Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-20
TENNIS MAKES PROGRESS
Omaha Interstate Tournament Brings Out
Interesting Games.
PRELIMINARY ROUNDS OUT OF THE WAY
Process of wedding out the Weaker
Players is Now About Complete
and the Contests Are Nnr-
rowing Down.

Players Is Now About Complete
and the Contests Are Nnr-
rowing Down.
The threatening weather kept away the
attendance at the Interstate Lawn Tennis
tournament all day. While both the morn
ing and afternoon matches were going on
the skies were heavy and dropped rain every
once in while, keeping the devotees, es-
pocially those Of the fairer sex, under shelter.
Yet when the conditions are considered the
afternoons attendance was not very bad
The days play brought the tournament
well through the second round in both the
doubles and the singles. The latter were
played in the morning and developed some
very fine tennis playing. The doubles games
in the afternoon were not by any means
as interesting, although the play was suf-
ficiently good to be worth looking at.
In yesterday mornings program as in the
play of the preceding day, the interest CEN
tered in one match, that between Austin
and Carver.
BY far the prettiest match Of the morn
ing, however, was the one between Haskell
and Condee, the latter being q Chicago boy.
Carver beat Austin with in two sue
cessive sets. the score of each being 6-1. To
gain his victory Carver did not put up an
exceptionally good game by any means.
Austin apparently was unable to come up TO
the occasion. His balls fell short and
dropped into the net. Out of twenty-eight
points to Carver's credit in the first set
Austin gave no less than dozen by driving
into the net and half as many again by
sending out of the court. In the second
set he gave Carver eleven by throwing the
ball into the net and nine more by sending
it out of court, the total points being
twenty seven.
Carver played an easy game. which was
especially marked by his beautiful lobbng.
He gained a good many of his points di-
rectly on his service stroke, which Austin
frequently was unable to return. This was
in direct contrast to Austin. who could not
win on his service. Carver also displayed
good deal more lead work than his oppo-
nent. He seemed to divine where the ball
was coming and was usually in place. Aus
tin. on the other hand. was compelled to
run from one part of the court to the other
continually, and seemed to cover several
times more ground than his opponent.
The game was as a whole not very inter-
esting. probably from the fact that it was
too one-sided There were no long rallies,
but occasionally some brilliant strokes were
made. The score by points is as follows:
First set
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Second set:
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HASKELL AND CONDEE.
The match between Haskell and Condee
far prettier and more interesting. 1t is
rarely that two better matched players than
these two appear upon the courts. Both
were in to win, and as consequence every
point in the match was contested in royal
fashion. 1t was only in the three last games
of the third and final set that the match was
really decided. Haskell should certainly
have won because in the concluding set the
score was 4-3 in his favor with him at
service. Here he fell down, however and
Condee won out with three straight games.
The honors were evenly divided. Both
placed excelently. Both returned difficult
balls with beautiful strokes. The rallies
were long and fine, and were usually con-
cluded by a brilliant drive, which rarely
passed without an effort being made at e
return. Condee was triie we7k on lobs and
Haskell might pos sibly have done better ii
he had adopted this style of play. There is
no doubt. however. that the aggressive game
he played was more interesting.
The match was one set all and the score
4-3 in Haskell's favor in the third set He
was at service. He played with deter
mination to win as the game evidently de-
cided the match, and Condee equally
determined that he should not. AS a con.
sequence the prettiest playing of the match
ocCuTTeu III tndt game anu was HdTkeN
with brilliant drives and pretty returns
AS an indication of the spirit of the players,
1t may be mentioned that each fell down
once in their efforts TO reach the ball.
Condee finally won out in deuce game.
the score being SO. He captured the fol-
lowing two with ease, Hassel evidently be-
coming nervous. The full score is:
First set:
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Second set:
G91Ssf GssEsir ::::::: Is Ess 6
Third set
GGnGsf GasRsfl ::3 :.:: fs4 t-sf t-3i E E
From the score it will be seen that in the
three sets each player obtaired thirteen
games, and that Haskell made three
more points than Condee. he getting total
of eighty-two and Condee total of seventy
nine. This indicates the quality of the two
players.
There was no other important match al
though that between Bond and Stoker may
be mentioned on account of the formers
play. His strokes were frequently brilliant
and out of the ordinary, from the fact that
they were invariably driven hard. He
seemed to be trife erratic. The Farms
worth Wilder match was also noteworthy
from the fact that the first player, the 10
year-od boy from Grand Island, won out.
Wilder is Kansas City man.
Inc morning results IN the singles were
as follows
First round:
Bond beat Stoker, 6-2 6-4
Waidner beat Hardy, 6-1, 6-1
Carver beat Austin, 81, 6-1.
Second round:
Farnsworth beat Wilder. 6-3. 7-5
Condce beat Haskell, 1-6. G-3, Ga.
Haverstick beat Williams. ga GA.
DOUBLES FALL FLAT
The most interesting match in the doubles
in the afternoon was that between w. ID.
Bond and Guy Hardy, Chicago team and
NJ. Hopkins and r. H. Spencer. The Omaha
pair put up a rattling game, Hopkins being
especially in evidence. He, more than his
partner, was responsible for the fact that
Omaha came out OF the match with a re-
spectacle showing. 1t would have seemed
as II the Omaha pair should have done even
better than ii did in the second set for
at one time the score was Sail. The Chi
cago lads, however. set a pace from that
point and won three in succession. The
score 6-2, 6-3.
Another Chicago team defeated an Omaha
pair. r. w Condee and +. Anderson won
from G. f. Haverstick and NJ Colpetzer in
W. ho