New-York tribune., 1920-07-14
Botsford Wins
From Bowman
At WOOdnere
Original Field of Seventy.
five Cut Down to Twenty
one in Open Singles
By Fred Hawthorne

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The original field of seventy-five had
been beaten into more or less COM
pact mass Of twenty-one survivors at
ene evening hour of 1880 yesterday in
the annual mems open lawn tennis
singles tournament on the clay courts
OF the Woodmere Club when this Bos-
well of the courts hoped the city
bound train for the office.
nal1 dozen more matches were in
propress at that hour, and, with the
prospect of full moon, Leslie Fishel.
tne ambldeXtrous referee of the tour
ney, mad hopes of cutting down the
mob mob until they could be counted on the
hngers of two hands The doubles will
probably be started late this after.
noon, so the more execution before
then the more progress to-day.
Mans Sized Job
1t is a mans sized job to steer such
a large entry as the Woodmere fixture
t,nrough three rounds of singles in two
days, when you consider that there are
only fve courts on which to do the
steering, but Fishel accomplished the
ieat The salt water swimming pool
,neiped, Tor when some of the more am
o'tlous players paved the ground in
oneir anxiety to play two and three
matches IN rapid succession the diplo-
matte tishel led them off to the pool
and pointed out the delight of cool
plunge. In six cases out of seven the
ruse was successful and the plavers
forgot tennis for the time being and
took "Brodie" into Woodmere Greek.
BY the time they came out the courts
were unoccupied.
one OF the matches that brought out
plenty of keen competition came when
Willard Botsford defeated Herbert L.
Bowman at 3-6, ca, 6-3. in the
second round. Both men were out to
WIN or lose quickly, and many stirring
rallies from mid-court. resulted. In
the opening set Bowman was success
ful IN getting in close to the net and
scoring on severe overland volleys for
the openings. His service was also
swift and under good control.
In the second set, however, Botsford
began to speed up, catching his man
out Of position several times with
beautiful passing shots down the side
lines as Bowman came charging down
the center. The winner also took his
turn at the net position and worked
overland volleys at sharp angles across
caught with the ball at his feet
Second Set Thriller
Leading at 4-3 in the second set
Botsford had a genuine battle on his
hands before he could take the eighth
game. Three times he was within a
point of the game and twice Bowman
needed only point to square the set,
only to miss on easy shots.
Bowman won the ninth game and
then Botsford took the set by winning
the tenth, squaring the match. In the
last set Bowman began to lose control
of his overhead shots in the high wind
that swept across the courts, while
Botsford, keeping the ball low, ran into
q good lead and won the set at 6-3
for the match.
tragedy of the tournament, for his ad-
versary was none other than F. Pierce
Amams, of the University Heights
Tennis Club. Adams failed to win a
leg on The Tribune Challenge Cup last
week on his courts, but the Woodmere
Bowl is just as large piece of jewelry
and had Adams been able to vanquish
Botsford yesterday the chances are
that the only other obstacles in his
path would have been Percy Kynaston,
in the fourth round Anton Won Ber-
the final, either Fred G. Anderson, Dr.
William Rosenbaum, Harry Sachs
Hugh Nehring, Donald Keresey, Alfred
D. Hammett or Ben Letson. AS it was
Adams was beaten at 6-1, o.. but it
only goes to show how one little piece
of bad luck can change the engraving
on a challenge cup.
Rosenbaum won two matches yester-
day, first eliminating Joseph Clifford
at So, 6-l, and then vanquishing E. B.
Reese at 60, 6-3. Rosenbaum, who.
paired with Frederick B. Alexander,
won the Bacardi doubles championship
at Bay Shore on Sunday, was hitting
hard and true overhead and his fore
hand drive was going at fine speed
The summarizes:
Woodmere Clubs mems open singles
!arst round)-J. ?. stockton defeated
man defeated G. T. Gutwllig e--s. o-l,
6-3.
Second ronnd-Hugh l. Nehring defeat
Cd Cd W. j. Tousssnt, e., St; Harry
Kata 81. IS: DR.. seS wtiiam na'fa Rosenbaam aam
defeated joseph Clifford s-4. 81; Will
ard Botsford defeated Bowman s-s s--4
G-5; f. A. Fall defeated Jack Martin
6-3, 60; J. p. McQuaide defeated Alex
Il. Frey, 6-s, IS; Harold L. Taylor de-
Ben Letson defeated Milton Soper. 81. |
Ct; G. A Anderson defeated Ben Ian
dau,. Ct, s-2; E. j. Mccall defeated
defeated sigmund Spaetti. 6-3. s-l.
Third round - w. NJ. jennings defeated
George Train. 60 6--4; Sachs defeated
nuth defeated l.. V. Robinson, 2--6. Ga.
6--3 Manfred Goldman defeated Fall, |
s-6, 6--4; Willard Botsford defeated F. |
defeated Byron Kikuchi. 6--1. 6-2; L. |
w Knox defeated CT G. Burr, g. 6--l:
J. P. McQuaide defeated MCCALL; 60. Ga:
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