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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Creator
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Lawrence Bruner
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081210-1897-059f
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Transcription
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MISS POUND WINS HANDILY
Defeats the International Champion in Chicago's Tennis Tournament.
VICTORIOUS IN THE THREE SETS
Lincoln Young Woman Gives an Exhibition of Cyclone Playing Toward the End of the Contest — Beaten in the Doubles.
CHICAGO, III., Sept. 6.—(Special.)—Miss Juliette Atkinson, national international and Canadian lawn tennis champion for 1897, was beaten today in the final round of the western tournament here by Miss Louise Pound of the University of Nebraska. It was the greatest piece of tennis playing ever seen in the United States, and the plucky western girl was the heroine. She won the match in three straight sets.
The beginning of the contest, which was witnessed by a crowd of fully 1,000 society people, was well in Miss Atkinson's favor. The little eastern champion carried the games merrily along until they stood 4 to 2 in her favor. Then Miss Pound developed into a western cyclone, and for the rest of the contest her smaller opponent was lost in the storm. Four straight games accounted for the first set in Miss Pound's favor and six out of the succeeding seven made the score of sets 2-love. In the second set Miss Atkinson was out-played at every point, and only made a showing in the last two games.
The third set was a good struggle all the way through, but MIss Pound had found her opponent's weaknesses and by splendid head work played to them, winning handily. The score of the complete match in Miss Pound's favor was 6-4, 6-1, 6-3.
In the semi-final doubles Miss Pound and Miss Tilton were beaten by Miss Craven and Miss Atkinson and are now out of the tournament. Wednesday Miss Pount meets Miss Jeanie Craven, present holder for the championship of the west.
The tennis enthusiasits [sic] of Lincoln who recieved the news of Miss Pound's signal victory last evening were delighted over the showing made by one of their number. They expected that she would make a good showing in the tournament, but the circumstances were such that it hardly seemed possible for her to vanquish the international champion so easily. Few players ever go into an important tournament with less practice and under less favorable conditions than Miss Pound entered at Chicago. It is well known at the courts on G and Sixteenth streets that she has had so little practice for two years that she has sometimes been considered permanently out of tennis. A muscular strain due to bicycling kept her off the courts entirely in 1896. This season she was seen but once or twice in the game prior to her departure for Chicago a few weeks ago. The fact that she could brace up with but a short season of practice and fight her way to the finals in the tournament was extremely creditable to her grit, skill, and endurance that she could follow a brilliant series of victories by defeating the international champion in three sets by scores of 6-4, 6-1 and 6-3, in spite of the handicap of lameness caused by her old injury, is held to mark her as one of the most remarkable women tennis players of the day.
Miss Pound owes much of her superiority over the ladies at Chicago to the fact that her practice at home has been largely with men. Contrary to the popular idea, tennis is not a woman's game. It is one of the most excating of all athletic sports, and so few ladies
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