Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-15
LAWN TENNIS.

INTER LAWN TENNIS. The Fourth Meeting-Opening of the
 Tournament To-day at the New
 Haven Lawn Tennis Clubs Grounds
 -RetrospectiVe-Th TO.day's Pro-
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 The first tournament of the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis association was held on the Trinity college grounds at Hartford, Conn.,, June 2, 8, g of the year 1883. Five colleges were represented, Amherst, Brown, Harvard, Trinity and Yale. Among the players were Joseph s. Clark, of class 'S3 Harvard, who carried off the first prize for his college in the singles singles, and with H. A. Taylor, 'S6 Harvard, (who was acting as substitute for Sears, the latter's sickness preventing him from taking parD took first in the doubles. MT. Clark has recently been elected secretary of the National association and Mir. Taylor holds position on the executive board of the same. Yale at this first meet ing was represented by G. Lewis Sargent in the singles, Walter Camp and H. w. Slocum in the doubles. Mir. Sargent did some excel lent work and succeeded in wrestling second place from Brown in the singles, who came next to Harvard in the doubles.
 
 Yale, 3.
 The second meeting was in Hartford, Oct. g, 10 and H. on the beautiful lawn of the insane retreat grounds near Trinity college. At this time six colleges were represented, one more than at the first meeting, viz: Am herst Brown, Harvard, Trinity, Wesley and Yale At this meeting Yale representatives began to show in strong form. Thorne's vic- tory over Presby of Harvard will not soon be forgotten by those who witnessed it. Presby finding his competitor too strong for him at the volley commenced to lob and was sur prised to see Thorne smash every ball so lobbed back on to the base line. Taylor, of Harvard, succeeded in winning first place for his college in the singles and after a close shave with Thorne and Knapp took the doubles also. But we find Yale has gone ahead, as usual. At the first meeting she was second in the singles and third in the doubles; now at the second meeting we find her pushing Harvard for the lead and holding strong second in both singles and doubles The association at it's meeting de- cided to have but one tournament each year and to hold that in the fall, directing that the third should be held in Hartford under the supervision of Trinity college on the Re treat grounds October 9-10. This was the best of all the meetings both in she number of colleges represented and the skill of the the R''1: United States, which position he had held for three years,
 Taylor, who although beaten by Thorne and Knapp at the Country club near Boston, turned the tables at Wentworth and captured the all-comers at Newport, being beaten only by Sears; also the Orange tournament where he not only defeated Thorne, but also Dick Dwight, represented Harvard. Mofatt, the noted half back kicker of the Princeton foot ball team, appeared for the first time. A son of President Garfield was one of those who $oI ovo1 after a very successful season came to cross rackets once more with their rivals from Har- yard and other colleges. The lawn grounds laid out for the courts were very poor lumpy and irregular, so that it was very difficult to judge the bound of erly rolled and did not seem to be in anywhere near as good condition as in the year before. It was here that Knapp was successful over Dicky Sears, the cham pion amateur of the United States, and beat ing Brinly in contest when the two first sets went to Trinity s representative, but suc ceeding in following out the last two sets and giving Yale the first place in the singles Knapp and Thorne won first place in the doubles also, so that Yale stood at the head of the list. Knapp, as if in reward for the good work done by him for his college, was elected president of the Intercollegiate as sociation which office he at present holds.
 
 cided to hold the tournament for 1885 on the grounds of the New Haven Lawn club, whose layout of courts probably surpassed that of any other in the country.
 The meeting which commences this morn ing at 10 o'clock premises to be more inter esting than any of it's predecessors. The champion, Sears, has two brothers-twins- about 16 years of age who have just entered Harvard and appear with two others rep resentatives of the college. They have made good records this year. Phil Sears succeeded in defeating Brinley at Wentworth for second place and took Slocum's chance of winning away from him at Lenox. Knapp and Shipman with Thatcher and Luddington will represent Yale. Whether they will keep first place for the college is very doubtful Brinley, of Trinity has i'm proved greatly during the year. Davis, of Lehigh university with several new players will probably make the struggle hard and close one. The players have the satisfaction of being on excellent grounds, and with tho fair weather promised the tournament should be an improvement on those already held.
 The different colleges are represented and the drawings made for the play to-day are as follows.
 singles; Sears brothers Lord, ,Keiher in doubles.
 Trinity-Bunley and Paddocks in singles and
 Princeton-Hasley and Larkins in doubles; Lark ins in singles
 Brown-Danielson and Bunnell in singles and doubles.
 Amherst Chase and Pratt in singles and dou- bles
 Wesleyan-Coff1n and Kabayama in singles and doubles.
 Thatcher Tuddington, shipman and Knapp in doubles.