The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-19

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publication of its sort From a small
beginning few years ago with mere
/ ly a local field, it has been enlarged
and improved until it is now of ma
tional scope and import and a mag
azine all art students should have
each month. 1t is we'll put up, with
excellent typographical effects and
finely reproduced illustrations, the lat
ter embodying work done by students
in various leading art schools of the
country and is interesting for COM
parison as well as accomplishment.
By addressing "Sketch Book" Chi-
cago, 917 Fine Arts Building, full in
formation can be had.
Notwithstanding the vogue of golf
the past few years, and the fact that
for while it almost entirely super
ceded the interest in tennis, and the
national games at Newport, interest
in the latter game has reasserted it
self the past season or two, especially
last year when the English champions,
the Dougherty brothers, came to this
country and took the cup back, with
the title of national champions in
doubles. They did not, for some rea-
son, return this season, the matter
went by default and Wright and
Warde, the eastern champions and Lit
tie and Collins, the Westerners, did
battle at Newport with the Eastern
men victorious altho' they had a
stiff fight for the honors. Collins Of
Chicago is wonderful player and has
been prominent in tennis tournaments
and important events in that sport for
number of years past and it may be
interesting to know that he is the SON
in-law of Mr.. Charles Henry Coffin,
formerly Of this city More Western
ers should compete for the national
championship in the call corners"
at Newport each year, making the
final result Of more truly national
|scope.
A champion has come out of the
West among women tennis players
with vengeance, Miss May Sutton,
|of Pasadena, having recently van
pushed every exponent and carried
back west with her the women's ten
mis- championship of America Miss
Sutton defeated, Golfers says, "with
ridiculous ease, every opponent who
had the temerity to meet her. and in
the first tournament she entered, that
of the open meeting for the women's
championship of America, held at
Wissahickon Heights, near Philadel-
phia, defeated every opponent with
out the loss Of a set. She has been
champion of the Pacific slope for four
years and is now but seventeen years
of age. She is solidly built and SEEM
. ingly of exhaustless strength as it is
impossible to tire her out, the steadi-
ness, evenness and tirelessness of her
play being one of the chief charac-
teritics. She comes of a family of
tennis players, having four sisters OIL
der than herself who play tennis unu-
sually we'll another sister, Miss Violet
Sutton, having won the Southern Cal
ifornia championship in 1899.
| There is nothing, after all,
that so commands admiration as the
doing of a thing better than any one
else can do it, especially in the do
main Of sports, and Miss Sutton is
the deserving recipient of all the
plaudits given her.
Richmond at one time had player
of championship possibilities in Mr..
Walter Cain, who played a remarka-
BILE bame, one the admiration and des-
pair of all local opponents, and the
marvel Of visitors. Mr.. Cain, howev-
Ter, has not played recently, with the
Exception of an exhibition game on
the Country Club Courts a year or so
ago, and it is to be deplored that he
should not have continued in a game
in which he gave such brilliant prom
Use. Perhaps the best tennis ever
Iplayed in Richmond was played on
the Earlham Courts at the time Mr.
ICain and Mr.. Seaton did such fine
local work. altho' some good tennis
lhas been played within the past year
or two at the Country Club, which
has two of the finest courts ever made
in this city. Golf, however, has oecu-
lpied the attention Of the members OF
the club almost exclusively, altho'