The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-22
KUMACAE WINS < MATCH WITHOUT
 LOSING A GAME:
Tennis Stars Win at Mead ow Club - Southampton Singles Enters Second Round, and Doubles Are Started.

Southampton, N. Y, Aug. 22.---A splendid field of 32 contestants began play in the singles at the annual in yitatiOn tennis tournament of the Meadow club yesterday afternoon, and before the courts were deserted the first round had been entirely filled but with the exception on one bracket and a start made in the doubles, in which Is pairs are entered.
 Quality was conspicuous in the sin gles. Among those who appeared were Ichiya Kumagae of Japan, Will liam T. Tilden 2d, national clay court and national doubles title holder; Harold A. Throckmorton, former na- tional interscholastic champion and now a sergeant in the Heavy Coast Artillery; Vincent Richards, the 16- year-old schoolboy, who holds the na- tional doubles crown with Tilden; Walter Merrill Hall, middle states title holder, and Theodore Roosevelt Pel, a former national indoor cham pion.
 All these men won their matches yesterday without much difficulty ex- cept in the case of Tilden, who was forced into a desperate uphill fight in the second set of his match with E. HI. Hendrickson, Amherst champion, before he could claim the victory at 6--3, 7--5. Young Richards was also forced to his limit to take the measure of Fred C. Bags at 7--5 2--6, 6--2 Kumagae won his match from James i $. O'Boyle in impressive manner, not allowing the Pelham Bay sailor a sin  i sending over speedy forehand drives 1 with remarkable accuracy, and when i the openings had been forced he was quick to charge the net and there fin ish off the points by severe overhead volleying. Occasionally the little Ori- ental brought off heavy smashes that l sent the ball crashing through the l d'urt at great speed.
 l Lindley Murray did not play yester- 1 day, but he won his first round match i by default from A. H. Grier and will play Elon H. Hooker today.
 1 Thvockmorton eliminated J. B. ! Hughes at 6-2, 6-1, reeling off tre- mendous smashes. sharp and brilliant
 volleying shots and sizzling drives the | length of the court Throckmorton 1 considering the fact that he has hardly touched racquet this season
 showed a surprising control of stroke 1 and was as fast at court covering as he ever was.
 Richards found Baggs of the de- 1 ceptive chop stroke a worthy oppon- l ent, as the latter's returns carried
 practically no bound on the ball
 Baggs ran into a lead of Al on | games and 40-0 on points. There did
 not seem a chance of his dropping
 the set until Richards suddenly start
 ed brilliant low volleying at sharp
 angles, catching his opponent out ot
 position time and again and finally ] pulling out the set at 7-5. Bags began the second set with an added sting to his shots and at such g. clir
 that he had the set at 6-2, bringing
 the match all square, before Rich
 ards realized the situation.
 l. IR the last season, however, the
 school boy champion went stout.
 hearted at his task and by working
 his way up to the net quickly anC
 smothering Baggs' twisting shots be-
 fore they had a chance to touch the
 turf, went into an overwhelming lead
 taking the set at 6-2 and the match The summarizes:
 Meadow Club Invitation Singles first round: Elliot H. Binzen defeated A. s. Cassils, 6-2, 90; Walter T
 Hayes defeated H. D. Keressy, GO
 co; Ichiya Kumagae defeated J. S l O'Boyle, co, GO; Harold A
 Throckmorton defeated J. B. Hughes
 6-2, 6-1; Gerald Emerson wor
 from A. W. Wallace by default; Dr
 William Rosenbaum defeated Lieut.
 w. A Horrell, 6-4, 6-4; T. R. PeI
 won from Frank T. Anderson by de.
 fault; Conrad B. Doyle defeated E
 F. Thomas, Jr., 6-1, 6-4; Ralph H
 Burdick defeated Henry B. O'Boyle
 6-2, 6-4; Walter Merrill Hall de
 feated Harold L. Taylor, 6-2, 6-2
 w. T. Tilden 2d defeated E. H. Hen drickson, 6-3, 7-5; Elon H. Hooker
 won from H. s. Judson by default Robert Lindley Murray won from A
 H. Grier by default; H. H. Bassfor(
 defeated G. A. Walker, Jr., 7-5 6-4; Vincent Richards defeated Fret c. Bangs, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2.
 Doubles, first round: Harold A Throckmorton and Walter Merrill Hall defeated pr. William Rosen baum and Fred c. Baggs, 6-3, 6-1
 Ichiya Kumagae and Harold TayIo : defeated A. s. Cassils and H. c. Some 6-2, 6-1; H. B. O'Boyle and A. He : won from H. H. Judson and A. W Wallace by default,