New-York tribune., 1918-08-28
Kumagae Defeats Wightman
In Straight Sets and Faces
Wright To-Morrow
By Fred Hawthorne

only twenty-five players were left
in the great national singles lawn ten
MS tournament on the turf courts of
the West Side Tennis Club at Forest
Hills yesterday evening when the last
match had been played and, as was
the case on the first day of compcti-
ton, the favoritcs survived the rigors
of the test in every case: but from to-
day on the matches will grow in
quality Of play and in closeness, for
the wheat has been pretty we'll sepa-
rated from the chaf.
While on Monday the feature Of the
day WAS the terrific tivc-set struggle
between Harold Throckmorton and
Harold Taylor, so yesterday another
unusual match held the attention of
those who did not mind missing their
supper to watch tennis. Seiichiro
kashio, the Japanese doubles partner
of the famous ichiya kumagae. en-
gagged G. A. l.. Dionnc in the most
strlklng example of perpetual motion
ever seen on a tennis court or else
where.
Starting their match at $3.50 o'cloca.
kashio and Dionne were still dead
locked at five minutes to s, and thcv
would have kept right on only an in
cons derate sun ducked behind the
horizon at that time and left them in
the dark, with Kashio leading at 6-1
-, 6-5, 2 all
Start Again To-day
They viii resume this afternoon ot
the point where they left off, and
every indication points to the match
eclipsing the long standing time record
of five and half hours made at New
port in 1888 by Palmer +, Presbrev
and 7. Suffern Tailor
Editorial notc).-We shall take up
this match in some detail further
down in the column,
lchiya Kumagae, the great little
BILE signs yesterday that he is regain
ing command of his stroke in his match
against George w. Wightman, of Bos-
ton, whom he defeated at 6 3, CO,
GO.
Kumagae went into forecourt fre-
quently to finish off his points by Sc
we're smashing and sharp volleying, and
he was hitting closer to the lines than
at any time in the last two weeks. To-
morrow he will probably face Beals
Wright, the famous internatonalist,
who is liable to force the Oriental
champion to uncover his best game
Robert Lindley Murray, the Cali
fornia meteor" went into the third
round by default yesterday, his sched-
uled opponent, Lieutenant H. G. NJ.
kelleher, having been recalled to duty
at the last moment Murray, keen for
practice, took on Frederick B. Alex
ander, the noted Davis Cup star, for
one closely contested set and then got
III some more work with Nathaniel
W. Niles and Lieutenant S. Howard
Voshell
The Pacific Coast star is rounding
into form, but it remains to be seen
whether he will get working at top
speed in time to meet his most for
midable opponents later in the week.
Easy Match for Tilden
William T. Tilden, Cd, who begins
to loom up as one of the most dam
geroVs candidates for the title, had
another easy match yesterday, defeat
ing Charming G. Burrows at 6-1, 6-3,
6-3. The national clay court champion
orly showed his hand occasionally
against Burrows, and then his speed
Of foot and his rare voleying iashed d
brilliantly. He will fac~ Conrad B.
Doyle, of Washington, this afternoon,
in what should prove a sizzling session
OF lawn tennis.
Voshell will bear Watching in
this tournament. He walked straight
Through his match with Harold D.
Brett. Of Boston. yesterday by score