Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-28
THE CONTEST CLOSED.
YESTERDAY EVENTS AT THE TEN
MS TOURNAMENT.
The Prizes Presented 60 the Successful
Ones--The Handicaps-The AS
sociation Singles.
The Ball.

SANTA MONICA, Aug. 27.-The tourna-
ment is about finished, as Monday will
wind it up. Although the audience was
large today, there was noticed slight
decrease in attendance.
The prizes were presented this after
noon to the winners.
First Mr.. R. P. Carter's name was
called. Proud as schoolboy, he walked
up and received the challenge cup Of the
all comers' singles, and listened to
ehorJ speech made by Mr.. Wier, in
which he referred to Mr.. Carter's bril-
liant playing.
Mr.. Bumiller was called, receiving the
second prize, and listened to q few re-
marks by Mrs. Carter.
Then the Chase brothers. winners of
the all-comers' doubles, were called, and
the crowd gave them a hearty applause.
The boys received silver challenge cup
each, and two silver soap boxes, after
which Mrs. Carter made the boys very
pretty speech.
M. A. Chase and Miss Gilliland re-
ceived their prizes as winners of the
mixed doubles, and Mr.. Cawston and
Miss Shoemaker received second prize.
The rest of the prizes were presented
privately.
|a THE PLAYERS.
r. P. and X. Carter beat Routh and
Alexander for the finals in association
doubles. Mr.. Routh showed remark
able improvement over his playing in
the Redondo tournament, making some
very brilliant strokes. The Carriers did
not show to such good advantage, as
they have been playing constantly for
the last week. The score: 6-2,6-5; s.
6,6-5.
THE HANDICAPs.
The official handicap fer the associa-
ton handicap singles are to be played
as follows:
M. A. Chase owes OF 80. L. n. Chase
owes Is, Alexander @. Lester owes d OF
15, Routh, scratch, Butcher and Ed
wards receive ID of 10, Halstead and
Manning receive q Of Is, Everest,
Woodhouse, X. Carter and Waring re-
ceive "a of Is, Acker, Hawes and
Osburn receive 15, Moore, Belts and
Frick ID of 30, Stoll, Sterling and Hart
receive % of 30, Winterbottom and Pat
terson receive q of 80, Carson receives
80.
The preliminaries drew as follows.
Stoll plays Manning; Moore plays
Alexander; Acker plays Hart, Belts
plays Corson ;Sterling plays Woodhouse
Patterson plays Routh; Edwards plays
Winterbottom Lester plays Asburn
Warning plays K. Carter; d. Frick
plays Hawes; L. N. Chase plays Butch
er; MA. Chase plays Everest.
The playing in the handicap will be-
gin promptly at 8 a. M, on Monday
morning.
The finale of the association singles
will be played at 2 p. m. Monday.
ASSOCIATION SINGLES.
In the association singles, first winner,
L. N. Chase beat Cochran, 6-3, 5-6, e-3.
In the second round Cawston beat l..
N. Chase 6-3, SO, 6-3.
In the third round Germain beat
Cawston 6-2, 6-3; M. A. Chase beat
Routh ga, 6-3.
In the fourth round Alexander beat
M. A. Chase GA, 6-1.
THE TENNIS BALL.
The tennis ball was q grand success,
the beautiful ball room presenting q
matchless scene Of youth and beauty
enjoying the pleasure Of the dance. The
Tennisites proved conctuaively that they
were as good worshipers at the shrine Of
the Goddess Terpsichore as of the Queen
Tennis, and their annual ball will long
be well remembered, as will the tourna-
ment which closes on Monday next.
Among those present were: Misses
Locke. Shoemaker, Mamie Peck, Greber,
Greenleaf, Grace Gilliland, Effie Wright,
Alexander, Edwards, McLaren, Hard.
ing Wells, Carter, Haskins, Jacquet
Hunter, Henshaw, Tufte, Maude TUFTS,
James, Cora Goodrich, Eleanor Pattee,
Lila Fairchild, Eleanor Tuttle, Gorham,
Carson, Etie and Meta Carson, Wilkes,
Chadwick, A. McNabb. Benson, Routh
Burt, Mr.. and Mrs. Bettner. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hart, Judge and Mrs. Otis, Mr..