The sun., 1919-05-24
LITTLE PROGRESS IN
TENNIS TOURNEY
Rain Storm Late; So Are Play
ers at New Rochelle, Hence
Matches Are Few.
by EUGENE n. o,CoNNELL.

by EUGENE n. o'CONNELL.
In spite of the fact that blame could
not honestly be laid at the door OF the
weather man yesterday little progress
was made In the mems singles and mono
at all In the mems doubles in the New
Rochelle Tennis Club tourney. As a
matter of fact, from a weather stand.
point, conditions were ideal for plenty
OF tennis, and the regular daily rain
storm did not put In its appearance un-
I'll $50 p. M. At this time Of day in
other years the courts were deserted
except of course on rare occasions when
G. A. l.. Dionne and George Groes-
beck were hooked up In one Of their
moonlight matches.
Just what excuse there is these DAYS
for many OF the tournament players
coming around to start matches at z
o'clock at night Is hard to discover. A
dim recollection persists that one Of the
main reasons advanced for the daylight
saving plan was 30 that folks In general
might have more time to devote to
healthy outdoor sports 1t had been
pointed out that even the longer of the
| tennis matches. IL started at a reason-
arle hour. would not drag on later than
1880. But 1t appears that in a great
| many cases the players are throwing
away lot of valuable tennis time by
| sti Cling in to start a match at Z o'clock
which had been scheduled for half.
past 8.
Only 4 Players Reach 4th Round,
In the singles yesterday only four
players reached tho fourth round. Those
who moved up were Gerald Emerson.
| Francis
Hartman. Emerson. the youngster from
south Orange who has been showing
such good form lately, managed to get
all the way up to Quaker Ridge in
| time to play two matches before rain
time. In the second round he scored a
| straight set victory over Harry Norton
OF Yonkers High School. at 6-3, 6-2
and then defeated w. L. Lippincott in
the third round at e-3, IS.
Hunter had to play only one set to
gain his bracket in the fourth round and
he managed to finish this set Just be-
| fore the downpour came. HIS victory
was recorded over Elliott Binzen in a
| three set match at 15-l7, IS, Ga
The first two sets of the match were
| played last Tuesday and furnished a
great deal more brilliant tennis thar
| the deciding set, which had been SO Ions
postponed
1t will be remembered that Binzer
| appeared to have the match cinched in
the second set when he gained the lead
| at So only to falter. II was a streak
of wild playing then that cost him q
straight set victory and the rest thai
he has had In the interim did not steady
him any, for II was mainly through hi,
errors that he dropped the deciding set
Incidentally these players did not ge,
on the courts for play until almost Z
O'Clock.
Her Advances.
Alex Her advanced by winning n
straight sets from H r Hathaway. a
s-6. GO, while Hartman accounted
for K. l.. James. at 81, 6-3 Their,
was one other singles match played, .
second round affair. in which Seiichir,
Kashio. one of the Oriental invaders, de
feated @. Fox, at 81. rs, 6-1. II
this match the Jap showed that he hat
much OF the court craft which helped hi
lcountryman, Ichiya Kumagae. climb {,
the top when the latter visited this coun
try a few years ago. However, Their
are other things besides craft needed I,
make a champion tennis player. ant
kashio will have TO develop considerabl,
before ne can hope to be classed witt
| huIlldBhe
In the doubles a couple OF matche
were started. but the rain halted them
Behr and Richards hooked up will
Hartman and Grant, winning the frs
set at Is and losing the second at As
Alex Her and Leon Croley took one Sc
from DR.. Drake and J. Watson, at 6-3
After that the deluge. The gallery wa
somewhat surprised to see Vincent Rich
ards on the courts. anasmuch us he wa
not officially reinstated until to-day. TIL
summaries:
Quaker Ridge Mems Championship Sin
| gles-Second round-Seilchiro Kashlo d e
, feated q. Fox. So, -. 6-i; Geralt
| Emerson defeated Harry Norton, 6-s
| 6-2.
Third Round-Francis T Hunter de
feated Elliott B!nzen. lit IS. s.
| Gerald Emerson defeated W. l.. Lippncot
| 6-3, rs; Alex Tier defeated II. r. Hath
away, SIS. Ga: lingo Hartman defeate
r. l. James. 81. 6-s