The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-02
TENNIS TOURNAMENT IS ON
FIRST OF THE PRELIMINARY
GAMES AT MINNEAPOLIS
Larger Than Expected
for the Opening Day, and the
Play Such as to Guarantee a
Week of Ffrst-Class SpOrt-Per.
feet Day for Tennis, and the
Courts I'm Good Condition.

MINNEAPOLIS Aug. play in the
twelfth annual Northwestern tennis tourna.
ment has begun, and for the week the cracks
will stand in the public eye. A dozen matches
were played this afternoon. making noticeable
progress in the first round OF singles. Thers
was an unexpectedly sizeable attendance for
the opening games and as the payers were
weeded out the promise of good tennis became
apparent
The visiting men arrived Sunday and this
morning to be in readiness for the opening
and fine looking lot of young fellows there
are, too. They took part with zest and the
opening round went off with dash The
knowing ones are very hopeful and prophe sy
one OF =. Of the best tournaments yet he'd in the
Northwest. Some of the expected and famiI-
lar faces are not among the visitors L. III.
Waidner, for instance. the left-hand grand
S Wrean player lay rot is down d5 IN SANTIAGO Ers
come; the Chases are not to be present In
stead there is fine representation from Chi
swept everything before him in the Chicago
tournament, until he met his match and d.
feat femtd IN the final tho w. L. Myers is
tournaments and brings his skill to contest test
again with the best Of the local pIaver s'
Walter Dwight Herrick and Charles Ward
yersity. are among the entries. J. j. Rogers
is the only man from the far Feast He
came from New York.
The visitors are being entertained among
the club members. Mr.. Bond is with George
Belden; Myers is stopping at Minnetonka with
CHARLES w. Folds; Messrs. Seabury and Her
rick are Psi men, and guests OF Horace
Lowry; Messrs. Street and J. J. McCaskey
are with the family of Bishop Joyce Mr..
Rogers is visiting his brother, A. R. Rogers.
If Mr.. Wrenn comes, he will arrive tomorrow
morning. Two additional arrivals will ha
the women players, Miss Pound Lincoln,
Neb., and Miss Cloes, Lake Bluff Chicago.
They will be entertained in the home T. N.
Jayne. They will come from Chicago tomor-
row.
EXCELLENT DAY.
The day was all that could be asked for
tennis, the hidden part Of the time and
the courts swept by stirring air. The list
OF entries included thirty-two names, without
any byes, thus bringing the play in the first
round at the start. Of the sixteen matches
only four remain to be played tomorrow
morning, and the second round will be start
ed so that the winners will enter in the round
robin Wednesday. This will bring out the
eight best players, each of whom will meet
the others In turn, making the winner in all
Play in doubles will probably be on the
round robin plan, and the first matches in
doubles will come off tomorrow afternoon.
The four promised teams are Bond and
Myers, Seabury and Herrick, G. Belden and
Jayne, Hale and H. Belden Play is to con-
tinue morning and afternoon through the
week, and the matches in singles will be
called at 10 o'clock this morning.
In the matches today the weaker PLAYERS
were quickly sifted out, and the winners left
to pass on today into the second round OF
the dozen contests, three were of decided in
terest, the Caswell-Sawyer match; Street
Cole, McCaskey-Gates. In the match be-
tween Bond and Werner, the exigencies of
fortune presented themselves. Bond is the
most promising player of the tournament, the
likely winner. He is six-footer and broad
shouldered and sinewy, holding himself in
commanding position on the court. Werner
is the infant of the tournament, fifteen
year-old, small, 1.-the, active The little and
the big were pitted against each other, and
when the small man, Werner, pluckily fought
his rival, bringing three games out of the
second set. the spectators locked on in de-
lighted amazement. There was no chance of
the little fellow winning. but it was great
fun to see him fight the big man.
The results of today's play follows: Bond
VS.. Werner 60, 6-3; H. Belden VS.. Brooks,
Co. 60; Gaswell VS.. Sawyer, 81, 6-s; Hale
81, 60; Mers VS.. Crandall.. 60, g6-3; Hopkins
VS.: Dickinson, 81, 6-2; seabdry VS.; Rishmil-
Ter. 81. 81; Street VS.. Cole so, SO; Jayne
VS.. Greer, 6-1, 60; G. X. Belden VS.. Jones,
81, 81; McCaskey VS.. Gates, 3-6, CO, 81.