The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-08-10
NORFOLK WINS Al TENNIS
DEFEATED PIERCE PLAYERS IN
TOURNAMENT YESTERDAY.
NOT A SINGLE SET WAS LOST
Racquet Welding Has Been Revived
in Norfolk This Season, and Good
Sport is Being Had Here Every
Evenne-Some Of the Players.
[From Thursdays paily.l

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The Noriolk tennis players, who
went to Pierce yesterday, had things
about their own way from start to fin
ish. They did not allow the Pierce
enthusiasts one set in the whole Sc
ries The Pierce players are pretty
swift but they showed lack of prac-
tice, while the Norfolk boys played a
heady, steady game.
Pasewalk was in fine form and
played one of the best games he was
ever known to. Hines played a good
game, only allowing his opponent one
point in five straight games that were
played in one set. The fine team work
of Beels and Erskine was one of their
winning points. The Pierce boys put
up very good game, especially Pohl-
man, but did not seem to have the
endurance that their opponents had.
The scores were as follows: Pase-
walk beat Pohlman, 6-2, 6-l. Beels
and Erskine beat Nelson and Tonner
GA, 60. Hines beat Jenal, 6-1, Go.
Pasewalk beat Oelke, 6-1, 6-2. Beels
and Erskine beat Tonner and Pohl-
man, 6-2, 6-1.
In the sum total, Norfolk's racquet
wielders won sixty games while their
opponents won only fourteen, which
were scattered.
The Pierce boys treated the Nor
folk players royalty and showed them
cne of the best times possible.
1t has been arranged that the Pierce
players will come to Norfolk in the
near future for return series.
The overwhelming victory of the
Norfolk players yesterday only in a
measure makes up for the terrific de-
feat which was at one time admins
tered by Pierce to Norfolk on the
football gridiron. 1t was one of the
first games that was ever played by
Norfolk high school football team
They went to Pierce, as confident of
a victory as were the tennis men yes
terday. w. G.. Hirons, now county
clerk, was then superintendent of the
Pierce schools, and the way he had
trained his husky students to advance
the pigskin was a caution. The score
was so to in favor of Pierce.
Tennis Being Revived Here.
Tennis mas been revived in Norfolk
this summer more than for several
seasons past, and a mighty good arti-
Gle has been developed. Lovers of the
game get splendid fun out of bouncing
the balls back and forth over the net,
and the sport promises to increase in
favor during the next year or so, rath-
er than wane.
Those who are playing at the game
do it not only for the sport that there
is in it, but for the physical training
that it gives, as well. They claim
that an hour of tennis each day or so
through the summer, serves to keep
a man young all his life, and to reduce
weight Councilman j. S. Mathewson,
for instance, weighs about 220 pounds
throughout the winter, but up to date
this summer, by means of tennis, he
has taken off thirteen pounds.
Among those now playing, the old
est at the game are Wynn Rainbolt,
Frank Beels, Leo Pasewalk and Storrs
Mathewson. For fifteen years they
have been sending the white rubber
spheres in and out among the white
chalk lines, until their skill has be-
come a fine art. Beels has always
been one of the steadiest players in
town, though he has had little practice
this year. Rainbolt, who played all
through his Andover and Harvard col
lege career, and who has won several
northern Nebraska championship med
ais, has had little practice during the
past two years but can, when he is
in form, still defend his title to the
championship of this part of the state.
Pasewalk, who is perhaps the most
ardent devotee of the game now, al
for the last point, making it tire
mendous task to beat him. 1t is ques-
tion whether he can be beaten by
anyone in Norfolk today.
Storrs Mathewson plays one of the
most remarkable games of tennis, con
sidering his weight, that has ever been
seen in Norfolk. Despite the fact that
he is handicapped in a game with
lighter players, he is able to move
anywhere about the court with won,
derfll agility and his game is SC
steady and so sure that he always
holds his own, and sometimes more
in game with any of the present con
testants.
A new figure on the courts this year
is Rev. John Kinds, pastor of the Sec
ond Congregational church, who has
just graduated from the Yale semi
nary. He played tennis at Yale ant
he is still playing in Norfolk. Though
not a spectacular game at all, his play
is absolutely sure and he never loses
a point until it has gone back anC
forth a number of times. His con
sistency and even play was shown a
Pierce yesterday by the fact that il
five straight games he lost but ont
single point-a remarkable fact WheI