New-York tribune., 1920-05-11
Play ON Harlem
Courts Despite
Occasional Rail,
Dozen Matches I'M Various
Rounds of Tourney;
keresey Beats Anderson
By Fred Hawthorne

A little tennis and little rain, a
little rain and little tennis, was the
program yesterday afternoon in the
annual open lawn tennis tournament Of
the Harlem Tennis Club, on the clay
courts at l35th Street and Eighth Ave
nue..
About dozen matches were disposed
Of, including several defaults, and
there were thirteen survivors in the
third round brackets at the end Of the
day, although number of first round
matches remain to be played. The
at the damp heavens, but sent out
word that the schedule would be speed
ed up for the rest of the week, in an
effort to overcome the raindrops.
One of the second round encounters
that served to bring out some good
tennis yesterday came about in the
match between Paul Keresey and
Charley Anderson, with keresey win
Hing after the sets had gone to 6-1,
4-G. S.
Both men went to the net when the
openings presented themselves. with
the result that there was more diversi-
fed tennis than is generally seen at
these early tournaments. Anderson
brought his game up to its greatest
strength in the second set, after Kere-
sey had almost walked away with the
opener, at 6-1. The latter was very
speedy in reaching midcourt and his
volleying was a bit more effective than
Anderson's, so that the third set went
to him at 6-3, giving him the match.
Anton Won Bcrnuth, the tall eX-Co-
lumbia man, defeated B. Landau, at
6-3, Cd, his great reach enabling
n ot n
good for a passing ace. Harry Sachs
was among the second round winners.
he taking the measure of r. L. Rob
erts, at 6-2, 6-1, il we'll played
match. Sachs has developed and
strengthened his game cons iderably
since last season. and he was going
very we'll against Roberts.
Ralph B. Gatcomb tanned young Her
bert L. Bowman at 6-3, g, doing
most of his execution from inside the
service court lines and cutting off his
opponents returns by fine voileying.
Sigmund Spaeth employed his chop to
eliminate R. Lewisohn' at Go, GO,
the ball getting a wicked bound on the
heavy surface Ely Behar. returning
to tournament competition after long
lay-otf, vanquished H. w. Schwarz at
2-6 6-2, Cd, with most of the play
from deep court.
A majority of these matches were
run off in the early afternoon, before
the rain started to take the curl out of
things, but a few were fought out in
installments between showers. j. S.
McDermott, who lived On mud during
his stay in the stretches as a lieuten-
ant in the A. Z. f. in France, made sew
eral attempts to play his match with
{. +. Sparks, but was finally compelled
to call it off. Sparks was not enthusi-
astic about sprawling about in the
ooze, but McDermott allowed it
"couldn't be any worse than the
trenches"
The summaries:
George a. Walker ir defeated Edwin Bry.
1m2 6-2; Steve Schessinger won from
Elliott Binyen by default r. Lewisohn
Won from i. :. Harkavary by default.
Harry Sachs won from A Brassford Sd bv
ueiault; raul Martin defeated Louis Brv
1t 6-l; G.. S Groesbecll won from
J. -. keyes, by default: Carl Jolife d.
feated Frank Ready. St. 6-l
. second round - Sigmund Spaeth de-
teated r. Lewinsohn, 20. 81: Harr,
SAchs defeated r. f. Roberts, 6-2, 81;
default; Ely Behar defeated II. W.
E"tSon4o defeated H. l.. Bowman "a
g; Paul korosey defeated {. 4 An,
derSon, 6-l. 4-6. S.; A. $ Won I&ar
nutn defeated b. Landau g. 6-4. Cnro
IIartinan won from Z A. Bruno s,v a.
fault. ~ W