New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-06
POSTPONED NET
MATCHES FILL In
VACANT DAYS
Tennis Events on
Schedule for Later i'm
the Month.
By JAMES 8. O'NEALE.

This is a light week in local tourna-
championships for the Tribune Cup. of
which we have heard so much, being
on tap. The Nassau tournament was
completed Tuesday.
1t seems strange, on the face of II,
that the week Of July 4 should be al
most bare of competition, but the early
months of rain have in one respect
been godsend, for the absence of
other tournaments will permit the play
ing of of several finals of earlier
events postponed by rain. These in
clude the Westchester invitation sin
giles final. the Middle States singles
and doubles challenge rounds. the
metropolitan singles final. the Quaker
Ridge doubles final, and the Summing
dale singles and doubles finals.
Later on in the month more tourna-
ments come locally. Next Monday the
New York State championships start
at the lahnundasis Golf Club, Utica,
but many of the metropolitan district
players will make the trip. On the
same day the Poughkeepsie Tennis
Club will hold the Hudson River Lawn
Tennis Association championship, open
only 10 members, junior and boys
event will start at the Sleepy Hollow
Country Club, and also the annual
tournament of the Woodmere. J.. L.,
club. in mems singles and doubles.
The closed tournament open only TO
members of the Westchester County
Lawn Tennis Association at the Park
Hill Country Club, Yonkers, will come
July pa The annual invitation of the
Edgemere Club. Long Island. comes two
days later. and the women's champion
ship of Long Island starts July 80 at
the WoOdmere Club. On the last day
of the month the Middle States sec
tional, junior and boys championships
start at the West Side Tennis Club,
Forest Hills.
Mrs. lingo Hartmann, wife Of lingo
Hartmann, the left handler. and herself
a prominent player among the women,
often has naive replies that are anus
ing TO tournament goers. Not long ago
Mrs. Bingo" was engaged in des-
perate match in tournament. 1t was
the third set. and each woman was
sAilNllE WIFI might anu man, anu tA'N
was nearly exhausted. One of Mrs.
Hartmann's friends. who returned to
the scene of the conflict after a few
moments absence, asked during lull
in the hostilities:
whats the score, Mrs. Hartmann ~
Mrs. Hartmann gave a gasp and re
Piled meekly; "Set-all. fve-all, thirty
all, and all in"
Charles II. Belknap, a prominent
member of the Kings County Tennis
Club, has invented a game which has
taken his club members by storm. They
play it on the clubhouse porch when
the days are rainy or very hot. Bel
KNAPP calls his game "grasshopper ten
mis-" Ii comes in a box which, when
opened, sets up miniature net.
A court is marked out with the net
in the centre. There are several spaces
on the board lettered lace" "drive,"
Smash" and "cut shot" in addition TO
the regular service and base lines.
There are two tiny fippers and forr
small disks the size and shape OF wa
termelon seeds. The server tries TO
flip one of the seeds into the proper
service court, where, if it does not land
in the lace" space for the point out
right, the other player attacks it with
his ripper. The scoring is the same as
in the outdoor game.
We are trying TO induce Mr.. Belknap
to send the game to +. p. A., the most
interchangeable tennis player in the world.
It Is gratifying to most followers Of
the game that the popular spectacular
X. Lindley Murray found time to play
in, and win. the Nassau invitation tour
nament and that he proved to be IN
form at least as good as that he
flashed in 1914. when he was ranked
fourth in the country.
There are many who think that, given
the proper amount of practice. the
Meteor could win the national cham
pionship. His game does not show the
rough edges of 1914, and he knows bet
ter how to conserve his strength and at
the same time how to vary his game.
II Is not all slam-bang now, but slam
and short volley, slow return and fast