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A GREAT SUMMER EXODUS
SAILING and buffering on the
DEEP BLUE SEA.
How a Woman Should Dreys for an
Ocean Voyage and European Trav
eling Bohemian Hints for Those
Who Do Not Care for the Grand
Tour—Women’s Doings.
(Copyright.)
New Yobk, June 7. —A good number of
us are. or shortly will be, sailing and suf
fering on the deep blue sea, for 100,000
Americans are bound to Europe this sum
mer. It is an excellent thing for us, in my
humble opinion, for in spite of the big less
of great, gray London town, and the glitter
of naughty Paris of boulevard and Champs
Elysees repute, most of us come home again
more than content with this wonderful,
yeasty America, with its upright and down
right solution of man’s equality with man
—it is still left for anew republic to assert
woman’s equality with woman—its marvel
ous possibilities for earning a soncy liveli
hood, and its thousand and one admirabilities
which need not here be enumerated, not
least among which is the evolution of a race
of women travelers, some few of whom
have saue ideas on the subject of traveling
gowns.
You may lie rolled up like a cocoon in a
steamer ctiair, you may boat among the
Hebrides from Oban to Syke, you may
climb Helvellyn or journey about muieback
in Switzerland, and all in mental peace and
serenity if first you go to a tailor or a good
dressmaker and have constructed for your
self a staunch little frock of stout wool. If
last February you foresaw your summer
outing and had such a dress built then, you
are now so much the happier, for the “new"
lias been worn off it, and you have lost that
first reverential regard for it which would
have caused you to grieve if an unexpected
lurch of the vessel had sent a rill of your
neighbor’s soup trickling over your dra
peries. A February gown is the more suit
able, let me hint, because it was presumably
fitted over your winter flannels.
If unluckily a gown for voyaging is to be
constructed between the resolve and the
start, remember that a mixed grey serge for
gives and forgets small insults most readily.
It may have a white neck piece, if you like,
of spri 'gled percalo to button in, or you
may give it a little character with black
revere; but it must be >n design severely
simple, for the deck of an ocean steamer is
the scene of perpetual whirlwinds which
piay bo Tish jokes on draperies and it must
not be of the kind over which you meditate
half an hour before deciding on the easiest
way of putting it off or on, because
trick bodices whose dear, dainty, deceptive
folds are held in place by many books and
eyes cause the heart of the woman who Is
struggling despairingly with her first state
room toilet to sink down and down, and
finally to ooze out—don’t tell me hearts
can’t ooze—at the tips of her toes. It must
be comfortably pocketed.
Women who have made more than one
voyage sometimes have their petticoats—
these of course are colored—bound in with
their dress skirts for ease in donning; if
they don’t wear, that is, those modern
things that are bifurcated.
The number of wraps one needs on ship
board varies greatly with the individual,
but is. judging from personal experience,
commonly exaggerated. True, the stormy
Atlantic is at all seasons, and in its mildest
moods, remarkably open to the wind, but a
woman who protects herself with medium
weight flannel underwear, such, for in
stance, as she is accustomed to use on a
sunny day in early December, will be apt
to enjoy a deck promenade in June or July
in a not too heavy ulster of rough-faced
cloth, with a deer-stalker’s cap or a soft
felt hat on her head, and her understanding
secured by means of low-heeled, perfectly
fitting, gaiter shoes. For the proper enjoy
ment of a steamer chair in a sheltered
corner with one of W. Clark Russell’s tales
of shipwreck to while away the time, a
carriage robe or a big shawl is essential,
and, of course, a woman whose health is
not vigorous, cannot supply herself with
too many coverings.
A canny Scotchwoman who crosses the
Atlantic ferry every summer tells me her
greatest comforts, when the screw is kicking
out of water and old ocean is tossing her as
a nurse tosses a baby, “now you go up, up,
up, and now you go down, down, downy,”
are her flannel wrapper in which she can
sleep if need be aud which she can wear to
her sea bath in the morning, and a lace
scarf which she throws over her head when
she removes her hat in the diuing saloon, it
not being “convenient” to give much atten
tion to her hair.
Appropriate dress on shipboard was ex
emplified by Mrs. Kendal when she sailed
away bearing so many American hearts
and dollars —those she will bring back in
October, but these she will retain—in a
tailor dress of creamy brown tweed, fas
tened at the throat by a little coral pin.
