New-York tribune., 1920-05-20
Richards Beats
IhrOcknOrtOn
In Hard Match
Young Champion Victor
in Church Cup Team
Practice,6-2, ,4-6,6-3
By Fred Hawthorne

The outdoor lawn tennis season ap-
peared yesterday to have burst into
full bloom overnight down at the West
SIDE Tennis Club of Forest Hills,
where both clay and turf courts were
in use most of the day. The summer
weather was undoubtedly reponsible
Tor the general flocking to the Long
island club, but there we're also the
practice play for the Church CUP
matches, to be contested tomorrow and
Saturday. and the annual spring club
tournament for women, in Classes A
and B, that filled the courts.
One of the feature matches in the
competition for places on the local
Church Cup team developed in the
meeting of Vincent Richards and
three sets to decide the supremacy,
and young Richards carried off the
honors by scores Of GO, 4-6, 6-3. 1t
was the national junior champions
splendid volleying and his cool general
ship that finally prevailed, with
Throckmorton not able to maintain
control over the high-speed shots for
sustained periods
While the official roster of the team
that will defend the holding of the
Church Cup on Saturday against the
challenge Of the winner of the Phla-
delphia and Boston team match at the
announced, l think that the lineup
will be something like this, judging
from what have observed of the
players work during the last two
weeks: lchiya Kumagae, s. Howard
Noshell, Watson M. Washburn, Walter
Merrill Hall, Frederick B. Alexander,
Vincent Richards, Dean Mathey,
Harold Throckmorton, Karl Behr ana
Leonard Beekman.
Call for Officials
Of course, not all Of those 7 have
named will play on the first or Church
Cup team, but the first choice will un-
doubtedly lie among these men, with
the remainder being selected for the
second and third teams.
Edward c. Conlin, president of the
National Tennis Umpires Association,
has sent out call for umpires, lines
men and footfault judges for the
matches, which means that every line
will be guarded and the entire event
run off with the same clock-like reEu-
larity that distinguished the manage
ment Of the national tournament on
these courts last year
The three clubhouse turf courts have
been given n most thorough course Of
treatment. Never have | seen the turf
in better condition at this time of the
season. Chief interest undoubtedly
will center in the meetings tomorrow
between William T. Tilden I'd, of Phila-
delphia. and Richard Norris Williams
I'd, of Boston, the leaders Of their re-
spective teams, and between Wallace
F. johnson, of Philadelphia, and Rich
ard Harte, of Boston. The latter two
men are making desperate efforts to
gain fourth place on the Davis Cur
team. and the fate of either may hirGt
or the match tomorrow.
Women Stars Advance
In the women's tournament Mrs A
Elliott Ranney, Mrs. Theodore Casse-
beer and Mrs Rawson l.. " ood, former
Florida champion, advanced to the
semi-fnal round in the championship
division. Mrs. Wood was volleying well
and her low. fast drives down the lines
were under excellent control, so that
she defeated Mrs. Alex Chisolm and
Mrs. f. T. Rice in turn in the first and
second rounds by scores of g, 81
and 6-l. 6-2, respectively.
Mrs. Ranney got default in the
Miss May BALM at 6-3, 60, hel
great steadness and fine court cover
ing being the deciding factors. Mrs
! Cassebecr. getting default in the
| opening bracket, defeated Mrs. Theo-
dore Sohst at 6-d, 6-3, in the second
/ round, playing mostly from back court
Mrs Mabel D. Stratfn won bit erly
| fought match from Mrs. f. c. Duble al
IS, Ga. and Miss Edith White took
/ the measure of Miss Bertha Sexton by
/ 4 score Of 6-3, g, in the first round