VOL. XVII, NO. 10
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1914
FIVE CENTS
JONES AND MACKINNEY LEAD
Rhode Island Champions Divide Honors
in Midwinter Tennis Tourney
Climax of llrilliant Event Conies
In Fan I JPlay of Men' Singles
and Doubles Event
PERFECT weather and
a f.ist and representa
tive field combined to
make the fourth annual
Midwinter Tennis Cham
pionship the most im
portant of the series,
play claiming the atten
tion of large galleries
throughout the week. Progressing by
ensy matches to the final rounds, a cli
max developed in men's singles and
doubles in which J. D. E. Jones, the
Rhode Island champion, won chief hon
or?, not alone in singles but also in
doubles, partnered with II. A. Mackin
ney, one time winner of the Rhode Island
championship, lln mixed doubles Mr.
Mackinney and Mrs. W. F. Hager of
Lancaster, Pa., were victorious over Mr.
Jones and Mrs. Guy Metcalf of Provi
dence, while in women's singles Miss
Eleanor Cohen of Philadelphia tri
umphed over Mrs. Ilager. In doubles,
Miss Lucille Schulte of New York and
Miss Agnes Blancke of Essex Fells de
feated Mrs. Metcalf and Mrs. Ilager, the
event concluding the program.
The progress of the finalists in men's
singles was one of few difficulties, and
they were keen for the test which was
much closer than the score indicates.
1 Jones started out in splendid style,
playing a safe and accurate game from
the back tape, while Mackinney chose
the net, relying on crosa-couit returns.
Mackinney's strokes were powerful and
bold, but he took chances which Jones'
back-court placements, tricky returns
and uniform steadiness checkmated, re
sulting in a 6 2 win. f In the second
set Mackinney won the first game by a
series of cross-court shots and sizzling
lawfards, losing the second, a deuce
game, and making easy disposal of the
third and fourth. Here the pair zig
zagged down to the ninth game which,
after the score had been brought to
deuce for the eighth time, Jones won
with an overhead lob, 63.
In the final set Jones' superiority was
manifest, Mackinney winning only the
first game, his attempts to block Jones'
progress with skimming net balls being
so successfully killed that attack was
transformed to defense. The fifth game
was brought to deuce no less than four
times, a speedy cut-stroke vanquishing
Mackinney's hopes, 0 1.
Two of the Canadians were put out of
the running in the first round, but Law
rence Cowing found Walter Goldstein a
tenacious opponent who won the first
set 61, but lost the remaining two by
5 7, 2 6. Mackinney's win was 62,
6 1 from E. S. Glassco. Thomas H.
Hall, the only one of the far-north trio
to advance on a 61, 62 win from
Frank Rogers of Orange, promptly lost
to Russell Dana of Providence, who in
ical deuce sets, but Jones and Mackinney
taking the thirteenth and fourteenth
games on a brilliant spurt, f The crisis
came in the second set in which Balfe
and Cowing captured the two opening
games, Mackinney and Jones promptly
winning the next three. Balfe and Cow
ing, however, returned tie compliment,
Mackinney and Jones winning the nine,
a love game, the tenth for a score of
4-all, and they captured the next two
games for a 7 5 victory. That the pace
was too fast was apparent in the third
set, the victors taking the first three
games easily, - losing the fourth and
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turn surrendered to Jones, f Dr. Ber
tram F. Drake of New York had a hard
36, 62, 63 match in the second
round and advanced to a 60, 64 de
feat by Mackinney.
The final in men's doubles was unques
tionably the prettiest tennis of the week ;
the result an 86, 75, 62 win by Jones
and Mackinney from R. Adams Balfe of
Brooklyn and Lawrence Cowing of Cin
cinnati. In the opening set play was
even honors up to 6-all, Balfe and Cow
ing winning out time and again in crit-
sixth, and winning the seventh and
eighth for a score or 62. f The team
work of Jones and Mackinney was re
markable by its contrast; Jones delib
erate and Mackinney aggressive. Cow
ing and Balfe were also well paired, but
they lost through the systematic team
work characteristic of their opponents,
their best work manifest in service.
In the semi-final play also waxed fast
and furious. Balfe and Cowing started
the fun with a 36, 64, 7 5 win from
Concluded on page nine)
TR0DNCIN6 FOR THE COLONEL
The Invincible Bogey Proves No Match
in Tin Whistle Handicap
II. S. llawtliorne, John IX. Clapp and
W. Ii. Mllllken are Prize Winner
In Keen Competition
COLONEL Bogey, the
invincible, was trounced
good and proper in
Monday's Tin Whistle
handicap for prizes pre
sented by Rupert C,
King of New Canaan
and the Club. R. S.
Hawthorne of Wayanta-
muck, whose allowance was sixteen
strokes, was the top-liner with a score of
seven up. J ohn II. Clapp of Chevy Chase
(9), finished second in six up, and W. L.
Milliken of Hyannisport (14), third five
up. f Other scores were Henry C. Fownes
6, II. W. Ormsbee 15, B. F. Pottle 15,
and F. S. Pusey 14, each three up ; J. G.
Nicholson 10 and S. II. Martel, Jr., 14,
two up; G. T. Dunlap 11, one up; J. T.
Newton 21, W. L. Hurd 16, C. Z. Eddy
14, R. C. Shannon 9, F. C. Abbe 19, J. W.
Robinson 21, John Barclay 14, and G. F.
Berry 12, even up; R. C. Blancke 28,
II. R. Mackenzie 13, C. C. Morse 14 and
T. L. Redfield 32, one down; C. L.
Becker 4, E. M. Slayton 25, P. B. O'Brien
13, 1. S. Robeson 6 and E. A. Johnston 9,
two down; II. A. Waldron 15, R. II.
Hunt 12, J. R. Towle 13, J. D. C. Rumsey
16, P. S. Maclaughlin 11, P. L. Light
bourn 11 and G. F. Brown 10, each three
down; C. B. Hudson 7, E. B. Sherman
16, A. B. Alley 21, J. B. Bowen 21 and
M. D. Fink 23, each five down; C. II.
Lay 13, six down ; T. B. Boyd 7 and T. A.
Cheatham 5, seven down; E. B. Pratt 16
and II. O. Smith 14, eight down.
Silver Foil Prize Winner
Mrs. Guy Metcalf and Mrs. M. D. Rea
were the winners of Monday's Silver
Foils foursomes for prizes presented by
Mrs. Donald J. Ross. Playing with a
handicap of fifteen they recorded 109 net.
Mrs. I. S. Robeson and Miss Agnes
Blancke (18 made 111: Mi
Shannon and Miss Lucy Priest (16) 114:
and Mrs. R. C. Shannon and Miss Gwen
dolyn Cummings (27) 117.
Guest of Her mother
Mrs. James Albert Massey of Boerne,
Texas, is the guest; of her mother, Mrs.
Zenas R. Bliss at Cherokee cottage.