The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-10
Cottagers Out in Force for Lenox Club
Tennis tournament Which Proves
Brilliant Affair----Social
Whirl Continues.
LENox, Mass, Aug. 0.
EXCELLENT tennis was played

week In the tournament. ar
ranged by Ross T. Whistler. 1t
brought the cottagers to the courts |
and 1t made the Lenox Club live
ly because Of the many luncheons
at which cottagers entertained the
players at tables on the open piazzas.
The whole colony was stirred by the
event and watched the play through
out the week. The most conspicuous
player in the tournament was James
Stillrnan Sd, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. |
James Stillman of New York. He has
been in Lenox with his tutor and he |
entered the tournament. He won the
mems singles, playing the finals with
Norman Davis of Harvard. winning
%. 81. He played In the semi
finals in the mems doubles and the
mixed doubles and his aggressive ten
mis- was often applauded.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fenno, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George 2. Turnure, after
a period Of mourning for her husband,
appeared In the tournament, and with
Rudolph Kissel, Jr., her brother-in-
law. won the mixed doubles. They de-
] feated Miss Ellen Billiard of Boston
| diih JdAICo w. 10. 1<lout.-
| Col. Herbert Parsons, who has had
twenty-five years Of experience on the
courts, mated with Frederick Field,
the young son of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam B. Osgood Field, won the mems
doubles. defeating Frederick Haines
and Rudolph Kissel. Miss Grace
Bristed and Mrs. William B. Osgood
Field won the women's doubles. de-
feating Mrs. Charles H. Campbell and
Mrs. Errico Conill. 2-6. e-1, 60.
In the semi-finals In the women's
singles, Miss Adele Hammond. daugh-
Ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Hammond
OF Mount Kisco. N. Y, playing against
Miss Margaret Blake, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs George Baty Blake of Boston,
/ sprained an ankle. Miss Hammond
had the advantage in the match. She
was obliged to default to her opponent.
Miss Blake and Miss Lee Hlgginson
of Chicago will play the finals in the
women's singles next week.
A variety of articles, mostly sport
ing goods, were offered as the prizes
Ross T. Whistler, who managed the
tournament, received praise for its very
successful outcome.
| Among the women who took part
were Mrs. Charles H. Campbell of
Washington, a guest of Mrs. Edwards
Spencer; Miss Emily. V. Hammond
Mrs. William E. S. Griswold, Mrs
Henry HOLSTER Pease, Mrs. Roger
Wolcott Griswold OF Erie, Pa; the
Misses NJ. Symphorosa Bristed, Edith
Bonsal and Margaret Davis, and Mrs
Rudolph Kissel, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Henry Ham
mond and the Misses Hammond, who
have been passing a month at Elm
Court with Mrs. William Douglas
Sloane, will leave next week for their
country place, Dellwood. at Mount
Kisco, N. Y. Mrs. Hammond gave
pleasant entertainment at Cory Cot, at
Elm Court, this week. When she was
Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane of Lenox
che organized a sewing class among
the women Of the village. Every year
since her marriage she has held a re-
union Of this class. This years enter
tainment was interesting. about thirty
women gathering at the little cottage
which overlooSs Lily Pond There
Mrs. Hammond and her daughters
served refreshments.
Mrs. William Douglas Sloane gave a
| iulSIlSon at EiIl SOuTt i uesudy, nav
ing for guests the members of Stuy-
vesant F1sh's automobile party which
has been stopping at Curtis Hotel The
guests were Mrs. James Russell Solely,
Mrs. Henry Redmond. Franklin A.
Plummer and Mr.. Fish. After few
days in Lenox Mr.. Fish's party mo-
tored away northward.
| Sale of Homie Brae
A small number gathered for the
auction sale of Bonnie Brae, the Henry
Clews property, located in the south
west part of Lenox, near the summer
home OF Andrew Carnegie. This estate
OF twenty-five acres has been unoccu-
pied for many years. Henry II. Pease,
who has nearby property, was a bid
der for the place, but the agent for
Mr.. Clews bid in the place for $40, 900.
Miss Beatrice B. Bishop, the six
teen-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cortlandt F, Bishop of New York,
has been notified that she won the
prize offered for the best competitive
examination for entrance to Nassar
College. Miss Bishop had previously
won the gold prize offered for entrance
examination to Bryn Mawr. She
speaks and writes in five languages.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard G. Holla-
man of Brooklyn. at Hotel AspinwaIl.
observed a wedding anniversary Sun
DAY. Their sons Richard N. Holla-
man OF Greenwich. Conn. and Fred
erick T. Hollaman OF Brooklyn came
up to Lenox for the anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Giraud Foster have
given the use OF Bellefontaine mea dows
for the annual field day OF the I.enox
Horticultural Society August 20. Be-
sides a picnic for its members there
will be sports. dancing and addresses
Mrs, Charles Astor Bristed il one
OF the patronesses for a lawn festival
! for St Anne's Church next week. Mrs.
: Frederic Shenck and Miss SYM
phorosa Bristed are members OF the
entertainment committee. =
Among the late cottage arrivals are
, Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Ludlow OF
, Ludlow. N, Y, who have been al
their residence there for the early
t summer. They will remain at their
; Cliffwood street cottage until late In
the autumn.
Mrs, Arson Phelps Stokes ana her
, children have gone to the Stokes camr
at Paul Smiths in the Adirondack
Mr.. Stokes. who has been among the
leaders in latter day educational move