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THE KINGS OF TENNIS.
UNMERCfflLMAGNATES
CHAMPION CAMPBELL’S CHANCES
A SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS
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Experts Who Will Struggle foi
Glory in August.
Unprecedented Depression in
Summer Amusements.
W. A. LARNED.
The American championship
Checker Problem No. 175—By Charles
Hefter.
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White to play and draw.
Chess Problem No. 175—By E. Pradignat,
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son which has jusi
begun. Never be-
fore have there
been so many can
didates for honors
in the field, never
before have hon-
ors been so uncer-
tain of prediction,
and never has
a field of players whose
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Commodore Charles V. Winne.
One of the best known canoeists ir
America today is Charles V. Winne, com
modore of that famous organization the
American Canoe association. Commodor!
Winne resides at Albany, and is as much al
home in his canoe as an Indian.
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Cutting Salaries Is Easier Than
Cutting Coupons.
The Seawanhaka’s New Home.
One of the prominent yacht clubs in the
vicinity of New York is the famous Sea-
wanhaka, which has just completed a
handsome and luxurious clubhouse at
Oyster Bay, L. I. The new home of the
Seawanhakas is of colonial design, with
unstained shingles, white pillars and
broad, roomy piazzas, and stands on an
eighty acre estate dividing Oyster Bay
from West Harbor. The house is equipped
with about everything that makes happy
and comfortable the average yachtsman
and his wife or his sweetheart.
There is a great hall fifty feet long that
is used as a library and general lounging
room, a big billiard room, a dining room
MR. WIMAN’S GRAND STAND,
been subscribed for. The track will be a
perfect oval, one mile and three furlongs
around, and the six furlong home stretch
will be straight as a bee line. The big
field between the tracks will be fitted up
in part as baseball, football and polo
grounds, while the remainder will be con-
verted into a lake.
The grand stand will be 600 feet long, and
inclined walks will lead to it from a rail-
road that is to enter the race track grounds.
The framework of the grand stand will be
of steel and the structure, it is said, will
be a model of usefulness and comfort. Still
another stand with accommodations for
10,000 will also be erected, and a big club-
house, stables and other necessary build-
ings will be built. In addition to the
ferryboats that now run from New York
city to St. George, S. I., and connect with
the Rapid Transit railroad new boats that
will run to the track direct from New York
will also be constructed, so that 30,000
people may be taken from the track in half
an hour. One of the novelties of Mr. Wi-
man’s enterprise is a revolving sidewalk
to carry people from the ferry slips to the
gates of the track.
Carlsbad’s Victory at Chicago Was Wort)
®25,000 to His Owner.
Carlsbad, the winner of the recent Amer
ican Derby at Chicago, placed about §25,00
in the pockets of his owner, R. A. Swigert
Carlsbad was a dark horse in the race, bu
he seemed in his element on the heav;
track, and paddled under the wire a lengtl
ahead of Zaldivar, while Azra, the famou
script which his friend had begun to un-
roll.
“Well, here’s one that’s got the most
thrilling situations in it of any play ever
put on the boards. Why,” warming up
and talking louder, “this’ll knock ’em silly
in the provinces.”
“Got one already, I told you.” Cud
started to edge away, and a friend happen-
ing along conveniently he joined him with
a cheery “Hello, Fred,” and a thankful
“So long, Charley.”
The crushed playwright gazed after the
retreating figure of his friend, the while
rolling up his scorned manuscript. A look
of ineffable contempt, mingled with pity,
overspread his features as he murmured
in a hoarse whisper, “That knocks me
silly.”
It is hard to have one’s play treated :
rudely. I know it; I’ve been there.
Octaves Cohen.
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CHARLES V. WINNE.
Owing to his wide experience in canoeing
affairs, his large acquaintance among men
who literally paddle their own canoes and
his good judgment Commodore Winne has
proved a very efficient officer, and is de-
servedly popular among the members of
the association of which he is the head.
Erastus Wiman’s Race Track.
