New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
Women Rally
ToSaveCame
In War Crisis
Miss MolIa Bjurstedt Sets
Worthy Example on
the Courts
BY FRED HAWTHORNE


The women lawn tennis players have
done their part nobly thus FAR in keep
ing up the interest in the game by COM
peting in the two local tournaments al
ready held at the Essex County Coun-
try Clubs courts and in the metropoli-
tan tourney on the courts OF the West
Side Tennis Club. at Forest Hills.
Miss Molla Bjurstedt. national. met
ropolitan. clay court and dozen other
times champion, set a worthy example
by playing through in both these
events. Incidentally. OF couAe. the
maid from the North kept at her old
tricks and made clean sweep with
her racquet.
Only those within whom the fame Of
true amateurism burns strongly and
perpetually are going TO spend as much
time in tournament play this season.
when there are no prizes and no titles
TO be won, as last year. before war con-
ditions put stop to such things.
The men will get a chance 70 show
how they measure up TO the women IN
this regard during the progress Of the
Harlem Tennis Clubs open tournament
that began yesterday. This fixture
usually attracts good field from the
players Of this city. Some there are, OF
course. who will DC absent because they
have needed the cali to the colors, and
these will be honored when they fail
to respond to the rollcall. 1t is up 20
those who have remained az home TO
stand forth and be counted.
The women players will re. busy
again at Pelham Manor, n. Y, where
the Pelham Country Club will begin It's
annual invitation tourney tomorrow
II was Miss Bjurstedt who won the
chief prize there last year by defeating
Mrs. Marshall Mclean in the final
round, and she has announced her in
tention of entering again.
The mems invitation doubles tourns-
ment that was 10 have started on the
courts of the Tuxedo Club, at Tuxedo
Park, n. Y, last Friday, was cancelled
because of the war, and this reminds us
that so far this season, out of the to-
tai of more than 220 sanctioned
tournies for 1917, only ten have been
cancelled 10 date, most encouraging
showing and ample evidence that the
lawn tennis players intend adhering to
their schedule, prizes or no prizes.
The seventeenth annual open tourns-
ament of the New York Lawn Tennis
Club, at Columbia Oval and cloth
Street, The Bronx, will begin on Satur-
day, June 2, and continue on following
days. Originally this fixture was TO
decide the championship in Manhattan
doubles and singles, but to-day il stands
as the Bronx County Patriotic Tourna-
ment, and 70 per cent of the net profit
from entry fees, etc, will be turned
over 10 the local Red Cross and the
other rs per cent to the U. S. n. L. I. A..
to be used for war purposes.
, The club has extended cordial in
vitation to all tennis players, including
present and past champions, 10 COM
pete. The entry fee is 81 for the
singles and SO for the doubles, and
entries close on Thursday, May 81, at
p. m, with A. J. 0stendorf, chairman
of the tournament committee, at PISA
Briggs Avenue. The Bronx, or at the
clubhouse, telephone $50 Williams
bridge.
The Staten Island Ladies Club. at
Livingston, Staten Island will stage the
most important tournament in its his
tory on the week beginning Monday,
June 4, when play will begin in the
Middle States patriotic women's tennis
tourney.
Ordinarily this would be known as
the women's championship Of the Mid
die States, but upon this occasion only
certificates will be awarded TO the win.
ners in the singles and doubles. Play
will start at 1880 a. m. in doubles and
at 2:30 p. m. in the singles.
An admission fee of twenty-five cents
will be charged 20 on-mombcrs Of the
club who are not contestants on each
day Of the tournament, except when the
4 finals are played, when fifty cents will
be charged. The gross proceeds from
entrance and admission fees will be de-
voted 10 the American Red Cross, The
entrance fee is 81 in singles, and s.
in doubles, and entries should he sent
to Miss Edith b. Handy, 3i4 TompSins
Avenue, Tompkinsville. Staten Tslanl
telephone, Tompkinsvilc. 339-D. aud
will close at p. m. Saturday, June 2.
The Eastern New York State tourna-
ment, hitherto held on the courts Of the
County Tennis Club OF Westchester. AT
Hartsdale, will this year be fought out
on the grounds of the Amackassin Club.
at Yonkers. S. Howard Voshell, ma
tional indoor champion, won this event
last year, and viii probably compete
again when play gets under way next
Saturday Miss Marie Wagner, winner
of the women's singles last season, will
also be a contender, as we'll as num-
Der of the other prominent players
L. among men and women.