The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-08

full sets with Dwight and Sears before the
championship was finally decided.
Many Of the crack players who contested
In last years tournaments for the cham
pionships are entered again this year. With
the exception of the Newport tournament
all the entries are pretty full. The double
championships for men, east and west prom
Use TO fill and to be very successful, while the
singles at Newport are sure to bring
out the biggest crowd of tennis lovers and
the finest playing OF the year. Newport
makes tennis business during tournament
week. Nobody does anything else, and all
the talk among the fashionable while the
playing lasts is of good form. reverse and
overland service. forehand and backhand
volleys and other equally technical terms,
winch, however. are quite Ineligible. since
everybody may be presumed to know the
rules of the game.
The Newport tournament is really the
climax of the tennis year, aud all players
strive to get in the best possible condition
for it. 1t is not unlikely that there may
be little human vanity in this, as the
tennis court is sure to be surrounded in
fine weather by bevies Of the prettiest girls
Imaginable, who take deep interest in the
tactics, and who, besides, are really COM
petent to critlcise, since almost all know
how to play capital game. The Newport
singles this year viii be fought for at the
end of the season-the last week in Ssptem-
ber--which is a little later thai usual. The
fact that in late years little attention has
been paid TO other tournaments outside of
Newport has stirred up tine competing
teams to action, and some particularly
brilliant work may be expected.
Among the fine players who will be heard
from in the various tournaments, Howard
A. Taylor of the New York Athletic Club,
one Of the rising stars of the tennis court,
stands prominent. In the classification for
last year, Taylor ranked very nigh, and it
was even predicted that he would win the
all-comers. and make a strong bid for the
championship. His defeat by Q. A. Shaw
of Harvard took everybody by surprise.
Shaw kept up the remarkable record, how
ever, and did astonishingly good work,
beating the best men at New York and Mar
ragansett Pier, and making so good show
ing that many were disposed TO accord him
second place in the ranking this year. He
may give Slocum a strong fight for the
championship. Two other famous cracks,
who are sure to be heard from, are o. S.
Campbell. who beat Meers, the English
player, and scored a line of victories at
Narragansett, and w. T. Knapp, who won
victory over Taylor at Newport. C. A.
Cease, who has at one time defeated both
Shaw and Campbell; r. p. Huntington,
DR., Yale's champion and a thorough eX-
pol III u COuFb, OUT TdbDeT weak payer
on the turf, yet who has made n fine record
as good, even, consistent player; p. S.
Sears, a brother of the famous Richard ID.
Sears, and who seems 10 have inherited what
lovers of the game call the 'tennis strain"
like all his family; Valentine q. Hail. the
secretary of the New York Athletic
Club. good, all-round, reliable
player; Deane Miller, Clarence
Hobart, Francis G. Beach. r..
T.
field, J. Hovey, A. L. Reeves, NJ. Fielding,
George K. Fearing, Jr., G. L. Sands, T. s.
Taylor. George A. Hurd, A. K. Wjlliston,
j. A. Ryerson, M. K. Wright. besides the
champion and the noted players already
named, are among those entered in the
All-Comers at the Newport Casino grounds,
as competitors for the handsome prize that
always accompanies the honor of holding
the champion cup
There are each year from thirty to forty
entries in the all-comers. By a system of
elimination the number is reduced until it
gets down to one man, who then contests
with the present champion for the title at
singles. The Casino grounds, where the
court is laid, are the finest in America, and
the broad stretch is as level as billiard
table, with wide border outside the court
for the use of spectators. On three sides the
field is shaded by trees, and with the turf in
dust to vex the players.
Outside the all-comers, the two principal
fixtures are the eastern and western double
championships, the former at Staten Island
and the latter at Chicago. Last year the
eastern doubles could hardly be called a
success. the entries were few and the
weather unfavorable. The brilliant play
ing of Slocum, Campbell, Taylor and Val
entine G.. Hall, the four champions of 1888,
panpnYnQd "a mt Il nc
years entries include all four, and many
new aspirants for the honors as well. Taylor
and Slocum, although they think of retiring
from the game this year, have pledged them
selves to play, and He'll and Campbell are
eager to avenge last years defeat.
In the western doubles at Chicago the
Chase brothers will again enter the list
Last year they won a victory over Hall and
Carver, two of the finest cracks in the west,
scoring in the finals 6-3, 6-1 and 6-2. The
Chicago tournament will decide the compe-
titions of the east and west at Newport and
the American double championship for 1890.
Not the least interesting fixture for the
season Is the single and double champion
ship for women. There are several tennis
clubs composed exclusively of the fair sex
and belonging to the United States National
Lawn Tennis Association, a majority of
them located in New York and Phladel-
phia. Last year there were several exciting
matches, in which the superior play of Miss
Robinson and Miss Roosevelt was quite
marked. In some of the tourneys-notably
at Narragansett Fier-there were rallies in
which the ball crossed the net more fire.
quently than in the best contests between
men. 1t is generally agreed that in "lob-
bling" and tossing" the ladies are the peers
of the male players, as these strokes call
for delicacy and dizziness rather than
strength.
According TO the best masculine experts
the ladies have been hugging delusion in
regarding lawn tennis as game peculiarly
suited to their own sex. IL goes quite nicely
when they play in mild. easy going fash
ion, as one secs it played occasionally. But
tennis is very far from being a woman's
sport. As now played by amateurs all over
tie country it demands degree Of mus
base ball. Yet woman's confidence when
she sets out to play the game is sublime.
5 ne is sure she is going to
win; and sac swings her draperY, tightens
her hat or her particolored tennis cap,
sticks her little heels deep into the turf and,
clutcAing the racquet, runs up to the net
and ''smashes" tho ball like little man.
She can't make long stroke. like her mas
culine partner, but she can smash and
volley aud do all the difficult things, and do
them we'll. too. All she lacks is the physi-
cal strength and endurance that are essen
tial to the game. especially when she has to
be on her feet at it Tor hours on broiling
day.
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