The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-30
The Eberhardt Brothers Are
Strong FavOrites.
Items of Interest From the
World of Sport.

Atchison. Aug. 30.-The second day of
the tennis tournament closed with only
the semi-finals to play.
In the second round of singles w. G.
Parker. of Arkansas City. defeated Car
ter Wilder. of Kansas City, in two sets
of 6-1 and 6-1. Vernon. the ex-Kan-
sas champion. of Emporia, won from
S A Robinson. of Fort Leavenworth,
by score Of 60 and 6-S.
IN the third round Fred Hogg. Of
Lawrence. beat 7. P. Gleason, the St.
Louis man. in three sets, with scores
Of Sc, 6-2 and Sd. d. L. James, OF
Kansas City. played Stoker Of Topeka
60 order
and won the match from him in 6-1 and
In the first round in doubles Charles
CrOskey and James Noble of Topeka.
took match from their opponents.
John Jacobs and Chris Forney, of Abb
lene. in three sets The scores We're
6-3. As and Ga This was one of the
best matches played in the morning
The players on both sides made many
good returns and there was much lob
bling and not work. r. F. Sherman and
George Stoker. of Topeka, then won
from Charles Linley and Dr. Bethel by
a very narrow margin. Tt took three
sets to win the match, TO. rs and Cd.
W. W Guthrie, Jr-, and Carroll Aud,
VI %ALlLA10A4s Won without luuCA LIOu-
bic from Walter Cole. of Kansas City.
Kan. and s. A.Robinson, of Fort Leav-
enwOrth- Scores were 81 and 6-1.
In the semi-fnals Carter Wilder and
DIR. Sheldon, Of Kansas City. refaulted
TO John Price and George Sharrard. of
Atchison.
The novice singles and doubles match
es are also being carried through. w.
o. Parks, of Atchison, entered the sec
Ond round by defeating Frank Thomas,
Of rfrf4f In e 4 Z
In the second round W 0. Park, Of
Atchison, won his match from John
Raterman, also OF Atchison, by scores
OF GO and a.
Two of the matches in the novice
doubles We're played. Charles Jinley
and DR. Bethel Of Atchison, defeated
John Raterman. of Atchison, and Chas.
Browne, of Hiawatha, in sets of Ga and
SIS Fred Hogg snd Archibald Bates,
OF Lawrence. beat Hale Hetherirgton
and Heath Frazier IN three sets, scor-
ing 60, 6-3 and 6-1.
All but the semi-finals were finished
IN the afternoon. in the singles in the
open tournament. In the third round,
w. S. Parker, of Arkansas City. defeat
ed F'Orney, of Abilene, in three sets 60,
As and 6-5. Frank Eberhardt defeated
.. v Vernon, the ex-champiOn, by sets
of 6-3 and Ga The Parker-FOrney
match was probably the most interest
ing one of the whole afternoon. Chris
FOrney lives at Abilene and came to the
AC-t A1Llcl1l d CON- EdEdliAEIN unknown
players. He defeated Cole of Kansas City,
kan-.and McKelvey, of Atchison. These
were compare lively Aasy men, but
when he beat ex-kansas Champion
sheldon. of Kansas City, 81. 3-6 and Ga
the other cracks in the tourney began
to open their eyes.
His next match was with w S
Parker, of Arkansas City Parker won
the Newport tournament in 1884 and
in that year captured more prizes than
any man in the country He has hard-
" touched a racket for five years. but
he is still a wonderful player. In the
beginning Of the match Forney did not
seem to be up to the standard and lost
five games straight Then he began
to get onto the swift drives of Parker
and won two games before Parker took
the set As Forney is only a young man
and new player. the crowd was with
him in his game fight, although it SEEM
ed impossible for him to win. But the
next set he took by a score OF Cd. sur
prising everyone with his excellent
playing. Parker's old skill came to his
rescue. however. and he won the last
set. 6-3.
In the doubles of the open tourna-
msnt the Eberhardt brothers were put
up against Charles Crosby and J. H