St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-22
TENNIS week AT The LAKE
SIXTH ANNUAL NOR THWEST=RH TOUR
EAMERT At KiaEET0NKA.
FINE SPORT rs pRom1snp.

tOBhd Is 10 DC leEnlS Week, anu lovers
of the sport will throng to the Hotel 81
Louis. on whose courts the tournament
! the sixth annual of the Northwestern.
association, will be held. The tourHa-
ment and the play 1t will develop will
| undoubtedly be the tine best ever seen
in the West outside of Chicago, andSin
this and the well known fact that;
the week is maze continues round OF
social gayeties is easily found the rea--
son enthusiasts are promising them.
selves SO much pleasure for the next
seven or eight days. The number of en-
tries in the tourney is larger than it has
ever been before, the prizes offered are
more costly, and the social programme,
as arranged by Manager Hall, of the st.
Louis, more complete than that of any
past season.
The tournament matches begin to-
morrow afternoon. The courts OIL which
all games must be played are in fine
condition, and so from the start speedy
work may be expected. The drawing
for games for the forty.five or fifty
knights of the racquet who will try
! their skill ami fortune will probably be
made this afternoon, so that by tomor-
row players will not be delayed in get
ting off preliminary games.
| The entries include all the swift men
from the Western association tourna-
ment held Ill Chicago last week, and it
is probable that some one of these will
be the opponent Belden will have to
face when he defends his title to the
| oh mi, no ar
cago cracks as it now stands includes
the following scheduled entries: Victor
Elting, from whom Belden won the
championship last year; Evarts and
George Wrenn, Ben Page. Montgomery
Kniekerbocker, S. II. Wardner,
l.. l.. Myers, Charles and Sam Neil.
Mundy and Sam Chase, last years
champion Of the West. OF these men,
over half have never played in any
Northwestern tournament before, so
some idea may be formed of the outside
attention being attracted by the event.
Other entries include j. Gould and Sam
Evans, of Oshkosh; Allan Jackson,
| Finch. Armstrong. Mackee and others.
of st. Paul. and large Minnea polls
representation. Belden, Wallace, Cook,
Jayne and John Mitchell in the number.
The prizes for the tournament this
year are very handsome. The cham
pionship takes with IL a handsome low
ing cup of solid silver AID appropriately
| engraved. The "winner of the all
corners" Is rewarded for his skill by a
fine diamond ring, and winners in
doubles receive prizes of a similar
nature. In these rings the stones are
clear and well cut and the setting ar
tistic. Other prizes are diamond sleeve
buttons of tasty design. Consolation
prizes are tennis racquets Of the finest
make. A.,
The social programme Of the week
will mark each event with something
special. During the week it is an
nounced that the Corpi lady trio from
f, Chicago will be at the hotel, and Mon
| day evening concert will be given by
| them. Tuesday the informal hop of the
! week will occur, and Oh Wednes-
| day an excursion on the lake
| to Excelsior to witness amateur
theatricals presented by some
| Christmas lake young people. A tennis
| german will he on the programme for
Thursday evening, and musical pro-
| gramme on that for the following night.
| The last misunderstanding be
signalized by grand tennis hop.
| The date of the Minnesota Winnipeg
races, which are to be held at Mime
| tonka, has been finally settled for July
| 30-31. The Lurlines, of Minneapolis,
say this will prevent the entrEOf their
| representatives, but the other oarsmen
! will be on hand and in nearly all events,
| and crews win he in from Duluth. Rat
| Portage ST. Paul and Winnipe9, and some
| good sport may be looked for, though in
! some quarters trouble has beeli taken to
| ammo unce that il the regatta were held
the first of the week it would tiZZle out.
| Many of the oarSmen will arrive early
| this week so as to get in last touches on
| their training. The training quarters
for the rowing men will be the Old Lur
| line boat house, near the Lafayette, at
which hotel they will all stay. All
| races will finish in front of Minnetonka
Beach.
ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT.
For the second time a postpone ment
of the first cup race of the season was
rendered necessary by the failure of the
breeze in yesterday afternoons yacht
club event. When the start was made
there was promise that the boats would
complete the race within the time re-
Quired, but the wind suddenly diSap-
peared. and no amount of whistling
could bring it back. At the time
the race was called off the Bird was
leading the feet by a good half-mlle.
with the other boats not yet past the
first buoy-that down in Crystal bay.
The boats starting were the Bird, Kid,
Diamond, Oswa, Cupid, Hernes. King
bird, Senorita and Daphne, of the
special and twenty-foot cat class; the
second-class sloop Pysche. the tirst-ciass
cats Pinafore and Aurelia and seven
footers -Argo. Marie, Kite, Alpha, lid
die dey Wlnks, Thistle and g. l.. G.
The yacht club held meeting last
! Thursday evening but transacted no
business of special interest. The pro-
test from the Alpha as to the time limit
was not heard, though something had
been expected OF il. If the protest re-
ceives favorable decision from the re-
gatta commirtee-though this is not
probabe-it will make race of one of
the races called off earlier in the season
and give that event to the Alpha. Yes
terday'S postponed race will probably be
sailed nsXt Wednesday afternoon.
AT the meeting two new prizes wero
added to the number already sailed for.
they were handsome silk banners, and
were presented by john Donaldson,
owner OF the Cupid. One, the prize for
sloops, was painted, and the other, the
prize for cats, embroidered. The prizes
go TO the boats. irrespective of class,
winning the most races during the sea-
son.
Tuesday evening of this week the
Hotel Lafayette holds ''cake walk. z
in which the Driucinal mart ia tn na
taken by the colored people of the
house. The walk is TO be for cake
frosted with silver-not imaginary, but
in actual reality-silyer quarters and
dimes being used in the design. A
purse of value is 10 be hung for the
winners. and from the way in which the
walters and other members OF The cult