The Glenwood post., 1905-07-29
THE TENNIS
TOURNAMENT
flOSt Interesting Contest Between
Lovers of Lawn Tennis On
GItRwOOd COurtS---pidnned
by Local Club
THE STATE WELL REPRESENTED

The cpen tournament of the Glen
wood Springs Polo, Tennis and Golf
club played during the week on the
conrts of the Hotel Colorado, proved
even IA greater success than the club
committee had expected, The tour
nament drew "a number of the leading
players of the state. men whose names
are familiar TO Coluradoans who take
an interest in this game, and the re
suit was some very fast PLAYING.
Glenwood did not appear among the
prize winners, but the local men are
contented with the feeling that it
took some mighty good men to beat
them out.
The first day of play, on Monday,
was devoted to the singles. that il,
matches between individual players
Several rounds We're necessary to de.
eide this events, because of the number
of players. In the first round f.
Whitehead of Denver, defeated J. b.
Craig of Canon City. Whitehead won
two sets to Crais's three. the scores
being SO; SO; 81 Z. D. V. Steward
of Glenwood, defeated E. p. Eelee of
Glenwood. Il . 2-G; "a. c. Il Fen
nessey of Denver defeated r. Lynes
of Cripple Creek, Glib; &c G. A.
Gillette of Cripple Creek, defeated II
NJ. Rudasill of GIenwood, 6.1: 6-l.
w. H. Magill of Canon City, defeated
a. J. Barkhouse of Glenwood so;
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From here on, the contest narrowed
down to a match between e. L. Fen
messy of Denver, and C. A. Gillette,
of Cripple Creek. This match was
perhaps the most interesting one of
the entire singles, not so much be-
cause it would settle the victory with
its attendant trophy on one or the
other but because both Fennessy and
Gillette have played IN many touma-
ments for the state championship, and
have both had the honor of playing
down to the semi finals in tourna-
ments IN which they have been de-
feated only by the men who subse-
quently won the championship. The
contest between them was played out
on Monday and kept the crowd of
spectators on edge until the last
stroke was decided The first set was
won by Fennessy, 6-1 in the next,
Gillette turned the tables, winning by
the same score. Fennessey, however,
by hard work gathered in the next
two sets, scores being G3 and 1-5;
thus winning the trophy, handsome
silver loving cup.
In the consolation singles for those
defeated in the first round of the reg
ular singles, r Lynes, of Cripple
Creek, was the victor, carrying off
handsome tennis racket as his prize.
The final match of the doubles was
also very interesting affair 1t lay
between Magill and Craig, the two
Canon City Youngsters, and Lynes and
Gillette of Cripple Creek. Lynes and
Gillette are veterans at the game, and
won out, scores being 60 2;6-2,
but they had hard work to make it,
"'' - 'ho N'iioh Slty DoNs Keep up
the class of work displayed by them,
it is only question of a few years
before they will be heard from in the
state championship.
The visiting men were highly
pleased with the treatment accorded
them in Glenwood, and promised to
lend theiI assistance to Glenwood in
securing the state championship tour
nament for the next year They
found the courts perfect, and the sur
roundings ideal for recovery after
hard fought match. and unhesitat-
ingly declared the grounds TO be the
best in the state fol- the purpose The
Glenwood men are much encouraged
by this praise, and will make an effort
to send team to Denver to participate
in the Denver tournament in Septem-
ber, and if possible to secure the
event, which is known as the Rocky
Mountain Championship, for Glenwood
for the coming summer.