New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04
Star Players
For Pinehurst
Tennis Tourney
Tlden, Kumagae, Richards
and Voshell in North
and South Championship
BY Fred Hawthorne

by FREQ Hawthorne
The mems national indoor champion
ships in singles and doubles having
been decided at the 7th Regiment Ar
mory yesterday, the scene this week
will shift from the board courts to the
clay surface, and from the early spring
chill of the North to the warmer cline
OF the South, where the annual North
and South championship tournament
begins at Pinehurst, N. c., on Thurs
day.
Not only the men, but the women
also, will compete for the North and
South titles, and the advance list of
great things to come in the struggles
to reach the final rounds in both
events.
Looking over the names of some of
the players drawn in the mems singles
is like taking a peep at the score boaru
at Southampton, Seabright or Long
wood in midsummer. Tilden, Kuma-
gae, Richards, VosheIl, Hardy, Craig
Biddle, they are all there. and all with
in striking distance of their pest early
season form. The first four named
among them, although the luck of the
draw may play an important part in
deciding just which one of the quartet
IS to carry off the title in the singles.
We saw Voshell vanquished by Rich
ards this last week in the national in
door championship tourney, and beaten
IN straight sets, after a brilliant dis
play of tennis, but this does not neccs-
sarily mean that the blond-haired
STRIPPING will repeat, should he and
Noshell clash on the courts of the
P%inehurst Country Club.
Voshell, after eliminating Frank T.
and Frederick c.. Anderson on success
slve days in the 7th Regiment Armory.
lost q visible amount of steadiness
when he faced Richards, and was no.
the deadly sharpshooter against the
defending champion that he had been
against the brothers Anderson. 1t is
dlticult to say just how much of this
falling off was due to Richards's
splendid play and how much can be
put down to Voshell's own failings.
Voshell Seeks Revenge
The latter was far from satisfied
quite naturally. Voshell is firm in his
belief that he will do much better
down at Pinehurst this week and
looks forward with relish to another
meeting with his young conqueror
Having dropped a full twelve pounds
during the week of play at the armory
the brilliant left-hander feels that he
will be better able TO do himself justice
when he takes the courts in the South
land, and it seems highly probable.
Richards, at last, is showing every
again. All the promise that he
showed when he first began to win
championships a year or two ago is
apparently on the eve Of materializing
IT he can continue on the upward
trend, there is no telling how far he
will go. Is this seventeen-year-old
genius of the courts about to confute
Norman Brookes? BY midsummer We
should know the answer.
Illden In a tournament, no matter
what the opposition, means lawn tennis
of the spectacular and super-brilliant
kind. There is no shot in the game
that this amazing player does not bring
into action at some time during 6
match, and whether in victory or de.
feat, he gives US the thrills that tennis
galleries nourish on.
Ichiya Kumagae is liable to be the
figure upon whom the spotlight viii
blaze most fiercely at Pinehurst. Al
his mightiest on a fast clay surface, the
sturdy little Japanese has already dem
onstrated, at Palm Beach and at IIa.
vana, where he won both singles titles
that he has few if any superiors or
clay courts.
. kumagae's Chances Good
1t would not surprise me to see Ku.
magae as one of the fnalists at Pine.
hurst. That battling "loop" drive, played
with an uncanny amount Of "top" or
the ball, and speedier now than eve
before, takes most "sweetly" off the
clay. But Kumagae is no longer to be
rated as a bascline player Per Sc. In
large measure he has mastered the in.
tricacies of the net game, and although
a modification of our typical American
style, it gets results.
have gone into some detail concern.
ing Tilden. Richards, Kumagae ant
Voshell because, as I have said, l be.
licve the North and South champion.
ship will be decided among these foul
but the quality of the rest of the field
augurs many a stirring struggle before
the final brackets are reached. Feeling
that every match in which they take
part is to have a bearing on the fna
choice for the team to be sent overseas
in guest of~the Davis Cup next October
the leading players will put forth every
effort.
Miss Marion Zinderstein, the present
holder, with Mrs. George w. Wightman
of the national doubles title. and run
ner-up for the singles honors last year
will play through at Pinehurst in de
Tense of her North and South title, anc
she appears quite likely to repeat hei
triumph Of last year. This young Bos-
ton star has most of the qualifications
that beft a true champion, and she
appears to outclass the field, good as il
is, that will oppose her.
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