The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-08
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PLAY FOR WOMEN
COMPLETED AT VICE

Despite overcast skies and sodden
coutrs play in the annual Naugatuck
valley tennis championship opened
Yesterday on the courts of the Wa
t4tbufy Country club. With fine CO.
ebaSAtion manifest by the competit-
4rt in the women's singles it was
possible for the tournament commit
tee to run off the entire first round.
Play will continue this morning
Iii the women's singles and doubles
with the men scheduled to start sim
doubles will start tomorrow after
noon.
Coming Events
Ecbey Hyde heads the list of
seeded players. Hyde is not sched-
uled to play until Thursday after
noon when he meets AL Genua, the
Catholic U; southpaw who held the
Fulton park championship few
years back. Ed Mcknight of
apringfield, seeded number two, is
scheduled to meet Willie Giles of
Naugatuck to-day.
Other seeded players include Tom
Wilbur of Bridgeport who meets
John Bridgeman of Old Lyme and
weller B. Evans of East Orange,
N, j., who meets William Cox of
Mfddlebury.
Amos Wilder, former New Haven
player and state champion, is also
expected to figure prominently be-
fore the tourney ends. He meets
Haring Griggs Of Waterbury to-day.
Francis Smith, local champion, is
drawn against George Robinson of
Snider of Hartford meets the win
4er of the Howard Fairchild-F. A.
Thompson match.
Mems Pairings
Narold Smith of this city is in the
upper half playing Allan Hopkins
Of New Haven in what should be
int Art Wright of Hartford, former
Yale tennis captain. Beck Hitch
cock is drawn against Winnie Hoff-
man of Bridgeport. Dutton Noble
q. this city meets another Water
buxian, Joe Pratt. David Hyde OF
Waterbury has drawn a tartar in
Buck Morse of New Haven.
Lucia Dewell of Thomaston, local
park champion, engaged in the best
match of the day when she elimin-
ated Miss Jane Van der Bosch Of
Litchfield and Holland in straight
sets Cd, 81. 1t was a nip-and-
tuck battle all the way and Miss
Dewell served notice on the other
competitors that she is in the fight
to the end. Anna Moran, former To-
cal champion, also was victorious in
her opening match defeating Mrs S.
y. Porter of Waterbury.
Tavorites also advanced to the
second round, Margaret Cluett Of
Troy, N. Y, Glare Smith of Pine
Orchard, Eleanor Grow, and Marian
ma Richards.
Yesterdays Results
Miss Mary H. Childress, Scarsdale,
~ Y, defeated Miss Barbara Stone,
waterbury, 60, 60.
Mrs Bennett Bronson. Litchheld,
defeated Miss Betty Manning, Wa
terbury, 60, 81.
Miss Anna Moran, Waterbury, de-
feated Mrs S. P. Porter, Waterbury,
Cd, e..
Miss Helen Rice, stockbridge,
Mass, defeated Mrs Eric Pape, Wa
terbury, Go, 81.
Miss Elizabeth Irving Chase. Wa
terbury, defeated Mrs Gordon Hurl-
bert, 60, 60.
Miss Ann briggs, Waterbury, de-
feated Mrs C. P. Goss, Sd, 6-2,
60.
NQr6 lIObeF w dlIOtt, INSc, -N' ir
defeated Miss Louise Campbell, Wa
tertOwn, 81, 60.
Miss Margaret Cluett, Troy, n. Y,
defeated Mrs Henry Wilde. Water
bury, 60, 81.
Miss Mariana Richards, Wilton
defeated Mrs Witherbee Black, Rye,
n. T., 10-8, 6-1.
Miss Esther Edwards, Bridgeport,
defeated Mrs Katherine Heminway,
Watertown, GO, 6-4.
Miss Lucia Dewell, Thomaston
defeated Miss Jane Van den Bosch.
Iitchfeld, Ga, 81.
Miss Eleanor Crow, Rye, n. Y,
defeated Miss Frances Beardsley,
waterbury, 60, 6-1.
Miss Betty Warner, Pine orchard,
defeated Mrs Sherman Perry, Wa
tertovn, 6-3, 6-3.
Miss Margaret Barclay. New Ha-
ven, defeated Mrs Edward Hin
man, Southbury, 3-6, 60, 81.