New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-18
RACQUETS SWEEP
AS WINDS BLOW
AT FOREST HILLS
Eleven Doubles Matches
in WOmen's Big Tennis
Championships.
BY JAMES 8. O'NEALE.


Something rushed with tremendous
speed at the metropolitan women's ten
mis- championship event ut the West
Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills. yester-
day afternoon, when eleven matches in
the championship doubles were decided
and one encounter in the mixed was
staged. The something was neither
Miss Molla Bjurstedts forehald drive,
though that was fast, nor Mss Martha
Guthries court covering, though that,
too. was fast
The something was air that passed
with tremendous impetus through For
est Hills from a place of higher TO a
place of lower pressure. Such air, Int
tie Rollo, is termed wind. At any rate,
so speedy were the guests that good
tennis was an impOssibility, even Tor
Miss Bjurstedt, Miss Guthrie, Miss
Marie Wagner, Miss Florence Balm
and others. The wind swerved the ball
to one side so sharply on several oc-
casions that the rackets Of the tair
wielders missed altogether, and re-
minded one greatly of Lady Nlnder-
mere's fan.
Considerin' and considerin', as the
old farmer said as he chawed tobacco,
b lUe tennis SuONu ny NtfNAoa
racketers was a good quality, wind or
no wind. There was. for instance, the
team Of Miss Bjurstedt and Miss Wag-
ner, national indoor doubles cham
pions. What did this team do? why
with the wind it swept right through
the strong combination of Mrs. David
c. Mills and Mrs. Albert HUMPHREYS. 10
the rollcking tune of GO, 6-l.
Miss BALM and her Pittsburgh part
ner, Miss Guthrie, who is proving TO
be the attraction of the meeting, tri-
umphed over the Bedford Park pair,
Mrs. lingo Hartmann and Mrs Percy
Wilbourn, GO, 6-l. In this matcn
Miss BALM showed q marked improve
ment over the form she exhibited IN the
singles, and ably backed up the bril-
liant play of the Pittsburgh me
losing team made good fight Tor most
of the games in the first set, sending
them TO close scores, but IN the last
frame they lost their wind. II joined
. the great gusts that made any lobblng
an impossibility.
Mrs. Spencer Fullerton Weaver and
Mrs. Rawson Wood, the West Side duo,
and probably one of the three strong
est teams i'm the tournament, duplcat-
ed the performances of the other TWO
teams and allowed their rivals only
three games in the two sets. They de-
feated Mrs. K. c. Miller and Mrs. A. IL.
Chaplin, 6-l, Go. Another favored
pair. Miss Helen Alexander and Miss
Ina A. Kissell. fell before the deter
mined onslaught of Miss Jane Rowson
and Miss Dora GooSbody, So, %
While this match cannot be claSsed :
an upset, il occasioned at least mllu
surprise. ,,.-
Mrs. Edward Raymond, formerly Miss
Louise Hammond, national champion
and Miss Edna Wildey bested Mrs. II.
Pennington and Mrs. Davis, 6-3, %.
Another second round match brought
together Miss Corinna VIM, the WINDY
CITY southpaw, showed just how little
such things as high winds mattered TO
her and starred as she and her partner,
Miss Adele Bull, defeated Miss I. Bull
, and Miss DIVER, 6-3, Ga. In fact,
not one Of the matches required three
) sets. In each case one pair would DO
! fairly we'll, despite the wind, and would
. win. and the other pair would be so
baffled by the breezes that 1t would
put up little opposition.
Two third round set-tos came OF
81 Mrs. Weaver and Mrs. Rawson Wood
who are favored TO come through IN
= the lower half just As Miss Bjurstedt
anu MISS W AENtAf VI .AAeS NNNitA - $50
q Miss BALM, are favored in the upper
] bested Mrs. Mannheimer and Miss Levy,
e, 60. Miss Theodore Cassabeer,
, who was the well known performer
+. Miss Clara Kuttrof, and Miss Marian
- Vanderhoef won from Mrs. j. +. Bailey
/ and Mrs f. Zohst, 6-l, e.
Miss Bjurstedt. her charmed swas-
2 tika, her baby blue sweater, and her
: pet racket, Mjolner Cd, greatly aided
81 her partner, Theodore Roosevelt Pell,
/. in the only mixed doubles event Of the
, day. The pair had no trouble at all
with Mrs. II. Pennington and Phelps
! Stokes. The scores we're GO, GO.
The summaries follow:
Metropolitan championship womsn's doubles lnst
t sou1a defeated lea '' Hrs " yoss and Nm j. W
Jenkins. 6-3. ..
cood6ody defeated Mis-, Helen Iis1.ndsr and Mis-:
Ina A Rissel, 6-3. 6-3. Miss Brainerd and
and l MTs s6situcE By dsfsut; ' Mrs sTsus
sad Mrs Ley a..ss,ed Mr' George No., De [ Ger;
. Wagner and Miss Moiis Burstedt defeated Mrs.
DAVID G. Mills and Mrs Albert Humphric. G..
; 6-l. Mrs Edward Raymond and Mss Edna
Wildey defeated Mrs. H. Pennington smd Mrs
Davis IS, Is Mrs w schif and Ms E, Is.
, Martha Guthrie defeated Mrs. Inso Harm.gn and
Fullerton Weaver and Mrs R.wson Wood defeated
Mrs. G Miller and Mrs. a II. Chaplin. 81.
te-2: Mn MGnheimer and Miss Lew from
Mrs A NJ Josephy and Miss A pietsch by de-
fault. Miss Comma VIM and Miss Adele Bull d.
fcated Miss n Bull and Miss DIVER g. Ct.
Miss Ruth Schwah and Miss AhloNitz Won from
Miss Katherine Force and Mn l. G. Morris by
, default: Mrs Robert Le Roy and Mrs =. Smith
won from Miss 0shman and Mis- y Rayser by de-
fsuIt. Mrs D. Dcane and Miss II Gardiner de-
fested Miss Enrich and Mis- We'll e. . Ms
T. T. Bailey and Mr.. 2. Zohst won from Airs A.
! Sideuherg and Mrs p Iichtenstgn hy default
. Mrs Theodore Cassebeer and Miss Marian Wander
hocf from Mrs. A. Alexander and Miss Bafbes
by default
Third round Mrs. Spencer Fullerton Weaver -
Mrs RawsOn Wood defeated Mrs Manhcimer anu
Miss Levy. e.. e.. Ms. Theodore Casseheer
/ aud Mis-, Marian Nanderhocf defeated Mrs. j. T..
B.iey and Mrs. r Zohst. 6-l. @.
I Metropolitan championship mixed doubles (frt
. round Miss Molla Bur.Vdt and Theodore Rose
relt Pen defeated Mrs. ~ Pennington and Phelps
Stokes O. GO. Miss Florence Balm and bred
rrick Il Alexander Won from Mrs RaHsQn Wood
and partner hy default. Mrs Spencer Fullerton
|, Weaver and Charles ~ Bull. Jr. won from Mrs
Vohert Is Roy and W SchnicFnd ~ default.
Willard Gets $4,000