Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-24
FARNSWORTH AND RAYMOND
Nebraska Pair Wins Championship in
Tennis Doubles
CLOSING EVENT A LONG STRUGGLE
Five Full Sets Played, one Deuce, he
lore the Match Was Determine
Against the GaIesburE
Pair.

Earl FarnsWorth OF Grand Island and
Isaac NJ. Raymond, IT., OF Lincoln. the Ne
braska youngsters. won the first prize in
the championship doubles Of the interstate
tournament by defeating H., NJ. Holland
and F. r. sanderson of Galesburg. III, at
the Field club Saturday afternoon. The
score was rs, rs, SO, 81, ga.
The victory came only after a prolonged
struggle through i've sets, and the Ne
braskans finally won by a grand rally in
the last set, when, with the score IL
against them, they braeed and took Ave
straight games, winning the set and
match.
A victory over such formidable oppo-
nents is a great credit TO Farnsworth and
Raymond, but what makes It still more
so is the fact that II was the third sue
cessive conquest in doubles for them that
day. Commencing the day With. only their
first round engagement played, they de-
feated in turn Parker and Wilder n Pc
tiers and Ashcraft in the morning. Then
they took on Holland and sanderson for
the championship at 4 o'clock. Thus the
winners defeated all In one day the three
best teams In the tournament outside OF
themselves. That made nine hard sets Of
doubles for them in eight hours, all in
tournament competition. There we're
eighty-four games in all that these boys
fought through to championship honors.
Hollands Remarkable Record.
Fully as remarkable wat the work of
Holland in winning the finai round of the
consolation singles from Young. This he
did Immediately at the close Of the ter
rife struggle he and Sanderson had exI
perfenced witt F~arnsworth and RAYMOND.
While his partner went to the dressing
room utterly exhausted, Holland never
left the courts, but took on Young after
those five sets and beat him Us, SO. rs.
So Holland takes home a cut glass cigar
Jar and a case Of seven razors. even
though he couldn't get a Cross kit bag.
Hollands match with Young was a close
one. Young took the first two games of
the first set and later three more. but Hol-
land pulled it to deuce and won by a good
rally, rs. He played lobs almost alto
gether and largely from his back hand.
Young meanwhile played a driving and
placing game. In the second set Young,s
placing won by 6-S. Holland devoted him
self to places In the third set, and after a
hot finish won. 7-5.
Meanwhile the final match in the consola-
tion doubles could not be played In fhs
Clarke and. Haskell beat Hon
kins and Towle, 5-6, 81, GA, after a great
mill. The second set was especially Keen.
This leaves Haskell and Clarke to play
Young and Caldwell in the finals. The
match will be held at 5 O'Clock Monday aft
ernoon. Fortunately all are Omaha men.
so none of the visitors will be kept over by
the mischance which delayed this affair.
Careful Heady Playing.
The finals in the championship doubles
the same character of match as the
finals in the singles Friday. 1t was careful.
heady play all the time. with all hands
every point. It was for the most
a slow balls for both. sides. -IohbeG, a
good deal, but at times some fierce SMASH
Ing rallies developed. Here Farnsworth and
Raymond were the superior, winning many
points on that game. '
None Of the four were up to their usual
game. Raymond had a penchant for slam.
ming everything into the net; Farnsworth
was so stale hat he surprised himself.
shot after shot in. a way foreign TO
his usual cinch game; sanderson was so
generally done up that he had no spunk
after the irst three sets and in the last
set he missed point after point during the
last few games. Mcy
The result entire, however, was very near
q draw. The winners made 1854 points. the
losers 145. Tn winners placed thirty-hv
balls beyond reach Of. their opponents,
the latter thirty-one. Sanderson and Hol-
land put hfty-eight into the net. Farms
and Raymond seventy-two. The only
big discrepancy was in balls out. where
and Holland put ~.nfty-nine, the
other pair only thirty seven, SO the game
very even.
The. Nebraskans took the FIRST set. rs.