Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-19 | Page 15 | Coast Tennis Team to Play 'U' Today

$ COAST TENNIS TERM ' TO PLAY 'Uf -TODAY Local Stars Will Meet Fa-mous Fa-mous Stanford Players This Afternoon. Stanford university and the University Univer-sity of "Utah will meet in a series of tennis matches this afternoon at 4 - o'clock at the Salt Lake Tennis club courts in what promises to be the best intercollegiate contest played in Salt Lake in a long time. It will be the first matr-hes which the coast team will play on its loop trip east to compete in the intercollegiate, championships. Herbert L. Hahn and II. V. D. Johns are the Stanford players. They will be opposed by Feramorz Little, the " V " champion, and possibly Milton i nun-kin nun-kin in the singles. In the doubles Little Lit-tle and Frumkinj Fred Taylor, Archie Moyes, Charles "Van Pelt or Dave Col-man Col-man will represent Ulan. The Utah team has now rounded into pood condition, and Professor Mathews, tennis coach at the institution, feels that the university men will make a good showing against tho famous California Cali-fornia team, which is confident of defeating de-feating the best eastern players. The Crimson supporters would not be surprised sur-prised if the "IT" racqueters should win the tournament. The spleudid form mniif which Littie has displayed of late against the Utah Aggies is just about equal to the task of" turning the trick, according to local critics. ' The Stanford men have won a wide reputation on the coast. In a tournament tourna-ment at San Francisco last fall Johns won out in a match against William Johnston, national champion. Then in turn Hahn defeated Johns. So it appears ap-pears that each has a good record and is expected to live up to it. At Stanford Stan-ford university they have been playing all winter long in anticipation of this trip. The members of the team won the distinction of being chosen for the invasion by defeating all others in an elimination tournament which continued con-tinued through a mouth of hard cain-raigning. cain-raigning. 'Hahn is more than six feet tall, slim and active. His great roach enables him to cover a great deal of territory with less exertion than an ordinary player. This will be his last season as a college player, as he will graduate from Stanford this spring. Johns is not quite so tall as Hahn, but has also the slender build that is so advantageous to a tennis player. He gained his experience in the courts of the San Francisco schools and in Gulden Gate park, entering Stanford a J year ago with a well-established reputation repu-tation as a tennis man. Following the contest today the university uni-versity will play the B. Y. U. here Saturday Sat-urday on tho university courts. Utah now "leads in the Utah state intercollegiate intercol-legiate tournament, and is expected to win the championship again this year. 4 The university will send a team to j Colorado to defend the intermountain championship which Utah won last year.