Erastus Wiman, the man of many enter-
prises, contemplates giving the east an-
other great race track at Lower Bay Beach,
Staten Island, and the new racing enter-
prise is to be incorporated, with a capital
stock of $500,000, nearly all of which has
THE SEAWANHAKA’S CLUBHOUSE,
and numerous pretty little bedrooms. The
roof, which is reached by a stairway re-
sembling the companion way of a yacht,
is called the deck, and from it a fine view
of the sound is obtainable.
The Seawanhaka Corinthian club was
organized in 1871, and has a full member-
ship of 350. Among the yachtsmen who
fly its colors are the owners of the swiftest
and finest yachts in New York and Boston.
Nearly all of the members are practical
yachtsmen, and their proud boast is that
they have the only large landlocked har-
bor suited for a yacht flotilla between
New York and Newport.
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distance
fishes a
The long Trip of Pedestrian J. Edwin
Stone.
J. Edwin Stone, the young pedestrian,
who recently finished his long walk from
San Francisco to New York, followed rail-
road tracks the en-
tire distance, and
his average daily
stint was twenty-
five miles. The to-
tal distance trav-
ersed was 3,324
miles, and Stone
finished his jour-
ney in 128 days.
His time for the
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record.
When he reached
New York Stone
was in perfect
“THIS’LL KNOCK ’EM SILLY.”
To such an extent is this the case that
Charles Frohman, the Napoleon of Ameri-
can managers, and the great stickler for
the legitimate, whether in comedy, society
drama or farce, has engaged no less than
three song and dance women, of diverse
though equally striking methods, for next
season. Where he will place them no one
knows, but it is safe to wager that he is
sufficiently mindful of the trend of the
public taste to have discovered that even
where it is necessary to strain a point
something of the kind is desirable, unless,
indeed, actual violence to the plot be done
by the interpellation. Other managers
have recognized the deterioration in the
theatrical appetite of the metropolis, and
all started out at the same time to supply
froth. The result was an overstocked
market.
I believe that any reasonably good drama,
melodrama, society play or legitimate
farce comedy if put on at a first class the-
ater in New York city now would draw
handsomely. The people are tired of the
fizz on the soda water; they want to get a
taste of the sirup.
Every actor has written a play, and it is
an amusing sight to see these “suckling
Sardous” intercepting their friends of the
managerial guild on Broadway between
Twenty-sixth and Thirtieth streets and ex-
patiating to them upon the merits of the
cherished drama. I saw such an interview
the other day near Daly’s theater. A tall
fellow, who shall be nameless, hailed a
short, stout man. The man of fewer inch-
es stopped, and his face was wreathed in
smiles as he said:
“Why, hello, Charley. I’m awfully glad
to see you, old man, but I thought you
were with the--Opera company, down
south.”
“Busted,” inelegantly, gloomily and
laconically responded Charley.
“Sorry, but have something.”
“Don’t mind if I do.”
Up to this time there had been nothing
but smiles on the part of the short man.
They started down the street.
“Say, Cud,” began the tall man, “I hear
you are looking for a good melodrama.”
“Got one already,” answered “Cud,”
glancing apprehensively at a huge mana-
year. He has struggled for first honors
from the time the tournament was first
held, reached the semifinal round in 1882
and the final in 1890, the nearest he ever
came to winning. Last year he met Hovey
in his first match, and after a hard strug-
gle was defeated in five sets.
For possible new and startling develop-
ments one must look among the young
players whose form has not yet been es-
tablished. Among these are Howard Mc-
Cormick of Chicago, R. D. Wrenn of
Harvard, W. A. Larned of Montclair, N.
J., and G. P. Herrick of New York, all of
whom have given indications of possessing
high possibilities.
The most interesting fact of the season is
the presence of the American champion in
England. It was confidently anticipated
by the general run of players that he would
make havoc among the English experts.
Unfortunately the result has been far from
satisfactory. At the northern champion-
•ship, June 13, he defeated G. W. Hillyard,
who ranked tenth among English players,
but in turn was beaten by F. O. Stoker,
who ranked ninth.
