New-York tribune., 1919-07-11
Western Tennis Experts
Beat Pick of fasteners
VOshell Bows to Kinsey.
While Tilden and Rich
ards Lose i'm Doubles
By Fred Hawthorne

CINCINNATI, July 10.-The West
drew first blood to-day in the annual
East West lawn tennis team match,
played on the clay courts of the Gin
cinnati Tennis Club, taking one match
in the singles and one in the doubles.
lchlya Kumagae, of Japan and the
West Side Tennis Club, was the only
Fastener to win. Three more matches
will be played tomorrow and the final
three on Saturday.
the day for the Fasteners came in
the first match of the day, when Rob-
ert M. Kinsey, of California, n slender,
soft hitting youth, conquered the tre-
mendous server anc vicious volleyer,
5. Howard Voshell, of New York, for
mer national indoor champion, by a
score Of 81, 6-1, Go.
Hardly had the effete East mopped up
its tears shed over this mishap, then
William T. Tilden I'd, of Philadelphia
and Vincent Richards, of New York.
the national doubles champions, went
down in defeat before the steader,
more "heady" tennis of William NJ
Johnston, of California, national cham
pion of 1915, and Samuel L. Hardy, Of
Chicago, veteran Of twenty-five years
court experience. The West won this
match by score of Gil, Go, 6-3,
7-5, with the tennis very "spotty" on
the part of all four players, but with
young Richards the chief delinquent
KUMAGAE at His Best
Kumagae, driving like fiend from
deep court, hitting the lines with the
same wonderful precision that first as
tonlshed America in 1916 when he made
his first appearance in this country,
and occasionally going to the net be-
hind his great forcing shots con-
qucred Ralph H. Burdick, of CHICAGO.
by scores of Is, 6-2, Cd.
The little Japanese has been going
at his best during the last two or
three weeks, as witness his successive
defeats of Veshell Tilden and MURRAY
IN tournament play. Burdick, under
the circumstances, did we'll to hold his
rival as close as he did.
This is the programme for to-mor-
row:
Wallace F. Johnson, of Philadelphia,
VS.. a. L. Green, of Chicago; Robert
Lindley Murray. of Niagara Falls. VS.,
Samuel R. Hardy, of Chicago. and Wal-
lace johnson and S. Howard Voshell.
Philadelphia and New York, VS.. Ralph
Burdick and A. L. Green, Chicago.
A drcnching, sodden rain last nipht
had transformed the fine CLAW courts
on which the matches were plaved
INTO mud courts to-day, and when the
players were not sliding from base
line to the net, they were finding all
kinds of difficulty in digging" the bali
up from the heavy surface
10 add to their unhappiness, a very
vigorous sun streamed down on the
courts All day, making a Turkish bath
atmosphere, an accompaniment that
Fasteners did not seem able to with
stand as we'll as their Western rivals.
Voshell was particularly affected by
the climatic conditions, for after TAX
ing the lead at 81 on games in the
first set, the great lefthandcr actually
wllted before our very eyes and in the
last two sets did not have sufficient
strength or ambition to do more than
pat" tho ball.
kinsey Plays Cleverly
Yet all credit for his victory must
go to young Kinsey, a fajr-haired,
slender young man, with an assortment
of soft. deceptive strokes, made dan
gerous by excellent placing, and very
battling, low. deep lob that often
caught voshell out of position as the
Easterner tried to storm tho net.
we we, OF the East kept appraising eyes
on the work of the mighty little
Johnston, for the freckied- faced youth
from the coast has been going great
guns since his release from service
and is one of the most dangerous con.
tenders for the national singles cham
nonship,. to be decided at Forest
Hills in August.
The former champion gave flashes TO
day. of the form that moved down
Richard Norris Williams and Maurice
McLoughln in the national singles
tourney at the West Side Tennis Cluh
in 1915. With few weeks moro Of
tournament play Johnston should be
pretty nearly at. his best. He thrilled
tho large galle}I this afternoon by
sending his famous forehand drive