Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24

especially irssoibie. Each was coaching IN,
other In no gentle voice.
Now runl Get on your own sidel VIII
didn't you get thatf Don't bat everything
into the nett Now try TO win this point
Just for oncei" These we're some Of the
things Magee kept handing to Sheldon In
angry tones. The latter was more remon.
~strative and querulous in manner. Every
time Magee would try a reckless smash a,
the net and drive the ball into the meshes
sheldon's face would assume a most ridicu-
lously panied expression, and he would
whimper:
Don't take those chances. man."
And when Magee made Eve double faults
In one game Sheldon was in clover. why.
that amt what you want to do" he would
say. You want to knock the ball over
the net. I can get some Of these barefoot
kids around here to serve doubles"
Then Magee would turn red and 90 up
in the air. SEEKING the balls for another
serve, he would start for the back line,
saying briskly: Now, we'll brace up and
take this game" Then he would serve
another double fault, and Sheldon would
remark, sententiously:
Not that way, my boy"
One sharp exchange was cleverly at Shell
don's expense:
why dom you play tennis7" he in
quired Of Magee in a protesting tone.
why, Tve only knocked two balls out
this game" replied Magee.
well, I haven't Knocked a single ball
out" was sheldon's rejoinder, given in a
superior manner.
but rye knocked a few in, too" an
swered Magee quickly, and the gallery
nhaardd tueFIIv
Fred sanderson, who won the singles,
Is the incest fellow in the world to play
against OF be beaten by. He always has
a good word for a good play that beats
him and sympathy for bad luck. This
same trait placed him in a peculiar pre-
dlcament Thursday. Sanderson was play
ing Sheldon in the semi-hnals Of the sim
giles. He was beating Sheldon plenty, and
to cheer him up wac saying, Hard luck,
old man." after every break the doc made.
In the second set Sheldon made a rally
and ran a game to forty-love. As he made
the last point by placing the ball clear
out OF Sanderson's reach, the latter alb
sent mindedly said: Hard luck, old man"
Sheldon threw down his racket and looked
up IN amazement. Whats the matter
with you,p he said. do you think I'm
out here trying not to get beat?"
Peters and Ashcraft, the Chicago play
ers. we're feeling very badly at the result
Of the tournament. They are both mighty
nice, quiet fellows, with not a bit Of blus-
ter or blow about them, but they did
rather expect to clean up the boards out
here. Said Peters Saturday:
II just feel so ashamed I cannot bear to
walk out in front OF these people. I want
to hide in the locker room. 1t isn't that l
care about getting beat. l am an easy loser,
and so is Ashcraft. l do not mind those sim
giles at all. What hurts me is that we
Ravens shown any tennis at all. l did hope
that we would do something the last day
just to show the people here Tat we can
play tennis. So here we casme out this
morning to play Farnsworth and Raymond
doubles. 1t seemed like our golden oppor-
tunity to show what we had in us in a sort
of goodbye match. Instead Of that we
played even worse han we have all week,
and 1 tell you It hurts me when 1 know that
the people out here expected so much Of us"
"The finest set Of prizes I ever saw gath
cred at a tourney" said Sanderson. And II
about true. The usues offering at d
western tennis tourney capnot be compared
to what the Field club showed. Said one
man who played at Chicago in the western
a few weeks ago:
THAT challenge cup is simply grand.
Why, It beats the western championship
cup clear of the boards. The first prize
cup, the one to be taken permanently, is
almost as good as the western champion
ship trophy"
The two Galesburg men tool their share.
Sanderson got his name on the challenge
cup in singles, took the FIRST prize loving
cup for keeps, and gets a shaving set OF
seven razors. zone for every day." as Sec
ond in doubles. Holland took a cut glass
jar as first prize in consolation
and also received a set of seven
raEors as his plumber from the doubles.
Farnsworth and Raymond were not far
The former took the travelling
cases as second prize in singles, and a
Gross kit bag as FIRST in doubles. Ray
mond got another bag for his doubles.
Both get their names on the challenge
in doubles.
Meanwhile Young took second in con-
ISOLATION singles, an umbrella. and the four
prizes In consolation doubles are still to
won. 1t lies between Young and Cald-
we'll and Haskell and Clarke for the two
suit cases as first prizes and the two stick
pins az second.
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