Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-06
BIC MATCHES Due TODAY
First Clay Court Tourney Will Gull
inmate with Hot Games.
IN DOUBLES PLAY
He and Long VIII Meet Anderson and
Hayes, Following Battle for
the Championship in
Singles

ANANiANHeuN VIII Culullndlo AT the f1elQ
club today. for after a number of hot
matches the first national clay court tennis
tournament will pass into history.
Beginning at 10 this morning with the
seml-finals OF the consultations play will
go on continuously until dusk. the last
event being the national doubles champion
ship.
In these doubles Anderson and Hayes will
play Long and Scrlbner. Hayes and his
partner yesterday disposed of Bradley and
Speice, Sc. GO, Ga Meantime Long and
Scribner had put the final touches on the
fast South Dakotans, Branson and Barton,
winning, g. g. so This was the principal
3play Of the afternoon.
Koch and Webster will be the first pair
to attract attention today They begin at
10 the semifinals OF the consolation singles
and the winner will meet Frank Colpetzer
in the finals. This latter is scheduled for
IL o'clock.
The finals OF the doubles Cconsolation) arc
also scheduled for 10 o'clock. Caldwell and
Rasmussen will meet Tillman and Hicks
The biggest event OF the day is the sin
giles championship match between Long and
Hall and play will begin at D. m. Then at
comes the finals in the national doubles
championship
The day promises to afford the greatest
tennis Omaha has ever seen and the ma
ttonal singles finals will be a battle royal
Friday Morning Play.
Anderson and Hayes found themselves up
against tough proposition in the Omaha
lads, Potter and Koch, and only won by GA
Us, SO. The outside players were a little
too strong on the strokes for the local pair.
although Koch made a number Of fine
plays in his game. Anderson smashed ball
after ball into the court with great ac-
curacy and Hayes did his part by protecting
the court.
The other two Omaha players put up a
fine fight against the Oklahoma men and
surprised all by the sudden squirt OF playing
they exhibited. Time after time they would
run up the score and stubbornly fighting
every inch lost in four sets.
Consolation singles are coming out the
last rounds and It looks as If perhaps an
Omaha man would win them as Colpetzer
is in the finals, and Harry Koch has
chance to get in them. Colpetzer has the
honor just now of being the first Omaha
man to reacl. the finals in any event OF
the tournament, and may be the only one
to reach them.
Tennis players of Des Moines are TAX
ing a lively interest in the meet, and FRI
day morning a number of the players from
that city came to Omaha to watch the big
matches to be held here Friday and Satur-
day. The delegation Is headed by A. D.
Peters who is taking charge of the annual
state tournament to be held there August
a. The other men who came were, DIN
Sweet, Jennings Crawford, Leland Wind
sor, w. J. Pratt, Jack Agar and Harry
Rawson.
Omaha Pair Wins.
Long and Scribner defeated Armstrong
and Cannon after a close match, ending
TO, So, 6-1 To The winners started out
poorly and lost the first set, but after that
they braced up and took the remaining sets.
Long was letting the Omaha man do the
most of the work for some reason or other,
but Scribner rose to the occasion nobly and
played the best game of his lite The re-
turns were almost always sent to him, as
Cannon and Armstrong were afraid Of the
Californian and Scribner stuck right to 1t,
sending back one high lob after another
This style OF play coupled with Longs
method of cutting the ball close over the
net was the downfall Of the st. Paul
Kansas City combination, for as soon as
they got we'll back in the court a swift bali
cut over would get the point for the win
ming pair.
Prepare for Big Gallery.
Preparations for the accommodation of
the big crowd expected have been going
on all this week and there will be
two big rows of bleachers this aft
ernoon besides the large gallery of the
club house overlooking the courts. The
match will be played on court No. 8, in all
probability, as It is the one situated so
that the best view can be obtained Of it
from all sides, and it has been in perfect
condition ali week.
I'VE would like to issue an invitation
to all people of Omaha interested in tennis
to come out and see the matches. The
event Of a national tournament is some
thing that may not come again to Omaha
for some time, and not only the commit
tee in charge, but also the players would
be pleased to have large crowd out to
see the finals" said Conrad Young, the
| chairman OF the committee.
/ WEaTERN TENNIS RFFET