The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-09
MURRAY'S FIGHT
 IN CHAMPIONSHIP WAS REMARKABLE
Entered Forest Hills Tennis Tournament Without Pre-
 liminary Practice.

New York, Sept. 9-The remark able manner in which Robert Lindley Murray, the California tennis player, fought his way through the recent National Championship singles tour nament at Forest Hills, N. Y, has strongly impressed the most expert followers of the court game. Mur- ray entered the tournament without preliminary practice to speak of and only after considerable persuasion. When he finally decided to compete he went about the task in most workmanlike manner and by steady development of all portions of his game reached a height of playing from which was considered impossi- bleb y critics who had followed his belated entry and practice.
 The new champion. who proved himself a worthy successor to the other Californian national title hold CTS, Maurice B. Mclaughlin and Will liam M. Johnston, was not helped 1 in any way by his position in the l draw. In fact quite the contrary was true, for he faced the very best of the eighty-odd entrants during his l progress to the championship. His first match was comparatively easy when he'd efeated Jack Dudley, the Washington youth, at co, 60, 6-1. Lieut.. Kelleher was forced to ] default in the second round, owing to a hurry call to service but after that Murray was obliged to play hard in every advance.
 He defeated T. R. Pell, the back hand expert, 6-2, co, 60, and Fred B. Alexander, 6-S, S-6, co, 4-6, 60, in what was probably his hardest match. N. W. Niles gave defeated 7-5, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5. s. H. Voshen next fell before Murray at | 6-4, 6-3, S-6 and then the Cali fornian clinched the title by defeat | ing W. J. Tilden, Jr., 6-3, 6-1, T-5. 1 During the eight days of play Mur- ray faced and defeated six opponents, not including Kelleher's default, with the loss of but three sets out of the twenty-four played. Of these twenty four sets but six went to duece and Murray lost but one of the extra game sets. His total number of games was 192 of which he won 127 and 1 lost siXty-five.
 l
 The status and condition of col lege athletics among the larger east ern universities is outlined in a gen. eral way by the prospects at Cornell as viewed by the Alumni News. The article is, in part, as follows:
 Intercollegiate athletics will be maintained at Cornell during the next college year, at least as far as ma jor sports are concerned, in the opin- ion of persons interested in these &C., tivities. Of course the athletic situa- tion is uncertain, pending the pas sage by Congress of the new man. power act, and the promulgation of regulations for it's administration by the War Department. No one can es- innate how many students will return this fall, and whether the number will be large enough to furnish ma terial for the varsity teams and fi-
 nancia1 support to meet the neces- sary expenses.
 "At present, however, it Is propos- ed to go ahead and develop teams for football, cross country, track and base
 ball. In view of the lack of under
 graduate interest in rowing last year
 it is regarded as doubtful if an effort
 should be made to carry out any sort
 of intercollegiate rowing schedule
 this year.
 '"The two minor sports in which
 Cornell participated last year will
 not fare so well. It is the judgment
 of men sympathetically interested 1T
 basketball that it will be impossible tc
 finance an intercollegiate team this
 year. What will happen to intercol-
 legiate wrestling can not now be de.
 termined, but it would cause no sur.
 prise if activities in that branch o1 sport, too, would be suspended fol
 the duration of the war.
 ''It is proposed by the Athletic As sociation to put out a football sea
 son ticket that will cost considerably less than the usual major sports tic. , ket. In the spring a baseball ant track ticket would be issued. In thi! way it is hoped that more ticket: : would be issued. In this way it i: : hoped that more tickets may be sold and the problem of financing the teams made somewhat easier.
 ,, Present plans call for the opening
 of football late in September. Dr ) Albert H. Sharpe who is spending the summer in Y. M. c. A. work a
 Camp Merritt, will return to take 7 charge of the team. He will be as , OrpooT1 ''