Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-24
KOHN WINS FROM KENNEDY
luash Player Beaten in Semi Fina
Round in Tennis.
ALL FINALS THIS AFTERNOON
Cub Potter and Herbert KOhn VIII
Play for Championship in
SinEIes-Good scores in
Doubles.

II the four or five players who have
been displaying their tennis skill at the
Field club during the city tourney can
just hold the pace they have set, Omaha's
representation in the Midwest tourna-
ment will be a surprise to the foreigners.
AS a bunch of racquet artists they have
gained in speed, accuracy, and versatility
and the matches Of Friday afternoon were
as entertaining as any hat have been on
the courts for a year.
Today's final in the championship singles
will be between Herbert Kohn and Cub
Porter. Cub came out of a schedule that
contained Art Scrlbner, Gale Martin and
Harry Koch and Kohn emerged from a
bunch the best Of which were Sam Cald-
well and Spike Kennedy. The Kennedy
Kohn match was the only singles match
played Friday and II was we'll worth see
ing, Kennedy had a record Of only five
games lost in four matches and he was out
to win. The first set went to him easily,
S-6, but after that Kohn, who is his su-
perior in steadiness and in speed at criti-
cal points, crept up and took the second
one after a fight and ran away with the
third. The score was "a, 50, SO.
Spectacular Work In Doubles.
Most Of the spectacular work of the day
was done in doubles. In the second round,
Mcconnell and Caldwell were almost taken
in by two youngsters, Farrell and Driscoll
managed to pull out, Us, 6-4. Harry Koch
and Cub Potter beat Jack Hughes and Gale
Martin, but to do 1t they were forced to
play tennis that made the gallery gasp.
The toughest contest of the afternoon,
however, was between Spike Kennedy and
Sam Burns on one side and Art Scribner
and Herb Kohn on the other. Kennedy
and Burns played a good game of tennis
and supplemented it with a line of talk
that not only amused the gallery, but
came very near winning the match for
them.
Scribner and Kohn were kept running
back by a continuous string of popped up
lobs which jerked them away from the
net as soon as they got there. This would
give Burns a chance to get close up, where
he is at his best, and Spike ran miles
around the back line. Al one time the
squash player and his partner had their
opponents within two points Of the match,
but Scribner and Kohn were too much for
them in the end.
KOhn Plays Three Matches.
Perhaps the most remarkable perform
ance Of the afternoon was Kohn's personal
activity, which began at $3.50 and lasted
until dark. In all he played three matches,
one in singles and two in doubles, winning
all of them. Two of these matches went
three sets and he played altogether sew
enty-nine games, winning forty-four and
losing thirty-five. His first match was
against Kennedy in the semi-finals Of the
singles. After that he hooked up with
Scribner and beat first Webster and
Thompson in the second round, then Ken
nedy and Burns in the semi finals.
The other semi-finals match in doubles
was begun between Koch and Potter and
Mcconnell and Caldwell. The first named
pair took the first set after a fight, Sc,
and the second was 3 all when it became
too dark to finish.
Program for To-day
This unfinished match In doubles will
begin today's playing at 2 o'clock. AZ
3 o'clock the finals in championship singles
will begin between Cub Potter and Hert
Kohn. Following that will come the
doubles finals between Kohn and Scribnel
and the winners of the Mcconnell Caldwell
K~och-Potter match. The semi-finafs ir
consolation singles will be between Lyman
Mcconnell and r. J. Shoemaker, and be.
tween Fred Stebbins and Jack Welsh and
the finals will follow Immediately.
FRIDAYS SCORES:
Championship singles, semi-finals:
Herbert Kohn beat Spike Kennedy, 3-6
GA, SO.
Championship doubles. second round:
Koch and Potter beat Hughes and Mar
tin, SO, 81, rs.
L. Mcconnell and Caldwell beat Driscol
and Farrell, rs, GA.
Kennedy and Burns beat Wareham ant
Marks, 60, Ga.
Kohn and Scribner beat Webster ant
Thompson, GO, Ga.
Championship doubles, semi-finals:
Kohn and Scribner beat Kennedy anc
Burns, 60, 1-6, 1913.
Consolation singles, second round:
Stebbins beat Billiard, 1913. ca.