Over her shoulders she had a loug cloak of a
darker brown, with a Capuchin hood that
would cover her hair and her soft
tweeil cap in time of need, and on her feet
were low-cut shoes—some people have a the
ory it mukes them seasick to stoop to use a
boot-buttoner—with overgaiters.
Do these paragraphs go into details un
necessarily? I have seen a woman bring a
toddler on shipboard in a low-necked and
short-sleeved frock. The woman came from
Texas, and the change of climate was so
violent that it did not seem to be her fault
the little girl lived to land at Liverpool.
And when in "‘furrin’ parts” what to
wear? lua general way one nas to be
clothed more warmly for summer traVel on
the other side than here. It made a curi
ous impression on me, if I may introduce
a personal reminisconcs, on my first voyage
when the ship's doctor said to me when we
sighted Ireland: “Have your warmer
wraps ready; people are apt to take cold in
the chill breeze cf the land.” To be per
sonal again, I found it neceaary to put on
as heavy clothing nights and mornings in
the English Lake district two years ago in
September as I aru accuaistomed to wear
ing iu New York on a mild day in midwin
ter. That season was exceptional, but on
the tieht little is e a woman walking the
streets in a tight lawn frock with a sealskin
cape over her shoulders is not an uncom
mon spectacle, and it’s well to be on terms
of intimate acquaintance with one’s flan
nels.
When the summer traveler crosses the
channel she will find Paris about as hot as
Now York at the same time of year. A
woman whom nobody accuses of not know
ing bow to dross hors -If is going to spend a
fortnight at a little French watering place
in a very quiet way in July. She says she
is going to take one cloth frock and thro >
cotton ones, and buy a dinner go wn in Paris
to fetch home.
The proper way to shop is to refrain, if
possible, altogether until are ready to
take ship again. It i3 easily enough man
aged if you visit Paris late iu your tour and
stop a day or two in London on your return
to England. This simplifies t e question of
luggage and even makes possible the ap
pearance, once m a decade, of the rare
woman—t he man’s ideal of a traveler —who
cau go abroad for a three months’ vacation,
carrying her whole outfit In a hand sachel,
ouch a white crow is a bird of no interest
to the society woman who crosses for the
London season, or next winter’s expectant
debutante, who is ransacking a continent
tor JIO.OiX) worth of wardrobe war ma
terial, but the woman who is really going
to Europe for a season of travel may listen
for a minute to the plans of a small person
whose husband has agreed to give the sum
mer to her pleasure on condition that she
doesn’t make his life a burden in countries
where a trunk is an ignis faluus, leading
the man who can’t get a check for it a dance
°* which he soon wearies.
This smail person will sail next month
with one frock, a small Scotch check, smart
*y but simply made, with a view to three
months constant wear: she will leave her
■mgs aud her chair and her steamship cap in
Liverpool, the steamship company storing
hem for her, and, assuming a little English
1 -ne.ing ha’, will set out, “s range co-R
fmr to see. ’ armed with a water proof,
a silk blouse to replace her heavy bodice
when the air is sultry, toilet articles, pocket
handkerchiefs and linen—not much to- she
knows she can get washing done at t*enty
f, ur hours’ notice anywhere—and two or
three pret v Frenca ties vita which t > make
killing toilets for b ite! dinner tables. All
these will go into a valise ani leave room
for her hustland’s belongings. Two travelers
with one portmanteau and a photographic
camera!
“And if the fancy seize yoa to be pre
sented to the queen C
“I’ll buy my c uirt gown forthe occasion.
Isn t it quite the proper thing to come
home witu imported cuetomeer
“And ail your little purchases, your
souvenirs?”
"I’ll mail them to Paris or London, and
at the last minute I’ll buy a trunk, two
trunks if necessary, to bring them home.
There’s no objection to trunks galore when
one has finished traveling.”
The woman who really wishes to see
Europe on little money shouldn’t be
ashamed to travel third class when neces
sary. In Great Britain, at least, she will
find it just as easy to go about alone as here.
I have met more honest courtesv as a
stranger on a wet night in Birmingham
than I should expect arriving unattended
at an average American railway station.
In Loudon one may be quite independent.
In Paris it isn’t wise to do much of any
thing unless you have seen a French woman
do it before y u. A woman in New York
relates that she has had half the audience
in a French theatre laugh and shout at her
because between the acts she rose and stood
at the bark of her box facing the wall to
rest her eyes.
