The sun., 1916-09-21
WOMEN CONTINUE
FIGHT FOR TENNIS
TITLES. IN JERSEY
Miss MolIa Biurstcdt Reaches
Scmi-finals in Singles
and Doubles.
CHAMPIONS IN HARD
STRUGGLE FOR HONORS

MoNTcLAtr. y. T.. Sept. 2O.-Capable
ecurt handling by Miss Florence Sheldon
md willingness on the part OF the women
SUI struggling for honors brought the
singles and doubles Of the New Jersey
vomen's championship matches to the
rmi.fnai round at In, Montclair Attn
l,tc club to-day. Perfect weather and
courts sroomcd 10 the minute hrough.
M. some OF the best tennis Of the tour
namen,. with the participants playing n
iptop game.
Mss Molia Bjurs,odt. national cham
bon, advanced to the semi-nnals In both
single. and doubles. n with II. A..
Throckmor,on. the Junior national cham
Don. won her match in the mixed
doubles. With Miss Bjurstcd: in the
singles are Mrs. q. V. Kitchens. Miss
Florence Balm and Miss Ina Kissell.
Miss Balm advanced to-day by defeat
,ne Mrs. John Hall. 4-6. 6-l. 8--S,
and Miss Kissell o her brackets BY
lsposing Of Miss Helen Bernhard. IS.
IA. 60.
By the elimination matches in tn.
doubles four teams are left 10 contest
for the championship. They are Miss
Biurs,ed, and Miss Marie Wagner. Mrs.
". II. Pouch and Miss Edith Handy,
Miss Hazel Gardiner and Mrs. A. q.
Dean and Mrs. L. q. Morris and Mrs. H..
Greene.
Champions Arc ExteAaea.
The feature match of the day was b.
tween Miss Bjurstedt and Miss Wagner
and Mss Ethel Tyndale and Miss Ina
K.ssell. In which the national champion
AAd former title holder won their semi.
cnal honors by IS. IS. e..
Miss Tyndale's Fine Work.
In this contest Miss Tyndale played
treritoriously. her net defence and back
hand strokes being the equal OF any Of
the four sterling players. The attack
o. the losers was directed toward Miss
Wagner for the greater part OF the first
Vet and with success. u In the closing
eets Miss B5urstedt managed to work her
way into the rallies and with inimitaDle
Si.ll won point after point with smash
ing placements that neither Mis-. Tyn.
Gale nor Miss Klsseli could handle.
Mrs. Morris IA Mrs. Greene gave a
finished display of back line play In de.
teatins Miss JAM Rowson and Miss Dora
Goodtody. "a. SIS. Mrs. Greene OK
cslled al base line shots and also was
clever with cross courts placements that
s,orsd heavily. However. the losers. e.
pecially Mis- Rowson. put UP n great
fight for the honors and we're only
eliminated after one OF the hardest
matches OF tine tournament.
Only two singles inatchos were played,
eut IN each a titanic struggle wan seen.
Mss Balm disposed OF Mrs. Hall by en-
darance. 0celling In steadiness and MAX
Ing gets that Mrs Hall rarely went after.
Miss Bernhard made n hard fight II the
ers' two sets against Miss Kissell. bu,
lsl,ered badly In the third set and was
distanced.
Men Fail - Respond.
Few - the mixed douolcs cams ap-
peared for their nrst round matches, and
whether II was the fault Of the men or
We women could not be ascer,ained.
Only three matches were contested in the
hrst round. all the rest defaulting. This
gave the committee u chance To play or
three Of the seond round matches. The
~m'-nnals OF both singles and doubles
ray be- played to-day, which Will give
thoS In charge OF the tournament a
p'oy VII 'HS HilNSu uOuDlcS ana
consolation rounds. bringing all the FINAL
ss together Saturday. Miss Bjurstedt
WI. play her singles match tomorrow
afternoon.
The Summaries.
Msv Jersey Championship Singles,
.oar,h Kounl--Mi.s Florence BALM de.
,?assd MIS- John Hall, !.-s. 81. SIS:
'..n -. 1t. 60.
IAN pi%nship Doubles. Fourth Hound
G..eA'ed Miss Helen Bernhard and Miss
S1sse Iilleaudeau. 60. 50: Miss Hasel
nn.sd'nsr and Mrs, A. O.. Dean defeated
Austin, s-s. IS. SIS: Miss Msrie was.
o., and Miss Moila Bjurstedt defeated
.l', Ethel Tyndaie and Miss Ina K.sse.l.
-, as. So. Mrs. l.. q. Morris and
st 81 :. Green. defeated Miss Jane
20. on and Miss Dora Goodbody. G-s,
Nirrsg and T. sawyer won by default;
PISS Florence Balm and q. J.. Wyeth de.
,Ssted Miss Adele hull and ". Glenn;
.'ss Florence sheldon and Frank b. Hague
Won ~ default: Mr.. and Mrs. Inzo Hart !
t,ahn won by default; Florence Crane and
" NOPE won by default. Miss Elsie Ray
~. and }" J, Fixman won by default: Miss |
;as.a sjurs,ed, and II. A.: Throckmorton
Gi.1,sd Miss Margaret Taylor and T
70 Heorec Davis defeated Miss Sussette |
nfhry and John corwin. ii, c.:
se,onh Miss Florence Sheldon
"a rank 4. Hague defeated NJ. and Mrs.
na,'insnn, -. 81. ga; Miss Hazel
na No. and O. French defeated Miss 4. ,