Evening journal., 1921-06-20
STARS FLASH IN
TENNIS TOURNEY
Begun Today at
Country Club, With
Doubles Tomorrow
MANY SOCIAL EVENTS
TO FEATURE MEET

with the annual tennis tournament
for the Delaware State championship
as the center of attraction, the Will
mington Country Club will be the
scene of much activity this week.
The tennis tourney opened this morn
ing, the first round of the women's
singles being the initial number. The
first round of the mems singles will
be played this Afternoon.
The doubles end of the tourney
will be started tomorrow with the
women's events in the morning and
the mems events in the afternoon.
The mixed doubles will commence
late Wednesday. The contestants
will play on through the various
rounds with the semi-nnals and finals
at the end of the week.
The womens invitation handicap
golf tournament medal play, will
be played tomorrow. pairings, times
of starting and handicaps being
published elsewhere in this issue.
A dinner-dance IN honor of the
visiting golfsts. tennis players and
those who came here to attend and
witness the events, will be held at
the clubhouse tonight. The guests
will be entertained at the homes of
members of the club at various
functions during the week.
Virtually all of the best tennis
stars in the east are entered in the
tournament.
Among them are many of the col
lege players, who will compete in
the Intercollegiate at the Merton
Cricket Club, Philadelphia, next
week.
An innovation this year is the
combining of the mems tournament
with the women's, which heretofore
have been staged at different times.
The appearance of Philip Near AMI
Jim Davies, the LELAND Stanford
University players, from the Far
West, is looked forward to with
much interest, as the Golden Gate
pair are reputed to be strong players.
Other collegiate players entered
are Morris Duane. Harvard; Andy
Morgan. Penn; Joe Werner and f. T.
Herndon. Princeton; Wallace Bates
and Edmund Levy, University Of
California, and Ehret Howell. Of
Lafayette. Dean Mathey, Ichiya
Kumagae and Howard Voshen, Of
New York. intend to compete, while
in the women's events there are a
number of nationally known stars
taking part in both the singles and
doubles.
Nearly all Of the titleholders who
won last season are here to defend.
This is challenge tournament,
consequently the 1920 victors do not
have to appear on the scene until
the final day to meet the winners Of
this years tournament.
Last years singles winners, Dean
/ Mathey, and Mrs. J. b. Jessup, Will
mington, formerly Miss Marion lin
derstein, Of Boston. will defend.
Wallace +. Johnson, Pennsylvania
! singles and doubles champion, will
defend the doubles here with his
1920 partner. Stanley W. Pearson.
Last year Mrs. Jessup won the dou-
bles with Miss Edith Sigourney, a
Longwood clubmate. Miss Sigour-
ney is now with the American play
ers in Great Britain; consequently
the women's doubles tournament
winners will not have to play a
challenge round.
While the Wilmington entry list is
not as large as some of the nearby
Journeys the playing calibre is con-
| siderably higher Nearly all of the
/ Philadelphia women stars started
this morning in the first or second
rounds. The list included Mrs. NJ
b. HUFF, Middle States champion;
Mrs. Gilbert A. Harvey, Maryland
champion; Miss Helen Sewell, 1926
Maryland champion; Miss Phyllis
Walsh, runner-up in the Bennsyl.
vanla State tournament and double,
winner of that event with Miss Ann,
b. Townsend, Miss Mildred Willard
runner-up in the Maryland tourna
ment and a number of others.
Last year the competition in th'
Delaware tournament was very keeI
in both the mems and women's tour
naments. Dean Mathy played hi
best tennis of the season when h,
defeated Wallace Johnson in tn
finales. Ga, GA, 1-6. ga. There wa
no challenge round because r. n
williams. who won in 1919, wa
abroad with the Davis Cup team. Il
the final round Of the doubles a grea
match was staged when johnson
beat Joe and Alex Thayer, 6-3. SO
2-6, SO, 81. The 1919 champion
failed to appear for the challeng'
round.
Mrs. Jessup won the finals in sin
giles and then defeated Miss Anni
b. Townsend in the challenge round
6-1 Us.