The sun., 1919-04-13
TENNIS AGAIN ON
PRE-WAR SCHEDULE
$50 Fixtures, Including All
Championship Journeys,
Are Sanctioned.
AUGUST BIGGEST MONTH
National Singles at Forest
Hills Among AZ Allotted
for That Month.
AUGUST BIGGEST MONTH

terday by the United States National
Lawn Tennis Association. has much
OF encouragement in Il for followers
OF the game. There is a total of $50
fixtures named In the list, outside OF
the many Junior. boys and girls events.
and the number will be augmented
from time TO time as several dates not
yet officially fixed are allotted.
While this total is somewhat less than
that OF 1917, when there were more than
300 sanctioned Journeys apportioned, It
10 an indication of the great revival that
the game of the courts Is to enjoy, both
this season and In the years to come.
1t will be found that most OF the tour
naments missing this season are the
less important fixtures Practically all
the big Journeys, such as the State and
sectional championships, and of course
the national title events, will be re-
newed.
As in other years. August Is the
month most thickly sprinkled with tour
naments, there being forty-two sched-
uled during that month. then in order
follow June with 81. July 80. September
IS. May IL and October s.
National Singles on August rs.
The greatest tournament of the year
on American courts. the mems national
sings championship of the United
States. will begin on the splendid turf
courts OF the West Side Tennis Club at
Forest Hills. l. l.. on Monday. August
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and over into the following. Simultane-
ously. the Junior and boys, the veterans
and the father and sons Journeys will be
played on the West Side grounds. This
week will show the high water mark for
the game In this country, and taking II
for granted that many. IL not all. OF
the former champions-men like Capt.
Richard Norris Williams I'd, title holder
in 1914 and 1916: William NJ Johnston.
champion OF 1915; Maurice II. McLough-
lin, the great Comet and conqueror of
Brookes and wildlng IN 1914-will be
back on American courts this summer.
tho tournament should develop into one
OF the most notable in the long history
OF the game.
For one thing. there will be the ire
mendous interest aroused by the return
OF the men who dropped the racquet for
the sword and gun and the settling of
the question as to whether they can
come back" sufficiently to hold their
own with those players who did not go
overseas. for one reason or another,
when the call came to battle with the
Hun peril.
But perhaps greater even than this
win he the desire to see how Americas
newest and youngest stars OF the game
boys lik" Vincent Richards, national in
door singles and doubles and national
outdoors doubles champion; Frank T.
Anderson, semi-hnalist in the indoor
tourney and Long Island and North Side
champion: his brother, Fred Anderson;
Harold L. Taylor. national junior cham
pion; Gerald B. Emerson and Cecil Dom
aldson. among others-will shape up
against the older men.
Richards Expected to Star.
There are many who believe that the
brilliant Richards will hold his own
against most of last years "frst ten"
ranking players. with Anderson only just
behind him Whatever the results, the
season Of competition against the sem
iors will certainly do much to develop
and strengthen the play OF the juniors
and bring forth possible material for
the Davis Cup team OF 1920.
The fret OF the national champion
ships to be decided on the outdoor courts
will be the women's singles and doubles,
the mixed doubles and the girls singles.
beginning at the Philadelphia Cricket
Club on Monday. June 16. On July II,
ut the South Side Tennis Club. Chicago.
the men and women viii struggle for
the clay court titles. and on August 10
the Longwood Cricket Clubs courts. in
Boston, will be the scene of the mems
doubles event.
The intercollegiate title will be de-
cided at the Merton Cricket Club OF
Philadelphia. beginning September s.
The last national tourney of the year
will be the boys and Junior indoor
tourname at the Seventh Regiment
Armory in this city, starting on De-
cGmber %.
MET" Season Opens May 10.
The Metropolitan season will officially
open on May 10 with the annual open
tournament OF the Harlem Tennis Club,
and then will follow half a dozen other
local events. including the Westcheeter
county championship tourney. beginning
on May 30.
There will be great congestion here.
for on juno will begin tho fixtures OF
the Montclair Athletic Club, the Ne@
Jersey championship for men; the Coun-
try Club OF Westchester's annual invi-
tation affair and the womens Metropoli-
tan championship at the West side
Tennis club II seems a pity that two
such fine tournaments as the women's
title event and the Country Clubs big
invitation fixture will clash In dates.
The New York Tennis Club will hold
the annual Bronx County singles cham
pionshlp and the Manhattan doubles on
Lple and following days and on June
y the SArdslNy Club will begin the regu-
lar women,s invitation tournament On
June 16 the Terrace Club of Flatbush
will start thu Brooklyn championship,
followed by The Kings County Tennis
Clubs Long Island title event, begin
ming June 81; the Middle States cham.
plonship. on the Orange Lawn Tennis
Club courts. y, June %. and the Uni
versity Height Tennis Clubs annual
North Side championships. starting
June 2S,
East VS.. west Journeys.
on July 10 the Ohio Lawn Tennis As
sociation OF Cincinnati will stage the
annual East-West team matches. certain
20 he keenly contested this year, with
California against the East as tho log
icsl lineup.
Most of the larger and older clubs
viii renew their great invitation
Journeys, beginning with the Nassau
Country Clubs fixture on June 81, and
followed by the Journeys Of the Green
wich Field Club. July II: the Seabright
Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club. July rs !;
the Newport Tennis Club. August { the
Rockaway Hunting Club. August VI, and
the Meadow Club OF Southampton. Au-