New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
Tennis and Yacht
Competitions Open
AT Newport To-day
Advance Guard of Visitors
Entertained at II un d
of Week End Affairs;
Mrs. Wilson Gives Dance
Spocial Dispatch to The Tribune

Specict Dispatch to The Tribune
! NEWPORT, July 31.-With the
yachtsmen of the New York Yacht Club
arriving on Saturday and guests pour
ing in for the yachting and tennis this
week there was great round of enter
tanning over the week end.
Tomorrow will see the openinc Of
the invitation lawn tennis tournament
at the Casino, in which most of the
country's best players Will appear. and
also the start of the New York Yacht
Club races. The Aston Cup races will
! be held tomorrow, the Kings Cup on
Tuesday and there will be special
race on Wednesday for the fifty, forty
and thirty footers for prizes offered by
the Newport Yacht Racing Association
One Of the largest dinner parties of
the week end was given by M ami
Mrs. }. Francis a. Clark. Mrs. Richard
I. Wilson gave a dance in honor of her
daughters, Misses Mary and Louisa
Wilson. A considerable number Of the
guests at dinners in the colony went
later to the dance, which was held at
Indian House, Mrs. Wilson'S estate in
Mddletown. The dinner hosts and
hostesses Saturday evening included
Mr.. and Mrs. William F. Whitehouse
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Tangeman,
Mr.. and Mrs, Robert Walton Goelet,
Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent Aston, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stuart Duncan, Mrs. Hugh D.
Auchincloss, Mrs. Andrew NJ. Moreland
and Mr.. and Mrs Edward j. Berwind.
c. W. Dolan Gives Dinner
prominent dinner host this evening,
CIV -: L.,
bellevue Avenue home. Mrs. William
and Miss Louise Scott and Mrs. Fred
X. Pearson were other luncheon host
esses.
Mrs. Williams Burden and George H..
Widener won the mixed 1oursome
eighteen-hoie medal play handicap at
the Country Club Saturday, prizes for
which had been offered by Mrs. J..
Francis A. Clark. The net score of the
winners was 70. Eighteen couples
competed, the others being Miss Flor
ence Loew and A G. Wellman, Mrs.
M. Van Beuren and G. B. Judge, Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Livingston, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Bull, Mrs. Irwin B. Laugh
lin and j. Francis A. Clark, Mrs. Louis
Iselin and Irwin B. Laughlin, Mrs.
George D. Widener and Paulding Fos-
dick, Mrs. King Carley and James w.
Barney, Mrs. Jay Gould and William
Goadby Loew, Mrs. M. f. Goodwin and
Henry O.. Havemeyer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Stuart Duncan, Miss Muriel Wander
bilt and Roderick Terry jr., Mr.. and
Mrs. Oliver Perrin, Mrs. Hugh D..
Auchincloss and Randolph Hurry, Mrs.
". B. James and Oliver Gould Jen-
nings, Mrs. Henry P Russell and w.
~ to I'll D,I
nngs and Lawrence Jennings.
The Casino on Saturday had large
gathering, there being besides big
force of members of the summer col
ony many who were guests. Kermit
Roosevelt, guest on one OF the yachts
in the harbcr, was among the gathering.
Others were James II. Barney, of New
York, guest of William Woodward;
Oliver Perrin, A. II. Barney, Mrs. John
r. Fell and John Niece, guests of
Clarence w. Dolan; Mrs. Henry P. Rus
sell, house guest of Mrs. Vincent
Aston; Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Douglas,
Miss Rebecca Smith and James Grew,
of New York, guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Curtiss James; Lord Burghurst,
of London. also a guest Of Mr.. and Mrs.
James; John II. Prentice, of New York
visiting Grafton D. Gushing; II. Carey
Morgan, a guest OF Milton S. Barger;
Frank Huntington, visiting is brother
ir-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent
&stor: William W. Hoffman, F. G. Girls
void, W. Ranck, r. P. Perkins, James
Stewart Cushman. Richard S. Galloway,
all of New York, and Miss Muriel Van
derbilt, visiting Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Goadby Loew.
Miss Eleanora Sears, the we'll known
society sportswoman, will be the guest
Of Mrs. Oliver II. P. Belmont during the
tennis tournament.
Many Guests at Hotels
Major Lorilard Spencer is at the
Muenchinger King after a fight from
Southport, l.. L., Saturday morning in
the flying boat Of Mr.. Manners, of New
York. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph f. Widener
arrived there this evening for a visit
Mrs. William 3. Caperton and Miss
Marguerite Caperton have taken apart
ments there and will arrive for tennis
week.
At the Hill Top Inn are Mrs. II. O.
Thompson, of New York; Victor George.
Of New York; Mr.. and Mrs: Leroy sar-
gent. of New Rochelle; Miss Florence
Walsh, of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. T. ".
Dawson jr., of Forest Hills; Mr.. and
Mrs. K. r. Browning, of New Rochelle;
Mr.: and Mrs. Charles Brown and Mr..
and Mrs. +. A. Langmuir, of Toronto;
Major Warburton and Miss Warburtou.
Mr.. and Mrs. Terrence Alexander. MI
and Mrs. Howard Merrill, Mr. and Mrs.
v Il. Myer, OF New York, and Mr.. and
Mrs. 5. A. N. Battazzi, of West
bury, L. I.
= At the Newclifs are Mr.. and Mrs. V.
Prettyman. Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Elliott
Harold Seton and A. M. Moses, of New
York; Kent r. Rankliffe, w. M. Arms.
Leach E. Harris, Norman f. Went
worth and w. A. Kelly, of Boston; H.
I. Metzgar and John G. Metzgar, of
Red Bank, N. j., Mr.. and Mrs. George
Fredericks, Miss e. Booth. Miss F.
Dean and Joseph Coots, of Oakland,
Cal; Pr. and Mrs. E. E, Montgomery,
OF rhlladelphla, and Mr.. and Mrs. w.
S. Elliott, of New York.
Yac!,tsnien at Newport