The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-24

szecaasftlsly defended lis title yes
.@-sgv afternoon against tie astack
~ sar,szss, Il. Rass@il TIE brilliant young
k,esI cs,ara1l3n. Il vas cieaH-c4S VIC
,arv tree straight sets. 90. sA, Ga
Hard played a cool. steady game. taxing
Advantage O. ~. slightest weakness ex-
asbited b. nis younger and less experienced
oaronert. /. WAS seneralship. combined
with scientifc play. thai brought the VIC
,arv at Zines Russell d.6 exceedingly
brilliant work. bu. iEexperienes caused hin.
10 fall inio trsDe; lie Deeasns Wild and went
90 defeat
Af4sg Kfown, OF Tacoma won TIE STATE
cham vtons.i, ia ladies' singles By defeat
ing st-s Bird, OF West Seattle, e-s. IS. s-i-
Nas K Gown played a brilliant game. she
was ali over the court ike fash, ami
made accurate returns from any part OF
II. At tlmas Mrs Bird sqaaIed Mass
Keoan IL brllIlancy. bat nervousness made
Il Impossible for her 70 maintain the pace.
TT., championship ia mixed double wen,
&c Miss Riley and Mr. Russell without
great effort on their part. They beat Miss
Remington and Mr. Fransioii In an un-
finished match. and then easily defeated
Ms Bird and Dir. Hayes.
Society folk were on hand in fall force
when Referee Readman announced the
championship contest III gentleInen's sin
giles.
Champions Received with Applause.
The appearance OF the players for the
cIapping o. hands Russell had the north
court with the wind az his back. while
Hurd bad the serve. The wind was quite
strong and promised 70 interfere greatly
with the quality or tennis. J. ID. Lowman
acted as umpire. while Dir. Peuy. Mr.
Wright. M Rollins. Mr. Murray. NJ.
Ktsk Mr. Smith. Mr.. Stsrnberg and MI
Daslsn locked after the lines,
The l:ght white bail was tossed In the
ar ard HufIs racket sent Il whizzing over
the nat. Ii struck inside and Tie great
snatch waa on Russell returned with a
hard uaderhaRd drive. but Hurd received
IL oleveriy and saot back a hot ore. He
had gained control of his famous terrific
hsek lie drive. The match was evidently
~ be a hot one Three times the ban
shof backward ard forward. The rally
be0ughf forth applause when Russell met
terrific drive while close up 70 the let
gasselta ffiends were ready 10 cheer bat
the champion came ua win "a rush. caught
TIE bail nsAr the ground ard lifted IL over
the les g5th rotsi,ie. bile elevation Rus
SCI Bent AFTER II. struck. and tie bal
shot cal of eoaTt TIE champion had wou
the ags' point VITA the sc0:o 4o-i5 ia
favor u Ilurd Russell brought IL 10 deuce
viii beautiful cF5ss-23Grt drive VISTA
the same stroke hs got vantage. bu:
brought ths score back 10 deuce BY driving
Ca Hgr3 popped one up easy and Rus
rsfI smashed Il faT vantage. After an tx
e3tHs rally Husd shot ore into the top Of
TIE fat ar1 Russell haI won the fgzt
game. There WAS no let-up tn the second
game. Russell wanted one point to - out.
when HHrd showed his scientific work by
lettIng hafA drives go cut Of court Deuce
wa called ard then the eight WAS intensely
Interesting Russell at THE net received
lufds hafd baze line drives in the same
faui.ess Etyls SIS shown IS Mr.. Feukcs
$ tdeniE the champion changed his tactics
ard popped the bah over RusselTs head
III made great 0rToft 20 get Il. but the
tTsck wAs done and the game went 70
U1ri Is8ssell took the u1xt game after il
hal gone - deuce but Il was becoming ap~
parent thar fiurd was steatler Russell
wss driving :nto tina net IN attempts 20
sfuash. ~ going up iuto the air afteE balls
THAT would have gone out ~ court A.
thonSh he rallied TOWARD the last OF the set.
4 was 70 use.