Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-18
TENNIS LEADERS ARE COMING
Indications Are Clay Court Tourney
Will Break All Records.
CRACKS FROM BOTH COASTS
Men--Bunch VIII Come Direct
from Chicago Doubles
Tourney.
CRACKS FROM BOTH COAST

EiAylnB IN the NAUO0di clay court ten
mis- tournament in Omaha next August will
be the majority of the players of premier
ranks Of the United States. All of the mel.
ranking as the first seven players Of the
United States, except w. j. Clothier, the
national grass court champion, have
agreed to be here and efforts will be made
between now and August to bring Clothier
with the others and make the Omaha event
the biggest tourney Of the year
Summer Hardy, president of the Pacific
Coast league, sent word last week that all
of the players sent to the east this sum-
mer by that league would stop over in
Omaha to play in the National Clay Court.
This will mean that besides the present
clay court champion, Melville Long, there
will also be here T. c. Bundy, who ranked
second; M. E. Mclaughlin. who ranked
fourth; S. M. Sinsabaugh of Los Angeles,
g. James of San Francisco, and probably
Summer Hardy himself, another great San
Francisco player.
These five are the probable team and
they will bring back many a cup and
championship to California before the cose
of the summer. They will all attend the
Chicago Western Doubles meet the week
before the National Clay Court tourna-
ment and then make Omaha between the
Chicago tourney and the eastern event at
Newport.
Following are the biggest of the men
who will play for the clay court cup and
honors, in the order of the 1910 ranking:
T. C. Bundy, second; Beals Wright, third;
M. e Mclaughlin, fourth; Melville w.
Long, fifth; N. w. Niles sixth; @. F.
Touchard, seevnth Carl Gardner, w. NJ.
Hall, F. G. Anderson and W. T, Hayes.
Work for Melville Long.
1t can easily be seen that Melville Long,
who won the clay court tourney last year,
will have to play in much better form next
August than he did in 1910. Long is a
most wonderful player and delighted the
great crowd of tennis enthusiasts who saw
him play the game last year with his man
ner of covering the court combined with
the grace and ease of 4is strokes and
movements.
The players coming are the ones who are
going to be the contestants not only for
the first honors in the National Clay CNIrt,
but also on the lawn courts, and coming
here directly after the western doubles
meet in Chicago.
The doubles of 1911 will also be close
and holly contested. Melville Long and
Carl Gardner will be paired and Anderson
and Hayes, the present holders of the
doubles title, will come. Bundy and Nc
L4aughlin, two of the greatest doubles play
ers OF the world. will play here, coming
from Chicago and Beals Wright and N.
w. Niles will make another fast couple.
third fast team will come from the Pa
cific Coast association and the speedy
pairs Of the middle west will have to look
for their laureis to make any kind of
record for themselves.
Word from all directions indicates that
the entry list of the clay court this year
will contain more than 100 names. One
hundred and one players started last sum
mer and one or two were admitted after
the entries were closed, and this year II Is
expected there will be nearer the 126 mark.
Pittsburg. Minneapolis. Chicago, Indian
apols, st. Louis, Kansas City and all OF
the big cities of the middle west will have
some representation here. Des Moines,
Sioux City and st. Joseph have already
announced their intention OF boosting with
Omaha for a monster event and every ten
mis- player of Omaha VIII naturally do all
he can to boost and to entertain the
visitors after their arrival.
The Omaha outdoor clubs will all unite
in extending the courtesies of their club
houses and grounds 10 the tennis men and
some plan such as the book system planned
by the Transmississippi will be used for the
national tennis for the visitors. The an
nual tennis banquet will be held at the
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