New-York tribune., 1919-08-18
Doubles Title
10 Be Decided
This Afternoon
Australians Meet Tilden and
Richards OH Courts at
Longwood Southampton
Tourney
BY Fred Hawthorne

ooo ON. Mass. Aug. 1.-THE ma
1'onal doubles lawn tennis title will be
decided on the courts Of tho Long
wood Cricket Club of Boston to-mor-
ro" afternoon and then the PLAYERS
Will enter their final tuning up tourna-
ment at the Meadow Club of Southamp-
'on' down on the eastern end Of Long
Island. Finishing there. al hands will
60 to the West Side Tennis Club. OF
Forest Hills, where the blue ribbon
event of American tennis. the national
singles championship tournament, will
begin week from tomorrow.
The Meadow Club tourney gets
under way tomorrow a. fyernoon on
the splendid turf courts down on the
sand dunes. but. because Of the rain
a. Longwood last week which set The
doubles play there back a full two
DAYS, some of the most noted entrants
at Southampton will not reach there
before Tuesda.-
\ Representative Field
lhe tournament committee at the
Meadow Club reports that the most
representative field that has gathered
at Southampton in long stretch Of
years will compete this week. A lis.
of the players who have sent in entries
for singles or doubles, or both events.
reads like q national champonship
event.
Norman f. Brookes. Gerald l.. Patter-
son, Randolph Lycett and Ronald V.
Thomas, of Australia; Johnston and
GRIMM, Robert Lndley Murray. ma
tlonal singles title holder; Ichiya
kumagae, of Japan; Vincent Richards
the seventeen-y -year-old marvel sf
Amerlcan courts; possibly Maurice +.
McLoughlln. the California comet;
;. Howard Noshell. William e. Davis,
Robert Kinsey. Robert Allen. Harold
Godshall and Clarence A. Barker, all
Of California; Robert Leroy. Harold [.
Taylor, Cecil and Gerald Donaldson,
Walter Merrill Hall. Leonard Beck
man. 7. R. Pell. Charles s. Garland. jr.
Dean Mathey, Alfred S. Dabney, Con-
rad B. Doyle, Van Dyke Johns. X. T..
Simmons, L. f. Williams and Waite,
Westbrook all will be seen in action
on the Meadow Club courts, and in
addition. there will be many lesser
lights, so that the unqualified success
OF the gree tourney is assured
Major Robert d. Wrenn. former
Pi ie"'"e'4t VI tile I. y. ". l.. /. A., W II
act as referee Of the tournament and
the committee has arranged for the
services Of q full set of competent
hnesmen for all the matches The club
this season is Offering very hand
some ha'(enge cup in the singles and
twin cups in the Doubtless
Anticipating the importance tina, al =
taches to this tournament. the club
offlclais have given the turf at South
ampton special course of treatment.
and the surface is lightning fast and
firm under foot
Test for Australians
The final week of play before the
national singles tourney starts, week
from tomorrow, will serve to give us
a better line on the possibilities of the
Australians as serious contenders for
the crown now adjoining the blond
head Of Murray We have seen
Brookes and Patterson in action in the
doubles and they have proved them
selves superb team
But the singles is q different game
where each player has to rely upon his
individual efforts with no partner to
cover up his weaknesses, and !, for one.
am very keen to see how the veteran
Brookes and the sensational young
flight men, Johnston, Tilden. Murray,
Mclaughlin and Voshell, for example.
The week Of play a. Southampton is
likely to clarity the lawn tennis situa-
ton considerably, so that when the
clans gather at Forest Hills next week
this country may know what to expect
when the final assault of the gres
Brookes and his young team mate
begins.