The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-27
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
SOME GOOD PLAY YESTERDAY IN
THE PRELIMINARY TIES
The Casino Courts at Santa Monica
the Scene of Gay Throng
Yesterdays Victors

The Casino tennis courts at Santa Mon
lea resounded yesterday afternoon with
the "sping' of ball on racket and the
monotonous call of the scorer. The
thirteenth annual tournament of the
Southern California Associated Tennis
clubs was in progress and a good at
tendance had assembled to watch the
preliminary rounds of the all-comers'
singles, the great event Of the year.
Several of the old warehouses of for
mer tournaments, who had refrained
from entering the singles because they
feared they were outclassed by the
younger genera ton, became excited as
the afternoon wore on, and sought John
w. Wilson, the courteous manager of
the tournament, SO that they might be
entered for the doubles. Walter Cosby,
that once brilliant light of the Los Ange-
| les Tennis club, persuaded Simpson
| Sinsabaugh to act as team mate, and
will play on Wednesday, despite total
| lack of practice.
| George w. Wallace, of Alhambra,
grew enthusiastic over Picher's great
playing, and induced Barryto enter the
| doubles with him. Just for fun, you
| know" remarked Wallace, apologetical-
| ly. And then there are Acker, Warning,
Lillilingston and others, who have been
| playing tennis since the memory of man
| isi not, all come to Santa Monica to renew
| their youth on the tennis courts of the
! Casino. Their ambition is aided and
abetted by the young ladies who are the
spectators, who applaud manfully each
clever stroke, whether they understand
| it's beauty or not.
| The firsS match called for the after
uuon, and the opening contest of the
tournament brought out R. B. Fithian of
Santa Barbara, ard Arthur Bumiller of
Los Angeles. The latter's appearance
upon the court was the signal for APP
plause from dainty gloved hands, for
Bumiller is a great favorite with the fair
devotees of the racket. One pretty girl
explained his popularity by saying that
Mr Bumiller is SO erenetically dinky!"
This lucid explanation was received with
| tumultuous favor.
| A good deal of interest was taken in
| the match by the other players, as fur
| HlSHlHS lille UPON -
ment FORM While his placing is as good
or perhaps better than ever, he lacks
the speed he used to have. Bumiller is
just as clever as formerly in getting his
| opponent out of positions sometimes
fairly tying Fithian, heavy man, into
knot. Bumiller's play for the side lines
is his strong game, he himself having
but a slight estimate of his ability to
play against a strong net game. Filth
ian played good game, scoring several
hard-fought points against his little OPP
ponent, but at all times Bumiller had his
man we'll in hand, and WON the two
sets easily. The score was 60, Ga.
| John S. Craven, ex-champion of Yale,
and Simpson Sinsabaugh of Los Ange-
| les, We're the next couple on the courts.
From the first Sinsabough showed lack
of practice and played carelessly. His
back-hand work was particularly fine,
| however, and the way in which he
passed Craven at the net with fast
back-hand stroke down the side line
called out frequent applause. The most
noticeable fault of his game was his
manner of running up to the net at the
wrong moment, when his opponent had
plenty of time to carefully place his re-
| turn. Craven was evidently nervous,
and was moreover suffering from a Bills
tered foot. He possesses peculiar side
stroke made with the wrist stiff, swing
| ing his arm from the elbow. This stroke
he places accurately and readily passes
an opponent at the net. Both players
showed good style, several stiff sallies
taking place.
Sinsabaugh held Craven down in the
| first set, having the score a one time
| five games to four and 1880 on the last
game. His point could not be made,
| however, and, Craven took the next two
games in excellent style. The, second set
was not notable in any way, both men
| playing weakly. Sinsabaugh, however,
| was the more careless of the two and
| Craven won out. The score for the two
| sets was 7-5, 6-3. In this match Craven
| did not show the form necessary to bring
him into the final round
O. S. Pitcher of Pasadena and Robert.
Osborne of Riverside, late of Princeton,
played the closing match of the day
| The set was chiefly remarkable for
Picher's splendid, drives fast, low balls,
that just skim the net and drop rapidly
His accuracy in placing these drives wa =
| IHuCH upon ~ liiC OtAci
players watching the game. Osborne
made a game effort, but his opponent $
speed was evidently too much for him
Moreover, he showed a lack of practice
| and a certain amount of resultant nerv
| ousness Osborne shows a disposition to
wait too long on the ball, and frequent
| ly sends the return into the net as a
consequence of picking the ball UP too
low. He gathered himself together
somewhat in the second set, but at no
time did he crowd his opponent who
| throughout the match showed splendid
| form. Picker took the match in straight
sets, 6-1, 6-3.
| This closed the play for the day, Sins
abaugh, Fithian and Osborne being
eliminated from the singles. Play will
be resumed at 10 o'clock this morning,
the matches arranged being as follows:
Acker-Barry, Hennck-B Lilliiing-
stone Wilson, Pedley- Waring. The first
| game in the afternoon as decided upon
| will be between Faithful and Braly, and.
| then the second round will commence.
From present indications Pitcher should
meet Barry, who ought to outplay Acll
| err: Pedley should defeat Waring, sn6
will then meet Bumiller; and Bell ought
to have no difficulty with Lillilrgstone,
and will then be called on to play j. S.