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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Creator
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Lawrence Bruner
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Identifier
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081210-1897-059l
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Transcription
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The friends of Miss Louise Pound of this city are confident that she will make a good showing in the western championship tennis tournament now in progress on the courts of Kenwood country club of Chicago. Some of them look forward hopefully to a meeting between Miss Pound and Miss Atkinson of Brooklyn, the present champion. The Times Herald says:
"Much is expected of Miss Atkinson. Her friends, and there are a number of them, claim that she will walk away with the championship. MIss Atkinson pride herself in possessing several prizes already. She holds pretty nearly everything in the way of championships that has been hung up in this country and in Canada. By defeating the Canadian experts at Niagara-on-the-Lake, she gained the international championship, and a little later she disposed of Uncle Sam's best women players at the same place. The Brooklyn girl got a clear title to the national championship by defeating the experts at the tournament held at Wissahickton Heights. To dispute Miss Atkinson a new star has come out of the west. She is Miss Louise Pound of Lincoln, Neb. She has attended the University of Nebraska, and is at present preparing to take a doctor's degree at the University of Chicago. Her friends at the university rate her above Miss Atkinson and predict an easy victory for her. She is a woman of slight build, but is wonderfully active on the courts, She has many of the strokes that has made the varsity champions famous, and she smashes well. Unike most women players, she uses a swift overhand stroke with terrible effect."
Dr. S. Nelson of Spokane, Wash., is
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