The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-20
ASPIRE TO CHAMPIONSHIP
MANY COMPETING TENNIS EXPERTS
 AT NEWPORT.


 Larned Defeats G. L. Wrenn in an Exciting
 Contest--The English Visitors, MahOny,
 Eaves and Nisbet Win Their Matches in
 the Preliminary Round-Summary of the
 Results in All the Contests.
 Newport, R. l., Aug. 19.-All of the matches in the first round in the tour nament of the National Tennis cham pionship in singles at the Casino were played to-day, and barring two or three of the contests, none attracted other than passing attention. The interest of the morning centered in the w. A. Larned-G. l.. Wrenn match, and the spectators saw the New Jersey man make one more strike toward the coV- eted championship, but only after warm contest with another of the 1rre- pressible Wrenn family.
 Larned won In four sets. S-6, 3-6, 6-2, S-6, but only close perusal of the summary of the points show how close oA the foreigners won their matches in this first round, Mahony and Nisbet in straight sets and Dr. Eaves in a four set match with c. R. Budlong of Prov idence In this latter match the Amer ican gave the Englishman pretty rub and the match was perhaps next in interest to the LarnedW Wrenn contest.
 The only surprise of the day was the defeat of Sheldon of Yale, the yester- days champion, in doubles with Ware, by J. F. Paret of New York.
 The Larned- Wrenn match was play ed on the championship court which was still heavy and slippery. Larned won in the end by his swift, sure re- turns. On the other hand Wrenn was kept at top speed throughout and only the famous Wrenn grit and pluck kept him going until the last stroke was made. Not few experts have already picked him as winner next year. To- day he relied considerably on lobbing, while Larned hung to his swift, low returns, which in the end won.
 The match started with Larned's s serving. Wrenn played we'll at the net throughout this set but Larned seem- ed to fail there, gaining most of his points from long drives.
 Summary of first set:
 stofnf 1afnfq1 k samss 4 4. g. l. l. f. 3, 4, Wrennm4, ?, Q, 4, Q, 5, 10, 4, 4, ?, 3, 5, ?, 3-total AS; games 6.
 Wrenn put on more steam in the sec ond set, although Larned kept him moving throughout. Summary of sec- ond set:
 Larned-4, 4, 8, 5, 5, 2, o, Il, 5-total 39; games 3.
 Wrenn-o, 6, 5, 3, 3, 4, 4, 13, 7-total 45; games G.
 as Wrenn fell off in his play. Sum- mary of third set: Larned-5, 1, 4, 1, 4, 4, 2, 4-total 2s; games 6.
 Wrenn-3, 2, 1, 4 i, O, 4 2-total IT. games 2. The fourth set was another hot one, especially in the last games. Both men played in fine shape and in the tenth game Wrenn was within one point of the set but could not win. Summary of the fourth set:
 Iarnedns, tarns to 5, ?, 4, 4, 1, 0, 7, 3, 4 4, 1Ntota1 MSennN9 a5 e6mss g. B ?, 5, > 2 l,
 Summary:
 Championship singles, preliminary round
 J. F. Paret defeated G. F. Sheldon GA, 60, 6-3. First Round M. D. Whitman defeated F. F. Brook by default. H. s. Mahony defeated J. c. Goodfellow
 H. A. Nisbet defeated J. T. Willing 6-3, 6-2, GA B. Q; Wright defeated J. A. Ryerson e-2 GA, 3-6 5-7, 6-3.
 w.. 4. Larned defeated G. L. wrenn s-6, 3-6, 6-2, S-6.
 J. D; Forbes defeated R. McMahon 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 60.
 D. P. Fisher defeated W. S. Bond 46 6-3, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.
 M. D. Smith defeated J. D. Stevens by default
 J. P. Paret defeated M. Goodbody GA GA, 60.
 ", H. Eaves defeated c. R. Budlong e-4
 J. c. Nicely defeated B. T. Gross 6-2, GA 6-2
 e-!' a' e,s @ara aefea'ed o' N' s0st"iek S-1'
 G.. ": Lee defeated W. W. Reese 6-4 6-1, retired.)
 l.. E. Ware defeated R. Proctor, (score to come.)
 R. ! Holt defeated D. K McKenroe by default.