The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-10
new TENNIS CHAMPIONS,
The Hardy Brothers of Ala
media and Miss Jones of
Nevada.
End Of the Annual Tournament at
San Rafael-Miss Bee Hooper
Defeated.

There are new tennis champions of the
and the women's.
The annual meet was held in San
Rafael, and was ended yesterday. The
final matches resulted in victories for
three very youthful contestants.
Sam and Sumner Hardy of Alameda
are now the coast champions, having de-
feated Byxbee and Boyden, the final
obstacle that stood between them and
championship honors, it being under
stood that last years cupholders, De Long
and Driscoll, would, owing to Mr.. Driscolr s
departure for the East, have to default to
the team winning the finals.
Miss Marian Jones, a daughter of Sena-
tor Jones of Nevada, proved a surprise to
everybody, and especially to Miss Bee
Hooper, from whom she wrested the title
Of champion woman tennis player of the
Pacific Slope.
AS Miss Jones was the only competitor for
the women's tournament play was not
begun until the afternoon, and then Miss
Hooper went on the court to defend her
title of champion. On one side of the net
was pretty Miss Bee Hooper, typical
summer girl in her white straw hat pink
waist and white duck skirt; on the other
was young girl not yet in long skirts
and with her hair in a braid down her
back. She was unknown to most of the
spectators, but before many exchanges had
been made 1.-THE little girl" as she was i'm
mediately dubbed, became a great favorite
and her every scoring stroke was greeted
with applause. She won the first set, after
a very even and spirited contest the score
in games standing IS.
The second set went to Miss Hooper
She won the first game lost the next two
to Nevada's representative, then secured
three more after some lively volleying, lost
another, and won the last two, which made
the games 6-3.
The third and deciding set showed that
for the next year at least the cup that has
been kept at st. Helena would be trans
ferred from this State to Nevada. Miss
Jones captured the prize by taking the
second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and
ninth games in the last set, the score in
games being just the reverse of the second
set.
That the contestants were well matched
is shown by the total of 16 to ID games, not
one of which was lone game and many
of which were fought out from deuce
The young society people that hovered
rounu the courts in little groups and COM
pletely filled one of the long grand stands
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and applaud the sensational final volIeys
of the match; and then while some of
them collected about the champion to offer
congratulations others made haste to get
good seats in the opposite grand stand
from which better view could be had of
the doubles, the two teams being already
on the courts.
The Hardy brothers were easy winners.
They took three sets straight with a total
eighteen tS'
seven.
Byxbee and Boyden got three games in
the first set, the second, the seventh and
the eighth. IN the second set the brothers
from Alameda took every game but the
fifth. The second, the third and the eighth
games of the last set were won by Byxbee
and Boyden. But their younger fellow
clubmen proved too much for them.
The 2 nrdys got three love games to the
Oakland mems two. Almost all the other
games, however, were contested up to the
thirty score, showing that the match was
not so one-sided as the final score might
indicate
Some of those who witnessed the matches
We're: Mrs. w. Z. Hooper of St. Helena,
Judge Morrow. Webster Jones, Harry
Stetson, Alfred Wilcox, Eddie Schmiedell,
Mrs. George J. Bucknall, Edward L. Bray
ton, w. I'll. Taylor Jr., A. Taylor, DR.. and
Mrs. Harold l.. Seager Miss Wallace, r.
J. Mackay, ]. H. Nee, Robb Barrett, Louis
B. Parrot, A. Phillips, Alec Wilberforce,
A. I. Allen and G. Allen of San Francisco !;
P. w. Bates and Miss Bates of Penryn
Mrs. John P. Jones and Miss Alice Jones
of Nevada, MISS Cornelia Hamilton of
Santa Monica, Claude Sharon, Miss Eliza
beth B. Cliff, Miss Abbie Gift Miss Har-
riet W. Kittredge, John r. Glascock, John
r. Glascock Jr., Arthur Brown Jr. and
H.W. Loughhead, Oakland; Perry Hayne,
Vail Blackwell, Miss Marie Dean and j. F.
Dean of Berkeley.