Show SPORTS experts who will struggle for glory in august cuirn cLis birb rt thinks tit the drool ayn wonder r will win iho the challenger liall lit ll worn ot out by r a week piny ila little chance chanc against it the arch HIS ills Is a peculiarly interesting lawn tennis season which wh ach has just begun never before have there been co so many can dilates for honors in the field never before have honors been so uncertain of prediction and never has there been so great a field of players whose honors are a question for the future to decide the increasing number of tournament players is hot bea demonstrated by glancing lack jsck at tit the entry lists of the annual meet laps too of the national lawn tennis asoula tion for the tile championship of america at erport en port it L I 1 the first irston of which was bel hel I 1 jn in ll 11 in I 1 thai that year yc ir there were 25 2 i entries in 1 llesi 40 hl in 1883 27 in D 1881 35 in 2 in IW ISSOS 34 in 24 in IW W io sa in IM 1890 53 and in 1801 1891 72 7 2 the cumber number as will be seen did not y any remarkable advance until 1890 tot but fifty three entries was then regarded as s phenomenal phenomena and when last year the number zumber wis was increased by nineteen apprehensions hen were w ere aroused as to the difficulty at d completing the event within the allotted ave tune of one week these apprehensions vere uell founded for with the most elpe illious handling it required ten days dayson of actual play to decide the championship and lvin including the sunday which intervened it will ill become a serious question for the associate association lon to grapple with should the entries continue to increase or even to faval the list of 1891 no amateur can be jarred from a champ championship i and yet huch S number not cot 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 given a tremendous advantage adiana ige to the champion who comes fresh to the fray against an opponent pone t who for upward of a week haa has teen been 11 vanquishing one rival after another the only apparent solution of the problem is the tug suggestion to bold a second diss class tournament simultaneously with the championship in hopes of drawing draw ing away tie tit mediocre mass the question arises oad would they take the bait I 1 many jany of them tier for the express purpose of seeing low af long they can holdout hold out in the gre great grea a American el it lawn tennis contest thus the winning of the nil all comers bitch largely resolves itself into the ques t OB of 0 which of the leading players pos ases the greater endurance and should tie the winner technically termed the chal chat It linger tiger defeat the champion it would in dicato a very decided superiority on his its part jart the tact fact that the champion 0 S Camp bellof of brooklyn Uro oklyn succeeded in defending hia his title against clarence nobart hob rt of new york last year was in no small Ti measure lemure dae due to the batters lat exhaustion slid consequent loss ot nerve during t the be first two to 0 sets the challenger played with a lice lace and nd accuracy against which camp r lidl alls s wonderful volleying was powerless s when R hen the champion was not passed ilia life racket was twisted in his hand by the ace of the ball or he returned the bull ball in 0 weak a manner that it was immediately ved hilled by his opponent it was camp lix wonderful coolness judgment and icicy ity that finally wore vv ore his tired appo int down and gave him blin tho the victory I 1 tail ah ath been equally fresh the result might we ive been different while there are more worthy aspirants aspirin ts M w year than ever before it benns proba for the reason rea son stated that mr tit 11 will again be able to retain his fits title i beadwork and nerve he hia has neer never ben been icellee beany by any american player and ex cx campion sears alone among first class aen has equaled him but as regards exe nalon and tennis as a display of skill clarence hobart and F 11 II clovey of liar ilar rard yard are regarded by many as his supori aa om the latter is the most brilliant sla jerin in the country and were it not that ie 0 lacks just those qualities for which campbell Lam Is remar remarkable kaLle ho he would un 1111 stand at the bead head of american players eral it not of the world his ills career haa has been erratic and uncertain sometimes he knocks over the experts in id ins 1 style tile tad again be lie succumbs to ade decided interior inferior liob artand and 11 ovey are two most consile for championship honors it P huntington Hant ington jr who ranked third last year was recently racen aly married to miss aden dinsmore of new york and has his apparently dropped d out with the older vetera tn M R D sears 11 II IV slocum jr ilo howard lard A taylor and it L I 1 beeckman to til 1111 up the ranks have e come many others k t 1 HALL Bei amat tiit promise R edward dward ii 1 H all of illiard made a great name for himself year and was ranked fifth on the list T lee ike and AI i D smith of philadel pa ta are alno alho well wel 1 worth following mr eiith sith recently defeated clarence I 1 lobart philadelphia but was in turn defeated yia inferior player II 11 V beach of new haven en which fact shows the uncertainties 0 early matches from older players like valentine G WI 11 of new york philip lip S sears of bos ton boband S T chase of chicago little more y u lie be expected than that they may retain their clr placed just short abort of championship M n XV V P knapp of new york the adest veteran of all may play again this lie ite has struggled for first honor tinie the tournament was first i n reached bed the semifinal round in 1880 w 44 the final in IBM 1890 the nearest he lie in 14 ato S last year he lie met hove n hill i first match and after a hard tie 1113 M defeated in five sets P linta 11 or rp possible new and startling develop w one must look among the young lAyers Whose fo tonn ara has not yet been ea es jr published cor toed among these are howard me borthick thick k ot of chicago R D wreno wrenn of 0 1 1 arvard 1 1 l alwa W A larned of montclair N X G p herrick of new ne w york nil all of 0 it 4 OM 1 we have elvea given indications 0 of po messing the ne nas to als feggos waa 1 hie AThert can champion in england it was confidently bently anticipated by the general run of players that he would among the english experts unfortunately the result has been far