The San Francisco call., 1904-07-30
RACKET EXPERTS
SOON TO MEET
Annual Struggle for HOnorS
VIII Begin on San Rafael
Courts in About a Month

The annual struggle. for supremacy
on the tennis courts will commence at
San Rafael in about a month The
newly appointed tournament commit
tee has decided to start the first event
on September .. The last match viii
be played on September 10, which falls
on Saturday. The opening event will
be the mems singles. The idea in
starting on Friday is to finish, if pos
sible, the preliminary round before
Monday. Those who can be present
Friday will be asked to play and the
others Will play their matches Satur-
day. One challenge match will be
played on September 9. and the other
on September TO-
At the meeting held last Tuesday it
was decided to make all the matches
in the mems events three sets out OF
five. If the players who compete at
San Rafael were allowed to vote on the
subject the matches in future would
probably be two sets out of three. This
is not so good a test as three out of
five, but it has many other things in
its favor. 1t would save time and
would distress the players less. There
will be some changes next year un-
doubtedly. The players will put in
every spare moment before the nets
in order to be in good shape when
play commences.
The tournament commenced at the
park last Sunday will be completed to-
morrow and another one will probably
be played during the month AS a rule
tournaments are not held in August.
This is a mistake, as tournament play
is the best possible practice.
Several interesting matches will be
played on the park courts tomorrow.
In the first class, George Baker and
r. n. Whitney will resume their un-
finished match. Baker has a lead of
two sets to one and needs but one more
to win. Whitney must win both sets
to get the cup. He is playing good
tennis and the remaining set or sets
should prove exciting. If Baker wins,
the cup will go to him for good. He
and MacGavin have each won il twice
The second class was finished last
Tuesday and resulted in an easy vic
tory for Horace Mann. In the finals
he beat Fred Adams easily. The win
ner should go in the first class. as he
proved too fast for the second.
In the third and fourth classes the
cups are practically new, as no player
figuring in either of them has his name
on the cup. The old fight between
Guerin and Long in the fourth class
will be resumed in the third. They
have reached the semi i-final round and
are expected to meet in the finals In
the number of victories over the other
Guerin leads. Long is d youngster who
is improving rapidly and Guerin will
have no easy time winning the third
class honors. Guerin and Lemon meet
in the upper half of the semi-finals
and T. A Allan and NJ. Long in the
lower half.
In the fourth class, seven players
are left. w. L. Howell has won a place
in the semi finals, but the other six
have match to play before qualify
ing. Howell will be pitted against the
winner of the L. Gunst-C. E. Allen
match. The winners of the Getz-
Mcguire and Martin Wollenberg match
will meet in the semi-finals These
players are all evenly matched and the
games will be close.
Coast Champion Bell made an excel
lent showing in the big Eastern tourna-
ments last week. He won the New
York State championship, but was
| badly beaten by Alexander in the chaI-
lenge match. Bell, however, made up
| for this by playing a close match with
| Ward at Longwood. The Californian
won the first set and forced the East