There are a great many nice things to do
when abroad that are a little outside the
common run. It’s pleasant, for instance,
for a couple to hire a tandem tricycle—
people make a regular business of lotting
them—and spend a week or fortnight roll
ing between the hedgegrows seeing green
England at close view. It is pleasant, also,
to take a small boat on the Thames, perhaos
as far up ns Oxford, and row and float with
the current lor four or five days, a week,
or as long as the charm of the river life,
with its flotillas of houseboats and its fleets
of punters fascinates you. .There are
regular boat expresses to take your craft
back to its owner. There are all sorts of
things that are pleas ant if you are of a
roving turn and a bit unconventional, but
the thing that is decidedly uupleasant for
your neighbors is for you to come home
again and declare that your own country is
unfit to live in. Few women, however, are
affected this way.
THE CHILD UNDER THE NEW REGIME.
Stories about children are usually inter -
esting to the young hopefuls’ parents only,
but the urchin whose mother is a profes
sional woman of the now increasingly
common type evolves new sets of concepts
and sensations. A little boy who is grow
ing up with the notion that a “grandma is
a mamma who has got too old to go to an
office” looked raedit itively at his mother
when she returned from a round of busi
ness late for dinner. “Mamma,” he said,
presently, “i s’pose you earned more
money than papa did to-day: yon
staid longer. Won’t you give me a
check for a cent?” At a stage of
his mental development a few weeks more
advanced he pronounced with philosophic
air the following: “Some mammas goto
offices and some mammas put ou the din
ners.” Finding a rip in bis clothes that
needed attention ho presented himself to
one parent, then recognizing “no sex in
labor” wheeled about suddenly with a “Say,
papa, it’s your turn to mend me.” There is
one word which this small boy apparently
dislikes as much as the people who
insist always on “saleswoman,” “woman
doctor,” etc. His mother, who is not, per
haps, the most conventional of human
beings, was putting a brashful of fresh paint
wtiere it might do some good when a group
of lads at play in the street were moved to
remark, “See that lady painting fence!”
They accompanied the remark with gibes
and laughter. “That’s no lady,” retorted
the young man hotly, “that’s my mamma!”
Sooner or later everybody faces life’s prob
lem's, and so it happened that when a rela
tive who is a medical student was making
for scientific purposes a "calcareous deposit”
the little boy got some inkling of the pro
ceedings and asked m curiosity, “What are
you planting?”
“Bones, child!”
“And wili people sprout from them?”
A POETESS WHO LIKES HOUSEWORK.
Mrs. Mary Riley Smith, in hooor of
whoso birthday* Sorosis gave an elaborate
breakfast last week, should have place in
the chronicles of literary women who do not
disdain homely duties. Mrs. Smith is one
of the most popular members of tne famous
woman’s club, and some of her tender pa
thetic rhymes have found echoes in many
hearrs. She is leaving New York to seek
health for her son in Colorado, and now
that her New York establishment, only just
opened after a winter abroad, is broken up,
it may be remarked th \t women with no
other occupation than puzzling their brains
about the doings of thoir neighbors have
been heard to ask with every appearance
of interest how it was that, having a
husband of the much envied class who
spend a good part of their time cutting
off coupons, and having a house as beauti
ful arid tastefully fitted as a generous
allotment of those coupons could furnish,
Mrs. Smith kept not a single servant, the
truth being that with a family of three the
poet was enough of a woman to prefer the
quiet and comfort of an uninvaded fireside
and to find it a pleasure to minister to the
home dinner table. Mrs. Kate Upson Clarke
is another of the writing women, and a very
bright one, who can, it is said, get up a
lunch of au endless number of courses in
her own kitchen for guests whose
tastes are critical A second woman
who has been driven away bv
the poor health of her children is
Mrs. Lizzie W. Champney, the writer of the
“Vassar girl" books, wuo has gone abroad
with her boy, a bright lad who has devoted
himself too closely to wood-carviug and
other art studies, a taste for which he in
herits from his artist father, Mr. J. Wells
Champney.
THE BUSINESS IGNORANCE OF WOMEN.
A woman writer who likes Ibsen and who
has seen much of her own sex, was protest
ing the other dav against the assumption of
the critics that Nora is a character not to
be met iu a Seven days’ journey, inasmuen
as, being of mature years and the mother of
several children, she sees no wrong in forg
ing for a good end her father’s name.
"Why,” said the writer, “it’s not long ago
that I engaged board with a woman who,
though ignorant of books, was more than
commonly clover and had seen a good deal
of the world. In some way I misunder
stood her name, and when the check for the
first week’s board was due, my husband
made it out to say Mrs. Egbert instead of
Mrs. Shields. Mrs. Egbert was the lady
who sat next the landlady at table, and
when I saw that we had confused their
names I apologized, saying I feared she had
bad some trouble in getting her money.