from satisfactory at the northern championship june 13 he lie defeated G W Ifil lyard who ranked tenth among english players but in turn was beaten by F 0 stoker who ranked ninth I 1 in n the american invitation tournament alven gl en in honor of mr campbell the amer lean awas was defeated bythe by the english cham plon pion W baddeley Bid deley and again by J pim pini an ir irishman sliman and ex champion of england both however were closely contested matches later in theall the all comers for the championship of england campbell Caro was wai beatin beaten by A W gove who only r inks ranks sixteenth sixteen thon on tho the list too much signify cance however must not be gin given these results in the first place campbell is Js a player who is never at his best before august and every year in his own country he lie has hits been defeated in early matches by inferior players add to this that he had been traveling in 1 where he be had engaged eng agid in little or no practice pr that a month lous fous to his matches ho lie was disabled in london with a it trained strained foot toot and that in E england owing to the number of men of leisure and the numerous prize meetings the number of good players isa la as three to one compared with ours the result Is not so w surprising ur the chief surprise it Is that campbell should have risked his reputation cli mated as he was against such a strong held field of players still campbells chief aim it Is to retain his honors here and his its work with the english experts will no doubt increase bis his chances on this side of II 11 W A larad the water the american championship begins at new port on au 23 1 it isca to le be the finest contest in years yeam and la 18 the only event upon which to base the coin pain plaintive tive merits of the players for there and there only orly are they miro to bo be on their mettle and at their best G alfil allt alm ilm umair t AMATEUR OARSMEN TO MEET interesting chat about the national ie ea alitta on Sart saratoga ga L luke ke ou on saratoga bara togi lake july 20 26 and 27 will be held the twentieth annual regatta 1 of the national association of amateur oars men nien of ameria anit rica the races are open to all amateio ama cluba while no competitors are expected from across the ocean the presence of a number of canadian oara oars men will give an international flavor to the sport the 1 I he pro gramme will include eight events junior and benlor senior singles double sculls pair oars junior and senior four foa oars roars and junior and senior eight oars the junior tights eights will iw be rowed tor for the flirt time this year all races except the eight oars will be with w ith a turn the entry list for the junior ingles singles will be lie large in the junior four oars crews from the manhattan aali athletic tic and atala atalanta n tit and union boat clubs of new york al bany rowing club and probably the bay tide bide rowing how ing club of toronto lo will corn coin pete the senior singles will bring together a large field including such noted scullery scull ers as william calfrey Cal Cat Trey fred ins edwin nellcy and joseph bergin caffrey C won the in tit 1890 and INI and has bea beaten tenall nil theophers the others rowing how ing in his old form ho he should win w in again hawkins haw kins and have beaten each other alternately the excellent chances the vesper boat club would have of winning the double bealls with and parke are les lesenea ened by the fact that must first row la in the singles guy and john dempsey will wear the mercury foot of the new york athletic club but can hardly win the tile bayside wayside double of if toronto champions in the varuna boat clubs two belger and quill and Afu mulcahy leahy and Alon monahan altan of the albany rowing club will probably fight it out tor for first place the last named I 1 think will win again the shell race la Is an event as there Is on the proa ramme the lau brothers of the At alantas ought to win the lona iona boat club of philadelphia will have as its representatives es paul heneka and samuel biech albany and andl toronto oronto may albo also have representatives in this race the pick of the lot in the senior four oar race beems to be the fairmount crew of philadelphia on the schuylkill july 4 the quakers belt beat the atalanta and alan hat tans the ot old univ Util vet er pennsylvania van fit oarsmen oarsman the Tho argonauts of toronto will w ill tend bend down a strong crew while the Drad fords of cambridge will add to the uncertainty of the race ibe the best bat i ace raco of the regatta should be the benfor eight oars in this contest the tinious famous chippie crew of the new york athletic club will again meet the malta boit boat clubs eight of philadelphia whom they defeated on the schuylkill july 4 41 after a desperate finish by about five feet it lt was I 1 think that came BO so near beating the new york on saratoga lake they will probably win by a greater margin third place rests between the fair mounts and the manhattans Manhat tans the pall sade boat club of Yon kera may eight in which case the palisade crew will probably finish lust last WALTER C doum wild in ifju nui sl in tho the ste steppes plies of russia where wolves abound and aud the horses lea lead n wild life and havo to shift for themselves it is is eaid said that a young colt will sometimes be made in ado so furious by the persecutions of ins bis enemies that ho lie will ill rush wildly amono a drove of wolves and bite and strike until ho lias bas slaughtered a largo large number of them these barles hoi yea are re exceptionally herce fierce rendered so go it is billin sup pried by tho the ex extreme variations tho climate atone at one timo of the year 5 ear they buffer from the intense heat of a tropical eun sun and at another they live among raging ng snowstorms snow storms and ex extreme trellie cold washington star an african beauty cauty 13 mus navo ivo email small eyes eyla thick lips a large flat n noso nose and a skin beautifully black in new now guinea theno the nose seis is perforated and a large piece of wood or bono inserted on the northwest coast of Ai america an incision more than two inches long is mado in the lower lip filled with a wooden plug 11 in guinea the lips aro are pierced with thorns the tile head of the thorn being in side tho the mouth and tho the point resting on tho the chiu chin jenness sillier miller illustrated |