New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-22
TENNIS CRACKS
TO TEST SKILL
ON CLAY COURTS
Players of High Class Elk
pected for Tour
ney in Ohio.
BY JAMES 9. O'NEALE.

Entries Tor the clay court tennis
championships of the United States,
play in which begins Saturday at the
Lakewood Tennis Club, Lakewood,
Ohio, near Cleveland, already indicate
a tournament Of high class. 1t is as
sured, according to Erwin G. Cutlery,
chairman of the tennis committee, that
the title holders, in singles Richard
Norris Williams I'd, and Miss Molla
Bjurstedt, and in doubles, George NJ
Church and Dean Mathey, will be on
hand.
The play of Williams, national cham
pion Of the country in 1914, when he
defeated Maurice +. Mclaughlin in the
finals at Newport, will be watched with
particular interest. as there are many
tennis observers who think the nervy
young Harvard star will regain the
premier honors at Forest Hills this
, summer.
Church, Edward R. Mccormick and
Eugene R. Warren, of Los Angeles;
Howard Van Dyke Johns and Willis f.
Davis, Of San Francisco; Albert T.
Spalding and T. W. Hendrick, of Buff
falo; II. T. Emerson and Reuben A.
Holden, Of Cincinnati; w. S. McEllroy
and c. S. Chick Garland, of Pitts
burgh, and several other players from
different parts OF the country will give
the tournament truly a national flavor
II all these men actually play. Mr..
CUTLERY also announces the entry of
Dean Mathey in the singles, but
| Mathey said two or three days ago that
he expects to play only doubles, and
the Princetonian IS likely 10 be tied up
! IN the Middle States championship till
past Saturday.
1t is possible that the japanese stars,
| kumagse and Mykami. conquerors in
! singles and doubles of Clarence (Peck)
/ Griffin and Ward Dawson. in the Far
East, will be on hand. IL Is known that
the two Orientals are on their way,
/ planning TO compete, but no late word
has been heard from them.
Announcements are out for one of
| the most popular events on the sched-
ule, the New York State championships,
| TO be held at the Yahnundasis Golf
Club, of Utica, beginning Monday, July
10. Last year tournament week was a
big event at Utica and points surround
| ing, and many players Of the metropol-
,tan district journeyed by rail or auto
mobile to take part in the tennis and
! other festivities for which the club is
famous.
The president Of the club is the popu-
lar Edwin Fuller Torrey, long the we'll
known secretary of the United States
National Lawn Tennis Association. Mr.
To 10 h. 80, Il.
! pitality of the Yahnundasis and Utica
good cheer. The club used to hold the
championship of Central New York, and
since the tournaments inception eight
years ago many of the men who en-
tered then have never missed a sue
ceeding event. Now the titles of New
York State and Central New York cham
| pion are competed for in the same tour
nament, the winner getting a substan-
tial New York State trophy for perma-
nent possession and years possession
of the Maurice f. Mclaughlin bowl sig
nifying the Central New York title.
| This bowl was presented in 1914 by Red
Macs namesake, John Z. Mclaughlin,
of the Yahnundasis Golf Club. and will
be the permanent possession of him
who wins IL three times, not necessarily
| in succession.
Entries for the event should be sent
to the chairman of the tournament COM
mittee. Mr.. Torrey's son, r. II. Torrey,
Box 146, Clinton, n. Y.
Arthur VI. Loviland, the 7th Regiment
crack and national indoor doubles
champion with Dr. William Rosenbaum,
is in London and will be there till the
end of the war. Lovibond, who is al
ready missed at the local tournaments,
left suddenly last week TO accept a po-
sition. His absence was borne in upon
us in a peculiar way Monday, at one of
the local clubs. racket was deliv-
cred, addressed to him, with $3.50
charges collect for restraining. I'm
aware that Lovibond had left we took
pity on the delivery man, who said
plaintively that he had tried to find
Lovibond several times, and paid the
$3.50.
There's a sunken volcanic island in
the Pacific. IL disappeared beneath the
wave two years ago. When IL was no
more two tournament players of this
twenty-five do not dare mention names
who had not been very successful in
local events played for the champion
ship OF the island. They actually
bought a handsome cup, set il on the
clubhouse porch and then battled each
other in the sun. The winner says that
ne will always be the champion of some
thing. The loser and the winner are
the doubles champions, by default, in
perpetuo.
We are now watching all other ISL
ands carefully, and claim the first one