‘O, no,’ said Mrs. Shields, looking up with
pride in her own intelligence, ‘I knew just
what people do in such cases, so I signed it
with Mrs. Egliert’s name!’ ”
There is a woman in New York who pub
lishes two flourishing periodicals who re
lates an oven more amusing experience. An
acquaintance of hers, she says, west to a
Dank with a check which the teller refused
to cash until she was identified. With
beautiful simplicity and confi lertce the lady,
responding to the official “I don’t know
you” with au offsetting “Neither, sir, do I
know you,” produced her visiting card!
This not being accepted, sbe was nonplussed,
and the difficulties in tbe way being finally
explained to her and settled, she carried the
check to he friend, the woman publiihor,
with a confidential, “Now they say this is
cert fled; won’t you please tell me what
they’ve dope to it, anyway?”
A HASHEESH EATER.
There are always new fashions in intoxi
cants, and none of them lend toward sweet
ness and light. Occasionally in the se-srch
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1800—TWELVE PAGES.
aftsr novelty somebody goes back to an
oid fashion. A woman who had been read
ing an old book containing “Fits Hugh Lud
-1 swr’s Confessions” was moved by it to expert
meat in a tentative s rt of way with uash
o**b. which produces the Hindu's dreams,
fcihe says she first took, I don’t dare say how
many little pills, for I don’t want to induce
anybody to follow her example. These pro
duced no particular effect except that the
world suddenly began to look rosy and
beautiful.
She doubled the dose and took a walk in
Central Park, when she laughed to see that
all the pr-ople she met had noses three yards
long. The third time she lay on a ouch
and describe 1 to another woman who sat
beside her waking visions. She was walk
ing in a tropical garden, where slender,
lofty minarets and the turrets of niu6ques
gleamed through the trees. Every color
was intensified. White flowers were
dazzling in their intensity and her
eyes ached with the luxuriant
freens. She could see her own flowing
ndian costume. A moment and srie was
climbing a dusty road, her feet sinking in
ashes. She saw herself now in an old green
sunbonnet and a pink frock with pantalets,
and every time she tried to describe to the
friend, whom she still recognized as sitting
iu the room beside her, her grotesque appear
ance. she laughed till the tears came. An
other minute and, she was walking torough
an aveuue of sphinxes under a black sky,
where stars gleamed. Each sphinx had a
torch on its head aud the lines of fires blazed
weirdly.
Before the kaleidscops of visions had
done turning the bell rang for dinner, and
she walked down-stairs with the feeling
that between stop and step there elapsed au
eternity. There were lifetimes between
bites of bread and butter, though all her
motions were under control and nobody
observed that she did not act and converse
as usual. A fourth experience on a close
afternoon after a thunder shower brought
her a picture of clouds, of a golden ball
resting on them and of three figures ftoatiug
in space aud singing.
The woman wno dared venture on these
curious exoeriments says that the strongest
impression they left on her was anew con
ception of the possibilities of musio and
color.
THE REAL AMERICAN HOG.
The crusade against bad manners in pub
lic conveyances is interesting. There are
women who claim to have been converted
to woman suffrage by the consideration
that going to the polls could never be woi'se
than trying to board an elevated car with
emphatic masculine elbows delivering
blows on every part of one’s anatomy. But
all these things are as nothing to the scenes
that used to he enacted before the platform
of the city hall station on the Third avenue
lino was fenced, openings being left
only at the car gateways. Ou one
occasion, I remember, as the train
drew up at the station I had no chance to
rise from my seat before the car window
beside me hastily opened from the outside
and three real American hogs, bent on ob
taining seats in advance of those who
trusted to such conventionalities as doors
for entrance, clambered over my somewhat
demoralized person. But that to w hich I
believe women object most strongly is the
too assiduous stranger or the street car con
ductor who puts tiis arm about you when
he, unasked, helps you aboard.
THE CHRIBTIAN SCIENTISTS’ CONVENTION.
The 2,000 people, mostly women, who
last week assembled and discussed the
proposition that “Better demonstrations of
the instantaneous healing of the sick are
needed, made the most curious convention.
They took themselves so seriously that for a
minute one might have imagined one’s self
iu fad-ridden Boston.
Eliza Putnam Heaton.
“A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW.”
The Beautiful Story on Which the Well-
Known Song Was Founded.
From the Louisville Times.
