Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-29
START PLAY FOR
STATENET TITLE
Large Entry List for An.
nual Championship of E.
Penna. at Cynwyd
INVITE JAPANESE STARS
By PAUL, PREP

Inc mems singles and doubles cham
pionship tournament of, Eastern Penn
sNlrania began this afternoon on the
classic clay courts of the Cynwvd Club
This tourney was to have started Sat
urdaY, but Paul Gibbons. chairman Of
the committee. after thinking the ma tier
over seriously. decided that it would be
better to wait until today
= This decision has made it possible for
net players in this sect on to still enter
the tourney. Post entries in this event
as well as in the boys and Junior tour
naments were received until noon to-
day. AS soon as the entries were closed
! the committee made the pairings Play
started at o'clock in the boys event
IL was not deemed necessary for those
entered In the mems events to start their
match until O'Clock
BY making the starting time in the
mems play o'clock, Cha irman Gibbons
believes that a great many business mon
VINO otherwise would be unable to par
ticipate, will be on hand. with the ex-
ira hour of daylight 1t is now possible
to play until nearly 9 o'clock.
Junior Matches
! Some very fine tennis should be played
IN the junior tennis center champion
| snip. which is open only to winners of
! tournaments held previously this season.
rive or the younger stars are eligible,
/ Carl Fischer. the Lower Merton High
| School player. who pairs with Bill Til
den on the Pennsylvania State doubles
championship Rodney Beck, captain of
the Germantown Academy team: Her
man Dornheim. leader of the Frankford
! High School team: Sam Fennock. the
, william Penn Charter star and Gerald
Emerson. of East Orange y. !. This
event will start on Thursday
! At the present writing the committee
! in charge of the Cynwyd tournament
has received a f1attering number of en-
,tries, and it promises to be the most
successful tournament held" in this sec
ton this season. Dwight r. Meigs.
headmaster of the Hill School and one
of the best tennis players in the Phila-
delphia district; Norman w Swayne,
of the Cynwyd Club and holder of many
titles; I. S. Cravis. formerly pubic
parks champion and now in the United
states navy: r. p. Parker. the Cal
nrnia star, now stationed at League
Island. are among those entered whose
| chances to win are most favored
Other brilliant players who have al
ready sent in their entries are: A. L..
I Reed, Watson Knight William r Row.
land. S. J. Hothersall of Belfield; c. n.
Beard. George r. Powell, Fl. NJ. Dono-
van, w. B. Miles, Paul Gibbons. Cynwyd
Club: l.! s. Cravis, Ralph Hothersall,
Lyman Tremain, Charles Regel. C. A.
Maths and Dodgson. Greenroint Club !:
| Fl. w. Hanna. Harte G. Jones. Gilbert
Sommer, Harry Sommer and Doctor
Ryan. Stenton A. C.: A J. Batty. FL
| beron c. c.; l.. A. Smith. l.. S. n. ::
Messrs Whelen and Mansell unattached !;
A. J. Newhall and II. L. Philler and a
number of others
Invite Jap Stars
! Philadelphans and residents of near
/ by dist ricts who will be unable to at
! tend the national singles championships
the latter part of next month at For
! rest Hills will rejoice to hear that Paul
| G 'bbons, president OF the Philadelphia
and District Lawn Tennis Association,
has invited the Japanese marvels. Ichiya
Kumage and Seichiro Kashio, to play
an exhibition match next Saturday af-
ternoon on the Cynwyd courts.
Gibbons competed in the New York
State championship tournament and
while there asked Kumagae and Kashio
! if they would come to this city some
| time to play an exhibition match for
the benefit of the War Departments
commission on training camp activi-
ties. They replied that they would be
glad to come here at any time.
As the Eastern Pennsylvania State
finals will be played next Saturday,
Gibbons thought it would be best to
have the two foreigners play here at
that time. He is anxiously awaiting a
favorable reply. II Kumagae and
Kashio accept the invitation they will
play in doubles match against Beals
Wright and another well-known Ameri-
ctar