The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-24
MURRAY BOWS TO
 CUNNING OF CLAY COURT CHAMPION
Tilden's Smashing Game Holds Meteor Powerless Hayes, Conqueror of Kumagae, Is Vanquished by Pell in Straight Sets.

Southampton, Aug. 24-William T. Tilden, 2d, of Philadelphia, stood to the forefront in the semt-final round of the invitation tennis tournament at the Meadow Club yesterday, for it was the Quaker City contender who vanquished Robert Lindley Murray of Niagara Falls in straight sets at 6-3, 6-3. The other final-round bracket went to Theodore Roosevelt Pell who scored a victory over Walter T. Hayes, the last of Chicagos representatives in the tournament, at 6-2, 7-5. It was Hayes who put the little Japanese Kumagae in yesterdays play, and 1t was therefore something of a sur prise when he in turn fell before Pell.
 The doubles also was advanced to the final round brackets. In the up- per half of the draw Tilden and Vin- cent Richards, national doubles cham pions, came through, and in the low CT half the Chicago team of Hayes and Ralph H. Burdick were returned the victors.
 Hayes and Burdick first defeated Kumagae and Harold Taylor in a sec- ond round match at 6-2, 6-1, and later in the afternoon defeated Mur- ray and Pell, in a three set encoun- ter at 7-5, 2-6, 6-4. Tilden and Richards earned their first victory of the day over Conrad B. Doyle and | Lieut.. William F. Horrell with the score of 6-S, 6-4, and in the semi final round defeated Harold Throck- morton and Walter Merrill Hall at | 6-3, 6-4.
 The match between Tilden and Mur- 1 ray was expected to be the one of the l tournament, and in measure it did i live up to expectations, but Murray was far from being in condition tc withstand the driving attack that Til den kept up through two sets. Mur- ray was not 50 per cent. as strong as he was two years ago, or even last year. Many of the shots so charac. l teristic of his play were faulty. There was not one timed uring the contest when he succeeded in getting a halt volley shot over the net, and he was weak on the low full volley. In the ! doubles encounter, with PeIl as his partner, Murray was beginning to finG himself.
 Tilden was a revelation. He pos. sessed everything in the way of shot making, and to have beaten hin Murray would have had to possess al of the fire and dash of his game O. two years ago. The Phfladslphiar crowded the net continually, cuttin@
 off Murray's drives with crisp vol
 leys that defied return Murray triec
 heroically to stem the tide of defeat
 but his game was not sharp enougl to hold the aggressive Tilden at bay
 Murray's game is founded on a ne
 attack, but he could not play in hi
 accustomed position with any sens
 of security because he sacrificed ev
 erything to get to the barrier, leavin,
 his court open for passing shots whicl
 were almost inevitable because of hi
 own softened drives.
 In the first set Murray had a. lead O
 3-1 on games, but Tilden quickly re
 covered himself, and after that race
 through five games for the set Mur
 ray during that time getting only si points. After the opening clash i
 was evident that Murray could no
 hope to stand against the brilliant an
 steady play by Tilden.
 Pells victory over Hayes shove the former at his best For som
 strange reason Pel, without muc
 practice, has been able to attain proficiency that is comparable onI
 with his play of 1914. With all of hi
 shots working well he proved a pow erful antagonist for the conqueror c Kumagae, sweeping through the frs
 set at 6-2. He was the personifica
 ton of steadiness and with it ther was a sparkling quality to his wor
 that made him well nigh invinci
 ble.
 In the second set Hayes proved stronger rival and carried the contes along at a merry clip before he wa l defeated. Pell was within a point C l winning the match at 6-4, but Have succeeded in eventually winning tn 5 game to bring the set to deuce Have!
 however, was unable to make his ow 3 service good for the vantage gam, . and lost the final game on Pelrs ser . vice.
 ) The summaries:
 ) Mems Invitation singles.-sem, |. Final Round-Theodore Rooseve Pell defeated Walter T. Hayes 6- 5 7-5; William T, Tilden, 2d, defeate !. Robert Lindley Murray, 6-3, 6-3. Mems Invitation Doubles.-Secon l Round-William T. Tilden, 2d, an g Vincent Richards defeated Conrad ] }. Boyle and Lieutenant W. F. Horrel 6-S, 6-4; Harold A. Throckmorto and Walter Merrill Hall defeate > Eeilghiro Kashio and Gerald Emel ? son, 6-4, 6-2; Walter T. Hayes an Ralph Burdick defeated Ichiya Kun;
 gae and Harold l.. Taylor, 6-2, G
 Robert Lindley Murray and Theodo1
 R. Pell, defeated Henry B. O'Boy < and Alex Her 6-2, 6-4. Semi-Fin Round-Hayes and Burdick defeate
 Murray and Pell, 7-5, 2-6, G. D Tilden and Richards defeated ThrocI s morton and Hall, 6-3, 6-4.