The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-14

as is the young New Yorker. He varies
his style of pias judiciously and "lobs"
accurately at the proper moment: HAN Is
looked upon as likely to make his marx
this year in the championships.
Another player whose success this year
attracted great attention to his peculiar
style Of game Is Richard Stevens. OF Ho-
boken, n. ]. Stevens plays: what is
known as ''base line" game first. last
and all the time. That is, he remains
away hack in his court, returning
everything on the bound and never
running to the net to voiiey as 10 most OF
the experts of the present day. The cool,
steady, constant play of the Hoboken man
is what has won him so many victories
and when opposed to an erratic player his
style of game appears in its Best light.
Stevens has gotten his method of play
down to finer point than he ever had in
previous years, and began his seasons
success by winning the Middle states
championship. But the biggest feather IN
his cap thus far, was his victory: at West
chester, where he came out first with
clean record of six victories and no defeats
in contest in which each man played
every other man, among the contestants
being such doughty opponents as u. L.
Hall. r. d. Wrenn, c. %. SANDS. Il. z.
ken man will undoubtedly RANK well at
Newport, and his conqueror has lots of
hard work cut out ahead for him.
There are several other weil-known ex.
perts whose early matches at Newport
will be watched with great interest Tho
most prominent is 8. I. Chase, Of Chicago.
the champion of the wild and woolly"
west, who will compete in several of the
Eastern meetings before the champion
ships. Up to this year Chase was more Of
base line player than he was volleyer.
but in the Longwood tournament he
showed new tendency to get 20 the net.
Chase's older brother, Charles A. Chase,
from the West at Newport, and when he
retired on account of the pressure OF busi-
ness his mantle was won by hIs brother,
who thus comes of tennis stock.
Sammy Chase's cool, steaay game
is known to every regular on
locker, and his strict attention to the
business in hand, and most attractive
great favorite with the spectators.
Last year Chase was one of the Western
double pair who came so very close to
beating Campbell and Huntington in the
match of the East against the sVest, but
this year his partner, Ryerson, iYined for
tunes with the latter'S old partner and
were successful again.
Not only will the West be represented in
the national event, but even the Pacific
slope will send its candidates in the per-
sons of C. 2. Hubbard and J. T@bin, both
from California. Nothing proves the in
creasing popularity of the game Of tennis
more than the tact that all SECTIONS of the
country are taking hold of . it with
enthusiasm, and East, West, South, and
even the far-distant Pacific slope,
will contend in friendly rivalry with
one another. Hubbard is one Of the best
players on the entire Pacific coast; in
fact, he ranks second, having. won the
annual tourney for the PaciEc cham
pionship, but then met defeat at the
hands of w. w. Taylor, who had held it
for some. years. Hubbard made
very favorable impression in his first ap-
pearance in the East, at the Longwood
meeting, and by his victory ever Z. ID.
Wrenn, of Harvard, proved himself to be
very clever expert with the racset. His
them to shoot rapidly toward his oppon-
ent, but ne fails to put much force into his
returns. Hovey defeated the Californian
in the semi-fnals in three stras ght sets,
but the novelty of meeting such noted
"crack" as the intercollegiate champion
evidently made Hubbard a sic nerv-
Gus, which nervousness will doubtless
disappear before the championships
take place. Tobin is a good player, but
not the equal, by any means. of his
confrere. Neither NJ. D. Smith. of Phila-
delphia, nor Percy Knapp, of New York,
has been heard from to any extent this
year, but the former from his victory over
Hobart in June, and the latter, on gen.
erai principles, viii doubtless appear in
good form when DR.. Dwight says, ''piay
ball."
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