Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
.JAPS MAY PLAY
HERE SATURDAY
Kumagae and Kashiro In.
vited to Take Part in Ex.
hibition at Cynwyd
Bv PAUL PREP

Rodney Rec'. of Germantown Arad-
emy. and Herman Dornheinn, of Frank
ford High School did not meet in the
championship Yesterday afternoon on the
Cynwyd Club courts The match will
be played this Saturday afternoon.
Paul Gibbons. president of the Phila-
delphja district of the National Lawn
Tennis Association. Is endeavoring to
arrange an exhibition match between
Tchiya Kumagae and Seiich'ro kash'ro
to be played at Cyrwyd next saturday
afternoon for the benefit of the war
departments commission on training
camp activities.
The two foreigners had been invited
TO play here last Saturday. but as they
were entered in the metropolitan cham
pionship It was impossible for them to-
come here. II is hoped that they will
find II within their power to play here
this weekend.
InSaddition to the final round of the
junior -tournament and the exhibition
match between Kumaae and kashiro
the final round in the mems singles be-
tween Barker and the winner of the
Osborne -Swayne match and the nnal
match in the mems doubles will be
played, so that the fans are in for a
fine day Of tennis.
Westerners Enter Nationals
The fact that Walter T. Hayes and
Ralph II Burdick tho wonder doubles
pair of the West. are to enter the ma
tional doubles championship at tn" Long
wood Cricket Cluo. Boston, when II be-
gins on Augusl II. is regarded as fore
shadowing their winning of the tltle.
They are the Hackett and Alexander OF
the courts in their part of the country
Furthermore they have been rated among
the top ten and are undoubtedly the
greatest pair actively engaged IN COM
petition at this time.
The s,yle Of the men is most different
Haves If above six feet in height and
he has won list Of championship titles
Is long as his arms and legs, and that
saving something The lanky chicago
! star won his first championship of I'M
portance in 1905, when he scored IN the
| Middle West singles.
Five times Hayes has beaten the PICK
! Of his section of the country TOT 'ne
Western singles. Six times he has beer
! one of the pair to win the western
/ doubles, a record that has never peer
! duplicated He has held everything IRON
| collegiate honors to the nationai cray
| court championship He does it all BY
| his wonderful sweeping ground StroNes
mace s,eadiness and unusual reach'
The important championships of thu
I courts won by Burdick are all in douole'
nlay. but in his own department anc
| styIe Of play the fiery Chicagoan II
| without peer. His forte Is the ne
game. where his quickness and agllity
his volleys and stop volleys, have mad'
him a terror to opponents OF the courts
Burdick has been the partner or Haye
! since 1915 and it is most Formidable
combination.
Will History Repeat
Ichiva Kumagae appears to be follow
ing the trend of lawn tennis history II
his inability to display any remarkabl
skin at the doubles game. Few OF tn
great players of the courts, the men VIII
have gained the crowns and held then
have taken their places on the height
of the singles. while they scaled tn
peaks of the doubles AT the same time
Kumagae is no exception. The grea
Japanese player appeared to be as ski
tish as colt at a red umbrella whe
he attempted teamwork with Selichir
Kashiro on the turf of the Crescent Att
. letic Club at Bay Ridge.
To those who critically watched III
work OF the pair in doubles 1t was ev
, dent that Kashiro is the member OF tn
partnership who won the points. SOM
how or other, Kumagae does not ada
himself to the doubles game
1t was the same with William !
: Larned at the time the Nestor of II
American courts maintained his 81
premacy in the singles. The dearest wi;
: Of Larned's lawn tennis career was
Z gain the national honors in the double
but he never accomplished II.
The game thing was true of Villa
. . J. Clotfier, and he teamed with Larn'
r a number of times in a desperate effo
to win the championship. At the tin
he was invincible in singles. Malcol
d d. whitman sought to gain the double
only to And that for him II was a W
o. the wisp. Kumagae undeniably Is mo
3 3 formidable in singles, but he is far fro
strong in doubles.