The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-07
TENNIS NOTES
Clutch Uncle" Says Cham
pions Have Too Much Ad-
vantage Over Others.

vantage Over Others.
The following from Boots and
Boosts" in the Minneapolis Journal,
bearing upon the making of tennis
champions, is submitted without re-
mark to the players who are in Grand
Forks today:
II is high time that the tennis play
ers stopped slamming the ball long
enough to sit down en- the green
and count themselves and the way
they permit the tennis champions to
perform.
At present a tennis champion has a
pudding. He wins the title. The next
year he does not have to go into the
play but sits around upon the court
side. the admiration of every dear pink
thing that fluffs her way out to see the
play. When the pairings are complete,
when every other player has soiled his
linen and his duck trousers the sole
survivor Is nominated to play the
champion" for the title The champ.
has been resting. training up on tea,
fudge and chocolate cake and is as
fresh as the one son Of country par
ents. The poor aspirant for the title
has played his way through the tour
: nament and is about as fresh as key
of mackerel. The champion has the
edge on him all OF the way and to beat
the title-holder after week OF play
the aspirant must be much better
player.
The title of tennis champion of the
previous year should end the minute
the first pairs start in the preliminary
of play. The champion of the year be-
fore should get down off his dignity,
enter the lists and take his chances
of the play, all of the way, for his
title. If he won again the glory would
be so much the greater. He would not
have the edge in condition, over
player who has had his tongue sticking
out for three days through ball-chas-
ing and smashing.
Tennis Is great game, but the
methods of making champion need
lot of change. At present winning
a championship is a handicap affair
and the best man cannot always win.
The present custom was, l believe, i'm
ported from England, where every
thing save putting horse shoes in box
ing gloves and boring holes in boats
is done to keep the championships
from going out of the country. The
tennis players should be strong
enough to put through a set of rules
of their own and the first should be
that the champion" gets out and wins
his title every year-and starts in the
preliminary rounds to do it.
Yesterday Afternoon.
Yesterday afternoons play in the
annual state tennis tournament now
in progress at the grounds of the
Town and Country club brought forth
some of the best tennis that has ever
been seen in this section. Two very
fine matches were PLAYED in the Red
river valley championship, one between
r. N. Smith OF Winnipeg and But
Ter Lamb of Towner, and the other
between D. Davy of Winnipeg and DIR.
Sedgley of Fergus Falls, and both
games were replete with brilliant
plays and exciting rallies. Lamb sue
ceeded in defeating Smith 11-9, Ga,
and Davy took the match from Sedge-
ley after some very steady work. SOM
erville of Winnipeg had hard time
with Muir of Hunter and the match
went the full three sets before Muir
would acknowledge defeat. Muir Is
a promising young player and shows
considerable improvement over his
last years game. He is left. handed
and manages to confuse his opponelii is
somewhat on this account, anG also
plays beautiful lob stroke, which is
indeed his strong point.
Ladies' singles.
In the ladies' singles for the state
championship Nellie Hanson of Graf
ton and Bessie Stevenson of ArdoclI
probably showed up the strongest,
winning their respective matches with
out great difficulty. Mrs. Lamb of
Towner and Mrs. Montgomery of Fargo
also won their matches and will con-
test with one another in the semi
finals.
The results yesterday afternoon are
as follows:
Open singles, Red River Valley ch.m-
pionship.
Lamb beat Smith 11-9, Ca; Davy
beat Sedgley Sc, Ga; Somerville beat
Muir 6-3, SO, 6-3; Thyng beat DuVall
6-3, GO; Wilcox beat Raymond 6-2,
81; Wilson beat McGregor 6-1, 6-1;
Wilson beat Aldous 60, 1913: u F.
Elton beat F. L. King 6-2, 11-9; Pat
ton beat Bronson Go, GO; Master beat
Ogren 81, 6-3; Leistekow beat Thor
larson CO, Ga.
State Singles.
Leistekow beat Whitcomb 6-2, 6-1:
Ogren beat D. L Campbell Ga, Ga;
DuVall beat Dewitt 6-1, 60; Bates beat
Johnson 6-3. 60; Sunberg beat Brown
81, SO. 6-3; T. B. Elton beat N. E.
Ellsworth 6-1, 6-3.
Ladies' state Singles.
Bessie Stevenson beat Beatrice NAL
Tory 81, 60; Nellie Hanson beat
Elizabeth Abbott Ga, 6-1; Mrs. Lamb
beat May Stevenson 6-1, 6-2; Mrs.
Montgomery beat Temple Irwin GO,
Go.
Novice Event.
P. d. Mitchell beat F. P. Bergman
6-3. 1-6, Ga; Dampier defaulted to
George Elton; H. H. Chesterman beat
Alex Bulge CO, Ga.
Keeping Friends.
Don't get too intimate with them.
them to have theirs.
Don't demand too much in the way
of confidence.
Don't be too aggressive.