The sun., 1918-08-26
START TENNIS PLAY
FOR TITLE TO-DAY
National Singles Tournament
Will Be Opened on Turf
at Forest Hills.

A, ! 80 O'Clock this afternoon play
n the thi-ty-seventh national champion.
ss.p tennis singles tournament viii he
,,srtsd on the turf courts of the West
side Tennis Club at Forest Hills. In
splts OF the war the entry is a thor
ourhly representative one. and possesses
both the quality and the quantity which
would ne expected In the average o!
Race time years. No man can be e.
tsbished a favorits.
The draw includes eighty-five names
among which are included those OF
william T. Tilden I'd, winner OF the
southampton tournament Waiter HAYES
he Chicago fash, who eliminated lohiya
KumAgae from the competition at the
Meadow Club. kumagae himself. in
tent on avenptng his defeat r. Lindley
Murray, winner OF the national tpurna :
ment last year. when Il carried no
championship: Fred Alexander, Reals
Wright one time title holder: Lieut.
Craig Biddie, S. Howard voshell, Harold
Throckmorton. T. r. Pell. Walter Merrill
Hall. Ralph Burdick Of Chicago and
Conrad Doyle,
Tbere are twenty-three matches on
tc-day's schedule and none of them
stands out strongly. Tilden Is called on
to face Paul Gibbons. a fellow Philadel-
phiAn. while HAYES viii meet Ned Cum
ming OF Harvard. Kumagae In to play
Waiter Pate and Murray meets Jack
Dudley. Throckmorton and Harold
TAYLOR should put up n fine match.
The tournament this year In being
held for the benefit OF the War and
Navy Departments Commission on
Training Camp Activities Fund DR..
Joseph Raycroft will represent the army
and Walter Camp the navy division at
to-dRys matches.
The tournament will have a military
favor betting a wartime championship.
for more than twenty Of the eighty
seven entries come from men IN the
army and navy. The schedule for to-
day:
Feature Matches.
IN p. a., Court No. s-R- L,ndley
NurrAy sEains; Jack Dudley, Washington.
a P N, Court No sergeant HarDid
4:se ?. NJ, Court No. 2-Lieut. will
IAN A. Horrel. Washington. against Con-
nd B. Doyle. Washington.
Mstrhes nj I 30 r. NJ.
Court 8. Robert wahreushek Va. George
e Mss co9 Gour; g. Ns' " Nss vs.
Va seiichiro Kashio, Court 9. George W.
Whitman VS.. ". J. whelnn; Court ..
I Bowman va. r. H. Burdick; Court
u BeAls c. Wright va. Robert l. James
Court II. G. o, Wagner Vi p. b Alex
Ander; Court L.. Eugene Czintx VS. A.
Z Chaplin, ST.. Court IL, A. H Chaplin.
~ We Burghard Court u, H s. O'Boyle
- Thomas: Court IL. R ". Dana va
AlsI Tier Court 1s. J. W. Anderson VS.
Lieut II 6. NJ. Keileher: Court II, Lieut.
!. 7 Gilbert VS.. Augustine Heaiy: Court
ik R A. johnson Va W L Gailon. Corrr
.. Dr, B. p Drake vs. Percy Kynaston.
Matches .at r. n.
Court s, Axel Craven va. Lyle Z Mahan;
Lieut.. z. r. I-arnsd vs. r. C. Bags: o.
{ A l. Diunne We. Frank "A. Fall: 10
Paul w Gibbons VI W. T. Tiiden I'd: II,
r. PeiI va j. B. Hughes. IL. H S
Parker VI. II. y. Burroughs; IL, Herbert
ais vs r. a. Pope; IA, r. b. Gs,combs
! Gerald Emerson' Is. z. H. Binznn VS.
Fox; L. A G Nielsen Va. c. G
5ehr, is, /. c. Wright vs.. H j. Kalten-
.s,h Jr.; 10. Z. b Cumming va W. r
caves; 20. ]. p. Stockton VS. Or. Il. J. Il.
Eurgenthalsr
Matches ut 1850 r. M.
Court s. IchyiA KumaEae vs. W. l..
pA's II y. Bassford vs.. George King:
Il Voshen vs., r. D. Richey; 10, j.
,:sis Biddle Va. J. u. Ewing; 10. Or
William Rosenbaum va E c. Simmons;
:, 9, W. Pike VI. H. V. Miller; is, H
: Bretz Va. 7. G. Fulton; 10. vincen;
Richards vs.. r r. Nathan. ar; 20, II.
keresey Va. Frank T. Anderson.