Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-21
Women NET STARS
REACH SEMEF|NALS.
Miss Thayer Wins Match at
wilmington Over Miss White
man, Baltimore, e;a, e-2
MRS. NEWHALL VICTOR
Ry SPICK HALL

,,,u,r;,uton, Del, June 2l.-flay III
Nnn,an's lawn tennis tournament
the W tSn championship of Delaware
lor ,hod the esmi final round today Oh
Teacnt s turf courts OF the Mllming.9n
tTn,trv tne Club. Miss kathsrine Haru
.sr Westsidc Tennis Cluo, met Miss ass
Flsanor Cottman, OF Baitimore; oon ~ ,no
rnner bracket. Later IN tnE a delnhia
MISS mTb Sinb was to meet Mrs. w. L.
Srickeii Germantown Cricket Ciub'
Newnsaff, Miss Virginia Carpenter'
wnS,.Tsinbia wnS Cricket Club, 3-O, w.
6.L,, rornins Miss Gardner de.
E ms Miss Peggy Ferguson, Philadel-
feate' Cricket Club, in straight sets;
phia ea and Miss Cottman trimmed
70, 20, 11sborah Seal, Merton, 6-3, g..
MISS ss,ID Thaver reached the semi -finais
M,SS Mtnstina Mrs. f. B. Whiteman, Bal
nMSa.' p,av in the mems and women :
,.,hiss began this afternoon. The mixed
IouSl souSles will be started tomorrow.
Peter II. Wright. referee OF Mie
tournament, and Paul Nowlanh' chat-
po"n r Of the Tennis Committee at tne
country club, are rceling OH the events
In excellent style. and 1t Is certain thhs ~
with good weather the hnals VIII o1
nlayed on Friday and chulienSe rouhu
matches on Saturday.
.n,,obIe particularly in view of the
sant ibat both mems ard women
catches had to be staged. the former
~ tbe afternoon and the latter in the
morning. A. , o.,,uuod
when Miss Phyllis Walsh, of Merton,
was unexpectedly eliminated by Miss
paoov Ferguson, of the Philadelphia
rr;cEct Club. in the second round. The
score wns T-5, 8-1. 1t was expected
mat Miss Walsh would Mt least reach
the final round and many believed that
she would be the winner of the tourna-
ment. However, she was not up to her
usual form and appeared to be suffer
ing from lack of practice. She at
tempted to take the net against Miss
Ferguson and did so often, but she
did not volley with her usual precision
with the result that she melted many
easy chances and drove far past the
base line on numerous occasions when
she tried her overhead smash, which,
asa rule, is very accurate and speedy.
Miss Sewell Beaten
MISS IleleH Se"ell, VI huntington
Valley, who won the Maryland State
tournament last year at Baltimore. was
beaten in the second round yesterday
by Miss Eleanor Cottman, Of Balti-
more. The scores were G-3., 6-3.
Miss Sewell has not done as much
playing as usual. and her defeat was
somewhat in the nature Of an upset,
although she was not expected to go
as far in the tournament as Miss
Walsh. In the first round Miss Sewell
trimmed Miss Jacquelinc Green, Of
Merton. in straight sets, 10, 6-4.
Mrs. W. =. Ncwhall, the Germantown
Cricket Club left handler. played ex-
cellent tennis when she defeated Miss
Elizabeth Atherton, Baltimore, in
straight sets. 6-2, 8-2.
Miss Virginia, Carpenter, who re-
Gently won all Of the girls events at
mated clubmate, Miss Mary Porcher,
80 6.1. Miss Carpenter is playing
far better than ever, and it would not
be surprising to see her go far in many
Of the tournaments this Summer.
There were no real upscts in the
mems matches, although some Of tho
scores were rather surprising. One
match that took n queer tn II was that
in which Ted Edwards. Of Merton. de-
feated Ernest French. 20, Ga, 90.
French played unusually well, and in
the first set he hGd Edwards on the run
3 throughout. Edwards was wild at the
beginning, but later he steadied down,
and when the second set began he had
his strokes working perfectly, and
French didn't have chance after that.
The many college men in the tour
nament have lent decided academic air
to the meeting. Wallace Bates and
Edmund Levy, the two Californians
who were at Merton for the lntercolle-
gates and also in the Delaware tour
nament, won their matches ycstcr.
day in decisive fashion. Levy has
improved considerably over last season.
He is much steadier,s and it is likely
that he will put up hard fight to
reach the semi finals at least. Levy s
best match of the day was with Edward
Z; Cassard, of the Philadelphia Cricket
Club. Cassard put up a rattling good
battle, much better than 1t was be-
heved he could do. However. he ulti
mately lost by the close scores of 7-5
l0.S. Cassard played excellently at the
net and he had his service working
very well.