New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
Il avorites Win
Easy Victories
In Tennis Meet
Tilden and voshell Simply
Toy With Opponents in
Opening at Providence
By Fred Hawthorne

PROVIDENCE, r. l., July ia
wonderfully we'll balanced field Of
seventy-six competitors began play
this afternoon in the annual Rhode
Island state championship singles
lawn tennis tournament for men. on
the courts of the Agawam Hunt Club.
BY the time the last match had been
marked upon the board there were
Just th1rty-three survivors in the
draw.
Any tournament that can boast q
worlds champion, n national cham
pion, former national champions, and
half dozen varieties of title holder in
addition to the two greatest players
ever sent out from Japan, does not
feel any acute need for boosting. For
that reason the mention Of half
dozen or more of the leading PLAYERS
IN the upper and lower halves at
Agawam to-day will speak more elo-
quently of the quality of competition
than any words of mine.
There is William T. Tilden I'd, Of
providence, holder of both hard and
turf court worlds championships in
the singles, in the lower section, and
on the same side are Charles S. Gar
land, of Pittsburgh, an International
the Japanese Davis Cup team and run
ner-up to Tilden last year for the
worlds turf court ttle; S. Howard
yoshell, former national indoor cham
plon and conqueror of Shimidzu at
greenwich last Sunday; Watson M.
Washburn, of New York, member
OF the last Davis Cup team; Samuel
Hardy, of New York, captain of that
team; Edmund Levy, Of California,
one of the meteoric service school, and
young Arnold Jones, Of this mans
town, who played with Tilden in the
doubles at Wimbledon last month.
Vincent Richards Ready
IN the upper section are Vincent
Richards. of Yonkers, N. Y, national
Junior, metropolitan, eastern New York
and Western champion, who has not
lost set this year in tournament play;
wins r. Davis, Of California, central
California champion, and Richard Nor
RS Williams I'd, of Longwood, former
lnternationalist and twice holder Of the
national title.
Kumagae was drawn in this half, too.
but he has decided to confine his efforts
this week to the doubles. where he will
pair with Shimidzu. There was nothing
IN the nature of an upset during this
opening day of play, all the big favor
ties performing up to expectations.
Niles, H. G. Mccarthy, of the Oxford
Cambridge English college team, and
young Charles M. Wood jr., of New
York, former national boy champion,
went out bracket ahead of the re-
mainder of the field when they gained
places in the fourth round.
The mems doubles will begin to-mor-
row afternoon and the women's singles
OF oto
from now on every day will be filled
to capacity with action, with womens
doubles and mixed doubles to come.
Personally Conducted
This event on the historic turf at
Bill' Tilden's personally conducted
tournament, for it is the king
Of players himself who is respon-
sible for the remarkably high quality
Of entries. The triple champion is
managing the tournament actively, as
signing the matches, announcing to the
gallery in the stands each attraction as
the men take the courts, and handling
the other myriad duties that always
crop up.
l think myself that Tilden is at
acting as manager. His face is a bitt
less drawn to-day than when he landed
from England last week, but he certain
ly is not carrying around an ounce of
superfluous flesh, and the real rigors
of the season lie ahead of him within
the next six weeks.
"Big Bill" did not show many signs
of approaching staleness, it is true, in
his two matches to-day. First he
polished off the hard working r. B.
Weeden, local player, by score of
6-3, 60, and then he eliminated j.
Brooks Fenno of Harvard University
at Ga, So. In neither match did the