New-York tribune., 1919-04-02
Emerson Bows
BefOreVOsllell
On the Courts
Iilden Also Wins From Beck
man and Meets Champion
This Morning
By Fred Hawthorne


o'clock this morning, in the fourth
round of the twentieth annual national
indoor lawn tennis championship
singles Mt tho Seventh Regiment Ar
mory The winner Of this match viii
enter the scm-nnal round Of the tour
nament and probably will win the
championship on Saturday.
Voshcll conquered Gerald Emerson.
ihe New Jersey schoolboy, by score
OF 1914, 60. the youngstcr only los
ing the first set after twice being
within single point Of victory, when
he held tho lead at 7-6, with Voshcll
serving. In the last set, however. the
youngstcr lost all control and Voshell.
kcenly alive to the dangers through
which he had just passed, frightened up
his play and did not allow his oppo-
nent game.
T'ldcn Won as he pleased from
leonard Bcckman, tho Princeton star,
taklng the match at Go, 6 3 The
!ali rhilade!p !phian was too bcwildcr-
lngiy speedy, both in his execution of
Y, 1
beckman. and the score might have
been even more decisive, had the clay
court tltleholder chosen to uncover.
everything he had. On tho showing
made by the two men yesterday Tildcn
looks like tho winner to-day. and
should he come through his path to
the championship looks an easy one.
Bcekman Not in Trim
For bcckman, it may be said, that
ms absence in the navy for the last
Year has weakened his game to con-
siderable extent, and only occasionally
yesterday was he able to do himself
justice. The ultimate result must
nave been the same in any case. how
ever, tor 1jlden is immcasureably the
superior player.
- seems to have become habit
win l'iden TO run the gamut of ten
ms IN al ms matches, for he generally
Gtarts off with an exhibition of cx
trcmc Wlldncss, only 20 finish off
toward the end with what is really
super-tcnnis. A less brilliant plaver
than the clay court titlcholder would
"hdoubtcdly come to grief many times
by thus tempting fate, but the Phil
adclphlan is gifted with such an
abundance of tennis talent that he is
able to pull matches out of the fire
Just when all seems lost
ihose of us who have watched him
While he was playing Walter Merrill
Hal! at Southampton last summer, and
vincent Richards, in tho final round
OF the Middle Atlantic States tourney
at Philadelphia last February can an,
preclatc to Just what heights of bril-
lance Tilden can rise.
mere were times in yestc rday's
match when the clay court champion
brought ott shots that stirred the gal
lery. He seemed to take dclioht in
mixing up his pace in such bafrlinr
fashion that Beekman never knew whon
to prepare for sizzling drive. sharD.
full-playcd volley to the corners. n
lightning smash or delicately-plave
biock vollcy that "babied" the ball lust
over the net.
While the Tldcn- Beekman and vosb-
nilersol matches held the most in
tcrest for the gallery because of the
national prominence Of the winners. the M
meeting between Lieutenant Peter Rail
or Yale University, and George Carlton
Shafcr, the veteran indoor star. pro-
duced the greatest upset of the tourna
ment TO date, Ball winning at Ct
G-3. -
Shafer Three-Time Winner
Shafer has won the indoor doubles
title no less than three times. twice
with Nyne g. Grant as partner and
once with Lieutenant King Smith. his
present partner in the holding of the
crown. In addition he has twice fin.
lshed as runner-up for the singles
championship, the last time in 1919.
when the late Gus Touchard won the
title. WV
This record Of achievement, when
Il T1o1I
ord, which numbers no victories of i'm
portance, made Shafcr look like an al.
most certain winner before the men
TOOK the corut. AS matter of fact.
there were many at the armory who
figured Shafer as one Of the fnalists
on Saturday.
Despite this, Ball went out to win
yesterday, and his efforts we're crowned
with success, nor was his victory in the
nature of a huke. The army man is
careful player, watching for his open
lngs and only going in after the most
sound of forcing shots. He did not
Shafer, and while his game is not of
the spectacular brand, it is one that
gets results. He handled his oppo-
ncnts lobs with fine discretion. and
his volleying was generally accurate.
Vincent Richards won his place in
the round before the semi-finals by de-
tcatlng George O. Wagner, at ca,
6-3. The siXteen-year-old national
doubles champion is fundamentally an
outdoors player, and the poor light and
the slippery floor we're not to his
liking. Throughout most of the match
yesterday Richards showed a certain
timidity in "stroking" his shots, and
this robbed him of much of his speed.
Even so, when he elected, Richards
went to the net for his points and won
them by dazzling volleying shots. He
Will face Fred Anderson, ir., at
o'clock this afternoon
The singles event had only eight
players still in the running when the
courts were cleared last evening, and
to-day this number will be reduced to
four. The survivors and the order in
which they will meet follow: L. B.
Daley, Frank 7. Anderson, William T.
Tilden, Cd; Lieutenant s. Howard
Voshell, Lieutenant Peter Ball, Walter
J: Touissaint, Fred Anderson, jr., and
Vincent Richards.
The summaries follow:
Mems national indoor championship singles
third round) L. Il. Daley defeated r. j. som
fcated George 5. Grocsbeck. 0-a. LID: William
r Tilden ID defeated Leonard Beekrnan, e--s
Is: Lieutenant $. Howard voshell defeated
Gerald Emerson. 16-l4 60: Lieutenant Peter
e-3. 8,s; e: Fred Anderson. g.. defeated
fested George o. Wagner. 6-&. &-s.