The sun., 1919-06-25
STARS RETIRE FROM
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
Kumagae, Niles and Pell De-
fault in Middle States
Championship.
ny EUGENE n. o,coNNELL.

Considerable OF the interest in the
thirty-fourth annual lawn tennis tourna-
ment for the Middle States championship
on the turf courts of the Orange Lawn
Tennis Club, at Mountain Section, N. j.,
was extracted yesterday when Theo-
dore r. Pell. Nathaniel w. Niles and
lchiya Kumagae. three OF the strongest
players In the list of entries. defaulted.
The gallery that went out to see the
matches yesterday was as large as any
that has ever seen any early round play
In Middle States tournament. The fol-
lowers OF the game who were on hand
saw plenty OF tennis at least, II they
did not see the best of tennis. Those
Few OF the better players who remained
In the tournament won their matches
with ease. Leonard Beekman. the
princeton player. and Harold Throck-
morton, the New Jersey State champion,
advanced in the third round by scoring
victories in straight SETS
Throckmorton I'm Form.
Throckmorton. who was forced to de-
fault a match last week In the Brook
lyn championship singles when he was
within point of victory. because his
arm gave out. was back In form and
oNoACN ONCI dul IAN DeVenIeT, AT 6--U,
6-3. His arm yesterday was in as
good shape as ever II had been and he
made no attempt to save It. From the
very start Throckmorton laid into the
Dali and scored point after point by his
powerful drives to deep court
His service, too. was much moro Sc
we're than 1t had been In any Of the
earlier tournaments in which he took
part Some years ago Throckmorton
was the sensation OF the Middle States
tournament. He won II and then car
ried the great Karl Behr to Ave sets in
the challenge round before the former
internationalist was able to win.
Throckmorton has hopes OF getting into
the challenge round again this year to
take crack at the title now held by
Walter Merrill Hall.
Leonard Beekman met with rather
stubborn opposition for a while from G.
A. L. Dlonne. but the Princetonian final
ly won at l0-S. 60. In the opening
set the great steadiness OF Dionne had
beekman hopping around the court and
had him worried as we'll. Beekman,
however. never let up and finally wore
Dionne out
Kashio Advances.
Among the players Who moved into the
nth round was Seiichiro Kashio. the
Jap star. Kashio won his fourth round
match in straight sets from Lindsay
Durham. a New Jersey player, at rs,
So. The others who climbed out Of
The fourth round were Robert p. Ben
nett. r NJ. Kirkland. and Alfred d.
Hammett. The mems doubles were
started yesterday and the women's sin
giles will commence this afternoon The
summaries:
Middle States Championship Mems Sin.
gles-second round-F r.. Pitman won
from Nathaniel W. Niles BY default; &. A.
L. Dionne defeated D. X. Arnold, Jr..
dors r. Pe,i by default; DR.. William Ro
senbaum won from Ichiya Kumagae by
1SS nnn % 4ake Thomas defeated W. G.
Third roundSFred c. Bags defeated
Roland B, Haines, Ga, SIS: b. Daley.
Harold A. Throckmorton defeated Paul
defeated 4: W. Gilmore, 81, "a; Robert
colin Scott, 81. IS: DR.. RIOS nbaum de.
Esossrd DUE s:es PnG%' s.,.a,. s 1'
teieatsd S V 1ruSans "a, IS. '''
sSF' aed RssHe aaISs s Bennett de-
Kirkland defeated Paul Pope, e-3. s-3;
Alfred D, Hsmmett defeated Louis b.
Bailey. Jr, 81; s-3' seiichiro Kashlo
defeated Lindsay Durham. rs. g..
Middle States Championship Mems Dou-
blss: First Round-InEo Hartman and
Gerald Emerson defeated V. Ely and A. H.
Chaplin. Jr., S-s. as. rs; NJ. T. Ack-
erland and @. S. Groesbeck defeated b NJ
Arnold. Jr. and q. Colby, SIS. 6-l; r.
W. seabury and v. H. cartmehi defeated
gimund spaeth and Harry Sachs. Isl
Ct: r. P. Bennett and z. A Clark de-
feated A. Roche. Jr.. and G. H. Miles
81. So: 8. V. Bruhsns and Dr. Widm.r
won from Theodore R. Peli. by default (:
I. T. Cooke and Paul Pope won from G. II
Miles and partner. by default; L. Dun
ham and Fred Bags won from r. NJ
Kirkland. by default; E. Oeisner and II
Oakley won from Nathaniel W. Niles and
partner. by default.