The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-02
FOUR SURVIVE IN
MET TENNIS EVENT
Davis and Kinsey of California
and Fred and Frank An
dersOn Advance.
ny SAMUEL J. BRooKMAN.

Two Californians, Willis e. Davis and
ROBERT kinsey. and two Brooklyn
youths. Frank T. and Frederick C. An
derson. remain to dispute the ownership
OF the metropolitan grass court champi-
onship. Play in the title tournament
narrowed down to the quartet mentioned.
on the courts Of the Crescent Athletic
Club yesterday, Davis. Kinsey and Fred
Anderson advancing after three set
matches. Frank Anderson had moved
up the day before and was waiting for
the rest of the field 20 catch up with
him.
To be exact, only Davis and Kim
sey advanced after three set matches.
Fred Anderson did not play quite three
sets. His match was within a point OF
completion and his opponent, John 3.
Gilbert. of the British Davis cup team.
was within point of winning it when
the Englishman decided to default. It
was sportsmanlike move on Gilbert's
part. for he is to sail for England to-
morrow NOR and SO could not play in the
semi-finals. which are to be staged on
Sunday. So Fred Anderson advanced
without decision being reached.
In what proved to be the feature of
the day, Robert Kinsey eliminated S.
howard Voshell by score of So, rs.
6-S. The Californian was hard
pressed to prevent defeat in straight
sets. for Voshell. attacking at the net
and smashing with splendid precision,
was flashing his best tennis early in
the match. He was coming UP in nearly
every rally and frustrating most OF Kin
sey's attempts to drive him back with
lobs or pass him. Kinsey was placing
well and every now and then coming
through with a spectacular shot along
the side lines. He was also covering
lot of ground in the rallies and Voshell
had to put the ball away Clearly to earn
his points.
VoshelI Ties In Final Set.
Just as it looked however, as though
Voshell> was on the road to victory the
fast pace and his persistent net attack
began to show their effects. He began to
lag In the rallies and lose his sureness
or stroke. 1t took his reserve speed
to hold kinsey even for six games in
the third set, but after that he found
the match slipping away from him
rapidly. The points were 112 to 10i in
favor of Kinsey.
Willis e. Davis did not exert himself
any more than he had to in his match
with Anterior Richards. Barring the
last few games of an extra set when he
decided IL was high time TO end the
match, the Californian rarely moved up
10 take advantage of his effective net
game. He contented himself with a
position behind or just inside the base
line. and he had the satisfaction Of
testing his ground strokes thoroughly.
II may be said for Richards, who took
the first set at 6-1, that he played a
sound baseline game. chose his shots
wen and showed good control. When
ever he had to-. however, Davis proved
clearly that he could win his points
quickly. This was evident toward the
close of the match when the Pacific
coast star began to inject more sting
into his srvice and came up to the for
ward court to finish off the rallies. The
score was 4-6, Cd, 6-4, but Davis
won far more comfortably than the score
Indicated
Fred Anderson's speed. great reach
and hard hitting gave Gilbert plenty of
trouble early in their match. Ander-
son took the first set at 60, but it
was not long before the Englishman by
manauvring skifully. varying length
and speed in puzzling style and strok-
ing steadily, outgeneralled the tall
Brooklyn youth and caught up with
him. The second set went TO Gilbert
At 6-3, and while Anderson forced him
hard in the third set, which was 81 in
the Englishmans favor when he re-
tired, he had the better of the exchanges
and played by far the more crafty If
not the more powerful tennis.