Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-03
CON YOUNG TENNIS WINNER
Veteran Captures City Championship
Trophy Through Steady Work.
FINAL MATCH BRILLIANTLY PLAYED
Fred j. Hill, R~unner-Up, Shows Good
Form and Gives winner Ample
Opportunity TO Extend Him
self All Through.
MATCH BRILLIANTLY PLAYED

Conrad H. Young yesterday evening once
more captured the Omaha city tennis cham
pionship by defeating Fred ]. Hill In three
straight sets.
The match was the final round Of the
tournament, which has been in progress
through the week on the courts Of the
Omaha Field club and 1t was the unanimous
verdict when the play was ended that NO
finer tennis had ever been seen from local
players.
A good assembly of club members watched
the games. In the afternoon, in spite Of
the sweltering heat, Young beat R. E. Sun
derland and Hill defeated Linn Sherwood.
The first named pairs were in court shortly
after 8 o'clock when the sun was at its hot
test and from the start there was never
any doubt as to the outcome. During the
first set Sunderland was very wild. starting
with a double fault, and only occasionally
succeeded in properly returning one OF
Young's balls. In the second set, however.
he pulled himself together and kept the
score very even from start to finish. Young
hardly once exerted himself, as he might
have done, but for all that Sunderland was
hitting with much precision and ia en-
titled to full credit for the stand he made
against a man so far his superior at the
game. The heat seemed to affect him more
than Young, yet he allowed but few balls
to get past him without a strong effort to
return them.
sunderIand's style of Play.
sunderland's weakness is his inability
to hit freely and his lack Of any decided
stroke. He pushes" his balls, getting I'M
der them, and frequently too close to them.
II he could hit with more OF a swing ia
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with the hard balls that Young sent al
him, and might have captured his second
set. He seems almost equally at home with
forehand and ~backhand, volley or lob OF
drive, but none of his strokes have any
particular winning power, and when he gets
a ball that has some force in 1t, he toe
often fails to get 1t well onto his racket
and although his purpose is good the re.
suit is a failure.
The Hill Sherwood contest was great,
spoiled by the heat. Although the score
shows a fairly easy victory for Hill, h.
was not playing his game and at one tim
was on the point of Withdrawing. Sher.
wood made some brilliant strokes at times
but his game also lacked the vigor which
he is accustomed to show in the court
Though not In the front rank, even amonI
the local men, Sherwood hits well, som,
Of his baekhand plays being especially neaI
in their execution, and his play durinl
the last week is sufheient to warrant thu
assertion that II he allows himself tn,
necessary practice he will be able to climl
higher on the ladder of fame in local tenni
circles.
Young and Hill started in soon after 6
with John w. Battin as umpire and VIII
Vaughan and Aubrey Potter watching thu
lines. Is Hill had shown himself able Il
tbeat Young in practice games, and as h
had come through the previous rounds o
the tournament with the loss OF onl.
eighteen games. where Young had los
twenty-three, the result was by no mean
a foregone conclusion and from the wor'
go both men played for all there was II
them. Hill won the toss and elected L
take the south court. This gave the ser
vice to Young. who with a couple of Wig
orous balls. one Of which came back int
the net and the second out Of court. tool
the score to ~S0-love, and the game to 80
Hill took the next game on his service
but this was all he got In the set. So ia