Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-26
YOUTHS LEARN TENNIS
AT THE CYNVYD CLUB
rembers Doing Great W ork
for Advancement OF the
Game; Tournaments Con-
finue Today
BOYS START EARLY
By SPICK HALL

asors as Is to get the young interested
.eeroct stylcs of play. Unfortunately,
tofo,e they are too old to change in
,oorpect STYLES Of play. Unfortunately
tSore has been more conversation than
action in this direction. but there Is one
nh,b which is doing a great work, and
one that is and will continue to get
yesnlts. This Is the Cynwyd Club. 1t
- ,,ortb the while of any tennis fol-
LIVER TO make trip to Cynwyd any
Ior tbis week and see these youngsters
a \. action in the boys and junior tourna-
ments.
Some Of the little athletes look as
.ha"nh they could not handle racquet
..;,h both hands, but when they get on
w. courts the uninitiated will be sur
wy ICED to see that they employ orthodox
ltrotos and play the game just as it
sLould no played. The reason for this
ssV T. that the members at Cynwyd don't
Estate TO spend time in teaching the
,,,astcrs how to make strokes and
how 10 use sound court generalship.
Carl Fischer Helps
Very often when rather young play
a.. hccomcs more or less expert at ten
ris he can't be annoyed by playing with
"n, one of n lower classification. Two
nntoblo exceptions to this are Bill Til
Sor rho new worlds champion, and
Carl Fischer. captain of the University
of pennsylvania tennis team and member
of the Cynywd Club.
Within the last three or four years
Carl had risen from junior ranks to one
nj tbr best senior tennis players in
PHILADELPHIA, but he hasn't forgotten
that he was very young once and was
bcIped by older heads to learn the game.
Carl is giving up all of his time this
wpck TO helm DR.. p. b. Hawk run the
tournaments at Cynwyd. From $3.50 in
the morning. when the boys and juniors
are getting ready. Carl is on the JOB.
He has been looking the little fellows
nvor and il planning to give them all the
HcIn he can that will improve their
games In the work Paul and Marshall
Tanneman and Albert Cross are assist
ing materially.
Boys VIII Be Boys
Aristotle or Billy Sunday or some
body once remarked that boys will be
boys" Correct, go to the head OF the
class. Mr.. Author. They certain inly will.
And one of the things that boys are
fond of is food. and one of the things
tSry will do is eat. Saturday at Cynwyd
thc courts were alive with little tennis
sharks, playing in, the boys tournament
for the championship of Pennsylvania.
Suddenly the chow gong sounded for
luncheon. Well. you would nave
thought those diminutive experts be-
ioncpd to a union and didn't want to
work overtime. they left everything
''os was' and made q bee line for the
clubhouse vcranda. where long taple
and food awaited.
Billy Mcguire. who is almost as tall
a. his tennis racquet. was asked II ne
had finished his match. No: not YET.
hut we're most through. Gotta eat
first" That's evidently the way they
all felt. ,,. .a,. 20
TALLER onponcnt, Lloyd Smith, G-1, 6-3.
And the others went back. too. and
finished IN before the storm broke and
prevented tho men from playing any
matches in the eastern Pennsylvania
Tournament until late in the afternoon.
Fast Junior Play
In the Junior matches Eric Wood
played rafting good game in defeating
Milo Miller, the crack Penn part"c'
boy. The scores were i-6. Us, ""
Miller played brilliant game in thr
first set and got the decision at ID
hv rushing to the net and cutting on
Woods drives for placement points.
But in the next two sets the N"S'
rhiadclphia High boz stcadicd dowr
and. calmly placed his shots. managed
70 reel off enough games to Civ" hir
tl'c decision.
This was the first time that Wood
and Miller had ever met. in spite OF the
fact that they have both been playinH
IN junior and scholastic tournament
since they emerged from the boys class
Only few Of the men s matches
were played because of the s1uallN
weather. Carl and Herbert Fischer
Keefc. George Powell. Marshall Nanne,
man, c. c. Jones. l.. II. Richards anC
John Haynes.
Carl Fischer had rather bizarre
match with J. II. Ferguson, of Rox'
borough. Ferguson won the first SCI
after long tuSslc, Sc. That seemed
TO take all of the play ont of the RoX
borough star. and he went down in the
next two sets without winning game
This morning the boys and iunior'
got started promptly at 10 clock
They will be through by 3 and al
o'clock the men will get busy
again in the Eastern Prnnsylvanic
tournament.
The doubles in all three tournaments
begin tomorrow.
A Confession
Here is what a British tennis criti
has TO say about Bill Tildcn
1llden has advanced the science o
The game and has gone ahead of all TIL
text books. Years ago read in half ;
Scor" of books that the top-spin driv
was the only stroke that would eve
YIN matches. And it produced on
"ores, our RitChics, our Loves an,
Others besides. So in my very youthful
IhtnuSlasm ] silently and shamefull
hurried what was quite a useful GU
stroke. It simply wasn't done; so
pet Years il trying to hit bal
Nr9ighl from the Shoulder--wc used t.
call 1t the round arm drive.
And now Tildcn comes along all,
H riH nS, and demonstrates to us n
queens and Wimbledon, that il is tn
cut "tro kr that will, because of tn
backward spin Of tho bali. really max
;W."i,e moss of tn" other fellows sho
ms game is mainly OF the orthodC,
,unHht "r top-Spin drive. There ar
1mmE TWO things that can be- done now
.nlh'r we must change our yicws-an
It L"at we all know an Englishman npve
,o's-0r W. must combine and depor
nin' This IS the home of lawn tennis
"nu we don't like bothcrs or any new
tangled ideas.
- haven't the time 20 cxpound whn
'rnInt ne ''h no. But to appreciate Nj
S"Ii must have acquired merit
hoa :" "S atrric said of that famous to
Da'r0 niXturc--a fellow must b
worthy OF the occasion"