New Britain herald., 1928-08-29
BRILLIANT MATCH
IN tennis Play
Lama Of ksasil6toa Beats Hurl.
burt Of Southn6ton

Frank LAMA of Kensington out
lasted and finally defeated r. w.
Hurlburt Of Southington in bril-
liant three-set match which featured
last nights play In the Hartford
County "Y" tennis tournament At
Walnut Hill park. Two of the three
seething sets went to extra games.
the scores being Sc. 4-6, rs. Both
men exhibited the best tennis seen
thus far in the tournament, and
spectators commented upon the I'M
fortunate luck of the draw, which
brought these two together in the
first round and eliminated one of
fore the tourney had fairly begun.
Huriburt took an early lead In the
first set playing largely on the de-
fensive before Lanza's terrific drives
to all corners Of the court. The
Remington man was wild on these
strokes, and by neat returning of
the good ones Hurlburt soon had a
81 lead. Lama then steadied and
battered hts way to SIS and finally
took the set. 1t seemed that he must
take the second set, also. but Hurl-
burt came back brilliantly, returning
Lanza's fierce drives and making
many placement shots which earned
him needed points and allowed him
to square the match. The decising
set was even faster and closer than
Its predecessors, neither man show
ing signs OF firing and both con-
tinuing at the same breakneck and
even pace. The set was squared at
san. then at Sail and again at sail
but Lama finally ran off the two
necessary games and earned a hard
won triumph.
Alden Hewett of New Britain and
Edmund Siegrist OF East Berlin bat.
tied into the darkness and were
finally forced to postpone the re.
mainder of their match until thi.
evening. Hewett was leading at thu
time by 2-6. ga, Al. Siegrist, tn,
smallest player in the tourney, hat
been looked upon as easy meat b,
the older and larger players. but h,
gave the tall Hewett a severe drub
bling in the first set. in which tn
local man played below his usua
form. Hewett came back in tn
second set, but Siesrist. using hi
peculiar overland stroke, fought hin
all the way and did not succum
without gallant struggle. Hewet
was still stronger In the final set an
had fairly comfortable lead whe
darkness forced suspension of pla,
Bob Farr of Plainville won hi
match by default. Bob De Garmo G
Slmsbury having to withdraw fror
the tournament because of an infect
ed foot. The last singles match, be
tween Pattison Of Simsbury an
Kramer Of East Berlin. was pos
poned until tonight because Of tn
length OF the other two matches.
The Pattison- Kramer match wi
be played at 6 o'clock this evenin
and the remainder of that betwee
Hewett and Siegrist will be finishe
} at the same time. Upon the col
2 clusion of the latter match. Giar
a of kensington will meet Hanny
4 Plainville in a second round Ell
& counter. The winner of the Hewet
3 Siegrist match will play Farr if it
1 still light enough when the Pattisol
Z Kramer match is ended. LAMA
victory last evening carried hi
into the semi-fnals, as he drew
bye in the second round The vii
ner of the Kramer Pattison mate
will likewise pass the quarter fina
in the mi-fnals.
The doubles matches, scheduled
start tonight, will have to be pos
poned until tomorrow evening. Sim
bury will play New Britain al
Southington will meet East Berlin
the first round.