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Show DEFAULTS FEATURE I IN LAKE FOREST MEET LAKE FOREST, 111.. Aug. 7. Eighteen i defaults in the first round and fifteen in the second round marred the second day of play in the Western Lawn Tennis championship tournament today, out-of-town players failing to appear, or being unable to leave matches in other cities. As a result of this wholesale defaulting, default-ing, only eight players residing outside of Chicago remain in play for the men's singles title. Maurice McLoughlin and his protege, Kenneth Hawkes of Los Angeles, who will : arrive here Wednesday for the first, second sec-ond and third-round matches; Clifford Lockhorn, Kansas City; Seiforde Stell-wagen, Stell-wagen, Minneapolis: Ward Dawson, an Francisco; K. Northrop, Minneapolis, and H. L. Behr, Grinnell. Iowa, remain In the tourney. The attraction of today's play was the 7-o, 7-5 match won by Ralph Burdick, Chicago, runner-up to Heath Byford in the state championship from L. J. Washburn Wash-burn of Chicago. Byford, Jerry and James Weber and Hayes are among the Chicagoans remaining in the play. |