Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-29
TENNIS TOURNEYSNEW DATE
Interstate Fixture Will Come on One Week
Later Than Announced.
CHANGE TO ACCOMMODATE SIOUX FALLS
Iowa Town Has an Independent
Tournament, but Original msha
Date Interfered and so POST
pOnement Is Ordered.

Subject to the APPROVAL OF the National
Lawn Tennis association the date Of the
Omaha Interstate tournament has been
postponed from August II to August is.
This change is made to enable some
Omaha players to take part in the Tristate
Tournament ct Sioux City, from the 18th
to the 10th, and to enable others who de-
sire to enter for the Sioux City fixture to
come to Omaha also. The original date of
the Omaha tournament was fixed by the
National association and as the Sioux City
club is not af1liated with that body the low
Fixture was overlooked
Last Saturday c.. H. Young. representing
the Omaha Field club, visited Sioux City
with the purpose Of agreeing on some plan
by which a clash could be avoided. It
was found impossible to set the Sioux City
date back on account of the tournament
at Alden, Ia, which many OF the Sioux
City men are in the habit OF attending, and
1t was agreed that the week Of the 18th to
the Path, coming after the Northwestern
tournament at Minnetonka, and the Tri-
state at Sioux City and preceding the week
of the Kansas City tournament, which
opens on the 9th, was after all the best
possible date for the Omaha fixture.
Good Dates for Futur
III Is INTENDED tnat the week commencing
with the third Monday in August shall be
the. regular date for the Omaha Interstate
tournament in future. 1t is the week of the
national championships at Newport, which
may som time interfere with the presence
of outsiders, but this is preferable to a
clash with any nearby club, and the Omaha
players are congratulating themselves that
g way has been found to adjust the diff
Guilty with Sioux City and at the same time
promote the interests Of both tournaments.
At least two of the Omaha men will enter
for the Tristate and 1t is hoped they will
bring back several players from Sioux City
to compete here.
The Omaha committee Is working hard
now to get a representative list Of entries
from the state OF Nebraska for the Inter-
state. F. M. Blish has had a letter from w.
F. Prowett of Fullerton, who tells of a
new club in that own with twenty mem
bers. Mr.. Blish is urging them to enter
in a body and suggests that other towns
follow the same plan. Such players as John
Power, MA. Webster, Joe Bailey and AL
bert Bernhard OF Hastings; Frank Red
mond. Frank Mooney and e. A. Carey Of
North Platte; Isaac Raymond, G.. A. Love-
land and Frederick Shepherd Of Lincoln.
and N. A. Huse of Norfolk and w. s.
Pearse of Grand Island should all figure
among the entries. While the tournament
is for the championship of Nebraska, Kan
sas. Iowa and Missouri, the standard Of
play will not be too high for any one from
any of the four states and it can be pointed
out by way Of encouragement to the modest
ones that all the rest are in poor form
this year on account of continued wet
weather.
The facilities Of the Omaha Field club
for entertaining are unexcelled in the west
and all visitors are ? promised a good
Time" even II they win none of the prizes.