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Show SIXTEEN PLAYERS LEFT iTOINEY National Junior Tennis Singles Played by Electric Light Sixteen Retain Places. New York. Dec. 27. The record field of one hundred competitors for the national junior lawn tennis championship cham-pionship singles narrowed to sixteen survivors here today. Among the best of the young players under 20 years of age who retained places were : , Francis W. Hopkins, Yale, who defeated de-feated Richard S. Goldman, Princeton, Prince-ton, 4-6, 6-3, G-l; Willard Botsford. Columbia, who beat Paul Keresoy, Fordham, 6-2, 6-2; E. H. Hendrick-son, Hendrick-son, the Amherst star, who defeated F. Dornhoim, Philadelphia,' Penn State boy chanipidn, 6-1, 6-0; H. B. O'Boyle, Georgetown, who beat Alvin Filer, 6-1, 6-0, and C. Warner, Lehigh university, who defeated W. M. Warner, War-ner, Hill school, Pottstown, Pa., 6-2, 6-0. The playing of Eliott H. Binzen, Fordham champion, was excellent. He easily outplayed F. Barrett, Newton high school, 6-2, 6-1. B. M. Arnold, Jr., of Carteret academy, N. J worked work-ed a surprise by eliminating F. A. Middledltch, Princeton, 6-4, 6-0. Mer-ltt Mer-ltt Cutler of Pratt institute, later defeated de-feated Arnold at 6-3, 6-4. Owing to stormy weather it was necessary to -play the matches by electric light. The best of the matches match-es in the doubles was that in which the Hopkins brothers of Yale' defeated defeat-ed H. D. Keresey and O'Boyle, Georgetown, 6-4, 6-4. nn |