The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-31
HERMITAGE is
CROWN YET
Tennis Has Been Developed as 1t
Never Has Been in Rich
mond Before.
GOLFERS THERE ALSO
To Have Three More Tennis
Courts-Club Will Be One
of Best Fitted in South.
GOLFERS THERE ALSO

sport for sports sake" mas ever
been recognized as the only healthy
slogan" for athletics. And this is no
byword In the spacious, open-air the
atre of the Hermitage Golf Club Or
gained and incorporated in 1900. and
now with membership of almost 500.
this historic place has no dark doubts
for the future For ten years it has
been a member of the Middle Atlantic.
and Southern Golf Association.
Barely fifteen years ago the ancient
game of golf and the brainy. strenuous
game of tennis were almost a. stand
still in this city. Scarcely tourna-
ment was held, and the entries were
few and the defaults many. When this
club was organized, with its nine-hole
golf course and beautiful tennis courts.
enthusiasts. eager for the zest of exer-
else. began to dock every afternoon.
some to the call of the green and 9TH
ers to the whitewashed lines. Players
felt that their game had taken life
again. The club became a rendezvous
for the women. and Gwendoline. at first
a poor. neglected tennis aspirant, with
sympathetic treatment. developed
through patience and determination TO
no mean contender for honors. In deal
ing with those individual women play
ers who have displayed the most ability.
Miss Connie" Evans. now Mrs Sulli-
van. would be considered first. Her ex-
pertness, however, is too we'll known
to the tennis public 10 require any re-
marks.
Fred Pollard the Richmond crack,
is undoubtedly the all-around best
player in the city. Erskine Butord.
Donald Blair, John Coke and others OF
| promise form the tennis nucleus of the
city.
Despite the increasing enthusiasm fo,
the courts. golf is holding its own. The
services of professional this past
I;year have been of incalculable assist
| ance to the golfers. Otis George. who
came here from Hot Springs, Va, is a
| player of no mean ability. He has the
record for the course. in and out. OF
seventy-one. thereby defeating Colonel
| Bogey" by nine strokes He also low
| cred the record of the difficult Lakeside
course from thirtyfour to thirty-three
Hast spring. William Palmer, the pre-
mier golfer of the city, has stroked the
1 course in neat seventy-two. Thomas
Atkinson, who at Princeton was a mem
Der Of the team, is a rising young play
er. Neither must Charles Davenport
| be passed by. Although along in
4 years, he is the liveliest of the bunch.
i lie 10 CdilSQ the anu lue-
tie Giant. and he deserves the titles.
Last, but not least. is the pioneer, DR.,
Is. B. Moon. Three years back. the
i story says, the#doctor was hitting the
! tiny sphere. He was upon the ninth
4 green, when an old woman. apparently
very much excited, ran UP to him.
/ Mr.. Moon" she exclaimed, "a mad dog
has bitten that boss yonder, and you
had better take cair about your own
hoss!" Moon ran as fast as his legs
could carry him and leaped into his
4 buggy, The rabid horse was out for
blood. With the club porch crowded
with pretty women, the doctor raced
1 for his life, nose ahead of the infu-
/, rated animal. "Puss' Ellyson made a
vain attempt to club the beast. The
doctor escaped. The animal, trembling
in every limb, dropped dead. His es-
/ cape from death was miraculous. 5
Charles r. Guy is president, A. p.
Wilmer vice. president and John B. Or
/! gain secretary and treasurer James
| Mullen, Donald Blair and Geddes Win
ston form the tennis committee. Dr. S.
/ B. Moon is chairman OF Ake golf COM
will leave for Durham, N. G., to take
/ charge of the Country Club there
! about the middle Of August Ii was
stated on authority by one OF the most
influential members yesterday tina,
there was scarcely any possibility tina,
the club would become extinct IN a few
] years by interference from the rail.
road In fact, IT is very remote. anc
!: he said that the club would undoubted
!: ~ be in existence ten years from now
1, One OF the greatest features Of The
4 Hermitage is its accessibility bushes
men being able to don their clothe.
and be ready for recreation In a shor,
while after leaving their offices
In the singles for women. Miss Leils
! Willis beat Miss Katharine Ricks bs
aetault. me match between Gedde.
nnals ofRthe consolation was called Of
until next week by mutual aereement
4 The next tennis tournament viii IS,
/ held in September when the clul
championship Will be played.