The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-19
1873 ARE DRAWN FOR
BIG TENNIS TOURNEY
Entry List for National Cham
pionship Has Leading Stars
Play Begins Monday.
NJ EUGENE n. o,coNNELL.

NJ EUGENE n. o'CoNNELL.
There was nothing much to do yester-
day In the tennis world, or at least In
| that part of the tennis world which ex-
| tends from Boston to Southampton, ex-
copt the making Of the draw OF the 12s
entries for the national championship sin
gies. which will begin on the courts OF
the West Side Tennis Club at Forest
Hills, L. l.. next Monday. Ordinarily
| the making Of draw would not be such
q serious proposition There were times
| In the old days when q committee would
look through the list of entries and after
| remarlking that It would be terrible
| thing for tennis to have a certain few of
| the good players meet in the early stages
1 OF the tourney. would calmly put them
| In different sections and then I'LL In the
other names.
| The day OF the seeded draw, however.
10 gone and almost forgotten. Nowadays
the draw Is made blind and almost any
| thing can happen. Not all OF those who
have the best interests OF tennis at heart
are In favor Of the blind draw, but that
| Ia another matter. Yesterday the draw
| was made In the offices OF the United
States National Lawn Tennis Association
| at 20 Broad street, and II any faith Is to
be held in Julian s. Myricl, vice-presi-
dent of the association; Paul b. WILL
iams, field secretary, and the neutral in
nocent bystander, who was pressed into
service to Gull the names from the tin
cover OF the Monograph It was no soft
Job.
The innocent bystander who dropped
In Just IN time to pick the numbers had
the hardest lot of all In the first place.
he happened to be in favor Of the saited
draw. and so expressed himself prior to
h. Dol. no ~xlA r. ali
he never has been fond Of hard work,
and did not like the idea Of STOPPING and
rising l2s times while the same number
of names were being pulled out Of the
box II did not take moro than two
hours to complete the process. but the
unfortunate who did the physical work
attached to It said that he knew some
one had stopped all of the clocks.
Murray Drawn EARLY.
!. Nor was that the only part OF his
troubles. for every time that he picked
out a couple of stars together he was
greeted with horrifying scowls until he
became cross-eyed watching the door in
the hope of making an escape in case too
many stars were crowded into one sec
ton. His heart began to climb up a
few pegs in the very first sixteen when
he managed to pull out the national
fbODtrI l<lnQley
Howard Voshell. the metropolitan cham
plon. ana Conrad g Doyle. the wash
ington star.
The worst offence committed in this
bunch was bringing Voshell and Doyle
together right in the first round. But the
first batch was only a patch on what was
to follow. In the second set of sixteen
out came Watson NJ. washburn. former
metropolitan champion: Randolph Ly-
AZ hA tnQ ral Iyor rNA0 ha III
the youngster from Los Angeles; Fred B.
Alexander. former internationalist; Ger
aid L. Patterson. British champion, and
| William NJ Johnston. American title
holder in 1918. Patterson and Alexander
meet on the first day.
After this had been done, even the
Office boy looked menacing and the tenn
perature dropped so low that the
mercury almost ran out OF the bottom
of the. ONCE thermometer. Ut was almost
unbelievable that in all the frigid
atmosphere the officials of the tennis as
ISOLATION could be SO hot under the
; collars. The next sixteen had more
providential guidance. however. and the
most serious contenders that came out
, of the box were Nat Niles and Harry
c. johnson, both of Boston, and Wallace
F. Johnson of Philadelphia
On the last section OF the bottom half
Theodore r. Pell. back hand expert
: Walter Merrill Hall, Middle States
champion A. s. Cassils Of Montreal. and
Major Z. B. Harran of Great Britain
stand out as the most promising of the
: contenders.
Ttlden In Second Half.
William T.'Tilden I'd of Philadelphia
runner up for the national championship
: last year. and winner of the Seabrigh'
? and Newport tournments this year, Just
l missed getting into the first half. He
was the second player to be picked out
J. for the second section. With him II
l the top of the second half are Free
: Imam former New York state cham
: lpion, Ichiya Kumagae. present New Yori
champion, and Clarence J. Griffin o.
San Francisco.
7; Norman z. Brookes OF Australia. for
1 mer British champion, was the first Il
be picked In the second section OF thu
J. bottom half His most stubborn oppo
!: sition should be furnished by Waite
= wesbrook of Detroit. one Of the stronges
J, players OF the middle West. and Charle
: s. Garland OF Pittsburg.
The next eight of the draw Is prett!
strong, with Willis f. Davis of Sal
Francisco, former national clay cour
| champion Vincent Richards. the II
year-old holder of half a dozen nationa
:. titles; Richard Norris Williams I'd o
> Boston, national champion In 1914 APT
y 1916, and r. V. Thomas of Australia
. In the last section of the draw Mauric
= e. Mclaughlin former California comet
Karl II. Behr. former internationalist
= and Leonard Beekman, former Prince
ton captain. are the strongest entries.
- The old Boston weather Is certainly
"a living up to its reputation In wonderful
Il style. Through part OF Sunday ever
7 one was hopeful that the cha1leng'
a round OF the doubles could be playe
n as per schedule yesterday. Late Sun
; DAY night, however, the old weather ma
r got on the Job and spread out the damp
IS ness. For a time yesterday 1t bright
ened up, but not for long. and the raj
soon came down that is. 1t came dow
n soon enough to cause a postponement
IN is now hoped that the Australians, Pat
s. terson and Brookes will be able to pla
= against Tllden and Richards. the Amerl
can champions, this afternoon.
1. EREENWTCH TENNIS