Few are probably the persons who have
not, one time or other, heard the Sunday
school song, "A Light in the Window.”
Unless I am mistaken, it is found“d upon a
story told upon the little island of Sylt, but
which might easily have its exact counter
part on almost any seashore where a
mother’s hoart beats with yearning love for
her sailor son, and keeps its fond promise
from night to night.
Among the simple fisher folks on the
island lived a woman and her son. He was
her only child, the pride of her heart as
well as the source of constant dre id, for
the boy loved the sea as his father before
had loved it, aud nothing gave him so
much pleasure as to watch the incoming
tide tumble its curling waves over the
sands. No sooner was he strong enough to
wield an oar and steer a boat than he
joined the men in their fishing expeditions.
The mother, with; all 1 er fears and the
fate of a long line of sailors in her mind,
yet would not have had it otherwise, for it
would have been deemed dishonor among
tbe hardy coasters to have kept the boy at
home or seit him safely at work for some
farmer. Whatever the dangers, they must
be faced for the sake of family pride. Had
not the boy’s grandfather been a captain
when he went away the last time? Had not
his father sailed his own ship when he went
down in a great storm? The child was tbe
last of his race, but he must not dishonor
it by tame aud cowardly safoty on shore.
So the boy grew up, tall of his ago,
straight as a most, nimble as the fleet
est and handiest boat, blue-eyed, fair
haired, true-hearted—a real son of tbe
sea. The fishermen taught bim the
tricks of his craft until he knew how to sail
a boat, splice a rope, or do many little things
which a sailor must know. Whenever a
ship was in the olflng he was soon aboard,
learning the rigging and how work was
performed upon her. He was a great
favorite among the longshore folk and with
the sailors, a id when at last his 13;h vear
came around and he obtained the consent
of his mother to go to sea, he easily found
a good ship and captain. Tnen there was
parting, and tears shed by the mother,
wuilehe looked forward into the great, wide
world with all the joyous eagerness of a
boy. But with her last blessing the widowed
mother promised that every night a light
should burn iu the seaward window of her
cottage to light him homeward and to show
him that she still lived, awani igbis return.
The ship sailed. Six montl s passed and
sailors dropped into the village and told
how she had boon spoken and all was well,
and the neighbors came to ttn cottage and
told the pleasant news to the waiting
mother, who nightly trimmed the candle,
lit it, and sot it la the window to make a
bright path up the s inds. Again six months
elapsed, and other sailors arrived from far
off lands, but they had no news to tell of
tho ship. A great storm had happened and
she was overdue. She might j’et make
port, but —and the people snook their heads
and carried no tales to the window whose
candle burned brightly every night and
cast long streamers of light out upon the
sea. Another year passed, but the sailors
going or coining brought no news of the
ship, a .and the neighbors whispered apart
and shook their heads whenever any spoke
of tbe widow’s son, but no one was cruel
enough to cut the slender threads which
held tho ancuor of her hope. And thus the
light continued to glow out toward the sea
at every ghaming, and burned stealily
through every ngh*.
Years came ana went. The children who
had played with the sailor lad had grown
to bi ineo and women, her own head had
lie9h silvered with age, her form was bowed,
yo: no one dared to cut the cables of her
hope. Tender words cheered her, and ten
der hands smoothed the way for her as sbe
patiently waited tte home-coming of her
fa r-haired bov, and every night tbe glow
of her csiidle streamed out to seaward and
told tho story of tbe loving h;art waiting
at home.
How many years did she watch and wait?
Cdo not know. But one day, at eventide,
there was no gleaming patch of light across
tbe sands. The window remained dark,
ad the accustomed beacon failed the fisher
folk, an i when they wondered and went to
toe cottige they found that the mother’s
soul had gone cut to seek the son.
CHAMPIONS AT TENNIS.
PREPARING FOR THE FOUR GREAT
TOURNAMENTS OF 1890.
Prospects in the Eastern and West
ern Doubles—The Battle for Cham
pion Honors and the Cup at New
port —Famous Players Who Will
Compete—Ladies in tho Tennis
Court, and Why They Cannot Excel
at ths Gams.
New York, June 7.—Amateur tennis
players all over the land are girding up
their loins and getting out their blazers and
flannels in anticipation of a very lively and
interesting reason. Indeed, it promises to
be the liveliest that has been known since
the game was introduced here from E g
land some half ad zen years ago. There
are already twenty odd matches arranged
as fixtures for 1890, but the interest centers
in the four great championship tournaments
of the United States National Lawn Tennis
Association.