In the American Invitation tournament,
given in honor of Mr. Campbell, the Amer-
ican was defeated by the English cham-
pion W. Baddeley, and again by J. Pirn,
an Irishman and ex-champion of England.
Both, however, were closely contested
matches. Later in the “all comers” for
the championship of England Campbell
was beaten by A. W. Gove, who only ranks
sixteenth on the list. Too much signifi-
cance, however, must not be given these
results.
In the first place Campbell is a player
who is never at his best before August,
and every year in his own country he has
been defeated in early matches by inferior
players. Add to this that he had been
traveling in Europe, where he had engaged
in little or no practice; that a month prev-
ious to his matches he was disabled in
London with a strained foot, and that, in
England, owing to the number of men of
leisure and the numerous prize meetings,
the number of good players is as three to
one compared with ours, the result is not
so surprising.
The chief surprise is that Campbell
should have risked his repuation, unac-
climated as he was, against such a strong
field of players. Still Campbell’s chief
aim is to retain his honors here, and his
work with the English experts Mull no
doubt increase his chances on this side of
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Ten Chicago letter carriers deliver mail
on bicycles.
Pugilist Frank Slavin is making a book
on the English races. He will issue a
world’s challenge in October.
Frank McHugh is the latest feather
weight who desires to fight George Dixon.
S. B. Ives has been elected captain of the
Yale ’varsity crew for 1893.
If C. F. Seeley’s time, Ih. 14m., for
25X miles, made during the New York-
Boston bicycle relay race, proves correct,
it will constitute a new world’s record.
The proprietor of the Kirkwood (Del.)
kite shaped track will give a valuable
prize to the wheelman who will break the
world’s mile record on thenew course. _,
Interesting Chat About the National Re-
gatta on Saratoga Lake.
On Saratoga lake, July 26 and 27, will
be held the twentieth annual regatta of
the National Association of Amateur Oars-
men of America. The races are open to
all amateur clubs. While no competitors
are expected from across the ocean, the
presence of a number of Canadian oars-
men will give an international flavor to
the sport.
The programme will include eight events
—junior and senior singles, double sculls,
pair oars, junior and senior four oars and
junior and senior eight oars. The junior
eights will be rowed for the first time this
year. All races except the eight oars will
be with a turn.
The entry list for the junior singles will
be large. In the junior four oars, crews
from the Manhattan Athletic and Atalanta
and Union Boat clubs, of New York; Al-
bany Rowing club and probably the Bay-
side Rowing club, of Toronto, will com-
pete.
The senior singles will bring together
a large field, including such noted scullers
as William Caffrey, F-red Hawkins, Edwin
Hedley and Joseph Bergin. Caffrey won
the chamoionship in 1890 and 1891 and has
beaten all the others. Rowing in his old
form, he should win again. Hawkins and
Hedley have beaten each other alternately.
The excellent chances the Vesper Boat
club would have of winning the double
sculls with Hedley and Parke are lessened
by the fact that Hedley must first row in
the singles. Guy and John Dempsey will
wear the Mercury foot of the New York
Athletic club, but can hardly win. The
Bayside double, of Toronto, champions in
1890; the Varuna Boat club’s two, Belger
and Quill, and Mulcahy and Monahan, of
the Albany Rowing club, will probably
fight it out for first place. The last named,
I think, will win again.
The pair oar shell race is as open an event
as there is on the programme. The Lau
brothers, of the Atalantas, ought to win.
The Iona Boat club, of Philadelphia, will
have as its representatives Paul Huneka
and Samuel Hech. Albany and Toronto
may also have representatives in this race.
The pick of the lot in the senior four oar
race seems to be the Fairmount crew, of
Philadelphia. On the Schuylkill, July 4,
the Quakers beat the Atalanta and Man-
hattans, the latter composed of old Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania oarsmen. The Argo-
nauts, of Toronto, will send down a strong
crew, while the Bradfords, of Cambridge,
will add to the uncertainty of the race.
