New-York tribune., 1918-06-21
New Workers
Triumph After
Brilliant Play
Miss Claire Cassel Defeats
Miss Eleanor Sears
Miss Goss Wins
By + red Hawthorne

81 MARTINS, Penn, June 2o.--The
prophet will now kindly crawl snto his
hole and pull the hole in after him,
hat is i he poses as q lawn tennis
prophet After the completion of play
;o-dsy on the turf courts OF the Phila-
delphia Cricket Club, where the wom-
EMS national championship tournament
is IN progress, shattered idols were
.y;ng in fragments all over The place
nd new names were in strange places.
FOR instance. Miss Glare Cassel, Of
New York, caused severa! hundred
,ssgs OF surprise in the crowd that sat
o. the clubhouse veranda in the morn
ns BY defeating Miss Eleanora Sears,
ID Boston, at C-S, 6-i, IN tue fourth
ound OF the singles.
sn the semi-iinai round, Miss Eleanor
tess. O. New York, had an uuexpee,-
o,ciei struggle OF he.' hands be-
lo.e sh> succeeoed IL oueiin9 tne
championship aspirations CT Miss Helen
LeDcuA. CT S~drlamorc, tne OARS
horse" o. the tournament. The score
Vas 6-5, e---4, hut every point was
ought out at fuil speed, both girls re-
iylne on hard driving to win.
In the second set Miss Goss ventured
the act with greater frequency and
lust about managed to pun out & vic
iery, although MISS LcDoux got the
lemp on her opponent in each set, lead
.ng at 80 IN both. This victory
placed Miss Cess in the final round
Prophets Crawl
4nesc were mcrning matches, but
he afternoon held even greater sur
lrlses IN ato~e TOR those who sat about
.ne courts and taose others who ike
20 SIT on pedestals and give limitations
ol the Deiphlan 0racl.. forecastlng
things that nave not Yet come TO pass.
us Il very SIMPLE process. If you
piophesy correctly Il s glft, but if
.ou re wrong the only thing setC to
90 IS TO cilmb Gown lrom your ped
estai and crawi. Ne hereby qualify as
q contender Tor the al!-round crawling
championship OF the world
10 resume our shameless confession,
tnen, IN the afternoon Miss Marion
linoerstcin and siiss Eleanor Goss, ap-
pcaling as team Tor the first time Ia
mis- tournament. defeated the great
combination of Mrs. George W Wight
man and Miss Sears by score of 4--6,
IS. 6--3 Mrs. Wlghtman and her
partner have won countless honors in
doubles and were the national title
hoiders IN 1915. 1t was no fuke vic
cory that came to Miss Zindersteln and
tna New YORK girl They hammered
ou; the POINTS by most brilliant driv-
ing and net attack, with Miss Zinder-
~-cin taAsny the mons share Of the
A0nGrs.
Morse Women Win
Whiie this was transpiring on the
champ ionshIp" stretch of turf, Miss
.hoi.a BJulsLedt, national champion,
and Mrs. Joran Rogge, her partner
1rorn Norway, were crushing Mrs. Spen-
cer Fullerton Weaver ana MRS. kawson
h. Wood, or New York, by score OF
90, %, winning with surprising
ease. For the tlrst time since the start
ot the outdoor season, Mrs. Roggc
played w To her real strength and
was of material assistance to her ia
nous partner. another contingency
ehaF was totally unlocked for.
Mrs. Weaver and Mrs. Wood were a
giarlng example of what lack of prac
tIce Will do, especially in the doubles
game, and ncltner was anywhere near
Ger real worth in this match. Miss
blurstedt was just Miss Bjurstedt,
wnich is praise enough. The winners
in both these matches went into the
semi-tna brackets.
lhls Just anuut exhausted the list of
upsets. Therefore we take pride in an
nounclng that Mrs. Wightman came
through to the final round in the mixed
doubles AS WE PREDICTED. Miss
bJurstcdt and Frederick b. Alexander
also gained their final round brackets,
defeating Miss Cassel and Elliott II.
Binzen at G-1, Cd.
Miss Sears Not at Best
Miss Sears made no excuses for her
at k,,t Oh, va1% 1,
same sterling player who conquered
a,ss zindetatein yesterday by at least
80 on points
The Boston girl seemed to have left
all her former speed behind her, and
the sting was utterly lacking in her
overhead play, points that had weighed
largely in her favor against Miss Zin-
derstein. Miss Cassei, on the contrary,
played the best tennis she has shown
at any time in the last few years. Her
placing was above criticism and her.
Judgment wellnigh flawless.
Noting weakness on Miss Sears's
backhand, she attacked her opponent
at that point almost continuously and
scored ace after ace by sticking her re-
turns through the smallest openings,
and she seemed absolutely unable to
miss the lines, cutting the chalk with
beautiful backhand drives at sharp
angles across the court as Miss Sears
attempted to come in to the net.
In the second set, when her opponent
began to press her bit harder, Miss
Cassel resorted to lobbing. and here,
too. she was astonishingly accurate,
placing the ball within inches of the
base line and we'll ever the others
head.
The point score follows:
FIRST SET
sis cssssi ......4 2 - s-si
asss 6cars ......z 0 30
SECOND SET
Mas CAaaai A 4 q