The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-28


Day VS.. Merrill 60. 6-S.
To Trafford N. Jayne, one Of the pio-
neer members of the Minneapolis ten
| mis- club, as it originally existed, fell
/ the distinction yesterday afternoon of
! opening the eleventh annual North
western tennis tournament on the Ho-
/ tel Lafayette courts. He made the
! first service in the first match and won
/ the first set 60. He played Will Finch,
of ST. Paul. and one of the two repre-
sentatives which the other twin sent
| to the tournament, is thus out on the
/ first round, with only chance to dis
/ tinguish himself in consultations. Arm
strong of st. Paul. who played later in
/ the day, did better than that and won
! from his opponent. 1t was a little past
! 8 by the round-faced clock in the hotel
office when word was passed along the
! line that the first matches were called
The tournament had begun under aus
| picious circumstances. There is every
indication of week of as good tennis
as most people will see in year, and
that there will be growing interest
each day was demonstrated by the
crowd that assembled for the opening
games.
The advance delegation of tennis
players arrived as early as Friday Of
last week, when w. L. Meyers came in
| from Chicago, to spend a few days in
recreation before buckling down to
work on the courts. Meyers is fanil-
lar figure in the Northwestern tourna-
ments, having participated several sue
cessive summers. He was the runner
up last year and starts in with large
| following of supporters.
An ideal summer day greeted the
! PLAYERS. Better could not have been
! desired. with the heat Of the July
! sun tempered by a cooling breeze that
! blew In from the lake and met the
! cross breeze of the back bay. Half j
| dozen matches in the first round Of
singles were concluded, and satisfac-
! tory beginning is made. No one eX-
pected much display of skill in the pre-
/ liminary games, but the spectators who
gathered on the edge of the courts saw
enough to reward them. The matches,
| in all cases, were home player versus
! an outsider A few additional entries
were received yesterday, among them
! Ward Burton, of Harvard, who is sum-
mering with his family at Deephaven
on the south shore. Two of the best
! known tennis cracks arrived on the
tor Citing, from Chicago; Howard
Citing, St. Louis, both of whom have
participated in previous tournaments
| With them came John c. Neeley, Chi
cago, who omitted coming last year,
after he had been a regular FOR two or
three seasons. The Minneapolis dele
| cation showed up in pretty good shape,
with the majority of it's strongest play
ers to the front in the entry list.
1tC1,N Ii raY~4i y.
! the West Superior invitation tourna-
ment and will be on hand today. The
fact that Belden did so well in Superior
| as to come out in second place will lend
additional interest to his play IN the
| Northwestern.
Two of the three courts which were
| made ready for the tournament were
| used and were in good enough cond1-
| ton to be pronounced fair. One court
! was soft, but a little wetting will help
matters, and today 1t will be all right
The start in singles was made shortly
| after the arrival from town Of the
| early afternoon train. The opening
match was Jayne versus Finch. AS
the two men approached the courts,
| their arrival was watched with interest
by the group of spectators. They stood
! in the court to decide service. Finch
won the toss and chose the north court,
| nearest the Jay ne Ilcu
| the first service his ball went into the
enemy's territory, and the tournament
was on. A. F. Pillsbury stood guard on
! the inner side line as umpira. while
| Charles Folds pulled out a wad of
paper and made ready to score. Jayne
| was too much for the st. Paul boy, ana
| won the first set handily. lie lost two
games in the next set, but won OUT NJ
the end. His score at the end of the
match stood SO, 62.
The next entries in the court were
L. H. Waidner, of Chicago, and J. w
Parker, Minneapolis. Waidner proved
himself as agile and quick of spring as
in the past. His left hand plays and
| hard smashes were Familiarity dis
played and it was not hard for him to
| win his two sets and match at 81, 81
While this game was in progress, W.
| f. Slocum, of Chicago met and de-
feated Frank H. Barney, Minneapolis
The Minneapolis player was evidently
out of practice, and has not been in
the courts since last year. Neverthe-
| less, he played a plucky game, and
made his opponent work for his
honors Slocum won at 6-3, 60.
! Victor Elting and Albert Eddy, Chi
cago versus Minneapolis, next entered
the courts, and while Citing won at
60, 60, it was not all easy work
|
rill. Both were Minneapolis men, al
though Day has done most of his play
ing abroad, where he was in college
! He played a hard stroke, that sent the
balls flying through the air, and both
| sets fell his way with a winning score
Of CO. 6-3.
The last match Of the afternoon was
played by Armstrong, st. Paul, versus
McCasky, of the Northwestern Uni
versity. Ill. McCasky began in poor
form, and it looked at the start as if
! Armstrong had an easy thing. but the