Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
FINE GOLF AND TENNIS
SUCCESSFUL TOURNAMENT AT
WANTASTioUET GOLF CLUB.
L. T. Wallis and N. w. Niles Take
All Prizes in Tennis Events by
Brilliant Playine-C. r. Bingham
Wins Eirst Cup in Golf.

the Wantastiquet golf club We're
Friday and Saturday when the irst
invitation golf and tennis tourha-
ment of the organization took place
The events consisted of a miniature
golf tournament on Friday, IN which
IA PLAYERS participated, and singles
and doubles competitions in tennis
ON Friday and Saturday Between
30 and 80 tennis players from dliier-
ent parts of New England We're pres
ent, a much larger entry than AZ the
state tournament in St Johnsbury'
and Il is safe to say that the quality
of tennis was the best ever seen IN
Vermont. The stars OF the tennis
events were l.. 7. Wallis of Boston,
champion OF Dartmouth college ana
| y. W. Niles of Boston, national m
terscholastic champion, Ther ann
| ity with the racket placed them in
class by themselves, and they had no
diffculty In carrying off the first
Gun in singles and the two cups III
doubles.
The tennis singles began at .
O'Clock Friday morning and the ma
ioritv of the day was spent IN pray
| ing off the 16 matches in the hrst
round. The best match of the day
was that in the second round between
IL. T. Wallis and 5. W. Hubbard OF
the local club. Wallis won the nrst
set o. nearly every game going TO
deuce, and the second set fnaily Went
| 10 the Dartmouth man 81 after q
beautiful struggle. The first ROUNDS
| in doubles were run off Saturday
| morning and the semi-iinals ana n
nails both I'm singles and doubles IN
/ the afternoon. Niles and Walns hau
! no trouble in defeating Hale ana
! Sprague of st. Johnsbury. ana COZ
Iony and Batchelder of Keene, n. H.
| thus going into the final round Wnere
they met and easily defeated HUI
/ bard and Rice who played through
the lower half. The event IN lhe
singles was the meeting of Niles ana
/ wallis I'M the semi-fin round. By
the most brilliant kind of work wal
/ lis won the first set 6-l. and then lost
the second 81 In the third ana de-
Gliding set each man won his service
until the 10th game when the Dart
mouth man broke through ana Won
/ tha match. Both men put up the
/ fastest tennis that has ever been
| seen in town and their work was re
peatedly applauded by the large gar
| lary present The superior ehuur
lance of Wallis helped him in pullihg
h out a victory. The final mateh was
between wallis and A. G. Sprague OF
: - IL n
/ sinplas and one of the holders of the
present doubles championship. by
| The Juck of the draw Sprague had
/ only one hard match before reaching
the finals, but he was not IN tht
/ same class as Wallis who won b. l.
Is-1 in spite of the gathering DARK
mess. Willss win was very pop
Iular one. and he was heartily APP,
nlauded at the close of the hnai
game in the match, report OF tie
/ tournament would not be compete
without mention of +. BROOKS =.
| C,harIestown, n. H., a young player
y.ho Vent through to the semi iina4
round by winning several marc
matches and lost TO Sprague more
from lack Of endurance than from IN
/ ferior ability. . 40
Thirteen golfers started out In the
nine hole qualification round FRIDAY
| morning and the eight who quaiihed
we're Edwin Raynor and william
/ Rlandy of Pine Grove Springs, j. u
/ Henry of Amherst, Mass r. y
I FYint of Bellows Falls. John lasker'
/ Harold whitney, f. II. Harris ana =.
f. Bingham Of the local cruz ,,ri,I nc
other nIayers were c. NJ Miller,
Croebv Adams and Hayes Bigelow of
RrattIeboro. A. NJ. Rowley of Spring
field. Mass and C. II. WINS OF Flne
Grove Strings. Raynor won the ST.
var medal for the best score In the
qualifying round with 81. In tile
first round match play Tasker peat
Rlandv Bingham beat Raynor, Hen
~ heat Flint and Harris beat WHIT
nev In the semi-finals Bingham
and Harris were the winners ue-
feating Tasker and Harris respect
lively and in the final Bingham de-
feated Henry 3 up ana TO pay 1rS
thereby winning the first cup ne
hronae medal for the runner-up
vent to Henry. In the consolation
round for the four men put out III
the first round Blandy beat Raynor
and whitney beat Flint, Whltneg
losing to Blandy in the finals. Inc
Qualification round: Raynor, 43;
Henry. 46: Tasker 46; Harris, AZ
Whitney. AZ; Blandy, As; whitney
As; Bingham, 40. 49,. p,o,-a,,
First round: Tasker beat bI'iluy'
nm. bingham beat Raynor up
tIanrv heat Flint. up and to play
Harris beat Whitney, 3 up ana 10
play. p,...,,o,, heat
Tasker. up and l to play; Henry
beat Harris, up. $3.50 w.,
Final round: Bingham beat Hen
nv. 8 up and 2 to play. ,,a.
sami-final consolation round:
plandy heat Raynor, / up I'll holes
whitney beat Flint, up ana W
play. ,a. p1andv
beat whitney, 3 up ana Z TO pay
Tennis Summaries.
Singles.
First round:-J. ]. Colony, Keene
\ IT.. beat A. w. Hale, Boston, g.
ga: r II. Harris beat A. Gere'
Northampton, 6-S, 6-S, Cd; j. T.
Sisco Northampton, beat w, Luhu'
Pine Grove Springs, 60, ST., %; a.
@, Sprague. st. Johnsbury. beat c.
Charlestown, n. H. beat F. H. Har-
ris 2nd. e-3, 6-3; f. n. Burnett, p. G.
s. beat r. A. Wood, Charlestown'
IL 90: ]. C. Tomlinson, Northamp-
ton. beat f. II. Perry, Charlestown,
81 rs: L. Almirall. p. G. s, beat
I r Hooker. Sc 1-6, 6-S: A. L.
Pettee beat H. P. Greene, 10. 20
~. d. Niles. Boston, beat p. H.
crane. Ga 6-S: n. Niles. Boston
beat L. Hunt, Newton, Mass 81
s-1: H. c. Rice beat L. Russell, 7: O.
s, s-3, S-6. 81; L: II VANS: no
ton beat William Tanning, 90, e-i'
S. w. Hubbard beat n. T. Ray, 81,
60: f. Niles, Boston, beat Q. Locke,
Northampton, 4-6, Ga, CO; A. 5.
Thompson beat G. Tanning, 2-6, 81
6-3.
second round:-Colony beat F. II.
Harris by default: Sprague beat
Sisco. 6-1. ca; Brooks beat Burnett
~. 4-e. Ga: Tomlinson beat AL
miran. by default: D. Niles beat
Pettee. SO. Ga: N Niles beat Rice,
&C.. SO: Wallis beat Hubbard 6-2'