Good form is everything in tennis, and
grace is its accompaniment. These charac
teristics will be seen to perfection in the
coming tournaments, for every sens ju shows
a remarkable advance in the quality of the
playing as well as in the multiplication of
tennis clubs. Yet so varying is the stand
ard by which the excellence of one’s play at
teunis is reckoned, that it would probably
be difficult to find a dozen amateurs in the
whole country who would agree as to the
likeliest winner of the championship for
.-ingles or doubles during the coining season.
Henry W. Slocum, Jr., is the present
holder of championship honors, liaviug
won them in 1888, after the title had been
held for seven successive years by Richard
D. Sears, who two years ago was compelled
to abandon the sport in consequence of an
accident which incapacitated him for a
time. Sears’ playing has never been equaled
in this country. It is strong, brilliant and
remarkably even. Like all the great
players, he is cool, and rejects tho tempta
tion to stand up by tho net and smash at
the ball, even when it seems a safe thing to
do. His strong point is meutally calculat
ing how to place the ball to best advantage.
His stroke is said to be not unlike that of
Pettit, the famous professional tennis
player, who has a free movement that
most players envy, it is worth remember
ing, too, that the name of Bears ranks
among the pioneers of the game in the
United States. When a tennis set was
brought from England by a gentleman of
Boston and first used at Nahaut sixieeu
years ago—the racquets light and toy-like
affairs aud tho balls like tne rubber ones
children piay with—F. K. Sears aud Dr.
Dwight were the first to attempt tho game,
and both liked it so much that tiiey soon
became experts. Dwight’s skill is second
only to that of the ex-champion, whose
elder brother was instrumental iu bringing
the game into prominence.
If there is one game above another in
which the American girl deligh s, and
which she can indulge without laying her
self open to the imputation of being a romp,
it is tennis. In recognition of her fondness
for the game, tho place of nouor iu the
national association matches has been con
ceded to the ladies, who w ill compete for the
single and double championships for women
at the grounds of the Philadelphia Cricket
Club from June 9 to 14. The tournament
will be followed oil June 30 to
July 5 by ti e double championships for
men at the Staten Island Club grounds, the
double championships of the west for men
at Chicago from July 14 to 19, aud the
single championship for men at the New
port Casino Aug. 27 to Sept. 6. On the
latter dates the play off between the win
ners of the two double championships for
men will also take place. Iu ever}- instance
the matches will begin on a Monday, but
the fixtures may be changed to suit the con
venience of the clubs.
The tenuis rage has taken hold of Amer
icans more emphatically than any other
outdoor game for both sexes that has pre
ceded it. Indeed, wo make a good deal
more of it here than they do in England.
Besides, winter teunis is coming into vegao,
trie enthusiasts being unwilling to run trie
risk of being beaten through lack of prac
tice. The winter games—they can hardly
be called matches—ate held in available
racquet courts, and where there are no
suen courts the game of hand-ball suf
fices to keep the player in trim. For the
ladies, the old-fashioned battledore aud
shuttlecock —really the progenitor of ten
nis—is the finest possible exercise for keep
ing thoir hands in until the real work of tho
turfed court begins. Soithappons that, un
like many other sports that belong to the
summer alone, tennis does rot stagnate in
winter. A week hence its devotees wili
come up to the low nets, racquet in hand,
and iuai good form and pluying as strong
a game as tuougn the last touraey hod clcsed
only a few days before.
Tne following are the championship re
cords since 1881, in trie single for all-com
ers, the doubles, aud the intercollegiate
tournaments:
Ye'r Champions. Match. j
1881 i R D ' B “ arS- Newport
° R w! Taytor Doubles. Newport
R. D. Bears. m?rs Newport
1882- 1 R U J Se Dnsht and Doubles. Newport
j K D ‘ Sears - [ SiDS ilfComers. Nwport
I J. Dwight. Doubles. Newport
[ J - 8 - C f I
m £ iiartford
! Harvard/ y Do'bles j
| R D ' Sears ' ! Sinß iiu comers, Newport
I R. D. Sears and- ~. ..
J Dwight Doubles. Newport
1884-i W. P.' Knapp/
W P KnaoD Single f lntei "
and W K V S P j c, .’ lle ' Hartford
Thorne, Yale. Do’bles ( glate '
[ R - D ‘ Sears - | SiCS iu7omers. Newport
I R Clark! Doubles. Newport
1885 { W. P. Knapp,: f
Yale. Single I Inter- '
|W. P. Knapp \ colle- New
land 11. W.: Do’bles | giate. Haven
[ Shepman, YaleJ
jR. D. Sears. Sing^ omer(t- Newport
R. D. Sears and _ .... ..
I J. Dwizht. Doubles. Newport
1886 )G. M Brinley.i f
Trinity. Single | Inter-:..
