The San Francisco call., 1904-04-09
WEATHER DELIGHTS
THE TENNIS MEN
Brings Them Out of Winter
Retirement in Numbers
and Courts Are Crowded

The clear weather OF the past week
attracted many players to the tennis
courts of the California Club and to
those at Golden Gate Park. 1t has
been difficult matter to get court
late in the afternoon. The California
and East Oakland clubs have at last
finished their February tournaments
and the Golden Gate Club will do so
tomorrow. The fourth class was nm
ished at the park courts last Sunday
and resulted in an easy victory for
Guerin. This makes the latter's Sec
ond victory. Melville Long has won
the cup twice and Hall once.
In the first class there are only four
matches to be played. In the lower
half Drummond MacGavin has an un-
finished match with George Baker.
The score stands set and 4-3 in IA
vor of the former. The winner will
be called upon to play Clarence Griffin
in the semi-finals. In the upper half
Will Allen and Carl Gardner will meet.
1t is expected that Allen and Mac
Gavin, as usual, will meet in the finals.
In the second class only the best
players are left and the remaining
matches should all prove close and
interesting. Neil Baker, Foley, Long
and Ambrose are all evenly matched.
Baker is probably the steadiest of the
lot and is expected to win. OF the
four Herbert Long is easily the most
promising and the others may ind
him a stumbling block tomorrow.
Long has an excellent style, his driv-
ing both back and fore hand being
similar to that of r. ~. Whitney. He
has also a fine serve. 1t has a fast.
high bounce and enables him to get
to the net in plenty of time. Longs
weak point is his net work, but he Is
practicing this every day and when he
brings it up to his back-court game
he will be hard man for any of the
cracks to beat. Griffin. Long and
Schmidt are the most promising of
the younger players. As yet Long
does not class with the other two, but
should do so easily in a short time.
Taking everything into consideration
Long is probably the most promising
player that has turned up in this part
of the State for years.
In the third class Guy Lytton, Har-
old Gabriel and Robert DrolIa are the
most prominent candidates for class
honors.
The annual intercollegiate tennis
matches will be played at Stanford
next Saturday morning. Stanford is
worse off for players this year than
ever before. On the other hand Berke-
ley has good players to spare. Drum
mond MacGavin will be California's
mainstay. He will be first man in
singles and will play with Robert
Variel in doubles.
Stanford's best player is Hodge.
He comes from Southern California.
where he is considered a promising
man. The other Stanford players will
probably be Baker and Lieb
Rhe first big championship tourna-
ment of the year is less than two
months off and the cracks are already
commencing to get in trim for it. 1t
will be the annual tournament. for the
championship of San Francisco. and
as usual it will be held at the Califor-
mia Club on May 80. George r. Whit
ney won the first championship, Grant
Smith the second and Drummond Mac
Gavin is the present champion. The
cup, which was donated by Joseph d..
Grant. must be won three times. Mac
Gavin. Allen, Baker and Murdock are
the strongest men playing at present
and one of them should win. Smith
will not compete in the tournament
nor will r. y. Whitney.
WOT-I.D