Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-05 | Page 28 | Much Interest in Tennis Tournament

MUCH INTEREST I IEIIS1I11EN1 Play in Intermountain Singles Sin-gles for Salisbury Trophy Attracting Attention. Despite the rainstorm which settled upon Salt Lake during the past week and consequently hindered the playing of tennis, it must, nevertheless, be regarded re-garded as one of the most important weeks of the year for the racquet game in Salt Lake and Utah. The intermountain intermoun-tain tournament which opened last Hon day in point of the number entered and the interest taken in the contests, is the most successful yet held. Play in tho tournament during the week has been devoted chiefly to the men's singles and doubles, the Women 's events being scheduled to begin Tuesday. Tues-day. Tn all of the events now being played, the entries are more than double the number last year. For a number of years interest in the tournament has centered around the struggle for the Salisbury cup. This trophy will become the property of the player who wins the men's singles championship for throe successive years. During the five years the contest has been going on, the cup has been won by five different players, so it is likely that a number of years will yet be required re-quired to settle the point of possession. Those who have scored one or the three necessary points for the cup at some time or other are: T. C. Bundv, 1910; D. C. Roberts. 1911; G. T. Badger, 1912; T. B. Parker, 1913; E. X. Garnett, 1914. Two of these wiuners, Parker and Badger, Bad-ger, are entered in the present tournament tourna-ment and have been playing in their old style. The women's events contain a large number of players, many of whom are star performers. Some of those who have won fame at the tennis game and who will be seen in the competition, are Mrs. R. J. Glendinning, Mrs. O. J. Salisbury. Salis-bury. Mrs. D. C. Roberts, Miss Kate Williams, Mrs. R. W. Salisbury, Mrs. Lester Freed and Mrs. A. V,' Calla-ghan.