The New York herald., 1922-08-09
Willis Davis, Howard Kinsey
and Phil Neer Advance
Shimizu Wins Easily.


Special Dispatch to THE New YoRK HERAEp.
SOUTHAMPTON, N. ", Aug. 8--Of the
tennis players seeded into the invitation
draw at the meadow Club two dropped
out to-day and one OF them was the
Southampton trophy holder. Willis Il.
Davis. The Californian fell before the
steadiness and cunning of Leonard
Beekman, 15-13, CO, while the vet
eran s. Howard Voshell failed to keep
up the pace set by young Carl Fischer
and succumbed In three sets. 3-6, 6--2,
6--2.
Four other players moved up into the
round before the semi-finals. Vincent
Richards. II. T. Hunter. Howard Kinsey
and Seiichiro Kashio, with Shimizu.
Kelleher Robert Kinsey and Philip Neer
are left to fight 1t out for the remaining
brackets.
Davis, playing on the site of his ia
nous victories over Norman Brookes,
Richards and other stars, found to-day
that his equipment was not quite up to
the versatile and brainy game which
the former Princeton captain produced
as II by magic. Beekman has seldom
II ever played better tennis, command
ing variety Of pace and length which
had Davis digging for the ball all over
the turf.
This turf. incidentally. was in re-
markably good shape, considering that
play started only twenty minutes after
a heavy fall OF rain.
Beekman kept the advantage Of the
service right through the first set, which
recalled the historic Brookes Mclaughlin
match. except for the fact that this time
the heavy hitter lost. 1t was noticeable
after the games had reached deuce that
Davis was counting with more difficulty
than Beekman on his delivery and he
seemed lost at 12-13 with the score
4Dg 90 against him. great
~ heavy smashing and serving,
however, saved this game, only to
D...., up similar situation two games
later.
Davis Displays Courage.
This time also Davis fought with rare
courage. but after pulling back to deuce
twice. he went down at 1913 on pair
Of errors.
This practically decided the match.
Beekman continued TO play carefully and
accurately. and with the opposing err
rors mounting In his favor he quickly
ran to a lead of SO. Here Davis man
aged TO win a service game and then
a
OF stubborn resistance.
But his own delivery again failed him,
double fault and fiubbed smash help
ing TO put him In the hole at 1910. He
took ono more point with a net topping
drive. but his next backhander failed 10
clear the barrier and II was all over
at 6--o.
Carl Fischer surprised the gallery with
his splendid comeback after dropping the
first set. 6--3. He had his veteran rival
fairly weary after this preliminary ses-
sion of free hitting and went after the
second with fine display OF confident
tennis, breaking through twice for Ga
decision.
The youngster jumped right into the
rubber with the same brand OF fast and
accurate racquet work, and had a lead
OF 30 and Al before voshcll knew
what was happening. The margin went
TO 5--1 IN Fischer's favor when voshcIl
lost another service with n weak shot
into the net. Leading at 40--15 on
what should have been the final strug-
gle. the winner lost four straight points
for the game. two OF them on self-con-
sclous double faults. Then he recoy-
cred control OF himself and wreaked
poetic vengeance by smashing through
the dreaded southpaw service once
moro. Three beautiful shots put him
into winning position, and a gentle
dewdrop left Voshel anchored far
astern with a 6--2 score for finish.
Richards, Hunter and Kashio had no
great difficulty In winning their places.
In the morning play Jim Davies had
wonderful chance to carry Howard
kinsey TO the limit when he led, al
and 5--2. In their opening set. He had
reached this winning lead with some
oil IA tt.er 1fx,sr xstft ngan
placed lob. which Kinsey. netted. after
slipping on the previous point. going
after a fast one.
Concedng Kinsey his service. the col
legian threw away his real opportunity
whon he went into cautious panic that
produced two successive double faults.
kinsey then Iooped a rainbow drive
over his opponents head and took the
crucial game on a wild vollcy. The set
finally went to Kinsey. 7---5. when
Davies suffered another service break
through unsteadiness ovcyhead. and sue
cumbcd to series OF sharp placements
In the corners.
The loser did not give up hope, but
broke through Immediately after losing
his own service. He went down again,
however, after misjudging a lob which
dropped on his base line., and Kinsey
quickly lifted his lead to Ga. Davies
got ono more game after some spectacu-
lar rallies, In which both boys worked
their heads off. but accepted defeat at
6--4 with an error after Kinsey's timely
smash had saved a tense situation.
Many Chances for bowman.
Herbert Bowman had every chance to
win his opening set against Phil Necr,
breaking through no less than four
times after the games had gone. to
deuce. He seemed content, however. TO
keep the westerner on the run and neg
iected the forcing shots which might
have brought him through on his own
service.
Neer finally won the set at i2---io