New-York tribune., 1916-06-13
Five Matches Won by De-
fault in Metropolitan
Tennis Play.
ALEXANDER ILER
LOSES TO CHURCH
Van Vliet Takes 2.Hour Match
from Charles Chambers
Dionne a Winner.
By JAMES S. O'NEALE.

1t must be discoursging to be a ten
mis- star, playing. for instance, at the
annual mems metropolitan singles
championship on the courts of the
Bronxyllle Athletic Association, Bronx
Vile.
For instance, Watson NJ. Washburn.
Harold A. Throckmorton. Frederick B.
Alexander, Dean Mathey and c. A. l..
Dionne won five matches by default
yesterday. What's In a name? Well. a
tine potency, for one thing. No one
ever defaults to US.
Sensational young Throckmorton,
however found an opponent willing 20
meet him in the second round, and the
veteran Dionne played first round
match, his second round man default
ing: Washburn, Mathey and Alexander
had 20 content themselves with watch
ing the others.
Leonard BeekmaD. the Princeton cap
tain, and George VI. Church, the former
Tiger, ran across opponents willing to
make a Roman holiday Beekman's
antagonist, the willy, seasoned Abra-
ham Bassford, jr., of Hartsdale, al
most turned his thumbs down on the
holiday business, for by steady, heady
work he ran Beekman 10 81, 81,
and at one time led in the first set, ii
and 4O-l@, on his own service.
Church Beats Her.
Young and tall and thin Alexander
Her, Of the New York Tennis Club.
trled to stop the lengthy Church. The
Prlucetonlan was going great guns,
sizzling the ball over with a deceptive
twist, serving with terrific speed and
hot 3
TO follow his delivery 10 the net. Her
also had good first service. but was
no match for the cannonading of
Church and took only one game, that
in the first set
II the former intercollegiate cham
pion coaXcd speed out of the ball,
young Harold Throckmorton fairly
murdered the flying sphere. He swat
ted terrifcally at the expense of
accuracy, however, and permitted Will
lam Wadsworth to take one game in
the first set and four counts in the
second frame. Once a backhand drive
from midcourt nearly tore through
Wadsworth amidships, so fast did
Throckmorton propel the ball, but
Wadsworth barely lodged in time,
while the ball sailed in for Throck-
mortons point
r. Z. Rogers, of Pelham, was IN
daunted by the sight of mis- opponent
Theodore Roosevelt Pell, who possesses
the best backhand in the world, and
went out on the court resolved TO hit
everything hard and to take all
chances. Rogers really played excellent
tennis against his famous opponent and
deserved every one of the games he
won. The score was Ga, =, in favor
Of Pell
The match between R. c. Van Vliet
another of the Californians, who
played on the University of California
team this spring, and the Kings County
veteran, Charles Chambers, attracted
the attention of a large part Of the
gallery. Van Vliet won after a two
hour match, 6-4, 10, 6-l. Never did
Chambers, noted as a hard worker and
a perennial "getter," toll harder, but
the speed of the newcomer finally de-
cided the issue.
Rallies in this match sometimes
stretched out ten and twenty returns
on a point, with Van Vliet always hit
ting hard and getting 20 the net when
he could, and Chambers getting every
thing and forcing his antagonist back
by crafty play. The strain of winning
the second set finished Chambers. Each
player was thoroughly exhausted.
The 7th Regiment veteran, Morris
Clark, who has played little in the last
three years and who is not quite AS
tim as he once was, appeared on the
courts for the first time this season.
His game was not going, and he lost
10 j. $. O'Neale, l-6, 2 s.
Metropolitan mems singles chamniorshfp farst