New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
Tennis Expeditions
TO the Southland
Becoming g Popular
Court Stars Look Forward
to Trips Soon After Out
door Season Closes Here

With the season on outdoor courts
barely closed here in the North many
of the leading lawn tennis players are
considering their tournament plans for
the-winter, either indoors or down
South. These Southern expeditions
are becoming more and more popular
with those who can afford the time and
expense involved.
The North and South championship
tournament for men and women at
Plnehurst, N. c., is one of the i'm
portant fixtures Of the winter season,
and the quality of the entry has been
general manager at Pinchurst, has al
ready started to gather his entry list
of players, and several of the most
prominent stars in the East will prob
ably compete for the honors now held
respectively, for men and women, by
lchiya Kumagae and Mrs. Molla
Bjurstedt.
Six weeks before the North and
South event is decided, the annual
Florida state championship Journeys
for men and women, in the last two
weeks OF February, will be played.
A~ieHoiu !NoIiiS WllilamS "a is the
present champion in the mems divi-
sion, and Miss Phyllis Walsh, of Phila-
delphla, holds the women's title. The
Royal Poinciana courts are among the
most picturesque in the country, and
the two weeks of play there are always
looked forward to with pleasureable
anticipation by those who compete.
To turn to sterner things, an error
appeared in these columns on Monday.
relative to the exhibition matches for
devastated France ut the Amackassin
Club of Yonkers. 1t was stated that
Williams had defeated Nathaniel w.
Niles, of Boston, By score Of 6-2,
second set, coming from behind when
Williams led at 80, and squaring the
match. This correction is printed now
in justice to Niles, who was playing
splendid and winning tennis in the
second set.
The asphalt court season will be
under full swing in another couple of
weeks or so, and those who have
hankering for the California type Of
court will have their opportunity to
play on the speedy asphalt surface by
joining the Indoor Tennis Club. with
headquarters in the giant armory OF
the 9Th Coast Artillery, at Kingsbridgc
Road and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx.
The club had ten courts in commits
sion last winter, with room for ten
more, and these will probably be
marked out this winter, if the demand
warrants it. w. H. Pritchard, founder
and backer of the club, expects the
membership list to materially increase
this year, and the chances are better
than even that one of the big sane
toned indoor tournaments will be held
there during the coming season.
1t may not be more than a year or
two before the Californians again make
& bid for the national honors in singles
and doubles and achieve once more
the high place they formerly occupied
in our national tennis circles. There
are half dozen or more young play
ers coming on rapidly in the Golden
Gate State, Phil Neer, national inter
collegiate champion, being the most
prominent one.
Neer has somewhat the same me-
teoric style of play that we used to
gasp at in Lindley Murray when that
young man was raising havoc on East
ern courts. Jim Davies, Wallace Bates,
Mervyn and Elmer Griffin and Edmund
Levy are right behind him, and Miss
Helen Wills, who won the girls ma
tional title this year, is quite the most
startling young player who has come
out of the West in several years.