The best race of the regatta should be
the senior eight oars. In this contest the
famous “Chippie” crew, of the New York
Athletic club, will again meet the Malta
Boat club’s eight, of Philadelphia, whom
they defeated on the Schuylkill July 4,
after a desperate finish, by about five feet.
Overconfidence it was, I think, that came
so near beating the New York oarsmen.
On Saratoga lake they will probably win
by a greater margin.
Third place rests between the Fair-
mounts and the Manhattans. The Pali-
sade Boat club, of Yonkers, may enter an
their places just short of championship I eight, in which case the Palisade crew will
W. P. Knapp, of New York, the | probably finish last.
■ ■ ■ ■ ____Walter C. Dohm,
The Victorious Zimmerman.
Zimmerman is winning bicycle races by
the dozen abroad. He recently captured
the 1 and 5 mile contests at Leeds, Eng-
land, defeating Schofield, the English, and
Ducros, the Irish, champions, respectively.
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How Charley Snyder Outshone Caesar.
Failure of the Western League—The
Victorious Bostons—Prospects of a Vig-
orous Contest for the Second Cham-
pionship.
The National league had an easiei
time putting their new wage :scale intc
operation than was experienced at Home-
stead. It was a 20 per cent, cut, and th«
aid of the Pinkerton police was not en
listed in its execution.
I never knew of more than one ball
player who thought he was offered more
money by his club than he merited. The
one exception was Charley Snyder. He
played with and captained the Cincinnati
team in 1882 at a salary of §1,100, having
jumped the Boston club’s reserve list. The
club won the American association cham-
pionship that year, and the officials were
so well pleased with Snyder’s work that
they not only presented him with a gold
watch and diamond studded locket, but
offered him an §1,800 contract for 1883. He
asked the club to take §100 of the §l,80(
offered and add it to the salary of an out-
fielder whose services he desired for the
next season’s team. This request was
granted.
Since that day nothing of worth has been
known to have been rejected by a bal]
player. Snyder and Caesar stand side by
side, with Snyder a shade in front maybe,
for though Caesar refused the throne three
times he finally took it, while Snyder re-
fused his contract but once and didn’t
get it.
It is a pity that the players and the
backers cannot meet on a permanent busi-
ness basis and put the profession upon a
safe foundation financially. But the his-
tory of the game shows that when the
players got the advantage they became
ruinously extravagant in their salary de-
mands, and it will now be proved as it has
been proved before that when the mag-
nates get their feet upon the player’s neck
they’ll tramp him into the mud. There is
too much of a desire upon both sides to
exploit the game for every dollar there is
in it regardless of the future.
The present cut of 2Q per cent, on all
League salaries which were not guaranteed
is but a beginning. The slaughter will
come next year. The failure of the West-
ern league under a §12,000 salary limit and
the monopoly of baseball in twelve of the
largest cities by the League places the
players practically at the mercy of the
magnates. The latter have lost small for-
tunes during the last three years by reason
of the revolt of the players.
Therefore I can see no hope for the pro-
fessional ball player. It really looks as
though he may be compelled to play next
year for as little as ten dollars a day. The
oppression against him may be carried se
far as to compel him to travel from city to
city in a day coach and put up at a three-
dollar-a-day hotel at the club’s expense.
Among the few players who kicked
against the pricks were Hoy, of Washing-
ton, and Tony Mullane, of Cincinnati. The
former was too full for utterance. True
he is a mute, but had he possessed the
tongues of all the ancient Greek orators he
would have failed to do justice to the
occasion as he saw it.
And Mullane absolutely refused to work
for fifteen dollars a day. That would be
bringing him down to the level of a su-
preme court justice or a United States
senator. Submit? Never! Not as long as
there was a free lunch in his native city.
It was a sublime bluff, but the weather
was too warm to hold it long.
The mighty Clarkson too! Last year he
drew §10,000 from the Boston club’s treas-
ury. He goes to Cleveland for §3,500 after
being cast adrift by the Bostons.
As Rip Van Winkle said, “How soon we
are forgotten when we’re gone.”
