The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-08-10
SERVICE
PLANS TENNIS SERIES
FOR WAYNE COUNTY

Plans for a Wayne county tennis
championship meet are rapidly being
formed by the Richmond Community
Service Tennis associa ton, to be held
the first week of September. begin
ming on Labor Day. The matches will
all be played on the association courts
at Earlham college.
1t is the plan to have three sets of
championship matches, including the
mems singles, women's singles and
mems doubles. If the demand is great
enough, mixed doubles and women's
doubles matches will be held.
The mems singles will be started
on Sept. 5. Labor Day. and the semi
finals probably will be held on the
| following two days. The women S
singles and the mems doubles will be
i started on Saturday, Sept. 10. and If
| necessary will be continued the first
of the next week
Open to Entire County.
| These championship matches are
opened to all tennis players in the
county, and tennis players out of the
city of Richmond are particularly urg-
| ed to enter No dout there are some
| sharks of the hard courts that can
be considered in the running, that are
not known in this city. These people
are urged to get in touch with T. c,
Harrington, president of the associa-
ton, or at the Community Service
| rooms.
Suitable prizes are being offered
for the winners of the matches and
are well worth playing for. In the
mems singles, loving cup will be
given to the man winning the cham
pionship, that will be well worth hav-
| ing.
The women's singles champion will
be awarded a first class tennis racket
and the mems doubles prizes have not
, been decided upon to date, but it is
known that suitable prizes will be
given
/ No Entry Charge Made.
Entries will be received at the Com
munity Service rooms and will be &C
cepted up to Sept. l. when all names
j must be in. One of the features of the
match is that there will be no fee
charge to enter.
4 In practically every tennis cham
pionship there is an entry fee charge
O0l lHC doooSldliOi udS uCSiOCu lio
no fee shall be charged for the county
championship matches.
Tennis in Richmond has taken de
cided boost since the beginning of thu
season this year and there is probabl.
more tennis being played here to dat'
that there has been for several year
if not in the history of Richmond.
Mr.. Slocum of the Community serv
ice stated that there are some yer.
good tennis players in the city an
all the matches should be very closel.
, contested. In his opinion there ar
some very good tennis players amont
the fairer sex, for the interest tina
has been shown here for the sport.
May be Annual Affair
An effort will be made by the asse
citation to hold these championshi
. matches annually. The associatio
! has applied for membership in th
! ! western division of the United State
: Lawn Tennis association or the Wes
' ern Lawn Tennis association.
Every available court in Richmon
: is being worked to it's capacity, ha'
: ing some players on them at nearl
t all hours of the day. Four courts
that city are being used at nearly a
hours of the day-one at the Thir
English Lutheran church, one at tn
East Main Street Friends church. an
!, three at the Fairgrounds and Sout
' Twenty-second street and the associ
ton courts at Earlham.