The sun., 1918-12-25
RICHARDS ON WAY
TO MORE TITLES
YOnkers Streak Wins in SIN
giles and Doubles in Junior
Championship.
TAYLOR ALSO ADVANCES
Brooklyn Prep Lad Successful
in Both Singles and
Doubles.
TAYLOR ALSO ADVANCES

1,,c.,t richards. the Yonkers streak,
....,s,day began the quest OF the ma
!'a"si indoor tennis championship among
s,riors Playing in the tournament on
he board courts in the Seventh Reg.
,n,,t Armory Richards demonstfaeed
tNat he Is Just as formidable indoors as
Ss vas on the clay ana turf last sum.
m,r. lie scored both In singles ano
Soubl.s and In each competition kept
himself In check.
In The singles Richards defeated J.
co,drer Of Horace Mann at "a, Go.
tJsd richards desired to keep the losers
GORE down to even smaller proportions
no could have done so. as the tilt was
or,y n romp for him. He drove with
,rSsr and precision. and his game had
= marked versatility that drew the re-
neatAd plaudits Of the gallery. In spite
a. tho bad light he gagged his srnashes
IN A nicely. Especially noteworthy was
his overhead driving. which was an un-
falling source Of point scoring.
In the Junior doubles Richards teamed
with Harold l.. Taylor Of Brooklyn Prep.
one OF his most formidable rivals FOR
The singles championship The Rich
srds.Taylor combination trounced M.
Bernstein and T. Kohn at e--2. 10.
Tbe victors started out like q house
ARE and their opponents looked as IL
,hev we're hltched to q post. In the
second set Kohn and Bernstein played
safe and steady game, while the bet
fer known pair began occasional flights
o. fancy that landed the ball all over the
armory. Richards and Taylor recovered
IN time 10 nip the set and finish the
match.
Taylor victor in Singles.
TAYLOR also won in the singles. He
disposed Of Alexander Fl. Frey OF Yale
in the second round after q hard fought
match At 60, 81, 6-l. In the nrst
round the Yale player showed fne form
and defeated F. Porter Of De Witt Clin-
ton. ca, 81. In his match with Tay-
lor Frey played q back court game and
FOR A while had the doubles champion
on the jump. but he weakened toward
The end and Taylor won without doing
his best.
r Anderson of Commercial High
School met with as much success as Tay-
lor and richards and advanced to the
srmi-fnal round Anderson eliminated
F Ierkowitz of Stuyvesant High School
in ,he second round by 6-1, 6-2.
Abraham Bassford Sd. the son OF the
former Cornell tennis star, was another
Junior to make Roadway. He defeated
T..
School in the second round by 81, 7-5.
IN each Of the sets Osgood led at the
start.
II Richards Is as successful In the
second round Of the singles as he was In
his opening match he will meet Aora-
ham Rassford 81 in ono OF the semi
final matches in the upper half OF the
draw on Thursday. Taylor and Ander-
son VIII oppose each other in the semi
anal OF the lower half.
Louis n. Daley. Jr.. OF East Orange
High School. whosInet with much success
IN the opening days play. met with de-
frat Yesterday In the second round OF
Tho juniors. but advanced into the semi
FINALS Of he boys tourney. In the
Juniors he lost to II. r. Kattenoach oil
princeton in one OF the sttffest matches
Of the afternoon. The contest was a
series Of fast rallies and went 10 the
Princeton lad at CO, e.. In the boys
tourney D1iley defeated irving Landau
a local LAD. In the third round by 6-l,
60,