The first. League season being at an end
with the Boston club the winner, there
will be considerable curiosity in watching
the teams during the first month of the
second season. There is much ground for
the belief that the Philadelphias, Brook-
lyns and Cincinnatis are just at present
playing as strong, if not stronger, ball
than the Bostons. The latter fell away in
their work during the first two weeks in
July, and nothing but a strong lead landed
them champions, so there are excellent
chances that the winner of the second
championship will be another club, and
that will give us a series of finals late in
October.
The distress which I predicted would
come to the Western league after July 4
was promptly on time. The season for
those clubs was started with loud promises
of prosperity, because the league was to be
run on the millennium plan, with §12,000
salary limits to each club. One-half a sea-
son has been enough to prove that the old
plan is better than one of the millennium
kind. Lovers of the sport do not swell
with enthusiasm over a team which is
picked out for them by a Pooh Bah in a far
off place and sent to their city to represent
them in the baseball field. They especial-
ly look upon a team with coldness which
cannot be strengthened or changed with-
out the consent of some one man who lives
in another city or a committee whose mem-
bers are nonresidents.
In a word, local pride in baseball is nec-
essary, and to muster local pride you must
have local power and local management
absolutely behind the club.
The Philadelphias will undoubtedly
hold the record of straight victories for
the year. Their chain of sixteen successive
games won knocked out Anson’s unlucky
thirteen, and it is not probable and hardly
possible that the feat will be equaled again
for several years.
To the Cincinnatis goes the credit of
taking part in two of the most remarkable
games of the season, viz., fourteen innings
and 0 to 0 with the Bostons and that twen-
ty inning 7 to 7 game with the Chicagos.
No more remarkable contest than the lat-
ter has ever been known. It was especially
noticeable because the fourteen runs and
most of the batting came in the first five
innings, and during the rest of the long
and memorable struggle not a man could
reach the plate from either nine. In the
three hours and twenty minutes during
which the game lasted there were offered
to the fielders 193 fielding chances, all of
which were accepted but ten; and only six.
bases on balls were given by the two
pitchers to the 151 batsmen who faced them.
The Philadelphia club made another rec-
ord during the first season that has not been
equaled—they won the entire series from
the Louisvillcs. No other club succeeded
in winning all its games from any one of
its opponents, r O. P. Caylor.
in perfect L EDWIN STONE,
health, but he had lost twenty pounds and
worn out ten pairs of shoes and three suits
of clothing during the trip.
From San Francisco Stone followed the
Central Pacific 833 miles to Ogden, Utah.
He then “counted the ties” of the Union
Pacific to Omaha, 1,034 miles. From
Omaha he tramped along the Northwest-
ern railroad to Chicago, 492 miles, and then
walked the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern. 540 miles, until he struck the
New York, Lake Erie and Western, which
he followed 425 miles to New York city.
Blizzards, terrific thunder and rain storms,
hunger and thirst in the alkali desert and
camping with hospitable Indians were a
few of the incidents of Stone’s long journey.
He performed the feat on a wager and won
by a margin of six days’ time. Stone is an
athletic young man thirty-three years of
age, and his height is 5 ft. 10 in.
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the water.
begins at Newport on Aug. 22. It promises
to be the finest contest in years, and is the
only event upon which to base the com-
parative merits of the players, for there,
and there only, are they sure to be on their
mettle and at their best.
G. Herbert Henshaw.
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CARLSBAD AND WILLIAMS.
Kentucky Derby -winner, was in fourtl
place. Jockey Tiney Williams rode Carls
bad to victory, and about 45,000 Chi
goans saw the great race, which is ever]
year to the World’s fair city what the Su
burban handicap is to New York.
