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Show Favorites Have Little Opposi-, Opposi-, tion in Second and Third Rounds Straight Sets r eature. H FOREST rilLLS, N. Y., Aug! 27. Hll Ranking players advanced with little M, opposition here today in tho second and third rounds of the thirty -seventh H annual national singles championships of the lawn tennis association. In IBl marked contrast to the opening day's jfl play the majority of the matches worn B won in straight sets and without a i semblance of an upset Hj The greatest interest of the gallery I centered around the Initial appearance H; of Ichya Kumagae. Kumngae's oppo- M nent was George W. Wightman of the' Longwood Cricket club, Boston, and.! Hi -while the oriental player won in' Hi straight sets at G-3, G-2, G-2, Wight-H: Wight-H: man offered enough opposition to B again demonstrate tho fact that Kum-Ejjl Kum-Ejjl ' agao's game has greatly improved fijl since his previous appearance in the III 1916 tournament. ml Wightman tried every artifice of! tennis to hold the Japanese in check, m but with little avail. For a time he S3 tried playing entirely to Kumagac's jfflj: back hand, but the latter's sharp rc- l turns along the side lines and rapld- H Are court smashes forced Wightman HI into deep court. HI Tho victor's high sweeping, toppod! I returns also balTled Wightman -when1 M ! he tried for a net position, and, as the W match progressed and Kumagae, HI warmed up, ho easily outgeneral and! I ! outplayed tho Bostonian. j HI It- Lindlay Murray, the Californian, Bji entered from the Niagara Falls club,! all moved into the third round without1 l play owing to the necessitated default EH of Lieutenant H. G. Kclchcr of Seattle,! Hjr who received a telegram recalling hira jWI o service. Ml; Murray devoted a portion of tho jjjjjl afternoon to practice against Fred Al- hjljj: exander, the former internationalist, mil, and his play showed signs of Improvo- ; ment over yesterday's match. fflli Tilden Is Winner, ill! w- T- Tilden, Jr of Philadelphia, tHI selected by many to reach the final Ml, round through the lower half of the Hj: draw, easily disposed of Channlng G. IB Burrows of Brooklyn at 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. Hj Tilden played a hard, fast, smashing mill game and Burrows was decidedly on jfflr the defensive at all times, Hi The Chicago entrants, Ralph H. Bur- nHl dick and Walter T. Hayes, also won In iffll, straight sots. Hayes defeated 13. IT. Hj Hendrlcksoh of Amherst and the pros jHJ' ent New England intercollegiate Bi champion at 6-1, 6-2, 6-2, Burdick eli- N minatcd A. H. Chapin, Jr., of Spring- U); Held, 6-3, 0-1, 111 The veteran Deals C. Wright of Bos- IU ton, but playing from New York, dis- llfll posed of Dr. D. F. Drake of New Roch- m elle with the loss of but two games in Wl three sets. Wright showed 'surprising mm , form and steadiness and clicked much BH, applause from the gallery by his bril- ISM liant play. Conrad B. Doyle of Washington ad- M, vanced at the expense of George King al of Yonkers, whom he defeated at 6-3, : wM C-3, 6-3. The young Washingtonian ml will meet Tilden tomorrow in tho Hi, fourth round. W Irving C. Wright, a younger broth - ml er of Beals C. Wright, was defeated by H I! Walter Merrill Hall of New York in j four sets. Wright won the first at 6-4. J but Hall, after a hard and gruellin:; j contest, took the second at 7-5 and ij then won rather easily at 6-1, 6-1 as i Wright tired. Some of the best tennlo Hi 01 lne day Avna shown in the earlier 1 portions of this match. Wj t Among the younger entrants, Vin cent Richards and Frank T. Anderson, both of Greater New York, gave a remarkable re-markable exhibition of high class tennis ten-nis for so youthful a pair. Richards, who holds the doubles championship with Tilden, won at 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. But the scores do not indicate either the closeness or the quality of the play. Youngsterc Play Well. A gallery of more than 2000 spectators specta-tors followed the matches, which were played under ideal weather conditions. The outstanding featuro of the day's play was a remarkable test of endur anco between Seilchlro Kashio, the JUiJtiiiu&i;, uuu vj. u. uiumic ui New York. These two experts of tho base line game played for four hours and twenty minutes and when darkness dark-ness terminated tho unfinished contest, con-test, Kashio was leading at 6-1, 7-2, 6-3, and the four set standing at two game3 all This is undoubtedly a record rec-ord in tournament tennis. The two players soldom moved Into the service line nnd neither used much speed or cut in service or return, playing play-ing cautiously and with placement. The rallies wero interminable and tho winner of the point usually, profited by his opponent's net or out. Tho 'strokes between points frequently fre-quently ran over one hundred, tho highest that was counted being 12S, and the slow long-drawn-out exchanges ex-changes more than once passed beyond be-yond tho minute mark by actual timing. tim-ing. At the end of the third set tho players play-ers took tho customary ten minutes, but tho umpires had been changed before be-fore that point was reached, tho heat and tho strain of watching tho ball having made the first occupant of the chair too dizzy to proceed. Kashio and Dionne will continue their match tomorrow. |