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Show I SCENE OF CLAY COURTS TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP AND STARS WHO WILL COMPETE, r ' si j The Tennis Courts Field club at H, Omaha, rated the fluent, clay courts In the world, below, left to right t Harry Koch, champion of Nebraska, W. Merrill Hall, winner of the dOU- bles championships of 1912 with W. H MJ Hackett. aud Melville Long, former singles clay court champion of the Omaha, July 12. One hundred en-tries en-tries from all parts of the United States, have been made for the fourth H annual clay courts championship which wll be held on the courts of the Omaha Field club, July 21st to m 27th Inclusive. Tennis champions from California. New York, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska. H North and South Dakota, Missouri, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and In fact ev-ery ev-ery state, where the popular game holds sway, will battle for the beau-tlful beau-tlful trophy cups, emblematic of the singles and doubles championships of Hl the world. H Never In the history of the clay H' court game has there been such ln- tere6t shown as in the 1913 events. It H Is only recently that the worth of the Omaha Field club courts have been H j realized and this fact, as much a& HI anything else, is responsible for the HW ' large list of competitors. H& The Omaha Field club courts are Hi conceded to be the best clay courts Hl In the world, and because of this, HHB i Omaha has been selected for the na tional championship for three of the four competitions. The 1913 list of aspirants will be the most representative of any field. As the game has grown, so has interest inter-est in it, especially tho clay courts tnd, and today tennis men are being rapidly converted to the clay courts competition. The fascination of the perfect court has much to do with the popularit of the game. It means as much to the tennis play to play on a clay court as It does to the ball player to play on the skinned diamond. dia-mond. To lend added Interest In the 1913 championships, Gustavo Touchard of New York has signified his intention of competing. From New York will come with him W. Merrill Hall, who paired with H. H Hackett and won the 1913 championship In doubles laat year In Pittsburg California, who in the paBt has been has been represented by Melville Ivong, national champion, will send a strong delegation, as will Colorado and other western states. Roland Hoerr and Drummond Jones will look after Missouri's laurels on behalf of St. Louis, while Jack Cannon of Kansas Kan-sas City, Missouri's state champion, will also be there to take tho trophies back to "Old Mlzxou." Nebraska will have a delegation of forty from all parts of the state, which will include Harry Koch, city and state champion, Sam Caldwell. T. F. Kennedy, Cub Potter. Conrad Young Art Scrlbner, Ralph Rainy, M. A Col-petzer, Col-petzer, D L. Swartz, all of Omaha, who sometime In their careers have held championship titles of state and Interstate calibres. J B. Adoue, Jr., of Dallas, Texas, champion of that state, will lead a "Lone Star" delegation of an even half dozen, whllo Ray Bronson of Mitchell, South Dakota, ch ampion of 1 that commonwealth, will chaperon a bunch of four contestants. F G Anderson of Aeadlng. Pa., who with Gravy" Hayes of Chicago captured cap-tured the doubles championships in 1909 and 1910. will be back on the courta if his present plans do not miscarry, which moans that trouble Is ahead for the aspirants, as Anderson has few equals on the fast courts He has not decided yet who he will pa'r with and It 1b highly probable that he will show up with a new partner this trip. BIlllngB, Montana, has sont notice that they will be on the job this year, but so far have not picked the personnel per-sonnel of the delegation that l!l attempt at-tempt to take one or more cups back to Montana. Rarely will such a collection of champions from all parts be seen In action and with the courts, on which the competition will he held, the. 1913 evont will easily be one that will take rank with the big sporting championships champion-ships in the United States. i |