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Show FOUR PLAYERS STAR IN NEW YORK MEET I New York, Aug. 3.-Four players I W0n Places In the semifinal round of the Now York state tennis champion-I champion-I Bhp tournament today at the Cres-I Cres-I cent Athletic club. m tho top halt Frederick B. Alex-, I ander coupled with R. Ltodlcy Mur-I Mur-I ray, California. Alexander defeated I Charles Chambers, 8-6, 7-5. It Murray defeated E. K. McCornlck &!fe the Pacific coast lnterscholastlc W champion, 6-2, 64. Frederick C. Inman and Maurice B. McLoughlln gained the places In the lower half. Inman, swinging Into pi sitlon at the net, blocked the returns of Thomas C. Bundy of the Davis cup team and by swift crbslng shots won at 6-1, 6-4. Tho best match In the doubles was In the second round, In which Harold H. Hackett and Frederick I). Alexander, Alex-ander, former national champions, defeated Watson M. Whshburn and O. V. Touchard, former eastern title holders, 6-3, 6-2. i McLoughlln and Dundy the national nation-al champions, defaulted in the doubles, dou-bles, as did Murray and Ella Fottrell tho star pair from California. |