New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
" omen's Title
Tennis Tourney
lo Start Aug. Is
Three Championship Events
Are Scheduled To Be
Held During That Week
By Fred Hawthorne


by the schedule committee Of the
United States Lawn Tennis Associa-
ton that the date for the holdinv of
the women's national mpionships
IN singles and doubles. together sith
the girls national title events, had
been set for the week beginning Au-
gust 10 Will no doubt be greeted with
satisfaction by the women.
: Owing to the fact that the Davis
Cup challenge round matches, sched-
uled for the West Side Tennis Club on
September ., and 5, will occupy q
week usually devoted to regular tour
nament play, it was deemed best TO ad-
vance the date for the women's title
tourney from September, to August.
Even so, the date for the mems national
singles will come almost two weeks
later than usual, beginning on Friday.
September 9, SO that, If the women's
eyegts were held after that, the sched-
uIe committee feared it's success might
be jeopardized.
The dates announced yesterday for
the leading championship tournaments
were as follows:
August 15-West Side Tennis Club.
forest HILLS, L. l.: Women's cham
pionships, in singles and doubles, and
glrts' national singles and doubles.
August 22-Longwood Cricket Club,
Chestnut Hill, Mass: Mems national
doubles pionship and national
mixed doubles championship.
Septem Der z, 3, 5-West Side Ten
mis- Club, Forest Hills; Challenge
round matches of Davis Cup.
September 9-Germantown Cricket
Club, Philadelphia: Mems national
singles championship.
Shifts in Several Dates
The naming of the dates for the wo-
mems title Journeys and the mems
doubles will mean that there will have
to be some shifting about in the dates
Professionally named for several of the
great invitation tournaments, such as
the fixtures at Seabright, Newport and
Southampton. 1t would seem the part
OF wisdom for the schedule committee
to advance the dates for these tourna-
ments week ahead all along the line.
thus bringing the season to close at
about the usual time, instead of string
ing it out until late September.
had suggested this earlier playing
OF the important events that begin in
the latter part of July and extend
through the middle of September, at a
conference of the schedule committee
and tennis writer's, held in this city
see
shat there is now q disposition to fol-
low this line of reasoning.
The committee has done its work
we'll, the schedule having been made
UP with view to bringing the players
into the best condition for the various
emergencies they will have to face on
succeeding weeks. The various nations
that will play in the preliminary Davis
Cup matches in this country have also
been considered, as we'll as the clubs at
Which these tournaments and matches
will be held.
1t is still a question, however.
whether the time intervening between
the playing of the challenge round
Davis Cup matches and the mems ma
t!onal singles is sufficiently long for
the men to get rested UP enough 70 put
them in the best condition for the lat
ter event.
Great Strain on Players
Both these fixtures are tremendous
nervous and physical strains on the
men who Will compete, especially on
our own players. In case the matches
in the Davis Cup series should be- Bit
terly fought, and there should be a
day or two of rain Intervening, that
would extend the international
struggle for a couple of days, the
Americans would probably need more
than the three or four days remaining
before the national singles at German
town.
Placing the Davis Cup matches
full week earlier on the schedule
would remove any such danger of the
contenders for the national honors
going stale on the eve of the PhiIadel-
phia tournament. But perhaps the
committee has found it impossible to
make any further changes in that
direction. and the schedule, as now
presented, forms the best possible ar
rangement.
The 18th Regiment Tennis Club
championship tournament, in classes
A and B, which has been in slow prog
rcss for several weeks, is approaching
its end. Yesterday Frederick C. An.
deraon, the tall youth who performed
so well in tournaments last season, ad-
yanced to the final round by defeating
George Moore in the semi-iinal round
of the Class A singles, by a score Of
St, G--5, after many stirring rallies.
Frank 7. Anderson, Fred's younger
brother, reached into the semi-final
round through his triumph over JAY
Anderson, the sets going at So, 81,
and it may be that the brothers will
meet in the final round for the chief
honors. Harold Moore defeated J. B.
Kuser at 6--3, 6--3, in the semi-final
round of the Class singles, and in
the semi-fnal brackets of the Class A
doubles Arthur Cragin and W. D. Gun
ningham defeated Moore and J. D. Ew-