The sun., 1918-09-17
WOMEN BEGIN PLAY
FOR TENNIS TITLE
Mrs. Mills and Miss POllak
Reach Third Round in
State Championship.
BY FREDERICK G. LIED.

The New York State championship
women's> singles tennis tournament got
under way yesterday on the old courts
Of the West Side Club, at a3sth street
and Broadway. and the FIRST days ses-
sion brought out some splendid tennis
Mra David c. Mills and Miss Helene
Pollak emerged from the fray with lead
ing honors. Both scored telling VIC
tories In the second round after sailing
smoothly through their first round
matches.
The tournament. which II being held
as women's tournament for the first
time. brought together we'll balanced
held OF thirty-two. players. including
most of the leading racquet wielders OF
the Empire State.
While all the matches yesterday were
interesting. most Of them were onesided.
One OF the fourteen matches played re-
quired third set to decide tho victor,
and only two deuce sets were played
during the afternoon.
The most interesting match OF the
day was the one in which Miss Clare
Cassell won an uphill victory over Mrs
Albert HUMPHREYS by the score OF 10,
60, 6-l. Miss Cassell fought hard
for the FIRST set, hut her frequent double
faulting proved her undoing. as she was
guilty Of fourteen double faults during
the set
However. the loss Of the first set
spurred her on to greater deeds. and
with her strong back hand she sent place.
ment after placement into the corners
OF her opponent. Her shots baffled her
opponent and she ran of eleven games
in a row. Mrs HUMPHREYS was per-
ceptibly tired at the finish.
Miss PollaG Beats Miss winn.
Mrs David C. Mills and Miss Helene Pol
lax played strong. we'll directed games
and won their matches by superior steadi-
ness. Miss Pollak won her first victory
over Mrs. E. II. Duble at Ga. Go. and
then met Miss Caroma Winn. who had
reached the second round by default.
Miss VIM IL left handed and not
much taller than Mary Pickford, but she
played a splendid game. and the match
was closer than the scores OF Ga, 6-1
would indicate. With her left hand
drives Miss VIM repeatedly played to
Miss Pollak's backhand. but they went
for naught. for Miss Pollak made some
beautiful recoveries and broke down her
opponent by some magnificent gets"
1t was quite coincidence that the
scores Of Mrs. Mills were exactly the
same as those Of Miss Pollak. though
they came In a different order. In the
first set Mrs. Mills. who represents the
Orange Tennis Club. defeated Mrs Ed
ward B. Thompson. 60 and 60. and
then won over Miss Florence Pond. the
youthful Jersey City champion. by 81
and 6--2. AS in the case Of Miss VIM
Miss Pond reached the second round by
reason Of a default. Mrs. Mills gave a
fine exhibition OF net play in this match.
driving through her opponent for pretty
placements or causing Miss Pond to re-
turn hard driven shots into the net or
over the back line. The young Jersey
girl made some nice rallies, but could not
hold her advantage after getting lead
Victory for Miss Wagner.
Miss Marie Wagner. the playing
through champion. who is ambitious to
capture the newly offered silver cup that
Is to stand as a three-year trophy for
the championship. made quick work OF
Mrs, Johanna Smiet. winning, 60. 6-l.
Miss Wagner showed at her best.
Miss Edith u. Handy defeated Mrs.
F. II. Godfrey in n match that was
closer than most OF those which pre-
coded II. She won at 6-3, Ga. Mrs.
Godfrey fought hard all the way and
went after everything, but Miss Handy
was too steady for her and forced her
to drive out Of the court
The second round matches will be
completed to-day and the cham pionship
doubles started. The summaries:
New York State Championship. Women's
Singles First Round)-Miss Eliza beth @.
Holden defeated Mrs. Arthur Duncan.
I'll. 6--l: Mrs. Louis @. Morris defeated
Miss Marion Her, 6-l. 60: Mrs. Percy
wilbourn defeated Miss Bessie wray.
60. "a Miss Florence Pond defeated
Mrs. Robert lie Roy by default: Mrs.
David C. Mills defeated Mrs. Edward II.
Thompson. 60, ca: Miss Marie Wagner
defeated Mrs. Johanne Smiet, Go, 6-l;
Miss Hazel Gardner defeated Mrs. W. A.
Brown. ca, ca; Mrs. lingo Hartman
defeated Miss Muriei Binzen, s-e. S-2;
Miss Caroma VIM defeated Miss Rosa
mond whiteside by default; Miss Helene
Pollak defeated Mrs. E. II. Duble. Go.
10: Mrs. William II. Pritchard defeated
Miss, Elizabeth Mclean. 81, ga; Mrs
kins. e.. IS; Miss Edith p. Handy
defeated Mrs F. II. Godfrey. 6--3, 6-s;
Miss Glare Cassell defeated Mrs. Albert
Humphries. -. Co. e-l.
Second Round-Mrs. David c. Mills de-
feated Miss Florence Pond, al, Ga:
Miss Helene Pollak defeated Miss Caroma
VIM, ca, 6-l.