Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-07
TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

pert Tennis Players at tho Grounds
of the New Haven Club Yesterday.
About two hundred ladies and gentlemen
were present at the pleasant and picturesque
grounds of the New Haven Lawn club on
Whitney avenue yesterday afternoon to wit
ness the opening games of the three days
tennis tournament. to the winners of which
some handsome and valuable prizes have
been offered Some of the spectators occu
pied seats on the veranda of the pretty little
club house on the grounds, while others occu-
pied camp chairs in the shade of the trees
and watched the players as they welded
their racket in the hot sun and sent the balls
flying from one side of a court to another.
Yesterday afternoon the playing was in the
singles, the preliminary round resulting in
L. II. Paddock of Trinity college defeating
F. D. Pavey of this city, and S. S. Sears of
Harvard defeating S. V. Coffin of the Malta
besett club of Middletown: In the first round
there were sixteen entries-A. l.. Ripley of
Brooklyn Heights club; G.. M. Brinley
of Trinity college against R. V. Beach of
the home club; w. L. Thatcher of the home
club against H. NJ. Billings of the
Westchester, NY. club; H. w. Slocum of
ST. Georges Cricket club, Brooklyn, against
of the home club against L. II. Paddock of
Trinity; F. A. Kellogg of the home club
against w. Fl. Barnes of the Longwood club,
Boston; J. w. Bristol of the home club
against w. E. Billings of the Westminster,
N. Y, club; S. S. Sears of Harvard against
R. A. Gardiner of the home club. In the
second round the players were Slocum
against Thatcher and Kellogg against Bristol.
The playing was very exciting and was
watched with much interest by the
spectators, who loudly applauded
when good play, was made.
Slocum and Thatcher, both of whom are ex
cellent players, was especially exciting, as
the players were very evenly matched, and
for a long time the struggle lasted, but Slo-
cum finally succeeded in defeating Thatcher
by the score of 20, 81, 70 The playing
yesterday continued until nearly O'Clock
and when the players finished for the day the
scores stood follows:
PRELIMINARY ROUND.
B 5ssFs Saa ss cof ha.s e. 81 81 g.
FIRST ROUND.
Ripley beat Post g. 60
Thatcher beat H. Billings &c, 60.
F. 6. Beach Oci' beat PADDOCK, So 50, Is g.
Kellogg beat Barnes GO, 81.
Bristol beat w. Billings, 6-2, go.
Sears and Gardiner unfinished
SECOND ROUND.
Slocum beat Thatcher, d, 81, rs.
Kellogg beat Bristol, So. 63.
The first prize for the singles is very
handsome solid silver loving cup with an
etched inscription and is valued at 500. To
decide who shall have this cup the two best
players who have defeated all the other play
ers in the singles will play together, the
winner receiving the cup. The players are
divided into pairs, and the winner of each
pair plays against the winner of another, the
losers dropping out until the contest is mar
rowed down to two men who contest for the
cup. The losers will, however, have the
privilege of contesting for the second prize,
which is silver bon bon plate
valued at $40. The games will
be called again this morning at 10 o'clock,
when the doubles will be played, continuing
during the afternoon, the first prize for
which will be two ivory loving cups with OK
ydized silver mountings valued at $50 each,
and the second prize two copper cups valued
at $15 each. The players in the doubles will
be: Coffin and Post against Slocum and
Thatcher; Ripley and F. G. Beach against w.
B. Billings and 81. Billings; Brinley and Pad
dock against Gardiner and F. G. Beach. The
committee in charge are A. L. Ripley, presi-
dent of the club, J. T. Whittelsey, ]. w.
Bristol, F. @. Beach and Arthur S. o.
borne.