Arizona republican., 1906-06-14
TENNIS AT TONTO
Preliminary Playing of the TOurna-
 msnt Last Week

Roosevelt Ariz- June 11-CSpeciaI Correspondence of The Republican)-| On Friday afternoon and Saturday the preliminary playing of the tennis tournament, held by the Roosevelt ! Tennis club on their courts. was com pleted and the semi-finais will proba- ! biy be played off during the early part of the present week. The old saving that good, hard, consistent playing 1 counts. was never more true than in the present tournament. and the down fall of former crack players at the l hands Of novices at the game has been the cause of no end of comment and remark Throughout the whole play ing there has been noticed a marked degree of Improvement among the in uiNidual players while in the case of those playing doubles the lack of team work is easily apparent. but on the whole, the play is most satisfactory end some clever work and surprises are expected in the finals.
 in the individual playing Burson drew Van Sant and in one of the greatest surprises of the day. handiIv beat him with the score so. 3-6. 6-4 ! Shantz beat Taggart after some hard playing by the time of 6-3. 2-6 and 7-5. Miller fell an easy mark to Kirkpat- !! rick in two straight sets 6-2 6-l Pad oock was not up to his usual good toriP and as is shown by the score 1 which it took him to win 12-IO. 3-6 Cd, he had his hands more than fuII ! 10 dispose Of Coghlan. Their paving l was marked by the hard work of ten ] nis !n tne[ number of games that if Was necessary to play before the su- pre.nacy of the two players was set ! tied Especially in the first set was ! this true A l apparently had the set all but won. when CoghlaD would suddenly rally ana by hard driving take it from him. experience and sheer strength of play 1 ing, however, came to Paddock's aid and tae third set was taken with Iit tie O. no difficulty.
 Pierson drew Barber and after three of the hardest sets played during the day, won by the score 4-6. 9-7, 6-2
 baroer IS practically new man at the
 game and considering the score he made with Pierson. winning one set ana making the other a duece set
 ms performance is considered most
 cred-tabie. Much is expected of him
 m the future. In the doubles Shantz ana Kirkpatrick won from Burson and
 lagsart after three hard and fairly
 well played sets by the score of 6-3
 '-S, and GA. In his play at the net
 Hie WoFk or Shantz may be considered
 phenomenal as he never made a fauIt
 throughout the three sets and the manner in which he places the balls in
 ms opponents court is remarkable For
 all around playing Shantz has probs =
 DIy the advantage Of anyone vet seen
 on these courts. At all times his work
 IS steady and conscientious and to win
 ms games he relies on good strafebt
 forward playing. At the present lime
 ne lS considered probably the strong
 est candidate for the gentleman's sin sies cup. His partner. Kirkpatrick. did
 good work in the back field by his hard
 urlNes and high Jobs. Barber and Van
 Saht beat Paddock and Miller in two
 straight sets, 7-5, 6-2 The fact that
 they took them so easy was due tc
 Paddocks inability to serve in his us,l-
 al form. On account of his hard set,
 with CoghIan shortly before. his
 strength was sorely tried, and neither
 hIs partner nor himself could seeming
 " stop the onslaughts of Barber ana
 Van Sant. who seemed almost tfreless
 Mixed doubles and ladies' singles will
 be played off some time during the
 present week and the finals will prob
 ably be played on Friday and Satur-
 day.