The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-05-25
THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
Some Very Interesting Contests. in which
Young Blood Comes To the Front.

Some Very Interesting Contests. in which
Young Blood Comes to the Front.
The contests in the District tennis toufu8-
ment this week clearly show that our PLAYERS
have made wonderful advancement since last
year, and at no time in the local history OF ibis
game have we had so many good players. As
predicted in THE HERALD early IN the season,
the younger element is coming TO the front
This was sufficiently evidenced by the very rc-
markable playing OF Kennon Peter ON
Thursday in his game against Mr.. Davidson.
Mr. Peter has very brilliant tennis future,
and the older cracks will soon have TO acknowl-
edge that younger blood will tell, and that 10
keep their prestige the more experienced play
ers must keep pace with the new aud
strong material which has made its
appearance in the local tennis arena this
spring. The games between Davidson and
Peter were certainly hotly contested and the
audience loudly applauded each player as they
made what at first appeared to he impossible
strokes The double games between Wood
ward and McCawley and Borden and Davidson
of course excited great interest, and were only
won after very hard struggle by the former,
the score being o. 81. The sets between
Borden and McCawley were by far the best and
most hotly contested of the entire tournament,
and clearly show that Borden has all at once
leaped to the front as formidable player If
he keeps up his present form he will be very
stubborn antagonist Tor the Baltimore players.
Yesterday the finals in the doubles were played
between McCawley and Woodward and Met
calf and Tobin. The latter have not had any
practice together, yet succeeded in winning the
first set, losing the next three, however, and
the match, the score standing 4-6, Ga, Ga, 6-3.
Miss Symons beat Miss Bacon for the second
prize in singles yesterday afternoon.
Tomorrow afternoon, at o'clock, the gen
tlemens singles will be played between Nc
Cawley and Davidson, and opinion is very evenly
divided as to the winner. Davidson is in good
form and has made an excellent showing In his
play this week. McCawley never played in
better shape than in the game on Thursday with
Byrnes, which he won with ease, and his beau
tifully executed back-hand strokes won him
frequent and deserved plaudits.
Mr. Crane and Mr.. Sheibley each deserve
great credit for the manner in which they have
attended to the details of the tournament. The
audiences have not been large, but a sufficient
number were present each day to give encour-
agement to the players.
The next impairment event on the tennis
tapis is the tournament of the Southern AS
sociation at Mount Washington, Md, on June
B. Entries close on Saturday next and should
be made to Mr.. H. w. Spofford, Meridian Club.
Singles 50, doubles S1.50 each player. Several
entries have already been received and larger
number is expected from Washington this year
than ever before. Entries received later than
Saturday, May 81, will be thrown out. All
players intending to go to Baltimore should
notify the secretary early this week whether
they desire hotel accommodations, SO that all
necessary arrangements can be made.