Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-08
WALLACE JOHNSON
LOCAL NET PILOT.
cynwyd Star and Philadelphia
Champion Will Lead in
Church Cup Matches
TO PLAY AT MERl0k
BY SPICK HALL

Philadelphia and one of Americas first
ten lawn tennis players, has been named
captain Of the Quaker City team which
will meet the winner Of the New York
and Boston racquet experts at Merton
on Saturday afternoon.
These intercity contests were con-
ceyed by George Myers Church. once
csptain Of the Princeton team and Il
plsyer of vast possibilities. The trophy
IL awarded each year to the team win
ming the best FIVE of nine matches and
"a perpetual. Church, who lived in
New Jersey, saw and believed. cor
rectly, that lawn tennis in the East was
ceptered in New York, Boston and
Philadelphia. With this idea in mind
he donated cup that would be given
10 the best team in these three cities in
n triple competitive match early every
season.
The Church Cup matches are fou.
years old this season. The first year
they were staged on the Merton Cricket
clubs turf courts. at Haverford, and
New York won. In 1910 the matches
were played in Boston and the bean
crayers captured the trophy. Last yea:
Philadelphia played Boston in the pre-
liminaries and lost five. Then the
metropolitan artists proceeded to wipe
up the turf with the New Englanders.
Play Starts Friday
For the second time the Merton
Cricket Club will have the Church Cup
event. The preliminaries or semi finals
-
Haverford, and on Saturday Wallace
Johnson will have his young men out
TO 70 against the winning combination.
johnson will play first singles for
Philadelphia and will act as captain
of the team. Last season Bill Tilden
was captain and first singles player,
and he trimmed Dick Williams in
straight sets. It isn't an extraneous
matter, either, to mention that unless
Williams snaps out of 1t he Is very likely
10 get a beating from Wallace john
son.
williams is probably the most finished
lawn tennis player that was ever pro-
duced In America and also the most
lackadaisical. He should not only be
the most finished player, but one of tfhe
best, but apparently he thinks more
about Illuminating and putting on his
The Philadelphia team will consist OF
Wallace johnson, first singles; Craig
Biddle, second singles: Stanley Pearson.
third singles; Carlton Shafer, fourth
singles; Carl Fischer, fifth singles, and
Ted Edwards, sixth singles. Besides
the singles, three doubles matches also
have to be played. Johnson and Pear
son will be the first Philadelphia team.
Biddle and Shafer will be the second
and Fischer and Edwards will be the
third.
Second Team Chosen
1t has been customary, to select
second team also. but if those matches
are played they do not count in finals.
However, the committee has named the
following for the second team: Alex
Thayer, Rowland Evans, John c. Bell,
Jr., I'd Thaycr, Joe Thaycr. Joseph
W. Wear, c. Stanley Rogers. Bart
Pfnst, Jr., Andy Morgan, lzzy Cravis,
DR.. p. b. Hawk and Cap Wister.
1t looks very much as though Phila-
delphia were doomed to defeat again
this year, for, on paper, both Boston
and New York have stronger teams.
New York has powerful singles sextet
in Ichiya Kumagae, Watson Nj. Wash
burn, Vincent Richards, Dean Mathey;
Howard Voshell and Walter Merrill
Hall. with Harold Throckmorton as n
substitute.
The New York selection is typical
one. From the showing of the players
there is no doubt that young Richards
should be playing first singles. But he
is put third, below both Kumagae and
Washburn. To be sure. Washburn was
Il member of the victorious Davis Cup
team that brought our trophy back
home from Australasia, but it Is also
true that he Is n far better lawyer and
speaker than he is tennis player.
However, that's New York's business.
They can select any one they wish and
their choice goes regardless.
Weak Doubles
New York's doubles players probably
will be Hall and Bcekman, Mathey and
Washburn, Richards and Noshell, q
weak bunch of teams.
Boston's team Is Williams. first sin.
giles; Nat Niles, second singles; q.
Colket Gamer, third singles; Harry G.
Johnson, fourth singles; Lawrence Is.
Rice, fifth singles; Irving c. Wright
or G. +. Gardner, sixth singles In the
doubles Boston will have Williams and
Johnson. Niles and Gamer and Bidwell
and Porter
On Friday the visiting members OF
the Church Cup team will be given a
dinner at the Merton Cricket Club and
on Saturday evening there will be a
dinner dance.
The Philadelphia committee in charge
OF the tournament is: Albert l.. Hos
kins, referee; w. L. Rowland and
Percy Osborne, Belfield Country Club
pr, Philip b. Hawk and Wallace +.
Johnson, Cynwyd; Samuel ii. COLON
and Samuel NJ. Peacock, Germantown
Cricket Club; DR.. i. B. Dewhurst and
George zinn, Huntington Valley How :
ard w. Lewis. Albert l.. Hoskins,
Merion; Louis S. De Lone and Howard
biddle, Overbrook Golf Club; Walter
.; Thomson and DR.. Is. V. ID. Lyon,
rmladelphiG Country Club Joseph II
carpenter. Jr,, and Joseph j. Brown
Ehiladelphin Cricket Club; Paul s.
Nowland and Pct"r 4. Wright, Will
mihgton Country Cub.