New-York tribune., 1919-12-24

nnal, along with seven Otner juniors.
J. P. Allen and William Cunningham,
Of the tournament committee, have
arranged to bring all events into the
semi-fnal round this afternoon. To-
morrow the boys have set aside for
another sport-that ever-popular pas
time of furnishing" the turkey and
then the survivors Of the festive board
will meet in the semi-tinal brackets on
Friday, with the final matches to be
played on Saturday.
With eight boys left in the junior
event, it begins to look as though
Richards and young Frank I. Ander-
son, of Brooklyn, those perennial court
rivals, will meet to decide the cham
pionship of 1919. Last year these
two fought out bitter five-set match
for the title, with Richards winning,
and he is the favorite again this year,
although Anderson is quite capable of
upsetting predictions. They are on op
posite sides of the draw.
Anderson gained his bracket yester-
day through the default of K. f. Green,
and among the other winners were
Franklin T. Osgood, Kenneth Stoddard,
Theodore lie Gros. Jerry Lange and
W. Aydelotte.
Wood and Gress in Final
The boys singles advanced into the
final round, with Charles NJ. Wood jr-
and Valentine Gress coming through.
They will meet on Saturday morning to
decide the championship, now held by
Morton Bernstein. who has graduated
into the junior ranks and was defeated
by Richards on Monday.
Sixteen pairs started play in the first
round of the junior championship
doubles, but only four matches were
completed This event will be pushed
this afternoon. The singles matches
will begin at II o'clock this morning
and the doubles will be played later in
the day.
Aside from Richards impressive
work in eliminating young Bassford,
the feature yesterday was the playing
of Wood, a mite of a lad from De
Witt Clinton High School and & new
conner to tournament competition.
Besides playing in the BOYS tourney
Wood is more than holding his own
in the junior doubles, with Bernstein
as his partner.
The boy is scarcely four feet in
height and has all the seriousness and
(fourteen) and he "swings q mean
racquet" as the saying is. Just at
present the most formidable weapon
in Woods lawn tennis equipment is
very severe and we'll placed service but
he can also handle volleyed ball with
neatness and dispatch, and his fore
hand drive has plenty Of pace" and
excellent control.
Charles jr. appears to have the boys
singles title at his mercy, and it would
not be surprising to find him taking a
prominent place next summer in the
junior events.
Tries Defensive Game
Richards, always 10th to assume the
net position unless the going is Of
the fastest description, tried a de-
fensive game in the back Of the court
in the first set of his match with Bass
ford. The Westchester lad, however.
who has been carefully coached by his
more famous father for the last two or
three years, is q rapidly improving
player, and he demonstrated this YES
terday by the clever manner in which
he battled on even terms with the
champion until the games score read
"4-all."
1t was almost entirely a case of deep
court driving in the opening set. the
ball travelling baci. and forth in many
spirited rallies When either PLAYER
sent up a short lob, however. his op-
ponent would close in and finish off