New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
Greenwich Annual
Invitation Tennis
Will Open July 20
Special Dispatch to The Tripuu,

EhEEN With, July 8.-The annual
invitation tournament of the Field
Club Will be held on the club courts
on July 20, 21, % and 80. Many of the
foremost players in the country will
be entered in the mems singles and
doubles and women's singles and
doubles. Interest will be centered in
the Greenwich Fletcher to be com
peted for in the mems singles again
this season, to be won three times by
the player. In 1920 Harold Throck-
morton won leg on the trophy and
IN 1921 Howard Voshell won. A dinner
dance for the players will be held at
the club on the evening of July %.
The committee in charge of the tourna-
ment consists of MIR. Walter L..
Fighter, chairman; Mr.. Arthur Du-
bois, Mr. James T. Pell, Mr.. Clement
Cleveland jr., and Mr.. Marshall c..
Bacon.
In the finals of the mixed doubles of
the club tennis tournament played last
Sunday afternoon Mr. Elon II. Hooker
and his daughter, Miss Adelaide
Hooker, beat Mr.. and Mrs. Walter L.
Fighter, 6-1, 60.
Mrs. E. S. Adams and her daughter,
Miss Julie Adams, of Chicago, left
here Wednesday after visit with Mr..
and Mrs. James f. Quan. Miss Adams
will go to Williamstown, where she
has been invited to take part in the
School of Politics, which is being held
there for the second season. David
Drage, of Kansas City, is also spending
brief period with them, but will
leave when his father. Colonel Francis
B. Drage and his sister. have arrived
from England.
Yacht races were held at the Indian
HprhOr Yacht Climb ho nth
with a dinner-dance in the evening
Several golf matches were played at
the Greenwich Country Club and Field
Club during the day.
Mr.. Henry Cowell will present "The
Titles of Manannann," one Of his works
at De Winton, the residence of Mrs
Ernest Thompson Seton, on July IL
1t will be played by Margaret Niko-
loric. The proceeds will be devoted to
the Anna Howard Shaw Memorial
Fund, of which Mrs. Seton is chairman
for Connecticut and Mrs. Emerson r
Newell, of Greenwich, chairman for
Fairfield County.
The engagement of Miss Hazel Alva
of Port Chester, N. Y, to MIR. John
Raymond Spencer, of Winsted, Conn.
and Greenwich, is announced. Mr.
Spencer is the son of Mrs. Eugene
Harlow Spencer, of Winsted.
Society is interested in the recent
announcement of the engagement OF
Miss Katherine Varick Lauder, dsugh-
ter of Mrs. George Lauder jr. to Mr.
Edwin Storts Dewing, son of Mrs
Leonard Dewing, of Hartford. Miss
Lauder attended the Ely School in
Greenwich, and the Shipley School al
Bryn Mawr. Last year she was presi-
dent of the Junior League of the Day
Nursery here. Mr.. Dewing, who was
graduated from Yale in 1921, was in the
Naval Reserve on Commodore Artbu,
Curtiss James's yacht Aloha. No date
has been set for the wedding. Many
prominent persons from New York ane
other places, as we'll as college stu
dents from Yale and Princeton, joined
in extending their congratulations tt
the young couple at the festivitie!
attending the announcement of the en-
gagement here.
The polo game between the Fairfield
Polo Club, of Greenwich, recently or
ganized, and the Essex Troop of thu
1st New Jersey Cavalry, which was tx
have been held on the polo field of the
estate of Robert Law jr. in Port Ches
ter, Tuesday afternoon, had to be post
poned until to-day on account of the
wet grounds. Members of the loca
team are Mr.. William V. C. Ruxton
Colonel Alden Twachtman, Mr.. E
Gerry Snow, Mr.. E. Y. Clauson ant
Mr.. Gordon Cronkhite substitute.
More than 200 guests were regis
tered at the Greenwich Inn over th'
weekend and holiday. Dances wer,
held at The Crossways on Saturday
! Monday and Tuesday evenings, ant
I bathing and tennis were the principa
outdoor features. H. Iwamoto and N
! Yamato, the two Japanese tennis play.
ers, Of New York, entertained large
match. They also played doubles witt
Mr.. Martin Vogel and Mr.. Basil Sal
datenkov, winning the set.