Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-27 | Page 12 | Meadow Club Play down to Semi-Final

HOW CLUB PLAY DOWN TD SEMI-FINAL One Pacific Coast Player in Quartette Left for the Cup Tussle SOUTHAMPTON Is Y Aug 26 f 1 am Ha t W M hburn and T R Pel of New lork and Milan John ston of San Fran sco jthe order named won the brackets n the semi final round of the p s ngles here today in the tenn s to man e t on the urf of the Meadow club The os sensa onal to v as t at of Johns on who n s v ft p aj ed ra es defeated George M Ch rch the Pr nceton chan p on of Eng wood N J at 6 3 o 6 1 CI urch jnade a remarkab e stand at the ne n tl e second set w en the young Ca lfornian ed him at 4 1 on games At th s stage C s en a hing and o le ing were irres s ble and he took, the set Church s fo m was bad howe er anl In the th d set Jol nston outplayed h m for the match asl burn foug t through hree sets against G C Caner of Ph ladelph a and a Harvard pla er o win a 60 68 b Like Church Caner made a desperate session of the second set to win after the gan 6 had touched at deuce He vaB unequal to the a k of work ng an upset against the olles s from v ashburn s s de Ward Da vson and H A Throckmor ton the partnership of the Los Angeles man and the eastern schoolboy won a place in the semi fina s of t e doub es eas ly Clarence J Griffin of San Francisco and VV lliam M Johnston the Pacific coat challengers for tl e national doubles title, also came through easily The summary Singles, fifth round Watson M Wash burn defeated G Colket Caner 6 0 6 8 6 2 William M Johnston defeated George E. ehurch 6 3 5 7 6 1 Walter Merrill Hall defeated Edward H WTiitney 6 16 1 Doubles second round Wi 1 am Comp ton and L R ker aefeated Maurice E McLoughlln and Thomas C Eundy by defau t W 1 lam M Johnston and Clarence J Gr ffln defeated G Gar and and W Bar Third round L Oak ey and Carl Smith defeated W 11 am Compton and I Rker 6 it 7 o Ward Dawson and Harold K Throck morton defeated L. D Ir ing and H Auchincloss 6 ' 6 2 .Fifth round s ngles Theodo e R Pell defeated Leonard Beekman 6 3 8 6 Doubles, fourth round Ward Dawson and Harold A Throckmorton defeated L Oakley and Earl bmith 6 6 2 Third round doub es George M Church and T a ter Mer Hall defeated Snyder and J Lawrence 6 0 6 2 William M. Johnston and Clarence J Griffin defeated F T Frel nghuj sen and Eric 'Winston 6 4 6 3