New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
TIden Eliminates Inn1un
in Straight-Set Struggle
Tall Philadelphian Returns to Court After Long
Rest; Californian, Playing First Time on Turf
Court, Puts Out Brilliant Junior by 6-3. o.
By Fred Hawthorne

BY Fred +
SEABRIGHT, N. j., July 28.-
that greeted the twenty-eight playe
tation tournament of the Seabrigl
when they began play to-day in the
When the first match started,
national indoor champion, facing H
ing Club, the sun was blazing down
Mixed with this was lazy breeze
phere positively steamy, but the h
ingly.
The rains of last week have had
their effect on the tournament at Long
wood, and also at Seabright. Several
of the men engaged in the Longwood
singles and the Eastern States Sec
tional doubles have been compelled to
is completed, and this has prevented
several candidates for the new Sea-
bright challenge cups from reaching
this little town on the Jersey coast
on schedule time.
Richard Norris Williams, I'd, former
national champion, who won the
Achelis Challenge Cup in 1916, and
who forced the offering of new cup
this year, is still in the Longwood
competition, as is Watson M. Wash
burn, and it does not look as though
they would be able to get down here
before Thursday, which will allow
them to play only in the doubles in
the Seabright tourney.
Noted Players Entered
However, there is plenty of high
quality to the singles, what with men
like William T. Tilden, I'd, former ma
tional clay court champion and run
ner-up to Robert Lindley Murray last
year for the national turf court title;
Voshell T. r. Pell, former national
indoor and Middle States titleholder;
Vincent Richards, the seventeen-year-
J. Griffin, who, with William NJ. John
ston, of California, formed one Of the
greatest doubles teams that ever held
the national title. and last but not
least Frederick B. Alexander, former
Davis Cup star and still regarded as
one of the greatest doubles players
that ever trod a court.
Also Walter Merrill Hall, a former
Middle States champion; Dean, Mathey,
who has only recently returned to this
country after almost two years service
in France with the A. E. F. in the front
line, and the young Californians, Rob
ert M. Kinsey and Axel Craven, who
are making their first appearance in
Seabright and the East. Neither has
ever played on grass courts, but
Craven, taking to the slower surface
this afternoon like duck to water
polished off Frank 7. Anderson, of
Brooklyn, one of the fastest and most
brilliant juniors in the East, by
score 6-3, 81.
Anderson's easy defeat came as
distinct surprise, for Craven had not
been able to do anything against Vim
cent Richards in Cincinnati, in the
recent East VS.. West matches, yielding
by a score of 6-1, 6-1, 6-1, and An
derson is rated only slightly behind
Richards
When you add to this the fact that
Craven had never set foot on turf
court until he faced Anderson this
afternoon the sensation created by the
Californian's easy victory may be the
more appreciated.
Anderson's Mistake Fatal
Anderson made the mistake of trying
to lob Craven out of position when
the latter showed a liking for the net
position, but in this he met with sud-
den and decisive failure, for the youth
handled these shots with fine skill,
smashing beautifully angled shots
across the court and with such power
that the Brooklyn boy could not even
get his racquet into position for the
return in many cases.
There is no doubt that Anderson was
\ so kao ofrh
The speed and snap with which he
brings off his shots make the faster
clay surface more favorable to his
game, but even that cannot explain the
reason for his poor showing.
Craven, entirely new to turf, seemed
to experience little trouble in master
ing the differences of stroke, for tim
ing and speed. AS matter of fact he
looked better to-day than at any time
that I have been watching his play on
clay courts within the last three weeks
Anderson experienced great diff
culties with his ground strokes, the
turf surface having been rendered soft
by the recent rainy spell, which caused
the ball to bound slowly and very low
His failure in this respect had the
tendency to throw the rest of his game
off badly, so that he soon began to
make costly errors overhead.
Plays Cautious Game
Craven, in the mean time, was play
ing with due caution and excellent
judgment picking out his openings we'll
and taking the net with great success,
in spite of Anderson's attempts to keep
him back by deep lobbing. Tomorrow
afternoon Craven will probably clash
once more with Richards, for the lat
ter is due to face Kinsey in the first
bracket early in the day, and then,
should he win, meet Craven in the
second round.
Tilden came through without exert
ing himself overmuch, defeating the
veteran Frederick C. Inman, of New
York BY score Of e. 6-3 in tha