The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-26
BOB WRENN THE CHAMPION.
WRISTS THE TITLE FROM FRED
 HoYEY AT NEWPORT.

It Was a Beautiful Contest of Science,
 Skill and Endurance-The Harvard Man
 Plays Wonderful Game. Retrieving the
 Honors From the Man by Whom He
 Was Vanquished Last Season Beauty,
 Culture and Wealth Fringe the Courts.
 Newport, R. l., Aug. 25.-Even to the very end the skies were propitious for the tennis players, and to-day, the last of the long tournament, was perhaps the best of the entire seven. Under perfect conditions, and with the cham pionship match on, the gayly dressed crowd of spectators easily ranked the largest and best of the week
 The champion, Hovey, defended his title against Wrenn, its former holder, from whom a year ago he wrested 1t. Another ex-champion, Campbell, from the referees chair called time. Wrenn | won the point a place. From this point | through the long set the tennis was or very high character, as good or bet 1 ter than any seen this year. It was good on both sides of the net too, and on which side the better was an open | question.
 Hovey's strength was in his cross | court placing, on which he repeatedly counted with skill He had great speed, l too, and drove harder than Wrenn and also now and then scored an ace on his swift service. Wrenn's play seemed to l be marked by great care and general | excellence of all-around work, rather | than special brilliancy at any point. | Before Hovey really began his best play Wrenn. ran up three games-loVe; l then Hovey met him with three more and went beyond till he had won five in succession. With only one game be- l tween him and the loss of the set, | yTrenn began to score again and first
 aade it five-all, and then went out largely on superior placing. aided by Hovey's nets after a very strong and l brilliant set.
 I Hovey could not hold the place in the 1 third. It had seemed from the first that the gait struck by both had been l too fast and the grade of play too high to be maintained unbroken longer than a set or two. As between the contestants, Hovey was looked upon as l the most likely first to make the break and, as was expected, it came in this third set. It was not bad break, not | a slump, but it was sufficient, while Wrenn continued his good form to lose him not only the set itself. but every | game of the six, which were all that were needed to decide it.
 l Wrenn was playing the same strong and steady game which he had been showing since the match opened. In- deed by comparison with Hovey' s weakened form, it seemed even more brilliant than before. Hovey's play was still good but not equal to his early game, and again Wrenn's sus- tained efforts could make good show ing on points in every game, but was not equal to pulling out a single game I itself, much less the full set.
 ] It was now two sets-all with the l championship hanging in the fifth. | Wrenn as usual entered it with su- preme confidence and 1t carried him | through It was the third and fourth over again, but this time the pendulum swung Wrenn's way The rallies were sharp and long, every point was hotly contested, nearly all the games were won by narrow margin. But the rai- lies ended more often in Wrenn's fa- vor, the points generally went his way and the games and finally the set was scored for him,
 | Hovey fought hard in the fourth and 1 fifty. but lost Then in the sixth Wrenn at forty-love needed but a single point to win the prize but could not get it. Slowly Hovey raised the score to deuce and then, after several vantage games won. Tn the seventh two outs and a net put Wrenn once more where but a single point from victory. This time there was a scrimmage at close quar- ters in which Hovey finally sent the ball into the net and with it his cham pionship honors. It was victory for l skilful and consistent tennis
 Summary: R. D. Wrenn beat F. IT. l Hovey, 7-5, 3-6 60, 1-6, 6-1
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