The American Derby is a sweepstake;
for 3-year-olds, distance IX miles. It ha,
been run for nine years at Washingtor
park, and the time this year, 3:04^
was the slowest since Modesty first woi
the great event in 1884. The best timi
made over the course by a Derby winnei
was 2:36Xj made in 1837 by C. H. Todd
Carlsbad’s poor time was due to the ter
rible condition of the Jrack. Carlsbad i:
a bay colt by Glenelg-Lady Wayward
and he carried 122 pounds in the Derby
As he was a ten to one shot in the race, hi:
very few backers were heavy winners
Carlsbad was bred by his owner at Elmen
dorf, Ky. As a 2-year-old Carlsbad woi
in three out of his eight starts. This
year he has captured two races out of four
but as one of them was the great America!
Derby he has proved a very profitable
horse for Bob Swigert.
White—Seven pieces.
White to play and mate in two moves.
SOLUTIONS.
Checker problem No. 174:
White.
1.. 6 to 2
2.. 10.to 6
3.. 20.to 16
4.. 2 to 7
5.. 7 to 32, and wins
Chess problem No. 174:
White.
L.RtoB 8 ch
2.. Q—B 7 ch
3.. P takes R ch
4.. R to K 8 mate
What Has Brought About This Result.
Something Serious Might Do Well.
An Amusing and Not Uncommon Oc-
currence on Broadway.
EVER in the
memory of the old-
est manager has
there been such a
dearth of theat-
rical attractions in
New York city as
at present. It is
almost incredible,
but it is none the
less a fact, that
New York and
Brooklyn, with a
o combined popula-
— — tion of nearly
2,500,000 souls, are without a single dra-
matic entertainment, and will so continue
for a month or more.
Of course there is Hoyt’s farcical noth-
ing, “A Trip to Chinatown,” at the Madi-
son Square theater, “Sinbad” at the Gar-
den and “The Vice Admiral” at the Casino,
but these are all of the light, supersylla-
bub order and cannot be put in the cate-
gory of “dramatic” attractions by even the
most active and elastic imagination. The
two roof gardens which are open are doing
well—that is to say, they are doing better
than anything else, although that is cer-
tainly not saying much.
“The Robber of the Rhine” closed be-
cause, in spite of money and an excellent
cast, the book was too uninteresting, and
the jokes and situations had too strong an
“I’ve-met-you-before” flavor to go down
with the public.
In connection with this opera it is abso-
lutely refreshing, because unusual, to ob-
serve the “sang froid” with which the
backer of the enterprise, one Mr. Thomas
H. Pratt, a man in his early twenties, con-
templates the loss of his §40,000 or §50,000.
He treats the whole matter as though it
were a mere bagatelle.
“King Kaliko,” that hardy annual,
which has bobbed up serenely every year
with the announcement that it was about
to be produced, and finally got on the stage
of the Broadway after a great deal of pre-
liminary puffery as to the fabulous cost of
very cheap scenery and costumes, was
taken off because if it had not been re-
moved it would probably have ruined the
reputation of the theater. Taken all in
all, it was perhaps the most “unfunny”
thing ever attempted in a first-class New
York theater. It was a decidedly serious
affair, especially to the performers, who
are all engaged in industriously poring
over old copies of “Hamlet” in their
dreams. In these visions the ghost always
walks; in “King Kaliko” he was too aris-
tocratic, and kept scrupulously in the back-
ground.
Even the few outdoor attractions at El-
dorado and South Beach have failed to
draw as anticipated, and the latter has
closed. The newspapers are doing all in
their power to help the managers, but to
no purpose. To use an inelegant though
excessively forcible term the New York
public seems to have “soured” on summer
theatricals and won’t have them, and that
ends the matter. The cause, if one cares to
seek it out, is not hard to find. The farce
comedy craze of the past two or three
years has vitiated the popular taste, and
the theatrical palate must now be tickled
with the feathers and furbelows of
travaganza or absurdity.
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G. Herbert Henshaw Thinks the Brook-
lyn Wonder Will Win, Because th<
Challenger, Worn Out by a Week’!
Play, Has Little Chance Against th<
Fresh Champion.
there been,SQ great _________
honors are a question for the" future to de-
cide.
