Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-14
Progress of the Contest at
RedOndO.
Several Exciting Matches Con-
cluded Yesterday.
Paul Arnold the Winner of the
Championship.
Arthur Halsted Downs Cosby-Arnold
Beats Cochran-Miss Giliiiand De-
feats Miss Halsted-Other
Events-News Notes.

Tennis is certainly to be one of the
leading games in Southern California.
The general play of the racket wielders
now playing at Redondo is far ahead Of
what it was year ago, and one OF the
most encouraging features is the in
creased number of players that are COM
ing to the front. Tennis has been on
the boom in Los Angeles, Alhambra,
Riverside, Pasadena and several other
places in the past year; but what is
needed is club in every town in the
county. If the young people OF these
villages really knew what a pleasant
social circle the game incorporated with
the athletic features OF the game, they
would be more active in organizing
clubs.
The writer has in mind town where
the young people rarely got together
more than once a month, and since the
tennis club was organized the weekly
meetings have become the most enjoy
able of the events of the town. Let a
few more clubs be organized and tour
naments be held oftener, and
tennis will take a squirt that
viii place it far ahead Of all
other games and in the course of a
year or two we will be sending our play
ers to the north and east to add another
list OF victories to those OF our bicyclists,
athletes and horses.
Some of the games at Redondo yester-
day were as close and exciting as were
ever seen in our courts. The closing
e 4 .tn ~ On
One of the prettiest contests of the meet
of Los Angeles and Arthur Halsted Of
Riverside. Mr.. Cosby has been in the
top list of experts ever since tennis
began to be prominent in Southern Cal
ifornia. His well-known easy, sure
style of play has been the admiration of
the fair sex for several seasons. Mr..
Halsted is new player in this part OF
the country, this being his first appear
ance in a tournament in California. He
was schoolmateof of Campbell, the cham
pion of the United States, whose style
OF play he follows quite noticeably. 1t
took three sets to decide the match. The
volleying of Halsted was very strong
and accurate and succeeded in winning
the match for him, 2-6, 60, 81.
Cochran and German on another
court were also playing very pretty
match at the same time. These young
players are improving their game every
day, and some of the rallies were highly
exciting. Cochran won by score OF
6-2, 6-3, and Bumiller and Chase had a
very even set, the former winning the
last set after the games were five all.
Bumiller is one of the best examples
of what young players will work up to.
This is his first tournament and his
play is very remarkable for so short a
time.
One of the greatest surprises of the
tournament was his winning from
Halsted in the third round by two
straight sets, so, 64.
Cochran and Arnold played highly
exciting match, and when the former
succeeded in winning the second set the
spectators gave him hearty round of
applause. =,
The steady work of Arnold was too
much for him, however, the former
winning by the scorce of 6-3, 2-6, SO.
This leaves Arnold and Bumiller to
compete for the championship. If the
little player only keeps his game in
hand, he will give Arnold hard fight.
LADIES' SINGLES.
The opening sets OF this event were
the center OF attraction during the day.
The first match was between Miss Gill;
land, of Riverside, and Miss Halsted, of
Alhambra. This was one of the pret-
tiest matches of the season. Miss Hal
sted made her first appearance in open
tournament, and for this reason the
popular favor seemed to lean toward her
success. She was slightly nervous, but
the graceful background play and strong
strikes showed that she had a good
knowledge of how the game should be
played.
known to all tennis players. She has
rather an awkard stroke, particularly
her back hand one, but her placing is
superb, and she beat her young oppon-
ent by playing close to the side lines.
When Miss Halsted has had few
months more experience match be-
tween the two will be highly interest
ing. The score was "a, 6-4.
Miss Shoemaker and Miss Tufts,
also had very even match,
but the Pasadena girls steady game
won the match for her.
Miss Tufts shows great improvement
over her last appearance. Miss Shoe
maker is in grand form and will give
Miss Gilliland hard fight in the finals.
AFTERNOON.
After luncheon the gentlemen's dou-
bles began. Cawston and Woodhouse
beat Wallace and Lane, of Alhambra,
after three close sets. The Alhambra
players did we'll considering the skill Of
their opponents. The score was 6-4,
5-6, so.
Cosby and German beat Stevens Hal
stead and Roth two straight sets, 6-2,
ga.
Arthur Halsted and Bettner, OF River
side, beat Kilgariff and Singleton,
Although some OF the rallies were
hotly contested the general play OF these
games was not up to the standard OF the
others.
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