Monday, Jul. 02, 1923
Tennis
Vincent Richards, youthful expert from America, took the championship of London from S. M. Jacob of India in the finals of the Queen's Club matches. Score 6-2, 6-2.
French finesse prevailed over Irish energy when the French Davis Cup team defeated Ireland on Dublin courts. France thus qualified to meet the Swiss team in the Semi-Finals.
English despatches indicate that a women's team will sail for America late in July for special matches with Molla and her colleagues. The English women will also enter the National Championship at Forest Hills. The team includes Kathleen McKane, Mrs. Satterthwaite, Mrs. Covil and probably Elizabeth Ryan.
The Oxford-Cambridge tennis team of seven has arrived for the American Intercollegiatete. M. D. Horn, their ace, forced William M. Johnston, second ranking American who is now playing in England, to his ultimate limit to win at 12-10, 6-4, just before the team's departure for America.
The playing schedule: June 25, Intercollegiate Championship, Haverford, Pa.; July 3-4, Rockaway Hunt Club, Cedarhurst, L. I.; 6-7, Princeton and Stamford at Seabright ; 9-10, Westchester-Biltmore Country Club, Rye, N. Y.; 13-14, Harvard and Yale at Newport, R. I.