The increasing number of tournament
players is best demonstrated by glancing
back at the entry lists of the annual meet-
ings of the National Lawn Tennis associa-
tion for the championship of America at
Newport, R. I., the first of which was held
in- i881. In that year there were 25 en-
tries; in 1882, 40; in 1883, 27; in 1884, 35; in
1885, 27; in 1886, 34; in 1887,24; in 1888, 33;
in 1889, 32; in 1890, 53, and in 1891, 72.
The number, as will be seen, did not
show any remarkable advance until 1890;
but fifty-three entries was then regarded
as phenomenal, and when last year the
number was increased by nineteen, appre-
hensions were aroused as to the difficulty
of completing the event within the allot-
ted time of one week. These apprehensions
were well founded, for with the most expe-
ditious handling it required ten days of ac-
tual play to decide the championship, and
eleven including the Sunday which inter-
vened. It will become a serious question
for the association to grapple with should
the entries continue to increase, or even tc
equal the list of 1891. No amateur can be
barred from a championship, and yet such
a number not only tediously prolongs the
tournament, but also puts an undue bur-
den on the experts who have to fight their
way through the riffraff before they come
near the championship. It further gives a
y tremendous advantage to the champion
who comes fresh to the fray against an op-
ponent who, for upward of a week, has
been vanquishing one rival after another.
The only apparent solution of the prob-
lem is the suggestion to hold a second
class tournament simultaneously with the
championship, in hopes of drawing away
the mediocre mass. The question arises
would they take the bait? Many of them
enter for the express purpose of seeing
how long they can hold out in the great-
est American lawn tennis contest.
Thus the winning of the all-comers
match largely resolves itself into the ques-
tion of which of the leading players pos-
sesses the greater endurance, and should
the winner, technically termed “the chal-
lenger,” defeat the champion, it would in-
dicate a very decided superiority on his
part. The fact that the champion, O. S.
Campbell, of Brooklyn, succeeded in de-
fending his title against Clarence Hobart,
of New York, last year was in no small
measure due to the latter’s exhaustion
and consequent loss of nerve. During the
first two sets the challenger played with a
pace and accuracy against which Camp-
bell’s wonderful volleying was powerless.
When the champion was not passed his
racket was twisted in his hand by the
force of the ball or he returned the ball in
so weak a manner that it was immediately
“killed” by his opponent. It was Camp-
bell’s wonderful coolness, judgment and
tenacity that finally wore his tired oppo-
nent down and gave him the victory. Had
both been equally fresh the result might
have been different.
While there are more worthy aspirants
this year than ever before, it seems proba-
ble for the reason stated that Mr. Camp-
bell will again be able to retain his title,
in head work and nerve he has never been
excelled by any American player, and ex-
Champion Sears alone among first class
men has equaled him, but as regards exe-
cution and tennis as a display of skill,
Clarence Hobart and F. H. Hovey, of Har-
vard, are regarded l?y nqany as his superi-
ors. The latter is the most brilliant
player in the country, and were it not that
he lacks just those qualities for which
Campbell is remarkable, he would un-
doubtedly stand at the head of American
players, if not of the world. His career
has been erratic and uncertain. Some-
times he knocks over the experts in slash-
ing style and again he succumbs to a de-
cided inferior.
Hobart and Hovey are two most conspic-
uous aspirants for championship honors.
R. P. Huntington, Jr., who ranked third
last year, was recently married to Miss
Helen Dinsmore, of New York, and has
.apparently dropped out with the older vet-
erans, R. D. Sears, H. W. Slocum, Jr.,
Howard A. Taylor and R. L. Beeckman.
XTo fill up the ranks have come many others
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of great promise. Edward L. Hall,
Harvard, made a great name for himself
last year, and was ranked fifth on the list.
C. T. Lee and M. D. Smith, of Philadel-
phia, are also well worth following. Mr.
Smith recently defeated Clarence Hobart
at Philadelphia, but was in turn defeated
by an inferior player, R. V. Beach, of New
Haven, which fact shows the uncertainties
of early matches.
From older players, like Valentine G.
Hall, of New York, Philip S. Sears of Bos-
ton and S. T. Chase of Chicago, little more
can be expected than that they may retain
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