I W. P. Knapp &i -j colie N w
W.L. Thatcher, 1 | giate. j Haven
Yale. Do’bles (
R. D. Sears. Newport
R ' L> J S< Dwlgt' and Doubles. Orange,
1887 P. B Sears, f I N. J.
Harvard. Single i Inter '..,
P. S. Sears aud ■; colie- New
L. A. Shaw, Jr., | giate. Haven
Harvard Do'bles 1
H. 'V. Slocum, Singles - .. .
Jr. i all comers. Newport
V. G. Hall and
O. S. (3am pbell. : Doubles • j Staten
1838 P. S. Sears, if | Island
Harvard. Single i Inter ..
V. G. Hall and: { colle New
O. S. Campbell, j | giate. llaTen
Columbia. Do'bles [
H. W. Slocum, Siugles— .. _
Jr. i allcomers Newport
H. A. Taylor*:
H.W. Blocum. Doubles. Staten
Jr i Liana
,oanJ R. P. Hunt-i
ington. Jr.. Single
Yale; Inter. J..
O. S. Campbell colle N w
and A. E.i gone.; Haven
Wright, Co- Do’bles
lumbia. i
Slocum, the ch&mpi n, is a comparatively
new man at the game, having begun as a
tennis player ia 1885. In that year, how
ever, with Knapp as partner, be showed
himself cipable of defeating several good
players, and, gaming a place in the final
round, where Soars and J. 8. Clark de
faatei turn. Slocum .again met
defeat in 1886 and 1887, in the latter year
by a very close and exciting contest, In
which H. A. Taylor and Slocum played five
full sets with Dwight and Sears before the
championship was finally decided.
Manv of the crack players who contested
in last year’s tournaments for the cham
pionships are entered again this year. With
the exception of the Newp rt tournament
all the entries are pretty tuU. The double
championships for men, east and west,prom
ise to fill and to be very successful, while the
singles at Newport are sure to bring
ou the biggest crowd of tennis lovers and
tlie finest playing of the year. Newport
makes tennis a business during tournament
week. Nobody and ies anything else, and all
tbe talk among the fashionable while the
playing lasts is of good form, reverse and
overhand service, forehand and backhand
volleys and other equally technical terms,
which, however, are quite intelligible, since
everybody may be pre-umed to know the
rules of the game.
The Newport tournament is really the
climax of the tennis year, and all players
strive to get in the best possible condition
for it. It is not unlikely that there may
be a little human vanity in this, as the
tennis court is sure to lie surround-si in
fine weather by bevies of the prettiest girls
imaginable, wuo take a deep interest in the
laciics, and who, besides, are really com
lietont to criticise, since almost all know
how to play a capital game. The Newport
singles this year will be fought for at the
end of the season—the last week in Septem
ber—which is a little later tha i usual. Tho
fact that in late years little attention has
been paid to other tournaments outside of
Newport has g.irred up the c >nipeting
teams to action, and some particularly
brilliant work may be expected.
Among the flue players who will be heard
from in the various tournaments, Howard
A. Taylor of the New York Athletic Club,
one if the rising stars of the tennis court,
stands prominent. In the classification for
last year, Taylor ranked very high, and it
was even predicted that ho would win the
all-coiners, and make a strong bid for the
championship. His defeat by Q. A. Shaw
of Harvard took everybody by surprise.
Shaw kept up tho remarkable record, how
ever, and did astonishingly good work,
beating the best men at New York and Nar
ragansott I’ier. aud making so good a show
ing that many were disposed to accord him
second pluco in tho ranking this year. He
may give Slocum a strong fight for the
championship. Two othor famous cracks,
who are sure to be heard from, are O. 8.
Campbell, who beat Meers, the English
player, and scored a line of victories at
Narragausett, aud W. P. Knapp, who won
a victory over Taylor at Newport. C. A.
C lose, who has at one time defeated bath
Bhaw_ and Campbell; R. P. Huntington,
Jr., Yale’s champion and a thorough ex
pert in a dirt court, but rather weak player
on the turf, yet who has made a fiuo record
as a good, even, consistent player; P. S.
Sears, a brother of the famous Richard I>.
