New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Player
Beats Botsford
At Montclair
Champion Too Fast for
Young Opponent; Final
in the Doubles To-day
By Fred Hawthorne

Harold \. IufocAHlorIon, the play
ing through singles champion, held
fast to his honors yesterday Afternoon
by defeating Willard H. Botsford, Of
New York. by score OF S-3, s.
"A. in the final round of the annual
New Jersey state championship lawn
.snnis tournament, on t,e clay courts
Of the Montclair Athletic Club.
From start to fN,sa OF tits match
the young champion locked the win
ner. There was snap TO his strokes
Suaiiey 10 his finishing shots that
ouise eclipsed anything that Botsford
could put forth. Not only this, bat
Thrcckmorton was far more speedy in
covering his court. Rotsford appear
ng slow in comparison. Again it was
the English youths lack OF aggressive
ness that told heavily against aim, par
ticularly when the defending champion
set sail after the points in dead
earnest
two matches were S~ged in the
doubles, tire winners going into the
semi-iinai brackets. In the upper half
Of the draw the new and promising
team OF Fred c. Anderson and Ben
Le.son, runners-up for the Eastern,
New York State doubles title last week
at AmackaSsin, defeated the tested
team OF Alrick Man jr and Cedric a.
Major by score of Cd, 6-3.
Veterans Win Match
In the other match the veteran pair,
Alfred .. Hammett and Enbree Hen
aerson. pulled out fine victory over
Gerald B. Emerson and Botsford. After
dropping the first set at 6-8, Hammett
and Henderson were trailing at. l-3
on games in the second session and
were apparently headed tor straight
se. defeat at the hands of their
Younger ard speedier opponents.
But right ct this ticklish period the
older pair braced and proceeded to
take the next fve games in row, Civ
ing then, the set at 6-3, and squaring
the match. The loss of the set had
disastrous effect on Emerson and
Botsford, and in the third they were
cleaniy outplayed by Hammett and
Henderson, who volleyed cleverly,
lobbed occasionally, and gave the
youngsters many an opportunity of
dropping points on errors, and few Of
these opportunities were missed. Ham
nett and his partner took the final set
at 6-3
Hammatt Norton, chairman of the
tournament committee, who has steered
the record fields in singles and doubles
through many obstacles, to wind up
schedule time, announced last night,
that the two semi-fnal doubles matches
Will begin this afternoon at 2:30
o'clock Ichiya Kumagae and Throck
morton will meet Letson and Anderson
in the upper half, and in the lower sec-
ton the opposing palrs will be ham
nett and Henderson and Philip and
Lualow Van Deventer. The winners
Of these matches will meet in the final
and championship match at o'clock.
Service IS Powerful
Throckmorton started the service in
his battle with Botsford, giving an inni
tation OF what was to come by his
scaanon bali" delivery. The ball shot
into court like thin streak of white,
End Bots ord was completely at sea in
his efforts to handle it. The game
vent to the champion at "love." In
later games, although Throckmorton
vas broken through more than once,
his service was generally one Of his
chief weapons OF attack.
There were several instances during
the match when Throckmorton trailed
in the points, in which he pulled out
the games By putting his service into
tie high" It rarely failed him in the
erisis.
It should not be assumed that Bots
ford went to defeat easily or without
struggle His best shot, it seemed
to me, was backhand drive straight
down the side lines. usually brought
OF when receiving service. Throck-
morton, charging in from his base line,
was so far out of position when some
Of these shots streaked over the net
! that he made no attempt to go after
the bali There were other times when
Bo.sford found & Vulnerable spot on
the champions b2ckhand by volleying
the bail At sharp angles across fore
court and very close 20 the net.
sssary amount Of effort.
The point score OF the singles match
follows
FIRST SET
sasssord ..... 10 / 4-32-5
SECOND SET
Ih-orkrro-ton i 4-31--s
ssiaford. -.....-. 4 ! / / i-22--2
THIRD SET
Ssssfara Sssssa'l'T'on II e-sS-s s-sSs
TOTALS
zaroezr,orton io3 points; is games; 3 sets
oytsfcrd. 50 points. 8 games; 0 sets