Two exhibition thatches were! played at the Country Club on Tue: day and were the occasion of no small interest as was well exemplified by the large crowd who turned out to watch the American players.
The opening match, a single between Snodgrass and Kuwabara iwas a rather one sided affair, the former certainly proving the star The best class probably was the cotters, who were avery level of a good standard.
Mias Vera MeBain, whose authority cannot be questioned, had hesitation in awarding the first for furedales to Mr. F, W. Potter's hundaome dog, and the judges would flop have been greatly at fault if they had given it the championship of the show. The majority.of Airedales locally never would stand fa chance against such a dog.
Both classes of fox terriers showed improvement and the committee vere fortunate at the eleventh hou in finding such an expert as Mrs. Drumniond to judge them. Tt was teresting to note that Mre, Drum: mond placed Cwsar back on his pedestal, though, as she said, it was Extremely difficult to form an opin" ion on a small class made up. dogs, bitch The Al judges The opening game was between player of the afternoon from the and e cee Bina ery pod game [28a DF. F. Ga Philipp tackled mort spectacular eon from the heavy task, which Mr, T. D. Grant though the latter was beaten: some- bat ata searcely equal to the other's] comselentiously and little fault could that easily the match terest. Kumi never lacked Cruectat vive' net to mention nia|be, found with their decisions, 12 it obviously [Clever and accurate placing. Snod- we classes, they had to sok for fully maintaining Davis Cup form, but the manner in which he took the first two games showed that he will be in the first class for) some time to come. His placing was delightful, and he got in some wonderful fore-hand drives. He was not able to maintain his advantage, however, and Snodgrass took vix straight games and thus the set. His service is extraordinarily fast, and sometimes he put more than the first, ly being at fault. At first he misjudged his distance in driving, but quickly found his length and thereafter returned unerringly pace and direction, and made also 0 clever use of a wonderfully develop-back-hand stroke. In addition to this, he covered the court with. 16} excellent judgment and seemed to [Ret through his games with far less expense of energy than his opponent, who obviously found the match a grass has a most remarkable serve and seems to carry things through by sheer brute force, striking high and placing the ball in the service court frith such power thet It is almost Impossible to deal with. In the first set Kuwabara made a very hard fight for it and managed to scrape up two games, but in the second set which followed Snod-gray walked through beating him 6-0, and bringing the final score to 6-2, 60.
The other game which followed twas very much more evenly matched, Snodgrass and Kumagae playing the Kinsey brothers. The latter make an excellent combination, both playing a wonderful game. ' Unfortunately, owing to Robert Kin-{sey's illness the match was not finished but it was a very close game, lasting two sets, and another Jone would have resulted in a very hard tussle if all the players had fairly heavy proposition. the kept up the excellent form which second set was finely contested in they showed. the opening games and three-all Tu the opening set the Kinsey was called, but thereafter Snodgrass ly others won three games before again asserted himself and took the their opponents "seemed to have a next three games, winning the set chance and looked very much like 6—3, and the match. remaining the stronger team. Snod-In' the second match, J. L. Wade grass cut some very fine shots and R. Canavarro were opposed to across the net in the first game Howard Kinsey and Kumagae. and and generally excelled with his firm though the local champions put up drives into the back of the court a plucky game they were, as was Kumagae was hardly up to the to be expected, somewhat easily. splendid form we remember him beaten. The visitors won the first showing last year when he played fet, 62, and the second, 61, and Wade at the Majestic grounds and a third set was then agreed upon, hich they also won, though rather hardly had a chance to excel with such a partner. However he made more fully extended.
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