Sears,aud who seems to have inherited what
lovers of the game call the “tennis strain,”
like all bis family; Valentino U. Hall, the
secretary of the New York Athletic
Club, a good, all-round, reliable
player; Deane Miller, Clarence
Hobart, Francis G. Beach, R.
V. Beach, J. W. Nichols, Jr., Fred Mans
field, J. Hovey, A. L. Reeves, M. Fielding,
George tt. Fearing, Jr., C. E. Sands, T. S.
Taylor. George A. Hurd, A. E. Williston,
J. A. Ryersou. M. K. Wright, besides the
champion and the noted players already
named, are among those entered in the
All-Comers at the Newport, Casino gmuti.ls,
as competitors for the handsome prize that
ulwayg accompanies the honor of holding
the champion cup.
There are each year from thirty to forty
entries in tho all-comers. By a system of
elimination the number is reduced until it
gets down to one man, who theu contests
w ith the present champion for the title at
singles. The Casino grounds, where the
court is laid, are the finest iu America, and
the broad 6tretoh is as level as a billiard
table, with a wide border outside the court
for the use of spectators. On three sides the
field is shaded by trees, and with the turf in
prime cuuditiun there is not a particle of
dust to vex the players.
Outside the all-comers, the two principal
fixtures are the eastern and western double
championships, the former at Staten island
and tue latter at Chicago. Last year the
eastern doubles could hardly be culled a
success. Tne entries were few aud the
weather unfavorable. Tho brilliaut play
ing of Slocum, Campbell, Taylor and Val
entino G. Hall, the four champions of 1888,
alone redeemed tbe tournament. 'lhig
year’s entries include all four, and many
new aspirants for the honors as well. Taylor
and Slocum, although they think of retiring
from the game this year, have pledged them
selves to play, and Hall and Campbell are
eager to avenge last year’s defeat.
In the western doubles at Chicago the
Chase brothers will again enter tho list.
Last year they won a victory over Hall aud
Carver, two of the finest cracks in the west,
scoring in the finals 6-3, 6-1 aud 0-2. Tho
Chicago tournament will decide the compe
titions of the east and west at Newport and
the American double championship for 1890.
Not the least interesting fixture for the
season is tbe single and double champion
ship for women. There are several tennis
clubs composed exclusively of the fair sex
and belonging to the United States National
Lawn Tennis Association, a majority of
them located in New York and Philadel
phia. Last year there were several exciting
matches, in which the superior play of Miss
Robiusou and Miss Roosevelt was quite
marked. In some of the tourneys—notably
at Narragansott Tier—there were rallies in
which tno ball crossed the net more fre
quently than in tbe best contests between
men. It is generally agreed that in “lob
bing” and “tossing” the ladies are the peers
of the male players, as these strokes call
for delicacy and deftness rather than
strength.
According to the best masculine experts
the ladies have been hugging a delusion in
regarding lawn tennis a-> a game peculiarly
suited to their own sex. In goes quite nicely
wneu they play in a mild, easy-going fn*h
ion, as one sees it played occasionally. But
tenuis is very far from being a woman’s
sport. As now played by amateurs all over
toe country it demands a degree of mus
cular exertion and even violence as great as
base ball. Yet a woman’s confidence when
she sets out to play the game is sublime.
Bie is sure she is going to
win; and s'ae swings her drapery, tighteni
her hat or her particolored tennis cap,
sticks her little heels deep into the turf and,
clutching tko racquet, runs up to the net
and “smashes” tho ball like a little man.
Bho can’t make a long stroke, like her mas
culine partner, but she can smash and
volley and do all the diiiicult things, and do
them well. too. All she lacks is the physi
cal strength and endurance that are essen
tial to the game, especially when she has to
be on her feet at it lor hours on a broiling
day.
“They can’t play the game at all,”
said Secretary Hall of the U. S. N. L. T. A,
“Tho exercise is to > violent for them. They
play very nicely among themselves, how’-
ever.” Champion Taylor says tho same
thing, practically. Still tho dear creatures
keep it up. and seem to enjoy it.
The inter-collegiate tournament at New
Haven in October is yet too far ahead to
discuss. A score of the smaller tennis clubs
have arranged their meetings at Rochester,
N. Y., New Haven, Monterey, Cab, Bar
Harbor, Nahant, Narragansett, Lenox
and other places where there are fine
courts, and altogether the reason promises
to be an unusually excellent one for the
devotees of the popular sport.
G. H. Sandison,
According to an official estimate, public in
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