New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-25
Young Tennis Star Finds
Going Soft Against
Dean Mathey.
ALSO PROVES VICTOR
IN THE DOUBLES
Man Conquers Ted Whitney,
Former intercollegiate Cham
pion-Davis Beats Bull.
By JAMES 8. O'NEALE.


Harold Abingdon Throckmorton, the
rising young tennis tosser, resides in
Elizabeth. what time he is not pursu-
ing the festive tournament az Palm
Beach, Chevy Chase or Sleepy Hollow,
where he appeared again yesterday,
and, as usual, won. At any rate, when
ever ThrockmOrton gets 10 place with
the home surroundings Of violets by
the messy brink. dogwood abb blossom
and rolling green, he cannot help but
play wonderful tennis.
So IL was yesterday. The young
Maryland State champion found the
going soft against the Princetonian
Dean Mathey. ranked on par with him
last year, and won in whirlwind fash
ion. 6 81, s 3. By so doing the young
ster did much to verify the predic-
ton Of Frederick B. Alexander that in
very few years the national cham
pions name would be Harold Abingdon
Throckmorton.
In the doubles the graceful schoolboy
Kept up his spectacular work. Paired
with the Californian, Willis F.. DAVIS,
conaueror Of r. Rindley Murray on the
Coast last year, and California state
champion, the Elizabeth boy squashed
the squash pair of Charles NJ. Bull, IT,
and A. s. Thurber, 81. 6-S. Then
ne plucked some violets FOR the family
end caught his train.
Another surprise featured the day.
Alrick H. Man, jr., the old Yale star,
fought with vim for Eli and whipped h.
II. Ted Whitney, intercollegiate
champion while at Harvard, by the
easv score Of "a, 60. Davis, the
latest Of the native sons, had trouble
with Charles VI. Bull, jr., but won at
SIS, Ga.
Two singles matches went by de-
fault. one bv novel method. King
Smith, who was playing in the Man
haitian doubles championships at the
New York Tennis Club, must have a
dual personality, or at least an astral
body. that appeared at Sleepy Hollow
to get default from Leonard Beck
man. Walter Merrill Hall defaulted 10
Vanderbilt B. Ward, but appeared in
the doubles, losing with Whitney 70
Man and his old partner, Cedric Major,
2-6,3-6.
The great pair OF George VI. Church,
the Ichabod OF the courts. and Mathey
slammed the ball in divers directions
when they breeZed right through the
veteran Hugh Tallant and the old har-
ward start. Arthur Sweetser, 60, 6-3.
Major and Man, however, took a des,,
perate l0-S set from Church and
Mathey in the second round, and then
darkness closed in on Sleepy Hollow.
Should the Yale-Cornell combination
continue its good work the greatest up
set of the tournament will IN all llkei-
hood result
Debonair. graceful. slender young
Throckmorton showed almost the per
lection of the game against Nathey.
The schoolboy champ was not ootn-
cred at all by the damp weather and
slow courts, and whipped his drives
for the lines, cross-courtlng or passing
along the edges with the greatest ease
and abandon. Mathey's game when is
accurate. but not extremely severe
served 70 bring out the best IN lhrocA-
morton
nors' challenge bowl on taole qhueI
a tent by the court, and OF al tne
ewaetness OF the flowers and the silver
Hudson just below the heights hrocA.
morton showed a game tnat ~ pes.
doscribed as beautiful in its clean-cut
style and it's precision. ne was .ne
poetry of motion as he glided over the
court. whisking the ball with long
graceful swings and making 1t DO" 70
his every whim. -.
Mathey. young, yet a veteran OF
uanv close matches, fought desperate
lv with his usual GOODNESS and headl-
ness vet he was no better in his plan,
MING than the youngster. Several
times Throckmorton drew Matney ciose
IN with short. swift shots on the SOFT
surface. only TO toss Matney return
over his head when ne dashed IN close
" Throckmorton and Davis made, an
ideai combination in the doubles.
all-around game was
.be balance wheel. with the terrlhc'
tyn;caIIv Californian attack OF DAVIS az
ne net and in serving as the driving
nower Bull and Thurber at no tline
had a chance, the latter especlally VIII
ing under the hot ire. 49,.
rr,t,,ion mems singles second round IAiric ~
=, NJ 5cfesfed 81 whitney. g. 90
t,,- Smith won from Leonard Beesman ~ ee-
ss-lf. Vanderbilt y. Ward ~on from va.
Merrill Han by default. Wi!le +. D"S H.
.4L,, s,sectser 6 Go. Harold b.
l, re- norton defeated Dean Mathey %
Trtlf7ti0n mems doubles inst tgltyt. ~
Mathsy aud George NJ Chufsn ee's"S Ais,ck n
,,anL anu a. ,,r4 cedric Major defeated Walter
,Tie..,u' u,U and g. u Whitney. -. o..
rI,.tI., Al Buu aud A. T. lhuro,f Non Ii,n
Abraham Bassford. j.. and Edmond feA''' "
d' s.-5 ,o,rd-Hsrold A Throekmorton and WI,
a. n Davis defeated Charles n. Bll IT,, aa
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