Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-02
LAWN TENNIS AT.NEwPoRT.

LAWN TENNIS Az
The Contest for the AlI-comers Mar.
rowing Down TO a Few and the In
Gerest Becomes Intense.
NEWPORT, R. l., Sept. 1.-The weather
continues admirable for the national lawn
tennis tournament to-day, the skies are as
bright as could possibly be desired and
while the sun is warm the air is cool, and
that too, without strong wind to bother
the players. The Casino grounds look
very bright and gay with hundreds of So
ciety ladies and gentlemen scattered over
the greensward watching the play with
eager, interested faces. The matches of
the morning are the semi-finals be-
tween Campbell and Huntington and
Hobart and Knapp, and as the contest for
the all-comers is thus narrowed, the inter
est in the result has become intense Both
matches were put on at the same time in
adjoining courts, so laid out that both
could be watched at the same time by
large portion of the spectators, who occu-
pied the ground tier of the theater bal
comics. The greater interest centered in
the Campbell Huntington match, as these
and Knapp, and those who watched this
contest certainly saw some tennis worth
looking at. Both are high class players,
and neither was playing for fun, each
knowing that the winner of this match
was very probably the winner of
the all-comers as well. Both men,
therefore, put forth their best work, and
the result was as pretty tennis as is often
seen on the Casino grounds. Campbell
II IL IL Il
which gave him the lead in the first set,
two games, love and the set 6-3. Hunt
ington not being slow to recognize his
opportunity when Campbell weakened
bit. The latter's decline was but tenn
porary, however, and augured nothing
concerning the result, as in the second set
he recovered his play and again led, and
this time to the end of the set which he
took 60.
Huntington meantime was doing some
capital work, and was by no means beat
en-.
This was shown conclusively in the
third set, which was more even than either
of the others. Campbell led at first
After the score reached 3 all Huntington
took the lead and kept it till five all was
reached, and then ran the set out at 10 in
his favor.
Both men played hard and yet neither
looked as though greatly fatigued by the
exertion. As the score was so close every
point of play was punctuated by the ap-
plause of the spectators, who did not lose
a movement of either man. The fourth
set opened just as close. Huntington won
the first game, then Campbell made 1 all.
Huntington again led and Campbell once
more tied the score. Then Campbell took
tho 1aoI apd mazda 1ba sonrn 30 in his
favor. At this point Huntington lost his
grip on the game, Campbell running the
set right out 60, without Huntington scor-
ing another game.
The fifth set opened in the same way.
Campbell played hard and sure, and Hunt
ington seemed unable to regain his hold
and play safe. Campbell took the first two
games and then dropped one to Hunting
ton. 1t was Huntington's last, however,
Campbell winning the set 81. Hunting
ton rather went to pieces, and that, too,
in the last two sets, taking
but one game out of the last ten played
The result was somewhat of surprise, not
at Campbell's winning so much as at Hunt
iugton's giving out at the last. 1t was ex-
pected that he would stand up stiff to the
finish
The Knapp-Hobart match was an inter
esting one but not so much so and not SO
close as the Campbell Huntington one
The two men We're pretty evenly matched,
and the first two sets We're very close. Ho-
bart tried hard to win, running the score
in the set up to 1913, the highest score
reached during the tournament, and in the
second set up to rs, but both sets were
finally won by Knapp, which made the
match less interesting than to have the
score set ALL In the third set Hobart af-
ter fighting so hard to win seemed to lose
heart and give up the contest He won
but two games in the set which therefore
gave the match to Knapp by score
of 1913, rs, 60 and put him in the |
finals for the all-comers with Campbell. |
No consolation matches were posted this
Some will be played this after
noon.
The summary of the morning play is:
Cambell beat Huntington SO, go, So, &c,
81; Knapp beat Hobart 10-S, TO, &c.
Several additional matches have been |
played for the consolation cups, but scores |
are difficult to obtain, as no care was |
taken to post them properly. In the |
round Thompson beat futile |
ga, 81. In the first round F. w. Smith |
has beaten w. P. Herrick and Hoppin |
has beaten Horton. In the second round |
F. W. Smith has beaten Fowler and Ho- |
vey has beaten Hoppin CO, GA. Hovey's !
chances of winning the consolation are |
The final match in the all |
booked for IL a. IN. tomorrow |
and on Wednesday the championship |
doubles will be played at 1880 and |
singles at 11:30, which will |
finish the tournament.