Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-27


The final official lawn tennis tournament
in North America for the season q 1919 wiz
take place tomorrow IN Mexico City. Mex
under the auspices Of the Mexico Country
club. THIS meeting was 20 have been the
opening number Of the season. but vas
later postponed 20 be the final event This
season has been one Of incident. and has
marked the highest point that tennis has
ever reached in popular Interest Both IN
regard 10 the number Of players IN the vsri-
Gus events recognised BY the national or
SANITATION. and 10 the number Of people
who have constituted the galleries al these
meetings. unprecedented interest has been
manifested.
One great international event on the cal
onder This IS the tournament in Australia
for the custody 81 the Davis cup. the blue
ribbon OF the entire tennis world. IL has
not been determined definitely whether
America viii send challenging team to
Australia IN an effort TO reclaim the cup.
Tits trophy is 10 the game OF tennis what
the Americas cup Is 20 the yachting world.
IL was presented b. Mr.. Dwight Davis In
1909 TO be contested for a. often as there
should be a challenging team. In that year
America succeeded in winning h. The fol-
lowing year there Was no nation TO chal-
lenge for it, In lg0e IL was played Tor by
teams representing the United states and
Great Britain. and the American players
were successful ia defending their title. The
next year IL vas taken by the English team.
and England held II against all corners In
four successive tournaments. Thereafter It
went to Australia. where it has remained.
neither England nor America being able to
win II back.
At the historic games al Wimbledon,
played under the auspices Of the All Eng
land Tennis club. the championship Of
Great Britain went 10 Wnding. a New
Zealander. In years gone by this cham
pionship was proudly claimed by the Eng
lish to be the worlds highest tennis honor.
but in recent years the United States has
succeeded in disproving this claim. Wilding
can justly assume that he is the champion
OF the old world, but until he meets the
veteran American champion. ". A Larned-
he viii have no right to claim that he is the
champion player Of the world Lsrned has
never lowered his colors TO the New Zes-
I lander and it is believed by American tennis
experts that match between, them would
result in the triumps Of the American.
A notable feature Of the present season
/ in America was the establishment Of a new
championship class that Of the clay court
At the February meeting Of the United
States National Tennis association, IL was
decided 10 give the supporters OF the clay
court q national tournament and the honor
Of conducting this event was awarded 60
the Omaha Field club OF Omaha. Neb. The
tournament as voted by all tennis suthori-
ties 10 have been q magnificent success
There were lG5 contestants entered and the
d
conservstively estimated al 5000 The cham
I pionship went TO a California player, Mel
vile T. Long one Of the members OF the
team which went to Australia last year in
quest Of the Davis cup There seems to
4 be little question that the clay court cham
pionship has established itself firmly and
will be one OF the principle events OF future
tennis seasons.
Heretofore the grass covered court has
been used in all the principle tournaments
and il is the hope of most tennis enthusi-
ssts that such courts viii remain the favor
ties in future The eliminating event OF
the year is the Newport tournament where
the GALAXY is made I'd largely OF the mil
honai es club. and IL j. hard TO tell whether
the players constitute more OF a show fol
the gallery or the gallery for the players
( This tournament lie fought out on grass
I covered courts.
Numerous experiments have been made
this year with oil courts. and they hav'
proved popular wherever tried They pos
sess many advantages. chief among whici
is their freedom from dust. their spring!
surface and their dark color. which serves
10 prevent the reflection Of the suns ray
from the courts in to the faces OF tn
players In Montana tennis clubs hav,
been experimenting with a molasses dress
ing for the courts. with some success. Il
making beet sugar there is a residue O
solids and water. which is not greatly diff
ferent from other forms of molssses Whel
This material Is applied TO the courts il &
at first sticky and unsatisfactory. but
few days OF sunshine drives IL into tn
earth and puts the ground into ideal con
dition for the tennis player. Clubs else
where have been watching these expert
ments with moissses and II il probable
will Be rather widely used next year
No other game T. 80 generally ulaved n,