The sun., 1919-09-21
Circuit Campaign Of 1919 Swinging
REACH FINAL ROUND
IN HOBOKEN TENNIS
DIR. ROsenbaum and Throck-
morton Advance in Invi-
tatiOn Tourney.

DR.. William Rosenbaum of New York
and Harold A. ThroclSmorton of New
Jersey gained their places In the final
round of the mems singles yesterday
afternoon In the Hoboken Tennis Club
Castle Point" open tournament.
These two seml-final matches. played
on the clubs two grand stand clay
courts, brought out the fastest tennis OF
the week. Rosenbaum conquered kirk
Reid of Cornell by score of 6--i,
1--6, Sc, and ThroclImorton triumphed
over Gerald B. Emerson at Cd, SIS
Reid threatened TO carry Rosenbaum
off his feet by sheer speed and hard
hitting. Just failing to take the open
ing set, the fiery Cornell player added
another notch of speed in the second
set storming the net so aggresively ana
persistently that everything Rosenbaum
sent over was simply smothered. ~
Realizing that the fire would have
to burn itself out" Rosenbaum decided
to take things easy after Reid led him
at Al on games He made his stand
in the final set, but il was not by any
spectacular tennis that he accomplished
his purpose, but by crafty playing. FIRE.
quent lobbing to his opponent and ac-
curate forehand drives, Rosenbaum
found, were more effective than trying
to match speed with speed. Gradually
Reid began to make errors on his over
head play, and these slips proved his
ultimate downfall
Surprise for Hoboken Fans.
The result of the match between
Throckmorton and Capt Van Vliet came
as stunning surprise to the loyal Hobo
ken gallery, frankly keen for Van Vliet.
a club member, to win. His defeat by
the brilliant Throckmorton was not I'M
expected, on the previous tournament
records of the two men, but that the
home player should be swept down 70 de-
feat by such a decisive margin aS Go,
e., was something utterly unlocked
for.
The failure of Van Vliet to make a
better showing may be put down to just
one thing. a distressingly weak service.
BY this 1t Is not meant that the army
mans delivery is easy to handle on the
contrary, the ball comes over the net
with great speed, Dis well placed and
breaks sharply to right or left. But yes
terday the Hoboken player simply could
not control the flight of the ball. Time
after time his first service ball landed in
the net, and almost as often he COM
mittee double faults.
Van Vliets trouble on his service af-
fected the rest of his game seriously.
particularly when he came in to the net
to volley. Throckmorton made few mis-
| takes himself in the opening set. His
own service was so fast and we'll placed
that he was right up on the net, ready
for the kill If the ball came to him
well overhead or for a sharp and deadly
accurate volley across forecourt. An
idea of the pace at which Throckmorton
was travelling in this first set is afforded
NV 10 moi Inf fp1l 1hn y,
winner made a total of "a points in the
six games to Van Vliet's total of z.
Van VIiet Better in Second Set.
| Van Vliet did far better in the second
set, gaining control over his service and
backing it up with splendid volleying
| from well inside the service court lines
| He began the service in this set, as he
| had in the first, and won his opening
game after the points had gone to deuce
! But Throckmorton was playing like a
whirlwind and took the next three games
by his tremendous net attack. Both men
. were winning and losing their points
quickly, the issues being decided by
! lightning fast volleys or forceful smash
/ ing
/ The games alternated on service after
that, with Throckmorton always holding
his advantage, although now he had to
fight fiercely for each point as Van
Vliet was volleying very accurately and
making the most Of his service. II was
evident, however. that Throckmortons
ground strokes gave him an advantage
that was bound to count in the end He
used his fOrehand drives for forcing
shots. coming in behind them to smother
his opponents returns at fhe net
: Mrs. Wilbaurns straight set victory
( over Mrs. Lynch was another surprise TO
! the spectators, for it was generally sup
4 posed that the latter with her clever net
game would be able to cut off Mrs viii
bourn's shots and thus earn the winning
advantage But Mrs. Lynch hardly ever
went to the net, seeming to lack conf
dence at the barrier. and this was not to
! be wondered at in view OF Mrs Will
bourn's deadly accuracy from the back
| OF the court.
w.
The Summaries Follow.
| Mems Singles Fourth Round)-F. L. Mac
! witty defeated +. ID. Powers st "a az
II. Gardner defeated II. G. Benedict -
! GO, 10-S
/ Fifth Round--Kirk Reid defeated Iuro r
Hartman. 80, Go, 10 Or. William Rosen.
baum defeated Il. l.. Macwitty, 60. e. Ger
/ aid b. Emerson defeated II. Gardner, g. Ct
| u A. Throckmorton defeated Capt. r. G. Van
| Vliet, 60. g..
semi-Final Round-Dr. William Rosenbaum
! defeated Kirk Reid a, 10, Sc. II. A.
/ 81, SIS.
women's Singles CScmi Final Round)-Mrs
| Percy Wilbourn defeated Mrs. Edward Y
| Lynch, So, 6-S