New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-13
Old Davis Cup
Stars Beaten
BY Invaders
Whitman and Wright and
Larned Lose TO the Ok.
ford Cambridge Players
BY Fred Hawthorne

The team of English collegians from
Oxford and Cambridge universities
went down to Cedarhurst, L. l., yester-
day afternoon and defeated the tennis
team Of the Rockaway Hunt Club by
total Of 7 matches to 8, winning FIVE
cut Of seven singles and two out of
three doubles.
One Of the surprises of the day was
the defeat of Malcolm D. Whitman,
the former national champion and
Davis Cup player, by R. r. Barbour, of
the English forces. 1t was generally
believed before the men cook the court
that Whitman's great experiences would
pull him through, but the collegian
won at IS. "a, IS, with Whit
man firing palpably toward the end.
Another surprise came in the defeat
by Hopkins and Barbour Of Oxford
Cambridge, the sets going at IS,
IS, 7-5. In the singles Wright was
more successful defeating H. D. Nc
Carthy at Go, 81.
The summaries:
Singles-R. B. Barbour tox.-cam.) de-
feated Malcolm D. Whitman (R. H. c..
g 60 defeated feat IN n D se Mocafth wFsss
60. 81: Edwin P. Larned Or. II. CO
defeated Clark Hopkins cox cam.). 81.
T. NJ. Dixon (ox-caIn.) defeated James
a5 CA s. defeated S A. g. Ems r. 4 H0C cry
cam3 defeated Seton Porter n. H. 6.
81, TT, 6-2.
Doubles-whitman and Hill (R- II. CD
defeated Mccarthy and Dixon (ox.-cam.).
defeated a0 WIsht and and Ha s59sa
Lowry (Ox.-Cam.) defeated Porter and r.
NJ. Miles Or. H. c.. 81. Is. Ga.
Washburn Defeats Mahan
One match was played yesterday in
the annual invitation tournament of
Cove, Watson nj. Washburn defeating
Lyle E. Mahan by score of Is, GO,
GO in the semi-final round. Vincent
Richards and Dean Mathey were
scheduled to play in the fourth round,
but Richards is now playing in the
Western championship in Indianapolis,
Sc the committee had TO postpone thss,
match. How long, oh Lord, how long?
These long moonlight nights are well
coined by the modern tennis player,
VINO Simply T6V6iS III inc COOiCn anu
quietness of it all. 1t has now become
quite the correct thing" 10 start
tournaments around o'clock and end
up about $3.50 in the evening To
"kill" lob with the moonlight direct
ly in your eyes is considerable accom-
plishment. Try it.
The annual Long Island champions
ship tourney on the Woodmere Club
courts yesterday evening brought two,
players into the round before the semi,
final and also marked the first appear,
ance of Phil Neer and James Davies,
the California collegians. Neer won
two matches, showing a strong service,
but Davies was defeated, at SIS,
a, 60, by Joseph w. Fox. Carl
Joliffe administered a decisive defeat
t, Allen Behr, at 6-1, CO, in the
second round.
The summarizes:
First round-J: W. Fox defeated James
Davies, Sc. IS. 60; Phil Neer defeat
ed w. H. Ruxton. 63. Ga.
Second .s yound1DT william Rosenbaurn
SIS; Ben Letson defeated G. S Groesbeck.
GO. e--4; Phil Neer defeated J. P. Stock
ton, 7--5. SIS; Harold Swain defeated c. 5
II. Marshall, ct, e-S; Paul Martin de-.
Jcliffe defeated Allen Behr. 6--1. So; j.
p. Nickinow won from Charles Orr, by
default; J. J.. Pollard won from Alex.
i,er. by defauit' a. G. Trems si won from
defeated Dupuy Greer Ga. FL.
Third round-Robert Gilmore defeated
e. w. Peaslee. 60, 3-6. 6-4; Pollard s.
defeated Nickinow. Ga. 60.