Monday, Jul. 09, 1928

College Tennis

Last Spring, John Vanryn, Princeton senior, sat pleasantly near the top of the world of U. S. tennis. He was sixth ranking player in the country. Educators, thoughtful parents had applauded with enthusiasm his decision to take his college degree rather than a good chance for the Davis Cup Team. The degree assured, Student Vanryn went to the Merion Cricket Club (Haverford, Pa.) seeded player in the Intercollegiates.

Last week, Vanryn went down in five brilliant sets before the onslaught of small, chunky Julius Seligson, Lehigh sophomore, native of New York's Bronx. Confounding critics of form, Seligson followed this spectacular victory by defeating Ben Grochakoff of Occidental College, Calif., winning the Intercollegiate title.

Young Golf

In Rye, N. Y., college boys played golf. Sturdy Maurice McCarthy Jr., of Georgetown, well recovered from the stage fright he suffered when given Walter Hagen as a playing partner in the National Open, drubbed John A. Roberts of Yale in the finals. Put out in an early round, Watts Gunn of Georgia Tech., famed friend of Bobby Jones, said: "I've got to quit this game. I'm going to get a job." Three curly-headed players from Princeton and one Charles Grace (son of the President of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.) won the team championship.

In East Williston, L. I., schoolboys played golf. From Hotchkiss School, famed institution on a hill over a lake in the northwest corner of Connecticut, came two youths, classmates, both 16, who met in the finals. Then Sidney W. Noyes Jr. beat Robert A. Moffett, 3 and 2.