The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-03
LAPS TO PLAY
 IN SEMI-F|NALS
Kumagae and Kashio tc Face Richards and Taylor
 For Tennis Title.

New York, Aug. 1.-Two of the | younger tennis players, Vincent Rich1 ards, the national boys champion, | and Harold Taylor former Metre pelitan junior champion, won distinc- ton In the Metropolitan tennis cham pienships on the courts of the Cres- cent Athletic club yesterday, when they attained places in the semi-final round of the singles event. It is these two who must uphold the honor of the local tennis players against the4 Japanese stars, who remain in the' tournament, Ichiya Kumagae, the fifth ranking player of the country, and Seelehiro Kashio, who has been showing marked proficiency In his recent matches.
 In the semi i-final round which will be played today, Richards, who has only recently returned to tournament play after serious illness, will test strength with Kumagae, and Taylor will oppose Kashio, who came through to semi-flnal round bracket earlier III the week.
 In the play yestrrday both of the young net stars showed that they were at the top of their game, and therefore in condition to wage keen contest against the Nipponese. | Taylor won his way through two matches. His hardest struggle came in the third round, when he was op- posed by the veteran Charles Cham bers. Taylor earned the verdict af- ter three sets with the score r-6, -5, 8-6. To gain the semi-tnal l round position Taylor easily disposed of William Hartyre, Jr., taking two lcve sets from his rival.
 Richards did not get going quickly in his fourth-round match with Channing Burrows. and was forced to relinquish the first set. In the last two sets he played tennis of the high est order, completely smothering the game of his antagonist to win at Q 6, G-3, 6-1.
 1 Kumagae did not have much of test to win his semi-finaI round bracket. His opponent was Dr. H J. Morganthaler and the Japanese star secured the laurels at 6-2, 6-4 There was never a time when any doubt existed that the Japanese would win. Kumagae did not press the pay quite as strongly as usual, ap- parently feeling confident that he was in command of the situation. He held more to the baseline than ir some of his previous matches, and Dr. Morganthaler was able t9 proft
 by rather frequent errors that flew into the net from Kumagae's racquet
 The net play of the Nipponese, how ever was all that he could desire. He
 volleyed surely and confidently, ant
 finished his points with a decisivenes:
 that showed his newly adopted styIe
 of attack at it's best.
 From the point of view of the spec
 tators the match between Taylor ant Chambers in the third rounG Wa! doubtless the most interesting. was a keenly played struggle iron start to finish, and only the fine cour age and stamina that was shown b. Taylor in the last set enabled him tt ', send Chambers to defeat. The latte within sight of victory, with laat of 5-2 on games in the final clash
 but thereupon Taylor rallied ant
 raced through to victory.
 It was Taylors net attack that say
 ed him. He forsook the baseline al most entirely to play sparklin;
 game at the net, where his stop vol leys and his sharp cutting off 0
 drives for crosscourt placement dii
 much to disrupt Chambers game.