The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-19
in Topeka
Country Club Players to Meet
X. c. Team July 5.
News and Notes From Courts
Throughout the City.
(By SAM


The tennis team of the Topeka
Country club is going to meet the team
of the Kansas City Athletic club on
the local courts on Monday, July 5,
for the Independence Day tournament.
The Topeka team will consist of Rob
ert Shoemaker, w. B. Collinson, Earl
Trobert and Wilbur Cole. Opposing
them will be ID. Keedy Campbell A. A.
Poteet, c. F. Howard and Cakes Lem
ing.
Three years ago the Country club
put up cup to be played for by the
two associations and by winning two
Journeys out of three, the X. c. A. c.
took home the trophy last year. The
players of that club have now offered
a new cup to be played for on the
same principle and the July tourna-
ment will be the first seasons battle
for it.
The Country club players are round
ing into shape. Shoemaker and Col
inson are the old members of the
squad" Trobert and Cole the new
ones. All four of them are PLAYING
some corking good sets this SUNNI
and expect to make it merry for the
river town servers next month.
Leonard Beekman, 1914 lawn tennis
champion of New York city, will prob
ably win the title again this year. The
contests are being held this month and
ease. His hardest match was with
Harold A. Throclmorton, at present
the Junior metropolitan title holder.
The heavy rains of the past month
have put tennis in the BACKGROUND on
account of wet courts. The season
this year did not begin as early as
usual for that reason. 1t was some
what discouraging for the local play
ers to have their sets postponed be-
cause of a 6OwnDOIIr
The Y. M. c. A. courts at Tenth and
Lane streets are in excellent shape for
the summer matches. There are
three courts here and probably more
regular players are located there this
year than ever before.
bill for SIS cents was presented to
one young man this week for break
ing a garage window some distance
from the court where he was playing.
In attempting to return a hot serve
his muscular development seemed to
be good, because the garage was half
a block away.
Now that the tennis season is open
ed, there is a lot of talk of a state
wide tournament later in the summer.
If it develops into more action and
less conversation, the hopes of the
crack players may be realized. In the
larger Kansas cities, Topeka, Wichita,
worth, Salina and others, 1.-The woods
are full of players with championship
or near-championship form. In adj
dition to that, nearly every town in
Kansas with more than 1000 people
has one or more courts.
A Kansas tennis tournament should
not be limited to men. An auxiliary
meet should be arranged so that the
women players of the state could
match their skill against one another.
Two years ago, in the state tour
nament at Wichita, Topeka carried
away many of the honors. Last year
there was neither a state nor a city
tournament. A tennis meet, as well
as a golf championship, is good
thing for those concerned and creates
a spirit of pep and rivalry that can
not be obtained any other way.
The Country club tennis commit
tee, the Y. M. c. A. players and nj
dividuals in Topeka have given assur-
ances of their support for a state
tournament. 1t is up to the other
cities to get busy.