Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-08-26
Big Crowd Out.


Big Crowd Out.
The verandas and lawns of the Field
club were packed until room was at pre-
MUM when Caldwell and Young began
their match with Sanderson and Fletcher.
No more representative gallery ever turned
out to witness a tennis match in the west
and the management was pleased to see so
much interest worked up in the sport, as
1t augurs well for future tournaments. Cald-
well and Young played their match with
Sanderson and Fletcher on Court 4, which
Is Immediately in front of the large We
randa which surrounds the main clubhouse.
The local players had the crowd right with
them from the start, but they were forced
to play an uphill game, for the visitors
we're in the pink of condition while the
home players have not been able to play
together much this year. Young played a
magnificent game and made many splendid
returns from the rear of the courts. get
ting balls that seem almost impossible. He
always returned the ball with a vim that
won the applause of the gallery Caldwell,
however, was not in as good form and
after the first set seemed to weaken some
what that he missed many opportunities
which should have been accepted. The
local team won the first set GA and played
up hard and close for the next two sets,
when the superior training of the Gales
burg team began to tell and the last set
was won 60.
Snow and Peters in Finals.
In the morning Snow and Peters defeated
Hayes and Blatherwick in the semi-finals
of the championship doubles by superior all
around work. This leaves the finals in
the championship doubles to be played this
morning at 9 o'clock between Snow and
Peters and Sanderson and Fletcher This
match will decide the championship in
doubles for the middle west as the Eber-
hardt brothers, winners last year, are not
present to defend their title.
Friday evening the visiting tennis play
ers were entertained at a smoker at the
Field club, some forty or forty men,
bers and visitors being in attendance. Pres
ident Jay Foster OF the Field club was in
the chair, and the affair proved a pleasant
function, several of the visitors contribut-
ing stories or wittcisms. Snow of Chicago,
Baker of Sioux City Farnsworth of Grand
Island, Raymond of Lincoln. Holbrook of
Onawa and, indeed, most of the visiting
tennis men responded to the call of the
president with some happy remarks. Sew
eral directors OF the club. in addition to the
tennis men. assisted in entertaining.
Summary of the Games.
Finals, championship singles:
Hayes beat Peters, Ga, 6-2, S-6.
Semi-finals championship doubles:
Snow and Peters beat Blatherwick and
Sanderson and Fletcher beat Caldwell and
Young, as, GA, rs, 60.
Consolation doubles, preliminary round:
Gilman and Baker beat Holbrooke and
SCribner, 6-2, 7-6.
Hills and Rasmussen beat Koch and
Toy, default.
Potter and Potter beat LAndstrum and
Epeneter, default
Holman and Haley beat Anderson and
Jones, 60, l2-l4, 81
Consolation doubles, first round:
Hughes and Kohn beat West and Ward,
Van Dyke and Toy beat Ackiey and Pat
terson, 81, 6-4
Potter and Potter beat Holman and
Haley, g. SO
Gilman and Baker beat Hills and Ras-
mussen, 81, 10.
Consolation singles, second round
Toy beat F Potter. default.
Anderson beat Wetzel. default.
6 Potter p9,t beat ~ a. q P9t6er - S1 Ga
Dosh beat Epeneter. So 6-l
Consolation singles. third round:
swartz beat c, r. Toy, SO. 6-3
Andsri PStt sSa S.st R RGttsr Is 81 e. g.
Dosh beat Armstrong, default
Drawings for consolation doubles:
West and Wood play Hughes and Kohn.
Gilman and Baker play Scribner and Hol-
brooke.
Koch ana Toy play Hills and Sunderland.
Potter and Potter play Lindstrum and
| Epeneter.
Anderson and Jones play Holman and
AckIey and Patterson play Van Dyke and
| Toy.
| Inter-City Tennis Match.
| SIOUX CITY, Aug. Especial tennis
| experts among the women OF Lemars will
| come to Sioux City next week for the an
| nual tournament with the tennis experts