New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
TENNIS CRACKS
MEET IN REAL
TRIALS TO-DAY
Sixty-four Experts Will
Clash at Harlem Club
This Afternoon.
BY JAMES 8. O'NEALE.

To-Day Is the day the tennis tourna-
ment season starts in this vicinity. wiz
the annual open event Of the Harlem
Tennis Club, in singles and doubles.
Sixty-four players have entered. Sew
eral Of the leading players Of the met
ropolitsn district will tune up their
rackets for the first time this year in
tournament competition, the first event
under the auspices Of the national as
ISOLATION.
Vanderbilt v. Ward, last years win
ner and Great Lakes champion; G..
Carlton Shafer, Harry Steinkamp.
Charles Chambers, Watson VI. Wash
burn and four other celebrities, the
artists Paul Goold and Fontaine Fox,
+. p. A. and the poet Arthur Gutter
man. II Is doubtful whether Washburn
will start in the first round, as he is
carded for an exhibition at Forest
Hills.
Play will begin et / o'clock on the
club grounds at 135th Street, near st.
Nicholas Avenue. Players may take the
Sixth or Ninth Avenue ~" direct 10 the
i35th Street staten, or the Lenox sub
way to 1S5th Street and walk two
blocks west. The draw and entrants
follow;
L. oshmsn vs.. Robert Gilmore. Charles
Chambers VI. Joseph Fox. II. II. Manchester
Va w. Weiss. c A. Brown ". Paul Goold.
Edgar Leo vs.. w. N. Washburn. Edward
Hutchings VI. f. II. Pfeifer. II. w. Camp
bell VI. f. Cushing. Vanderbilt Ward W.
Arthur Guiterman. Carl Russell vs. Fontainc
Fox. lingo Hartman ". W. G.. Young, Allen
Rehr II Pc nh
Little. l.. Wyeth vs. J. j. BrinckerhoS, II. W
Holbrook VI. Herbert Forster. Franklin Z.
Adams W. l. {. Crowley, W. Mckee vs.. Il.
Landau. J. Walsh vs.. Claud Ranney, J. s..
7 O'Neale, jr., vs. +. Gilbert. T. Nolan vs..
Paul Martin. W. VI. Fisher ". Edward Bry.
Harold Swayne We. Ely Behar, DR.. r. C..
Thomas ". b. VI Philips, Lawrence Grinell
Vi. Alfred S. Harkavy, Charles T. Buckner
". +. J. MeDermott. Willard Bosford ".
A. Van Beuren, Edward Barlow vs.. d. Geer,
H. Rosenthal ". II. Gallon. A. Mayer ".
Remsen Sehenek. r. Sesgar vs.. p. Sparks.
DIR. G. W. Farber vs.. Harry Steinksmp, L. J..
: Helm vs.. Ralph Sommer. Hugh Nearing ys.
I Carl Shafer.
Another exhibition match on the
/ West Side Tennis Club courts, at For
est Hills, will take place to-day, when
/ Charles NJ. Bull, jr., and 4. II. Whit
ney oppose Dean Mathey and Watson
, NJ. Washburn az o'clock. In addition.
the spring club tournament for men,
singles and doubles in classes A, B and
c, will start. On Monday the womeR's
metropolitan championship will com
mence.
Miss Molla Bjurstedt, the Morse non
pareil, has been tuning up to retain
her metropolitan title by competing in
the women's Class A club champion
ship, which she won yesterday by de-
feating Mrs. Barger Wallach in the
final round, 81. GO. In the semi
final the national title holder won over
Mrs. Rawson Wood, 90, 81.
In the semi-fnals Of the champion
ship doubles play yesterday Mrs. Pope
and Miss White bested Mrs. John Jacob
Astor and Mrs. Robert Leroy in stii'
three-set match, the final frame COINS
to IS. The winners will oppose Mrs
Weaver and Mrs. Cssabeer in the fina
round to-day.
The Horace Mann Schools inter
scholastic tournament starts and I'M
ishes to-day, IL play can be pushed as
fast as expected on the schools fine
courts at 2s6th Street, near Van Cort-
landt Park. Play will commence at 2
o'clock. Twerty-siI lads, the cream OF
the juniors in this vicinity, are out
after the honors.
l.. NJ. Banks, who won the Columbia
interscholsstic last week, is the only
notable absentee. The injured ankle
he played on in the Columbia event has
proved more serious than supposed.
Herbert w. Forster, the sensational
Yonkers schoolboy, who won several
open events last summer, will compete,
as will also Irving Pitt. OF NewtoSn
High School; J. Sesger, Of Clinton and
Captain Haldenstein, Of Horace Mann.
All matches, including the finals, will
be two out OF three sets.
The Horace Mann team continued It's
winning streak by defeating Engelwood
High School, four matches 10 one, a.
lEnglewood yesterday. The scores;
Singles Bentley, Morace Mann, de-
feated Myers, e., 81; Haldenstein,
Horace Mann, defeated Penheld, 6-3,
Cd; Belts, Engelwood. defeated Kali
tenbach, SO, 6-3, 7-5.
Doubles-Bentley and Haldenstein
defeated Penfeld and Sharpstein. 81,
10: Livingston and Ksltenbach de-
fested Myers and Rogers, 10, o--l
College Match on Courts.