New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Miss POllak
Will Oppose
Mrs. Wilbour1
Mrs. Waring and Letson L
Face Mrs. Mills and Har.
man on Courts
By Fred Hawthorne


ternoon st $3.50 o'clock in the FIR
round Of the mems singles, in the
nua open lawn tennis tournament,
the Hoboken Tennis Club. In
women's singles. Mrs. Percy Wibour
OF the New York Tennis Club. viii ia
Miss Helene Pollak in the final roun
and the final Of the mixed doubles "
see Mrs. Samuel F. Waring ard Fl
NJ Letson playing Mrs. David c. Nj,
Of South Orange. and Ingo f. Hartma
Of the New York Tennis Club.
DR.. Rosenbaum gained his place
the final round yesterday by defes
by score of g, e, and tn
vanquishing Kirk Reid. of Cornell.
score of 81, Is, SIS. in the sen
final bracket. Reid had previous
eliminated lingo Hartmann. at
IS, .. in the fifth round
Mrs. Wilbourn sprang the surpr
of the tournament by her decisive a
cleancut victory over Mrs. Edward :
Lynch IN the seml-fnal round Of =
women's Castle Point singles, the Sc
going at GO. 6-3.
Puts Out Captain Van Nliet
Throckmorton gained his right
play for the mems Castle Point
by two victories. FRS. he disposed
Captain Robert C. Van Vliet in /
fifth round at 60, 6-4, and in q,
semi-hnal round his victim was G.
aid +. Emerson, who went down und
a Cd, 6-3 score
Throckmorton was going at his b.
in the match with Van Nliet. and
the first set played what was prac,
caily an errorless game As a mat
OF fact the former intcrscholas.
champion was guilty OF only two erro.
IN the opener. and Van Nliet was al
to get only seven points for his To-,
IN the set. five Of which he earned $
The fiery. nard-hitting Reid thres
ened for time TO bear Or. Rosenbau
down by the terrific speed and acgrc
Siveness OF his net-storming tactic
tie simply ran away with .ne scco,
set, smothering everything his OPP.
Aent tried. At tins critical stage
me match Rosenbaum made up
|; mind that he could not hope to pit +
speed against that OF the spectacui.
young player on the other side of 4
net, and so he fell back upon car.
full accurate playing. with timely lob
mixed up with powerful foreha.
drives down the side lines to gain h.
points.
The plan succeeded, for Reid. h
eng everything with all the streng
N ms good right arm, tearing dou
the court 20 voilev or smash for eve
point began to make errors and. d
tnougn ms earning shots were NAM
ms slips more than counter-balancc
them.
CorneIlian Plays Well
In the opening set Rosenbaum bepar
( a consistent attack on Reid S back han
but 1t did not profit him much. {,
s the cornellian uncovered whirlwi~,
stroke off mis- left side. playing hIr..
rolling backhand shot, somewhat aftc
the style of Gerald Patterson. III.
Australian. but more reliable At,
pulling ont the first set, Rosenbau.
decided 70 switch to Rcid's forehand
but ne met with even less luck there
tor his opponent laced the bali bac,
INTO court with tremer dous speed
There was no holding the Corne,
youth in this set Rosenbaum found +.
very hard to do anything with Reid.
- heavlly topped, high bounding delivery
ana the latter was in with a rush to
. the net, s1nashing with positive vicious
ness overhead and cutting of Rosen-
0aum's drives with beautiful volieyino
\ In the final set Roserbaum change.
MS tactics Instead Of trying 10 nee-
held at the net position. where he Wa.
> outspeeded. he made his fr.t fro,
me oack OF the court, and he used =
nigh, short lob 10 force his onnonen.
u, INTO errors, For time Reid handed
tnese shots very well, but as the
T. rallles grew faster the Cornell sta
re began to find the net with some Of his
is tremendous overhead s~ipes and hi-
volleying. carried along at such super
,afiNe speed through the frs5 two sets
N began to weaken
E. Rosenbaum mixed in powerful lore
ct hand drives Win his lobs, and behind
these forclrT sho's he came ia f.
'e score or "eiils" that he had been
4 missing in tae second SIT Fighting
desperately 20 the end. Reid held hl~
,r man on up 70 6-al on games. but
-. then Rosen baum flushed the match bv
taking the last two
~ Winner Plays Steadily
- Mrs. Wilbourn was marvel OF
P steadlness against Mrs. Lynch. and
h she Went after everything that came
n INTO her court. Some OF ncr hackhand
shots across the corner Of tho deer
- court were so we'll placed as 20 carr
placement aces and on her forehand
she was deadly. she also caught he,
opponent out of position several timei
g by driving short when she had forced
A Mrs. LNnch back 10 the base line
Ihrockmorton broke up Captain Var
n, Nllct's terrific service by standing wei
v
> then sticking tho ball back to the arm,
g. man feet with such speed as to ca tel
IN him out Of position. The match wa.
r hiied with lightning rallies and harc
smashing.
H. Inc summaries:
A'et's .nsle 1onrth roupdp--F r. Ma
- Mar aeteafef r y Powers s-4 3-s
- tfsraner defeeteS II G. Benedict
Fi5th roura tfrs Rcid defeated Ing
Ha',t's..iii - -. 20. -. Or Will,
Nosenhapn. dei"ated p J. MacWattv
5-2. h-e Gerald p Emerson a.fears.
II ''erin I c-4 II A .Throc1lIscr r
.'n fcf"s'ea csutsln X 9 Van Vie,
S"rii-fnal round in william Rosen
! baum. D.t~'it kiD Reid. ID Il s-s
- 4 Tnf"e anorion defeated G~rald p
> | rrrersur. f-2
NOt.ie. sii.- ies 'sefns-nnai round
Mrs. Percy WNbnutu defeated Mrs h.awar
| Y Lynch t-.
Reach Golf Semi.FinaI
The semi-tina round was reach.
Yesterday IN the cOmnerfr,o, Co.. Il