The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
L|NDLEY MURRAY ID MEET KUMAGAE OR
 T|[DEN IN FINALS
Californian Earns Place in Last Round of Tennis Tourney by Beating
 s. H. V0shell

Forest Hills, N. r., August s1-R. Binda ley Murray, California tennis player, rep. resenting the Niagara Falls Tennis club, won his way into the final round of the thirty seventh annaal turf court cham pionships here today, and next Tuesday will meet either w. T. Tilden, Jr, of Philadelphia. or Ichiiya Kumagae for the titular honors. Murray won his place in the final ny defeating S Howard Voshell, national indoor champion, who entered from the Terrace club of Brooylyn. 6-4, 63, S-6
 Kumagae advanced from the fifth round to the semi final at the expense of Lylo E. Mahaa, winning at 4-6, 6-3, GO G-1. The Japanese will play Tilden on Mon day and the winner will be brackerea with Murray the following day, weather permitting.
 WEATHER UNAVOIDABLE
 Conditions were. far from favorable for fast playing on the court of the West Side club this afternoon high and fitful wind blew out leaden sky and the heavy atmosphere was fairly satur- ated With moisture, making it difficult to hold raeouets firmly or control the flight of the ball The largest gallery of the week gathered for the two matches, however. and were rewarded by some spectacular play, especially in the Murray -voshell match
 The indoor champion at times gave Murray some of the hardest opposition that the Californian has faced in his prosress through the tournament today. Murray, however, always held the advan- tage of his smashing service and ability to hold the net at critical moments.
 He did net elect to take a stand at the barrier, frequently playing from the serv- ice line much of the time with softer strokes titan is his usual custom. He forced much of the play to voshells back hand and tie latter was obliged to de- pend for the majority of his points 10 passing shots which clung closely to the sidelines. ifterspersed with an occasional sharp cross court smash which seldom was more than foot or two beyond the net in its flight.
 HOW HE DID TT
 Murray easily held the upper hand in the first two sets, but with the match turning against him in the third set, Voshell lifted his game to remarkable heights, and by taking desperate chances in which fortune appeared to favor his play, ran into a lead of 4-2 His foot and racquet work at this point elicited rounds of applause from the gallery of several thousand spectators It appeared as though the match would go into extra sets for Voshell was driving and chopping the ball to inac- cessible points of the court, notwith- standing the fact that Murray tried for everything. At this stage Murray changed his tactics and anchored him self at the barrier and by spread eagling first at one side and then at the other, broke through voshelPs service and offense until lie had re- gained the lead. Tho Brooklyn player fought for every point, and the rallies were both long and brilliant but Mur- rays great agility and net smashing, combined with his service aceing, final ly gave the lead at 7=6 vUshell threw away his last chance of victory by three double faults in the closing game.
 Kumagae's victory over -Mahan was much more easily won. TAe tall New Yorker appeared utterly unable to control his strokes during the play and the Japarese was not any better in the initial set which Mahan won at 6-4.
 The high wind and the greater foot ing power of the oriental proved a handicap which he could not overcome, despite repeated efforts to steady lis game.
 Kumagae, on the other hand, im- proved as the game progressed, and was playing his usual high standard of tennis in the last two sets, when he ran through Mahan with the loss of but one game.
 TAYLOR WINS JUNIOR TITLE
 Earlier in the day H. l.. Taylor of Brooklyn won the junior national championship by defeating J. Hennes- sey of Indianapolis at 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. AL though both players are still very youthful, they showed a remarkable understanding of the finer points of the game, both in strokes and court strat- egy. Taylor appeared to be much more at home on the grass courts, and his better racquet technique gave him the winning advantage