New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Women Players
Ready for Big
Tennis Tourney
Stars Entered i'm Invitation
Event at Heights Casino,
= Which Starts on Monday
By Fred Hawthorne
Order of Play

Order, of Play
10 a. m-Miss Clare Cassel VS.. Mrs.
David c. Mills: Mrs Samuel F. Warning
Is. Mrs. Nj. +. Huff
,o:45 a. m.-Mrs. Spencer Fullerton
wesvcr vs. Mrs. de Forest Candee: Mrs. A.
g Humphries vs.. Mrs. NJ. D. Strain.
n 80 a m.-Miss Adele c. Craein vs..
Miss Julie Brown Mrs. Theodore c. Case
beer vs.. Miss Bessie Holden.
t2:15 p. Miss Gertrude Della Tore
re. Miss Helene Pollak: Mrs. Edward V.
L,nchiys. Mrs. Percy Wilbourn.
Use D. m.--Miss Eleanor Goss VS.. Mrs.
R,nwick Earle: Mrs Chisholm vs. Miss
Caroma VIM.
ass p m. Miss Moia Bjurstedt
Mrs. f. p. Shattuck; Mrs. Rawson l.. Wood
eys. Miss Barbara Hooker.
SD. m-Miss Eieauora Sears Mrs. II.
= Sohst Mrs. W. Fl. Pritehard vs.. Miss
Adelside Hooker
$50 D. m.-Miss Marie Wagner vs.. Miss
Helen Hooker.
The most notable gathering of WON
en- lawn tennis players seen in any
will be on hand tomorrow, when the
annual invitation tourney for women
at the Heights Casino, Is Montague
Street. Brooklyn. begins.
The entry list Includes the names of
such famous players as Miss Molla
Bjurstedt. national indoor, outdoor and
metropolitan champion; Mrs. George
". Wightman, former holder OF the
national honors; Miss Eleanor Goss.
runner-up to Miss Bjurstedt last year
in both indoor and outdoor national
championship Journeys, and Miss Mar
ion Zinderstein. of Boston. regarded
:. as one of the most promising young
,-4hsyers IN this country. total of
thirty-four players will compete for
the chief honors of the tournament.
which was won last year by Miss
Biurstedt, with Miss Goss as runner
up. Among the other entries are in
cluded the most prominent women play
ers in the East.
Harry McNeal. The Casino profess
.sional, who usually handles these tour
.'naments. has been kept busy for the
/: last week or ten days practising with
some of the feminine stars of the
courts who are going 10 compete next
!. of some of these players leads him
to believe that Miss Bjurstedt will
have to be very close to top form if
: she hopes TO come through the final
round match.
Playing Speedy Games
=. Mrs. Wightman and Miss Goss were
playing with great speed and their vol
ieying from inside the service court
Il, TO-;
thing seen on local courts among the
women players within the last twelve
months Miss Goss's severe and ex-
! cellently placed service is a difficult
problem to meet on the fast canvas
covered courts of the Casino, and it is
highly probable that her opponents
win nd it formidable obstacle.
The extremely high quality of play
certain to develop at the Casino tour
ney augurs brightly for the next out
: door season. for it means that, with
the war now only bitter memory. the
tennis players of the world. both men
and women, are going to take their
place on the courts this year with more
enthusiasm for the great game than
mas been possible at any time in the
last four years McNeal and the CAST
no Club are to be congratulated for
their part in starting the new season
on so auspiclousfy.
IRE annual meeting of the United
States National Lawn Tennis Associa-
ton will be held at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel in this city next Friday
the delegates gathering for the busi-
ness session at 8 o'clock in the after.
noon. II is the intention Of the off
Gals TO complete all the business BIZ
= 1:5o o'clock in the evening, so that the
rest q the evening may be given owe,
TO the festivities attendant upon the
annual dinner.
A Victory Dinner"
i will be victory dinner upon
this occasion, and although MANY of
ne familiar faces. those of Captain
Richard Norris Williams, I'd Captain
Watson NJ. Washburn. and Captain
uean mathey, for example. will be
missing, some OF the others who did
'aeir duty overseas, notably among
them being Major George townsend
acee, will hold d reunion with their
wends in the association.
u not considered likely that this
weeks meeting will develop the parti-
san and political atmosphere that has
a'snnguished some of the gatherings
N the last three or four ycars. Fast
sN West appear TO have reached some
sort Of an understanding With regard
70 various vexing questions that have
come ~ Cor discussion.
several important committees VIII
MAKE their reports on Friday but if
only tne action Of the committee
On cqua ization Of voting power that
seems capable Of arousing any division
feei'ng. The ranking committee.
saala anS supplies, tmpires Associa-
aoubles and singles are among the
other bodies that viii submit rnnor1a