New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Junior Tennis Titles
At Stake This Week
Side Tennis Club grounds at Forest
Hills. In the last week Of August.

singles and doubles and the boys
championship singles, beginning to-
morrow morning, on the day courts Of
the Terrace Club Of Flatbush. The
competition here should bring out ex-
ceptional tennis on the part Of the
boys for there has been steady rise
in the development of the game among
our brilliant juniors, and the number
who are qualified to make fight for
the chief honors is greater this year
than ever before.
Harold Taylor, the present champion
in the singles, sound young player
as he is, and undoubtedly half Of Is
stronger in his all-round play, will find
he has a mans size task on his hends
to retain his laurels this week There
are half a dozen other boys who have
been coming along fast this season any
one Of whom is liable to upset the title
holder. The boy who comes through
the field will most certainly have
earned the honors.
Frank Anderson Favorite
Foremost, from point of performance
If nothing else, among the contenders
will be Frank I. Anderson of Brooklyn,
Long Island and North Side champion.
This sixteen-year-o schoolboy has
been going at such a splendid clip since
the start of outdoor play last spring
that he would create no great surprise
were he to add the metropolitan title
to his list.
With plenty of confidence in his own
ability to play the game, Frank COM
bines hard hitting with beautiful exc
cution of stroke and clever court gen
eralship. His volleyng is as crisp and
ciean-cut as many an older ranking
players. Another and vital factor in,
his favor lies in this, that he never ad-
mlts defeat until defeat has come.
1t may be that Taylor will hold his
crown for another year. His chief
1auit this season has been his prone
ness to blow up" at critical times. He
mas the shots and the speed to hold his
own with all, but the top rankers among
the juniors, and it may be that he can
maintain an even pace throughout the
week, in which case he will have to be
figured upon.
Vincent Richards, national junior
champion, will not be a contender, hav7
ing had the misfortune few weeks ago
OF being laid low with appendicitis.
His absence will be sorely felt, for he
, is one of the most brilliant of the
younger school and seemingly destined
to great honors on the court
Fred Anderson Contender
Frederick G.. Anderson, jr., brother
OF Frank, and runner-up to the latter
for the Long Island title recently, is
another youth who has championship
possibilities within him. Exceptionallv
tall and fine player overhead, this
Brooklyn youth seems likely to 90 far
In his quest for title. Gerald Emer-
son, of New Jersey, a contender last
year, may rise to the occasion this
week and gain the coveted prize, al
though he has yet to learn control of
his shots.
The famous Donaldson brothers,
Gerald, jr, Canadian junior champion,
and Cecil, the ffteen-year- r-old sensa-
ton, who finished as runner-up to
Gerald in the Canadian tourney last
week, will also be striving for the
metropolitan honors.
The Terrace Club is making special
efforts to make the tournament this
year success. and the fifteen clay
courts have received special course of
treatment in order to make them fiji
for the week of play. The first prize
for the Juniors has been donated by
Frederick b. Alexander, the former
Davis Cup star, who is really the
! father OF JUNIOR lawn tennis" in this
country. Henry Taylor. father of
Harold, has presented the prizes for
the runners-up. The boys Will also be
rewarded with suitable trophies.
The Country Club of Westchester
and the Westfeld Golf Club of West
! field, N. j., have tournaments sched-
uled for tomorrow, but the Vest
chester fixture is off. The Westtield
event will be played at night and viii
consist of mems open doubles.
On Saturday the Mount Pleasant
Tennis Club. of Pleasantville, N. Y,
State championship tournament, this
fixture running through the following
week. S. Howard Voshell, present
champion, but now with the aviation
service, will hardly be able to defend
his title, but the entry list promises to
compare favorably with former fields
l. is the first time that the Mount
Pleasant Club has held this tourna-
ment, and special efforts are being
made to crown it with success
Last week marked the return to the
courts, after years absence. of Mrs
Jack Anderson, the former Elsa Raw
ser, who performed so brilliantly on
local courts before she went ato tenn
porary retirement. In special exhi-
btion mixed doubles match held on
the clay courts of the Maplewood Ten
mis- Club, at Maplewood, N j., on the
night of July 4, Mrs. Anderson and
Allan Behr defeated Mrs. David C.
Mills and Brdgewater Arnold by
score of 7-5, 6-3. The match
was played under electric light and
the players did not seem to miss the
customary daylight conditions, lobbing
and smashing accurately.
Mrs. Anderson's service was de-
cided factor in bringing victory to her
and her partner, and the sharp volley
ing that has always been a feature Of
her play was strongly in evidence.
Aqueduct Entries
FIRST RACE-Three year -olds and upward: sell
ing: six and one half frrlongs