New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-08

among the CoInpSekAOio AiS 'AhNNhS'
Richards, national doubles champion
with Big Bill" Tilden and candidate
for this years Davis Cup doubles
team; Zenzo Shimizu. OF Japan, great
est Of the japanese players now in this
country: Willis Davis, Of California,
winner of the Meadow Club tourna-
ment last year and first ten man;
s. Howard yoshelI, No. on the rating
list: Francis T. Hunter, conqueror OF
Gerald Patterson last week at Sea-
bright; the Kinsey brothers, of Cali
fornia, Pacific Coast doubles cham
pions and strong contenders for the
national doubles championship, and
Seiichiro Kashio, of Japan, member of
that country's Davis Cup team last
year.
The eight men / have mentioned
above are Seeded" in the draw,
Hunter. Robert Kinsev, Willis Davis
and Shimizu being located in the
upper half, while Richards, Howard
Kinsey, Voshell and Kashio are to be
found in the lower section. With every
man playing up TO his tournament rec
ords, this should bring these eight
into the round before the semi-fnal,
which DR.. Walter L. Niles, referee of
the tournament, plans to reach tomor
row afternoon.
Richards Among the Missing
This was getaway day. and, as usual,
some of the stars did not show up in
time TO play their opening matches,
owing to various causes. Young Rich
ards, who with Willis Davis and Wat
son M. Washburn, has won leg on
the Meadow Club singles challenge
bowl, was among the missing when
play began.
Richards had intended motoring
down from New York, but trouble de-
veloped at the start with the car
buretor, and after trying every con-
eeiyable method of making the machine
go Richards abandoned hope, hitched
the thing to a post and telephoned
Lyttleton Fox, chairman of the tourna-
ment committee, that he would be down
on the late afternoon train. He ar
rived shortly before dusk, and will
play his second round match to-mor-
row morning, Elon P. Hooker, his OPP
ponent in the first round, having gra-
ciously defaulted
1t was Richards, then the cup holder,
whom big Willis Davis defeated in the
final round match on these courts last
year. The Californian is bent on win
ming his second leg on the trophy
while Richards remained out of the
Seabright tourney so as to be on edge
for the Meadow Clubs event Rich
ards is keen to reverse the result of
his last years meeting with the man
from the Pacific Coast.
Hunter, whose sensational victory
over Patterson, the worlds cham
pion," came as stunning surprise to
the world of tennis. was another who
was not on hand this afternoon. The
mighty hitter, however, had drawn a
bye in the first round so he will be
level with the field when play begins
tomorrow.
Davis Is Handicapped
Davis was somewhat handicapped in
his first round match to-day against
little Charles Wood, of New York, for
mer national boy chaspion. Willis
had intrusted his tennis clothes and
shoes to Phil Neer, of California, but
Neer missed the morning train and
together with Davis's playing equip
rnent, was so late in arriving that the
Californian had to play in borrowed
clothes and smooth, rubber-sole shoes
and with a strange racquet
In the first set Davis won his points
mostly on sheer speed and hard hit
ting, particularly on his railroad"
service, which little Wood found diff
Guilty in handling at all. Davis won
the opening set at 81, but in the
second he encountered far more
trouble in overcrowding his midget
rival. Wood, who gained the title Of
Giant Killer as a result of the
spirited opposition he put up against
Tilden in the Agawam Hunt tourna-
in play off the Californian's powerful
service, and, doing this, he fairly held
his own with Davis when it came to
ground strokes and volleying.
Davis, afraid to take too many
chances on the slippery courts because
Of his lack of spikes, was unable to
reach many of young Woods place
shots, and the latter attacked his big
opponents baekhand with considerable
success, so much SO, that he fought to
b--all before Davis could break
through in the eleventh game and then
take his own severe delivery in the
twelfth and final game
A strong wind was blowing in across
the courts from the ocean all after
noon, and this made lobbing a hazard
Gus experiment. Even a moderately
stroked drive was distinguished by the
erratic behavior Of the ball, so that
most of the players were lacking IN
control. Even so great base liner as
Shimizu, whose reputation for steadi-
ness Is proverbial, had trouble at times
sn controlling his shots.
shimizu Easy Victor
The little Japanese, however, had
matters all his own way in defeating
J. Hopkins, q local man, taking the
match in straight sets at Go, 6--3.
Hopkins made his best showing in the
second set, but Shimizu held him safe
all the way. largely by reason Of his
accuracy in passing his opponent down
the side lines.
voshell made quick finish against
Perry Pease, winning by a score Of
So, 60. Voshell did not hesitate to
close in at the net position TO finish
of his points on the volley or by Sc
we're overhead play, once he had forced
the openings.
Robert Kinsey took matters easy
against John Mcguire, the sets going
at 81, So, as the Californian made
clever use Of sliced and chopped strokes
from back court. Mcguire found it al
most impossible to scoop the ball up
from the soft surface and Kinsey
ended the match quickly.
Howard Kinsey eliminated the vet
eran A. ]. Gore, of Baltimore. by a
score of 60, Go, like his brother
making almost constant use of a chop
on his ground strokes and slice on
his volleying shots. His control was
50 good that Gore was continually be-
ing caught out Of position by placed
shots close to the liness
John Whitbeck, of Loomis Institute,
Conn, winner Of both the Yale and