The New York herald., 1922-07-18
Girls Begin Tennis
Matches for Cup
at Southampton
Trophy Given Annually by
Lyttleton Fox-Mind
Reader for Fair.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW York HERALD.
SOUTHAMPTON, n. Y. July 17.-Com-
petition for the Fox cup began to-day
on the courts of the Meadow Club. the
entrants. all girls, being less than 10
years old. The cup. presented annually
by Mr.. Lyttleton Fox, becomes each
year the property of the winner.
The entrants for the present competi-
ton are Misses Margaret Dunno, Alike
Walker. Constance and Cathleen Fox,
Mildred Tilton. Theodore and Lois Bar
stow. Carol Mulford. Caroline Ryan.
Mary Alice Waller. Polly Potter.
Frances Robbins, Mildred Lee. Pauline
Dodge and Nancy Fincke.
Prizes for the mixed foursome played
Sunday afternoon at the Shinnecock
Hills Golf Club were awarded as fol-
lows: First, Miss Florence Earle
Johnson and Mr.. Daniel Grant second.
Miss Helen Lee and Mr.. Lawrence Van
Ingen. The third prize was won by
Miss Clara Lee. but there was no man
paired with her. The prizes. desk
clocks and cigarette cases. were pre-
sented by Mrs. p. A. Valentine.
Prof. Reese to Aid Street Fair.
Many novel features will be intro
duced at the forthcoming street fair on
August 4 for the benefit of the South
a.mpton Hospital. Probably none will be
of greater interest than the appearance
OF the famous mind reader. Prof Bert
Feese. who will donate his services.
Prof. Reese's reputation is interna-
tional and it is a matter Of record that
when he was in Bad Kissingen on Au-
gust g. 1913. he had a seance with the
German Crown Prince whom he told
of the coming of the great war and cor
rectly predicted the length of its dura-
ton The wizardry in his reading OF
minds has baffled such world famed
scientists as Thomas A. Edison, DIR.
William Hanna Thomson, brain spe-
cialist, and the late DR.. Hugo Munster
berg, psychologist.
Mr.. Edison was a member Of dinner
party at which Prof. Reese performed
some Of his feats. telling one man what
he had eaten for breakfast that day.
another the name Of his first tutor and
another the title of a book he had been
reading. Mr.. Edison became enthus-
lastic when Prof. Reese told him the
name of a rare chemical which he had
been using for three days in secret ex-
periments. DR.. Thomson, a distrustful
skeptic to whom Mr.. Edison had sent
Prof. Reese, admitted his singular power
in answering questions written on slips
of paper and inclosed In envelopes.
Hugo Munsterberg. then professor Of
psychology at Harvard University
wrote to Reese that he desired to bring
his case in systematic way before the
entire world.
Mrs. Charles e. Mitchell. whose hus-
band is president of the National City
Bank of New York, is at the head Of the
committee for this attraction of the fair
and assisting her will be Mrs. Oren Root
and Mrs. Elihu Root. Jr. 1t will be
necessary to make appointments in ad-
vance for readings, either written or by
telephone. with Mrs. Mitchell. which will
be made in the order of application. Mrs.
Mitchell's telephone is Southampton 5S9.
Notes of Resort.
Mr.. worthinston Davis. who was at
the Southampton Club for a few days,
has returned to New York. Mr.. Sylvio
Villa, who had been there for the last
month, to-day took possession of the
lodge at the Borrowe place in Shinne-
cock Hills.
Mrs. Henry e. Coe has sent out invita-
tions to her friends in Southampton and
vicinity for an exhibition and sale under
the auspices Of the Guild OF Needle and
Bobbn Crafts, to be held at the Apple
trees on Wednesday afternoon. The
exhibition will include needlework made
from rare old designs in this country by
American, Italian Bohemian. Russian
and Ukrainan needlewomen. The guild
was founded by the Needle and Bobbin
Club and the PEOPLES Institute, of which
Mrs. Herbert c. Hoover Is honorary
president and Mrs. Cornelius ]. Sullivan
president. Among members of the
auxiliary board are Mines. John White
Alexander. William Redmont Cross,
George Draper. Roland l.. Redmond and
Richard NJ. Hoe. Tea will be served
at 5.
Members of the colony interested in
the French language met this afternoon
at the invitation of Samuel l.. Parrish
in Memorial Hall to hear Prof. Emile
Villemin of New York and Paris deliver
an address on the French revolution of
1889 as compared with the revolution
of to-day in Russia. After the address
Miss Grace Freeman played violin solos,
accompanied at the piano by Archibald
Robinson.
Mr.. Angler 3. Duke gave a dinner
might at Sandhurst.
----
AMERUCANS IN PARIS.