New-York tribune., 1920-08-23
Club
Courts Draw
Stars of Tennis
lilden to Pair With Young.
sfer in Doubles Match;
Play Starts This Afternoon
By Fred Hawthorne

BoSION, Aug. 22.-And now II is
southampton, down on the far end of
Long Island, toward which the lawn
tennis players now in the East will
journey tonight for the purpose of
competing in the last great invitation
affair of the season, on the splendid
turf courts of the Meadow Club. This
event always winds up the mems season
Oh play, prior to the opening of the
national singles championship tourna-
ment m on the courts of the West Side
ming on Monday, August 80.
Play will begin at the Meadow Club
at 8 O'Clock in the afternoon on the
opening day with singles and doubles
TO be played, and all the great gallery
OF stars, with one or two exceptions,
VIII be on hand when the first match
is called
Littleton Fox, chairman of the
tournament committee, writes to tell
me that Tiden, Johnson, Griffin, Davis,
Roberts, Williams, Voshell, Garland,
Mashburn, Hardy, Pell, Clothier
Pardy and Leroy among others will
compete in either singles or doubles,
which means that the success of the
Tilden told me yesterday that he is
going to pair with young Arnold Jones,
the sixteen year old son of j. D. E.
Jones, the old Rhode Island CHAMPION
and it will be interesting to watch these
two in action
1t will not be the first time that the
worlds singles champion has thus Sc
lected a junior and developed the lat
ters game through voluntary coaching
Vincent Richards, Carl Fischer, of
Philadelphia, Cecil Donaldson, of
Brooklyn, and "Chuck" Garland, of
Pittsburgh, are among the younger
generation who owe most of their ten
mis- knowledge to Tidens generous
action.
Garland will pair with Samuel
Hardy, captain of this years Davis
Cup team, and the strongest among
the other p,avers will team up, so that
picking tnc winners is by no means
an easy task. An interesting feature
Of the doubles at Southampton will be
the temperance in tournament COM
petition Of William A. Larred, seven
times national Champion, and Robert
D. Wrenn, who also held the title on
several occasions, back in the 90's.
The players at Southampton will find
plenty to do besides their work on
the courts, for the tournament COM
mittee at the Meadow Club has planned
an exceedingly busy social week for
the visitors
There will be three or four dances
at the clubhouse and at the private
homes of the summer residents. Also
dinner at the clubhouse or clam
bake on the beach, in the shadow of
the famous sand dunes, will be given
for the players in the middle of the
1In IN aI1 I>o
eral informal dinners. given by club
members at their homes. Those players
who like their golf on the side, even
without the existence of the "nine-
teenth hole viii find the courtesies
of the links of the famous Shinne-
cock Hills Golf Club, open to them
There will be one thing lacking, in
my opinion, during the week of play
at the Meadow Club, and that is, the
absence of women's tournament. The
women never had the chance to COM
pete at Southampton, except in the
mixed doubles, and it may be true that
until recently the standard of play
among the fair sex was not sufficiently
high to Justify such thing, but now
it is decidedly different.
With such list of brilliant women
stars as Miss Marion Zindcrstein,
metropolitan and national clay court
champion; Miss Eleanor Tennant and
Miss Helen Baker, of California;; Miss
Leslie Bancroft and Miss Edith Sigour-
ney, of Longwood; Miss Florence Bal
lin, Miss Eleanor Goss, Mrs Robert
Leroy. Mrs. Rawson L. Wood, all of
New York. and some amazingly good
juniors, including Miss Martha Bay
ard, of Short Hills, N. j., national
junior indoor champion and winner of
the junior tournament at Longwood
last week; Miss Brenda Hedstrom, of
Buffalo, runner up; Miss Alice Bayard,
Miss Penelope Anderson and Miss Mary
Palache, there would be tennis of the
most interesting type displayed. only