The sun., 1919-03-02
PIEL SCORES OVER
NOURSE AT SQUASH
Takes Feature Match IN Open
7 ing Of Glass B Champion
ship Tourney.
COLE Also A VICTOR
Disposes Of Breed in Extra
q Game Contest on Harvard
Club Courts.

with fifty-two contestants seeking tho
title, the opening round Of the annual
Class B championship squash tourna-
ment Of the National Squash Tennis As
ISOLATION got under way yesterday on
'the courts Of the Harvard Club. All of
yesterdays matches were In the pre-
liminary round. OF the nineteen
scheduled only ten werc played. The
other nine went by default. the players
failing to make an appearance Eight
OF the ten matches played were decided
In two games while the other two went
an extra game.
In one OF these extra game matches.
q. Piel. Jr.. of the New York Athletic
Club defeated c. T. Nourse of the Hsp
ward Club by 1915. 1910, 15-4. This
was the feature of the afternoon. The
Winged Foot player won only after a
hard tussle with his Crimson opponent
Nourse. In the opening game. got of
10 good start and with the aid Of
smashing cross court shots downed Piel
by l5-13. Nourse also played well at
the start Of the second game. but tired
toward the end. Piel then got going
and smashed some pretty corner to cor
ner shots which the Harvard Club player
found difficult to get at Piel took this
game by 15-10. In the final game
Pfel banged the ball to all corners Of the
N0tAs ahu WIN odoiiy al 1o-f
Cole Beats Breed.
In the only other extra game match
J. n. Cole OF the Columbia Club defeated
c Fl. Breed Of the Harvard Club, 15-s.
BIS. 15-S. This match went to Cole
only because he was In the better play
Ing condition. Breed. who lacked train
ing. put up a good match despite this
handicap. In the second game of this
contest. which went to Breed by 15-6,
the Crimson player made some fine gets
and won easily. Although Cole took the
nrst and third games easily, the Harvard
Club player kept him on the jump
throughout
J. w. Lee of the Harvard Club one of
the leading players Of the tourney who
looms UP as a strong contestant for the
title. was not forced to do his best to
win over 8. Moses OF the Columbia Club
The Harvard Club player had things all
bis own way and won in a romp 15-3,
15-3.
Another player to win his match easily
was Robert L. Strebeigh OF the Columbia
Club. Strebeigh was opposed by w
Plat Of the Harvard Club and disposed
Of the Crimson player in straight games
at 15-2. 15-2. H. r. Stern OF the
Yale Club had Just as easy a time with
bis opponent as did Strebeigh and Lee
Stern defeated T. z. Stebbins Of the
Harvard Club by l5-5. 16-S.
CIarkson Advances.
r. W. Clarkson OF the Harvard Club
advanced into the first round by elm
mating H. A. L. Sand in the first match
OF the afternoon by 15-s, 15-4. The
other players to advance by disposing
OF their opponents were r. f. Wigham
of the Columbia Club, who defeated
i. B. Humpsted OF the Yale Club, c. ].
Mcguire OF the Yale Club who elm
mated L. I. Grinnell Of Cornell, G. E.
Cruise OF the Squash Club who beat
A. G. Blaisdell OF the Yale Club and
q. A. Walker. Jr. OF, the Princeton
Club who won over L. A. Coffin OF the
Columbia Club All the other players
who advanced won by default The
summaries:
National Glass b Squash Tennis Cham.
IF. W. Clarkson. Harvard Club. dee tod
II. a. l. sand. Harvard Club. l5-s. l5-4;
from 4. W. Adams, Ysio Dub; s. D shaw,
GSi nI1 Club wen Won BY deIagt from y, l. !.
Harvard Club; II; E. wgham, Columbia
Club; defeated 2. 3. Eumpstsd; Yale Club
defeated q II. Breed. Harvard Club, i5Ns
AiS; lS.s; g. Wsinwr,ght W. GLIB
YORK q G CO P fTs Jf New H9 T6TS Ne"
defeated c. T. Nourse, Harvard Club
ISIS, 1910: ls-t; II. R.. stern. Ysi.
Cub. i5-5 i5-s: j. F, Curtis Harvard
Club, Won by dffault from II. Keiiock. Co.
lumbia Club: J. w. Lee. Harvard Club de-
,iS-3; = D. Harvey. Princeton Club wor
by default from b. A Keator. Columbis
Club; Robert l. Strebeigh. Columbia Club
defeated w. Plat, Harvard Club. 49,
"a; J. T. Tomlinson, Jr. Yale Club. wor
q. Graham. Princeton CLUB. defeated y
W. iWsrnes. Columbia Club. l5-s. l5-3
y. B. Cornell. Yale Club, won by default
from P. Van Kirk, Cornell; G. z. Leighton
Harvard Club. won by default from e. ]
clapp. Yale Club; c. J. Maguire, YALE
club, 15-ll. i6-1a: @. e. Cruise. Squash
Club; defeated 4, 9. Blaisdeli, Yale Club
ton Club, defeated 1. A. Cofiin. columbis
Club 1S-IT, l5-16.