Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-18
Reach Semi-Final
Stage in Tennis Play
At BrOOkline, Mass.

play in the two women'S natlonal
indoor tennis tournaments in prog
ross on the covered courts of the
Longwood Chicket club progressed
without upset today to the semi final
round. Miss Elizabeth Ryan of San
ia Monica. CAL, and Miss Martha
Bayard Of Short fills, N. j., gained
semi final brackets in the 1925 sing
les championship and will meet on
Friday morning. Tomorrow Mrs.
Marion 2. Jessup, Wilmington, Del,
defending champion, will play Miss
Katherine Gardner Of Cambridge and
Miss Mary X. Browne Of New York
will meet Mrs. j. Dallas C0rbiere,
the winners to meet in the other
semi final.
Four doubles teams won second
round victories that carried them in
the semi-fina round of that tourna-
ment. Mrs. Jessup and Mrs. George
Nv. Wightman, a former champion
ship pair, was one of these. Other
semi finalists are Miss Ryan and Miss
Browne; Mrs. Corbiere and Mrs. Will
! liam Endicott of Boston; Miss Mar
tina Bayard and Miss katherine Car
diner.
In the singles play today Miss
Ryan disposed Of Mrs. Charles G..
Hubbared, runner up last year, g..
GA. Miss Bayard advanced to the
semifinal by So, 6-3 triumph over
Mrs. w. NJ. Sheldon of Boston. .
In the first round Of the mixed
doubles Carl S. Pfaffman Of Boston
and Mrs. Jessup, defending cham
pions, advanced to the second round
by defeating Mr.. and Mrs. A. Butler
1 til, sn%e
The summaries:
Women's national indoor singles,
| third round:
Mis- Elizabeth NJ. Ryan, Santa Mon
lea. Cal, defeated Mrs. Charles j.
Hubbard, Jr.. Boston, CO, ga.
Miss Martha Bayard, Short Hills,
In. j., defeated Mrs. W. NJ. Shedden.
! Boston, 6-2, 6-S.
Women's national indoor doubles,
second round.
Mrs. Marion z. Jessup, Whining
ton, Del, and Mrs. George w. Wight
man, Boston. defeated Mrs. c. J.
Hubbard, Jr, and Miss Margaret
Blake, Boston, 6-3, 4-6. CO.
Miss Elizabeth Ryan and Miss
Mary X. Browne, New York, defeated
Mrs. Frank Godfrey and Miss Edith
Sigourney, Boston, GA, 60.
Mrs. J. Dallas Corbiere and Mrs,
| William Endicott. Boston. defeated
Mrs. B. F. Briggs. New York, and
\ Miss Rosamond Newton, Boston, 6-S,
60.
Miss Martha Bayard and Miss
Katherine Gardner. Cambridge, de-
feated Mrs. George r. Harding and
Mrs. Delmar Leighton, Boston. 6-o,
81.
| Nf;pal .in,1hJac first rO1lnNs
| Earl S. Pfaffman. Boston. and Mrs.
| Jessup defeated Mr.. and Mrs. A. o.
Butler, Boston, rs. rs.
| Johns Nichol and Mrs. j. Hunting
ton Hardwick. Boston. defeated Hor-
ace Taylor and Mrs. S. T. Crawford
Boston, 6-S, As, GA.
| RAYMOND B. Bidwell and Mrs. Cor
biere. Boston, defeated louis Whlte,
Austin. Tex, and Miss Gardner. Sc,
Sc.
Alden Briggs, Brookline. and Miss
3. F. Briggs defeated Thomas E.
Jansen and Miss E. b. Jansen, Wash
| ington, D. c.. 6-1, 6-1. - .
Irving c. Wright, Boston, and Miss
Ryan defeated DR.. G. Colket Gamer
and Mrs. Harding. Boston, 6-1 6,-1.
Jack Whitebeck New York, and
Miss Julia Chaplin, Springfield. won
Won from R. L. Thompson and Mrs
Lester Watson. Boston, by default.
, Arnold w. Jones. Providence. and
Mrs. Hubbard, Boston. defeated
Richmond Skinner and Mrs. Sheldon,
Boston, Ga. GA.
Herbert Shaw and Mrs. ]. L. Brem-
er, Boston, defeated Frank Hartley
/ and Mrs. Paul Sanborn, Boston. 60,
60.
Second round:
| G. Peabody Gardner, Jr.. and Mrs.
! Wightman, Boston, defeated Philip
Lehman and Mrs. E. r. Milton, Bos-
I ton, 60, GA.
Henry r. Gid, Boston, and Miss
| Bayard, defeated Louis Gordon and
Miss Lillian Waterman, 6-1. 6-1.
| William w. Ingraham, Oakland. r.
l., and Mrs. F. H. Godfrey, Boston,
defeated Lawrence o. Pratt and Miss
Dorothy Blodgett. Boston, by default.
Leslie Coleman. Dallas, Tex, and
Miss Blake defeated Josiah Wheel
wright and Mrs. Endicott, Boston,
tn 6-3