Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-27
TENNIS VOGUE ONCE MORE
Racquet and Net and Ball Come Back fol
Active Service.
REVIVAL OF GAME is MOST MARKED
of Last Year Redeemed by
Enthusiasm of Present and Out
look Excellent for Pur-
suit of the Game.

II earliness signifies eagerness, then the
law tennis season in Omaha for 1902
promises to be the keenest since the palmy
days OF the game in the early '90s. Here
1t is, still April, with the weather rang
ing from a simeon to a symphony, and the
temperature varying from hat Of Indian
summer on one day to that of chill spring
on the next, and yet several tennis nets
were stretched last week on different
courts, and the familiar cries Of deuce
vantage out" and thirty love- were
heard in several different neighborhoods
during the late afternoons and the early
evenings Of the pleasanter days.
This would seem to indicate that the
regeneration OF tennis, begun last year,
was to prove a reality, not q mere state
ment, a permanent renewal OF interest, not
a temporary huttering OF tickle athletic
fancy in that direction. In 1901, when,
after the game had lain as good as dead
for Eve or six years, a sentiment toward
its establishment in popular favor
seemed to be arising, IL was dificult to
persuade many people that this was actu-
ally the case. They were unable to under
stand how a sport of this nature could
revive when once dropped, and they were
loath to accept any OF the signs that such
was to be the fact as having any real
meaning Of that kind.
But the game came out with the begin
ming of the spring season and waxed with
the growing warmth of the weather. One
by one the predictions that such and such
a number OF courts were to be rebuilt and
others in other places newly located were
verified by the deed, and by the time June
had come around the athletes realized that
they were in the midst of a fairly ener-
~
city OF no courts omaha had sprung in
one season TO a place dotted with scores
Of them.
This was intensely pleasing to the tennis
enthusiasts, for whom no slow-going golf
nor arduous base ball could ever replace
the swiftest and keenest game OF them all.
Their sole anxiety was that the reanima-
ton might prove only temporary. q mere
final rally before the death rattle. 1t was
realized that one year could not tell the
tale, that II remained for 1902 to decide
whether or not tennis was to stay. They
realized also that 1901 would yield a vast
influence in determining the judgment which
1902 would give in the matter.
So every nerve was bent by tennis play
ers to keep things hot. All summer long
tennis was played and played, tournaments
were contested, everything possible was
done TO keep the game q live issue. From
the first Of the season to the last there
| was no abatement. The reward has come.
So many new recruits were enlisted by
those methods that they. with the old ones.
promise an army OF tennis devotees this
season, and with such backing the games
success lie almost assured already in Omaha.
It seems certain even this early that the
interest will prove to be on the increase
instead Of on the vans or at a standstIl
and in that event nothing more will be
necessary to show that the revival Of tennis,
begun in 1901, is real and is to grow each
year.
About the hrst courts TO get in operation