New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-28
Miss Clare Cassel Plans to
Teach Youth How to
Travel on Ice.
AMATEUR GERM BUSY
IN TENNIS WORLD
Murray Getting in Trim for In
door Tournament at 9TH
Regiment ArmOry.
By FRED HAWTHORNE.

we are IN receipt Oh poobai N"''
from Miss Clare Cassel, the lawn ten
mis- player Of the Bronxville A. A.,
bearing on one side picture OF the
Winter Garden in Pittsburgh and on
the other photograph Of Miss Cassel
and Paul Wilson waiting on skates.
1t is not, perhaps, generally known
that Miss Cassel, besides her skill on
the courts, is one Of the most accom-
plished women skaters in this coun-
try and one of the few figure skaters
who are versed in the intricate Con-
tinental system. According 10 her
card, Miss Cassel and Mr.. Wilson have
been engaged by the Winter Garden
Skating Rink, described as the Largest
in the world" for the season OF 1915.
She and her partner expect TO do mucn
in teaching young America how to
skate correctly.
At the recent meeting in this city
TO determine when an amateur ID not
an amateur" the question came up as
10 the status Of the man who received
financial return for teaching one form
of athletics and competed as an ANA
teur in another. Julian 5. Myrick,
president of the West Side Tennis
Club. selected Percy d. Haughton, the
Harvard football coach, as an example,
and declared that ne would gladly well
come Haughton to the West Side
courts as an amateur lawn tennis play
er, even though the Harvard coach
does receive $4,000 year for his
services TO his alma mater.
There are all sorts of rumors float
If . ho$ McI ~ u n
lin. Bundy and other players of the
Pacific Coast are about TO secede from
the United States National Lawn Ten
mis- Association, in view of the parent
bodys recent ultimatum regarding
amateurism among tennis players.
Such a proceeding would not be
stunning surprise. We have had "in.
surgents" in almost every other line
of sport, so why not in tennis? But
the chances are strongly against any
such action, for cooler heads will I'M
doubtedly prevail. and those who are
tempted now to become outlaws" Will
doubtless see the error OF their ways
The tempest in the teapot has been
raised, Of course, as an outcome OF
the stand taken by Mclaughlin and
Bundy. who intend 10 go into the
sporting goods business by opening a
store in San Francisco. DR.. Sumner
! Hardy, president of the Pacific Coast
Lawn Tennis Association, apparently
indorses the stand taken by the Cali
fornia Comet" and his partner, and
stated last week that any extension
of the rule against professionalism
would be opposed by the Far Western
body. The ruling of the national associ-
alton, however, will be accepted, accord
ing 10 DR.. Hardy.
II seems high time that some hard
and fast rule was laid regarding just
what a man can and cannot do as an
amateur tennis player. Certain men
of prominence on the courts are bound
to have their toes stepped on in the
process, but it will be for the good OF
the game, so "let the chips fall where
they may"
Since Lindley Murray, of California
and Bayonne, y. j., has announced his
determination of playing in the seven
teenth annual tournament indoor tennis
championship tournament, at the 18th
Regiment Armory, beginning February
-, people are beginning to wonder
how anybody will be able to handle
the young giants terrific service on the
DOAru UOOIS.
When Murray made his first appear
ance in this city in the summer of 1914
on the clay courts of the West Side
Tennis Club, at Forest Hills, the ire
mendous pace he put into his service
aroused astonishment. For sheer physi-
cal power and punch" it held sway
over anything Mclaughlin ever showed
end the ball bounded 80 high and so
fast on the clay surface as to give even
experienced players like Fred Alexan-
der a lot of trouble TO return.
Murray has been snatching spare mo-
ments from his business TO try out his
tennis arm in armory courts, besides
playing at the Heights Casino, OF
! Brooklyn. Those who watched the Palo
Alto youth in action describe his ser
vice indoors as little more than "a
crash, streak of white and zip like
a bullet as the ball strikes the floor"
In the uncertain light of the 7th
Regiment Armory, where an ordinarily
swift ball is hard to see and gauge cor
rectly. it is difficult to conjecture just
what is going to happen TO the oppos'
ing player when Murray lets loose his
lefthanded battery. And this applies
with double force when the Californian
charges TO the net TO score a kill
with one of his meteoric smashes. But
these are matters for Murray's OPP
ponents to worry over.