Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-30
AmoNG THE TENNIS PRAYERS.


 The Annual Tournament for the Championship of New England Bee gun at the Grounds Of the Lawn Club Yesterday -S Some Interesting Games-The Doubles to be Begun To-Day-A Gala Day at the Lawn Club.
 The annual tournament for the tennis championship of New England began at the grounds of the New Haven Lawn club on Whitney avenue yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, and several very interesting matches in the singles were played of through the course of the day. The play CTS are not favored with their proverbial s'tennis weather" this year. Those who observe such things say that almost every year before during the spring tennis tour nament the weather has been so hot and sultry that the name "tennis weather" has come to be applied to 1t. This year, how ever, Is . marked contrast, for after the heavy showers of Monday evening the players enjoyed most perfect and desirs- ble day for the sport yesterday, although the courts were little soft owing to the rain.
 There were several spectators present in the morning and as the afternoon games were being played quite 8 large crowd, among them being many ladies, gathered around the courts and on the piazza of the pretty little club house to witness the play.
 The first match in the morning was be- tween John Rowland Yale '94, winner of the '94 class tournament, and J. E. Reed of Harvard. Rowland won the match rak kr,f f I'm NxyR fFN games and the second being love set. Howland Is one of the best players entered and is one of the possible winners of the tournament.
 In the second match F. L. Chase of the Lawn club defeated R. F. Rand '95 s., e2, 7-5 In the afternoon Edwin P. Fisch- or of the West Side Tennis club of New York city defeated Mir. Pinchot 6 3, 6 1, easily. As result Rowland and Fischer will be pitted against each other to day to play the match out and very interesting and exciting game is expected, as they are two of the best players in the tournament. Richard Hooker of the Hopkins Grammar school defeated A. E Wright, graduate defeated Edmund Q. Trowbridge of the Hopkins grammar school, who won | the recent Yale interkcholastic tournament 62,61. This result pits Fowler against J.W. Nichols, jr, of the New Haven Lawn club, who defeated Wrenn of Harvard at | Tuxedo last summer. The game will be | played to-day and the winner will play Hooker, who won yesterday from Wright. ! A. E. Kent, Yale '97, won easily from Jud- ! son s. Butcher, a tutor in college, 0. o. | J. T. Terry, '95S. won from Cragin in a cloee game. 7-9, 6 ?, 6,1. Terry and Kent will continue the match to-day. A. E. Foote, Yale '96. who won second piace in the tournament last year won from Alfred Goldman of Harvard, 62, GA Winthrop E. Dwight, Yale '93, won from E. Hart by default. Foote and Dwight will continue the match to-day. Millet of Amherst. wor from Newman A. Smyth, Yale '97, 6 2.6 3 George s. Bryan of Bridgeport, Conn. ,whe | defeated E E. Hall at Bar Harbor last
 year, won from J. F. Tslmadgs, jr., Yale '95, in very closely played and exciting gams, reeultipg 6. GA, GA. They were
 both of them excellent players, and 1t wal nip and tuck between them throughou
 the set. W. Gordon Parker of Columbia
 winner of the inter-scholastic tournsmen
 in New York. won easily from Dr. w. l.
 Phelps, Yale 's7, 60, 6O- Parker and F L Chase will continue this match to day
 The preliminary matches in the double
 will probably be started to-day. W. G
 Parker and E. P. Fischer of the West Sld
 Tennis club of New York will form on
 team. Rowland and Foots of Yale, F. L Ohace and Judson Butcher, both Yale in
 structors, and George s. Bryan of Bridge
 port and partner will be some of the team
 that will compete for the prizes in tn
 doubles.
 This afternoon there will be 8 tea at tn
 Lawr club, and altogether it will be tn
 gala day of the tournament.
 There Is considerable speculation anon
 the tennis men who will be the winner 0
 the $350 challenge cup offered by the Ney
 Haven Lawn club for the championshi
 of New England in singles. Rowland
 Terry and Foote of Yale, Parker of Go
 lumbia and Bryan of Bridgeport, are con
 sidered to be among the best players, an
 from the results of yesterdays games
 taken with. the previous records of thes
 men, 1t is reasonable to suppose the GU
 will fall to one of them. Clarence Hobal
 is the present holder.