Evening star., 1929-07-03
MUCH fine TALENT
BROUGHT TO LIGHT
Seligson First to Lose Title
by DefauIted Match in
History of Game.
BY VINCENT RICHARDS.

|HE forty-fourth tournament for
the intercollegiate tennis cham
pionship at Philadelphia was
one of the best in years. 1t was
an open" affair from the start,
with half dozen crack players all Sc
riously in the running, and the fact
that Berkeley Bell, University of Texas,
won over the 106 other players should
be great boom to the game in Texas.
Instead of saying LOG other players l
should have said los, for one man who
was in the championship was forced
out in the semi-hpalS This was Julius
Seligson of Lehigh, the defending
champion. Because he thought two
hour downpour would make play i'm
possible, and so left the club, Seligson
was defaulted in his match with Bell
1t was a tough break for the New
York lad. / never heard of an instance
of this kind before, where a champion
had his title taken away from him,
though if remember right Fred Alex
ander was once defaulted after an
argument with tournament officials.
Could Have Been Avoided.
Seligson showed bad judgment in not
calling up the club to find If there
would be any play, but 1t seems to me
that as long as the doubles had to be
put over another day they might have
stretched a point under the circum-
stances and put over his singles match
also.
A happening of this sort always
leaves a bad taste in the mouth and
makes the winner of tournament feel
he has been cheated of part of the
glory that should have gone to him for
his victory. So feel sorry for Bell 9s
we'll as for Seligson. The Texan played
really great tennis in defeating Gregory
Mangin in the final, probably the great
est he ever has shown on grass courts,
and it is to be regretted that he did not
face SeligSon in the sefni-finals. 1t
certainly would have been q great
battle.
The tournament was filled with fine
battles. There wasn't day in which
the fans didn't get more than their
moneys worth. The first day Brad
shaw Harrison lost to Donald Cram
of Vanderbilt. The second day an
other upset was furnished when Johnny
Doeg, Stanford. lost to Eddie Jacobs
Of Pittsburgh. Then Jacobs put out an
other seeded star. Harris Coggeshall OF
Grinnell.
After that there were hard-fought
battles between Seligson and Ben Cor
chakoff of Occidental, runner-up last
year; Gregory Mangin and Donald
Stracham of Princeton, who seemed to
have Mangin licked to q frazzle for the
first half of De match; Mangin and
Jacobs and Bell and Emmett Pare of
Georgetown. So close was the going
that after the second round the
favorites had all they could do to hold
their own In almost every match.
New etazs Arise.
when We md 20 many players un-
heard Of before making It hot for
players with reputation It - an en-
couraging indication OF the kind Of
tennis played I'm our colleges. It shows
that the game 1s making great strides
among the younger generation all over
the country.
Among tho newcomers who looked
particularly good IN the tournament
were Tom Markey1 jr., Of Notre Dame,
Bruce Barnes and Earl Taylor OF Texas,
Lawrence Hail. Stanford: Stanley
Almquist, Oregon and Arthur Kuss-
man, Occidental. These players all
bear watching irl the intercollegiate
championships 20 come.
(Copyrisht, 1929, By North American News.
paper Alliance.)