New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-17
La WN TENNIS AT NEW PORT.
WARD AND DAVIS. THE WESTERN CHAM
PIONS. BEAT WHITMAN AND WRENN.

PlONS. BEAT WHITMAN AND WRENN.
Newport. r. l.. Aug ls CspeciaD-The opening
matches in the annual championship lawn-tennis
tournament attracted a good crowd OF enthusiast
tic spectators to the Casino here to-day. They
were well repaid for coming. for the double match
furnished lot OF excitement AS usual the
champions OF the East and the West came to-
gether here the first day TO decide which should
have the right to challenge last years winners,
Ware and Sheldon. for the National championship
IN doubles.
The result grea; surprise 10 those who
follow the game closest. for n great majority OF
the experts expected the Eastern team to win.
They were. however. badly beaten by Ward and
Davis. the Western champions. The latter are
Western players In name only. for both are Har-
ward students In the class OF %. AS they won the
doubles in the Western championship tournament
at Chicago last month. they have the right to
represent the West against Whitman. OF Harvard.
and George Wrenn. Il Harvard graduate. who won
the Eastern championship at Longwood the fol-
lowing week The latter pair were strong favorites
when they went on the court to-day
Ward and Davis had everything their own way
except I'm the third set. After taking the first two
sets rather easily the Western team played rather
loosely in the third set and lobbed short many
times. Wrenn and Whitman improved their oppor-
tunty and rushed ahead in the third game and
kept their lead to the end OF the set. which they
won by 81 They also captured the first two games
In the fourth ana what proved TO be the last set;
IT
counter Of it. the Western players took brace and
went 10 Ward and Davis and the match by three
set to one The order in which the games were
won Is shovr In tho following table:
Wsn. and a nf',' d
W WslIn aaa .s1 Mr.ns @ %
WsTl AMI a"% & 1;s..a .?
W W%ilm and ana H@'i Mr,nn:::. %
In the championship singles no less than twenty
and another crop will fall by the waysde tomor-
cScep, Edwin p. Fischer the crack wcsi Side
player who holds the metropolitan championship
his tennis. and he Could make no headw@y agains
Leo Ware. the Harvard crack In a.! three sets ne
poinimcn: among the other New-fork players IN
Tomorrow Bond. ;he Western crack will meet
Forbes Of Morrstown Iiackett. Of Yale. viii pay
Carleton of hayward bud,onE OF BrGyn ws
ton. has drawn Davis. OF Harvard. and Beden to
Thcsc should be the mos: exctln, lnatche. in the
singles. In the doubles however the maj mater
tween t sn Ward and DAVIS the Western champions
and the challcneers for the tie ana Ware ana
Late this afternoon L was runored thh a., nam nam
pion Bob Wrenn would after all defend ms lam
70 the National championship IN sinsl's ths sf a.
He Is expected here H. few days 10 practlse i"r
the cup match The scores OF III" first day" play
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Teane Miller b. default I>ou' Fi'zgerni. f. beat l. j.