St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-27
PLAYED ALL AROUND EX-CHAM-
PION CHASE IN THE TENNIS
SEMI-FINALS.
MYERS HAS FEATHERS, TOO
IN A GREAT GAME WITH MOULD
ING HE YIELDS A WINNING
RACQUET.
CRACKS ARE IN THE FINALS.
Myers and Belden, Jayne and
Cook, Moulding and Waid-
ner.

CHARLES Chase, eX-champion of the
West, and the most illustrious of
the great tennis family, yesterday
suffered a crushing defeat at the
hands of George K. Belden, of Min
neapolis, another ex-champion, but
representing the younger school of
tennis players. That Belden beat
Chase was. no surprise, but that he
should win by such a score seemed
utterly out of the question. Chase
is still in the front rank of tennis
players. He has the same endur-
ance, the same wrist and arm of
steel, the same cool and careful
play that for years enabled him to
hold his title of champion of the
West against all corners, and to
stand third Or fourth among the
cracks Of the entire country. But
younger men have passed him in
the art. Indeed it is probable that
either of the two Chicagoans who
played in the semi-finals yesterday
could also have taken the match
from him.
Though uneven it was a great
match after all. It was witnessed
by the largest crowd of the week,
and it was, of course, a Belden
crowd, as the applause showed
Judge Belden was sitting some dis
lance from the courts, his keen
judicial eye bent closely to follow
each play. Judge Ell Torrance, E.
]. Phelps and other prominent Min
neapolitans with a taste for good
tennis, were on hand hoping to see
the favorite win. Three o'clock
came, but no players. Soon after
Belden came out with Tom Wallace,
and INDUCED in little sharp prac-
tice to get his arm in trim, and to
cure himself of those vexatious net
returns. Half an hour later Chase
came on the court with his insep-
arabic, bottle of Apollinaris water.
Belden opened the play in dashing
style, and soon had the crowd cheer
ing his clever drives down the side
lines, and his lightning rallies. He
made the first a love game, then
took closely contested deuce game.
The third game was the best yet.
1t ran quickly to deuce, but Chase
claimed vantage four times, the last
after a phenomenal recovery by
Belden. Chase took another and
the score was two ALL Be1den now
sailed in and played a splendid
game. For him it was a remark
ably sure game, and all Chase's
re. -
not take enough to win a game,
and the set went to Be1den, 60.
The next game was a close one.
Chase led, but Belden took two
points by clever stratagem, return
ing the ball each time to the corner
of the court, where it would be least
expected. But the third time Chase
was there, and stayed there until he
had won his point, with a Lawford
just over the net. He was one game
to the good. Again the score was
brought to two all, and again the
Minneapolis boy began to play win
ming tennis. Chase fought hard
and covered the court in admirable
style. He resorted at last to lob
bling as defensive measure, but
it only protracted the agony, and
his lobs were not always good. At
last the score-keeper called: Game
set, and match for Mr.. Belden," and
his reading of the score was drowned
in the tumult of cheering.
The court was thronged in an
instant with tennis men eager to
congratulate the winner and to
give Chase the praise due him for his
plucky work.
81 feel that I don't know anything
about tennis" Chase said. "Belden's
game was too good for me-
Immediately following the Chase
Belden match, two Chicago cracks
faced each other in the semi-finaIs,