St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-11
FINE TENNIS PLAYING.
The Tournament at Hotel St.
Louis q Big Success.

Louis a Big Success.
There was great tennis playing at the
Hotel st. Louis tournament yesterday.
There was never such playing seen in
the Northwest. 1t was great success,
far greater than was anticipated, both
because of the crowd and the splendid
playing. Only the final singles were
disposed of yesterday, which will make
the players put in a busy day to-
morrow. Yesterdays work kept the
spectators on the qui vive all the time,
so exciting were the games. Early in
the morning the players go to work.
From o'clock until the courts were
occupied, while hundreds Of people
looked on and Justify applauded the
fine play. The first of the best games
of the day was between George Rubles,
of Milwaukee, and T. n. Jayne, of Min
neapolis. 1t was on the second round.
RubIe played hard "smash" game, but
the ball went out of the court too often.
Still, he bothered the champion good
deal, and JAYNE managed to even the
first set with much difficulty. The next
set came more easily. Belden and Nc
Clurg entertained the spectators for two
sets. The brilliant work OF the
latter rather surprised the specta-
tors, but he was too erratic, to
had two rather lively sets, which
the morning was between E. c. Best
and Winter, of st. Paul. The men are
very evenly matched, and both play
beautiful tennis. Their pretty strokes
quickly brought the crowd about them.
There were three very hardly fought
sets and Best got two OF them.
The great game of the day was the
doubles between Applegarth and Rob
inSon and Packenham and Belden. No
one ever saw a double like it in this
part of the country. The former pair
were at disadvantage, never having
played together but once before. Had
they had joint practice they would win
without difficulty. AS it was, they put
up game, which for brilliancy is sell
dom equaled. At critical moments
they did not always work we'll together.
The work of Applegath caused the
tennis players to gaze in open-eyed
wonder. Such phenomenal returns and
such powerful and nicely-calculated
strokes they had never seen. Had the
Canadian been in form the first day he
would probably have been in the finals.
Nearly every game the pairs played was
a vantage game, and time after time
each side would win when they served.
1t was battle of giants, and Pakenham
and Belden won. They also defeated
Dunn and W allace, which places them
in the final doubles against Jayne and
Best. The latter defeated Rublee Bros.
and McClurg and Winters during the
afternoon.
Then came the single final. Belden
had to meet Best, but the latter was too
sick to play, So he forfeited it. So Bel
den was pitted against Jayne. AS was
expected our smiling MI. Jayne won.
Mr.. Jayne belongs to the Chequamegon
club and Mr.. BeIden to the GrasShopper
club. They have played together but
few times, and it has been
pretty even thing. The rivalry between
the clubs is very strong ind eed, and
there was a vast deal of feeling dis
played. Jayne won the toss and he
chose the shody court, giving Belden
the serve. Jayne doesn't care for Serv-
ice, as he is not successful at it. Bel
den was nervous at first, while Jayne
was very confident, and he won the first
two games in twinkling. Then Belden
pulled himself together and took three
games. The next game was beautiful,
in which manga strong storm and brill
liant return was made. Nolley after
volley was made, the ball crossing the
net dozen times without touching the
ground. But Jaynes' cool head and
placing gained the game for him. He
has an uncomfortable habit of placing
the ball where no one expects it, and
it generally strikes about two inches
inside the lines. Jayne's serve lost
him the next game. Then he played
little harder and took the next two and
set.
Mr.. Jayne smilingly lost the next set.
He got the first games by very hard
work. Then Belden began to play like
a wizard. He made returns that seemed
impossible and placed the ball all
around Jayne. There were any num-
Der of brilliant plays, however. Belden
won the set. taking six straight games.
1t was in the last set that smiling MIR.
Jayne played tennis for all he was
worth. He got the first two games, but
Belden was putting up a great game as
well, and he got the next two. Then
Jayne exerted himself, and his wonder
fully successful placing made Belden
weary. Still he fought CALAMITY, but
brilliant play was too often followed by
a bad one. Jayne won the four last
games, which gave him the set and
tournament. Summary:
Singles, Second Round-Jayne VS.. Rublee,
Ga, 81; Belden VS.. McClurg, "a, 60; Best
VS.. Winter, SO, 60; 6-5.
Singles, Third Round-Jayne vs. McCurdY.
81, 6-3: Belden vs. Best, Best forfeited.
Single, Final-Jayne VS.. Belden, Ga, 90,
CO.
Doubles, Second Round-Pakenham and
Belden vs. Applegath and Robinson, 4-6,
Cd, 81; Best and Jayne VS.. Rublee brothers,
81, 81.
Doubles, Third Round-Pakenham and
Belden VS.. Dunn and Wallace, 6-3, 62;
Jayne and Best VS.. McClurg and Winter, 6-2,
81.