Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-02
Mas tuASE IS CHAMPION
Wins in Hard Fought Match from
Miss HOrtense Clarke.
WINNER IS ALL ROUND ATHLETE
h"S Taken Part I'm Many Kinds Of
Athletics, Hut Has Paid Little
Attention 90 Tenni.-wins
On Condition.


MISS Carmelta Chase was announced as
the champion player Of the Ladies' tennis
tournament Friday. when she defeated
MISS Hortense Clarke. the runner-up I'm
match OF three close sets. This places
Miss Chase as the champion player OF
the year for Omaha. as Mrs. N p. Dodge.
IT, Who won the place last year, will not
compete this year or defend her honors
A large crowd was at the field club Fri
day morning to see the match of the semi
finals and the day and the courts were
perfect for the event. As each player made /
an especially good stroke or a point after
few minutes of exciting play, the gallery |
applauded vigorously.
The match was close from the first serve
until Miss Clarke lost the last point by .
netting the ball after receiving IL. A large
number OF the games. thirteen out OF the !
twenty-nine played, were deuce games, and
one game had total of fourteen points
instead OF the required four to win Il. One
thing the spectators noticed about the
players was that the server almost always
won her game. The total number of points
made by each player in the course of the
match was 100 for Miss Chase and 1O4 for
Miss Clarke, and Miss Chase got sixteen
games to Miss Clarkes thirteen
Games Are Close.
In the last set when the score stood five
games to three I'm Miss Chase's favor she
had chance to make the match point but
Miss Clarke stuck grimly to her post and
managed to take the point herself In The
middle of the game Miss Clarke slipped
and fell and lost the point, as she was not
able to reach the ball Miss Chase put over.
Many people remarked that that fall was
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not on an importnt point Of the game no
great harm was done
Miss Chase was handicapped all through
the match by the fact that she had blistered
her hand by the continued use of a racquet
this week, and was obliged to stop several
times and arrange the bandages which were
necessary around the injured hand.
MISS Chase takes part in all kinds of
athletics at Bryn Mawr, where she attends
school, and is quite an athlete She is an
enthusiastic hockey player and is captain
of the college team and is also the man.
ager of the college basket ball team, al
though she Is only junior, as she Is a
member of the 1912 class. She is noted at
school for her expert swimming and Is a
player Of the favorite water game. water
polo. She learned tennis, but never cared
much about 1t, and only arrived home from
travelling trip few days before the tour
nament began, so she got out her racquet
with no hope Of coming out anywhere near
the winner.
To Finals in Doubles.
Mrs j. NJ. Cudahy and Miss Kate Moores
won a place IN tho finals OF the doubles
Friday morning by defeating Misses Janet
and Dorothy Hall, The Hall sisters put up
y very good game, but found Mrs Cudahy
and Miss Moores too fast for them. Both
of the winning couple are experts In puts
and strokes and as they have been prac-
tielng together some they make a fine
team. t
For the other place in the finals a match
will be played off Friday afternoon be-
tween Miss Erna Reed and Miss Margaret
and Miss Laura Zimmerman and Miss
Elizabeth McDtulon.
Miss FeIlers Wins Place,
Miss Lucille Fellers won place in the
finals of the consolation series Thursday
when she defeated Miss Gretchen Neon
nell. The match was close in the first
set as the players were very evenly
matched, Miss Fellers only winning it by
To. Both young women play fast game
and are in excellent form. The result was
in doubt until two games of a deuce set
had been played, when the set went to
Miss Fellers. In the second set Miss Nc
Connell lost ner grip completely anu lost
the set by 60
This places Miss Fellers and the winner
of the match between Miss Ruth Clarke
and Miss Laura Zimmerman in the finals
of the consolation playing. The other
match of the semi-fnals will be played
off Friday morning after the match in the
championship has been played.
All three of the young women who have
q chance for the final game in the conso-
IatIons are high school students, They
took honors In the annual high schoo
tournament held this spring.
In the doubles of the Ladies' tournament
the semi-finals have been reached, Mrs
]. NJ. Cudahy and Miss Kate Moores wor
place In them Thursday, and Miss Laura
Zimmerman and Miss Elizabeth McMuller
also Miss Janet Hall and Miss Dorothy
Hail won a place In the mornings play
The playing in doubles will be resumed OF
Friday afternoon after the matches in thu
singles have been finished.
Doubles.
Mrs. u. M. Cudahy and Miss Kat
Mooresfbeat Miss Bess Dumont and Mis-
Tess Little, 6-3, so.
Miss Laura Zimmerman and Miss Eliza
beth McMullen beat Miss Erma Hadra an
Miss Lucille Fellers, 40, 6-1 ga
q Mrs. j 4. NJ. Cudahy and Miss Kate Moore
beat Misses Dorothy and Janet Hall, e.
6-S, In the semi-finals.
Consolation sIngIes--SemI-FinRIs
Miss Lucille Fellers beat Miss Gretchen
Mcconnell, rs, go This places Miss Fell
ers In the finals for the consolation.
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