and the 1914 champions name
wal the sixty-third drawn Other strong
players In the upper half are 8. Howard
Voshell. Wallace +. Johnson, II. Van
Dyke Johns. Charles s. Garland. Ward
Dawson, Douglas = Waters ~ New
Orleans. Mikami. William J. Clothier
and Robert lie Roy.
The lower half contains the names Of
William NJ. Johnston. the present cham
pion: Maurice F.. Mclaughlin. 1919
champion. now ranked No. 8: Karl II.
Behr. No. 4: T. r. Pell. No. 5: ". w.
Niles. No. 6: Watson NJ. washburn, No.
9. and George N. Church. No. ..
KumaEae. who has victories to his credit
over Johnston and Grimm. will have to
beat a high class field II he 10 to reach
the semi-inal round.
AnpnaD the yNOrA ARnart earrs,aH aHaea
In this half. In addition to those in the
irst ranking class. are II. D.. Little.
Roland Roberts and Willis +. Davis OF
the Pacific coast contingent Dean
Mathey. Harold A. Throckmorton. Fred
Alexander. r. L!ndley Murray. James
Weber. f. p. Larned and Conrad u
Doyle. the Washington sar
Doubles On Opening Day.
The tourney will be started Monday
morning at the West Side Tennis Club
at Forest Hills.
Tn feature on Monday will be the
championship doubles challenge match.
in which Mclaughlin and Dawson. chal-
lengers. will meet Johnston and Griffin,
champions. who took the title from Nc
Loughlin and Thomas Bundy last year.
According to the draw there will be
sixty-four survivors In the singles on
Tuesday. Wednesday will see the lis,
reduced to thirty-.wo. sixteen will play
Thursday. eight Friday. and the semi
inal round will be reached Saturday.
There will be no play Sunday. but the
Anal round will be staged on Labor Day
unless unfavorabie weather conditions
cause delay.
Mclaughlin and Dawson arrived In
town yesterday morning. n decided
not to 80 to Southampton for the ain
giles tournament. They VIII very likely
play In doubles At the Long Island re.
sort. but will not 20 there until Thurs
day.
McLoushlin At Forest Hills.
Mclaughlin thought he could do his
game moro good II he stayed here and
practiced on the courts Of the West side
Club. He went to Forest Hills with
Dawson In the afternoon and had a Ions
practice session. MAC" will continue
playing at Forest Hills to-day and to-
morrow. II. l.. Murray. Fred Alexander
and Karl Behr are among those who will
help the Comet get into form. Nc
Loughlin got busy with the wires yes
terdsy and arranged practice dates with
all three.
Mclaughlin and Dawson requested the
national championship cOmmittee to post
pons the challenge round OF the doubles
from Monday to Tuesday. The COM
mittee was willing enough, but had TO
put the matter before Johnston and Grit
nm. The latter were called UP over the
telephone at Southampton and declined
to give their consent to the delay.
"I want to play the doubles and get
through with II on Monday and then
devote all my attention to singles de-
clared Johnston. 1T sort OF puts a
man of his game TO play singles. then
doubles and then 20 back to singles. We
will be all keyed up for the singles on
Monday and would greatly prefer II the
original schedule were adhered to-"
Mclaughlin looked TO be In the best
OF shape. lie Is extremely eager to
get into action,