The San Francisco call., 1904-12-03
PLAYERS REST
AFTER SEVERE
TENNIS work
No Tournaments Are
on Schedule for
This Week.
Popular Drummond
MacGavin Leaves
for Europe.

After the strenuous play Of last week
the tennis cracks will be given a chance
to rest up for a time. No tournaments
are scheduled and only a few matches
held over from last weeks events will
be played to-day and tomorrow. The
continuous tournament will be started
tomorrow, but this will be easy on the
players. as they play but once week
The principal event will be the match
between George vanes ard AL. Kenyon
They met in the finals Of the Thanks
giving day handicap tournament and
each had won two sets when darkness
put stop to play. Instead of resum-
ing play where it was left off the men
have agreed to play two sets out OF
three tomorrow.
KENYON will receive odds Of Is
while James will be rs" behind scratch.
These odds are about right as the
match last Sunday proved. Although
the match was a tie James looked to
have a little the best of the argument
Kenyon is an erratic player and if he
happens to have a streak" on tO-mOr-
row the scratch man will be kept busy
James is a steady player and seems at
his best under handicap conditions
This fact is rather remarkable because
James, unlike most successful handicap
players, hits the ball hard and takes
all kinds of chances.
The boys of the Golden Gate Junior
Club have two tournaments TO finish
to-day. One is a singles for a three
time loving cup. NJ. Mclaughlin has
reached the finals and will meet the
winner of the w. Mitchell-H. Getz
match. Both matches will be played
in the afternoon. In the morning the
handicap doubles tournament will be
completed. In the finaO A Martinez
and NJ. Mclaughlin will meet H Getz
and L. LevinsOn.
The fourth class singles tournament
commenced on the park courts last
Sunday will be completed tomorrow.
One match remains to be played in the
second round. The contestants will be
Darns and Martin. The others who
will compete in the third round are:
Peck, Fuller, Martin, Turner, VensanO,
Brown and Miller.
The continuous tournament which
Will be started on the California Club
courts will prove an interesting affair
and also a novelty to most Of the play
ers- Events of this kind have been held
in the past, but the last was about five
years ago, before many Of the present
cracks were in the game. 1t will de-
eide who is the best player in the club.
A mans position will be determined
strictly according to his ability. The
best players will eventually rise to the
top, while poorer ones who may draw
well Will soon be where they belong
While the entries close to-day any club
member has the right to enter when he
desires. If he enters later than to-day,
however, he will be compelled to start
at the bottom Of his class. MacGavin,
Hardy and Smith will not be in the
competition, and it is a matter Of spec
ulation as to who will come to the top
with these men out of it, DIR. McChes-
ney looks to be the best man, although
such players as DR.. Hill, II. Long. S.
H. Adams. q. H. Busch, w. Collier and
G. James are about as clever as Nc
Chesney.
DrummOnd MacGavin, coast cham
pion, State champion and bay counties
champion, leaves to-day for a trip
around the world. He viii arrive in
London in June and may live there for
several years. Thereafter he expects to
reside in South Africa. MacGavin is
one of the most popular champions that
ever played tennis here. He has al
ways been a generous opponent, a good
loser and bears his laurels lightly As a
token of their esteem MacGavin's club
mates have presented him with a hand
some diamond watch charm. When
MacGavin sails to-day he will take with
him the good wishes of every man and
woman on the coast who handles a ten
mis- racket and of MANY who do pof