The San Francisco call., 1903-09-14
YOUNG PLAYERS
SHOW FINE FORM
Long Wins Great Tennis
Match on Califor-
MIA Courts.
Racket Experts Turn Out in
Force and Many Good
Sets Res ult.

The California Club and the Golden
Gate Park tennis courts were in great de
mand yesterday. and players found it DIFF
ficult TO get a court.
The feature on the club courts was
special match between Herbert Long and
Alexander Beyfuss Considerable rivalry
exists between these promising young
players. and neither would admit the SUI
periority OF the other That there is little
10 choose between them the match Played
yesterday proves conclusively. 1t was
hard five-set affair and the closest match
played in the city in many months.
OF the five sets played four went up to
deuce and three Of them were exception
ally long. In the third it became neces-
sary 10 play twenty-five games. The
score in Longs favor. was rs, 3-6. Bill,
e-S. Sc.
In the third and fourth sets Long had
lead of 81. He managed to- win the
third. but lost the fourth. The fifth and
deciding set was the most exciting Of the
series. Long won the first two games.
Beyfuss won the next four, and led al
go in the seventh, which he lost. The
latter was within a point of winning the
match eleven times in the tenth game,
when the score stood "a in his favor.
After having vantage five times Long
made il games all and then won out.
The best match in doubles that in
which Drummond MacGavin and Harry
Haight won three sets from Frank Mitch
ell and ". S. MacGavin.
The following matches We're played:
r d. Black beat DR.. Lovegrove. Sc. 4-e.
Ga. Or. Noble and W :. Dole beat Black and
LoNeerove. G-5; W. Averel beat Herbert Gray.
e. 6-3 rs, CO: Drummond MacGavin and
- Hafphf heat n Maef,uA-in and Frank
Mitchell Ga. GO 6-3: Herbert Long beat Alex
Beyfuss, 10. 30. 1911. 6-S Sc: j. Rourke
ana H. Spring - GO: Dan Vollmann and
Alden Ames beat WIN Volkmann and S V.
Smith. G-5. C-3. Ga Worthington and Joseph
Daily beat Robbins and Spring. 6-l. 60; Daily
beat Worthington. g.: Cole beat DR.. Noble.
ca So. Ga 60: Harry Gabriel beat DR.. Love
grove CO; Mitchell beat Haisht. 6-1: D. Folk-
mann beat W. Nclkmsnn. g.. 6-3. 4-6: d. Mac
Gavin beat Mitchell. 81. CO: Ray Cornell beat
Norman Hodsknson. SO and Homer Parker:
-: Parker and Professor Emerson beat Cornell
and G Kuehn. 4-6. c.. 7-5. G-3
On the park courts there was also a
special match. Clarence Griffin. who re-
Gently graduated from the second class,
and Clarence Fo.ey, a second class man,
were the contestants. Foley contended
that he had as much right in the first
class as Griffin, and a match was ar
ranged. Foley's victory in straight sets
justified his claim, and a committee has
been appointed to decide whether he,
should go into the first class or whether
Griffin should be put back into the sec
ond. The latter course Will probably be
pursued In the last two tournaments at
San Rafael Griffin showed remarkably
wei, and his defeat al the hands of the
fast-improvng Foley was quite a sur
prise. The score was CO. 11-9.
The following matches were played on
the public grounds
~ Long and Skaggs tied Guerin and Hail.
6-3. o-s; q. X Bates and G. James beat Lewis
ana Foley, l0-S; Finnegan and Griffin beat
Bates and James. G-3: james beat Finnegan Ga:
Deil-ch and Getz beat =. Hall and l.. Howell.
6-i; L. Howell ard NJ Long beat Guerin and
Skaggs- SO: Roberts and Leilich beat c. Mag
nus and r Gott. Ca SomerviIle and Jones
beat II Miller and b. Burdick. Ga 81: Lemon
and II. Guerin beat Somerville and Burdick.
6-f; Magnus and GOtt beat H. Medcraft and
+. Hutchinson. Ga. G-4: Jares and Code beat
5ozarth and Bates Ga: Russell and James beat
iSates and Flnnegan. Ga. 3-6 60: Borough
and Miss Harlsnd tied W Murphy and F.
oConnel Cd. 81 j. u. Lemon and NJ Crich-
ton TIED Murnhy and Allen Ca 4-G: Hall ana
Howell beat Skaggs and Long. 6-3: Guerin beat
W. Stapm. co. 10: Guern end J. Baker beat
J. r. Aiar-s and =. Brady. rs