The San Francisco call., 1904-11-21
5AKERS PROVE
COURT EXPERTS
Two Brothers Take Tennis
Tournament Trophies for
Second Time at the Park

only one tournament match was
played on the tennis courts yesterday.
but the fine weather brought out an
Usually large crowd Tor practice. On
the park courts the finals II the handi-
zap doubles tournament came up for
decision. As was expected. the Baker
brothers-George and Neil-carried off
the honors. They were opposed to
Horace Mann and Robert Drolla. The
latter received ODDS Of '-3-6" while the
Baker brothers were rs" behind
scratch
The odds Were about right as the
scores show. The handicap men put
UP 2 good fight and made an excellent
showing against their steadier Oppo-
nents. The first set was close, going to
the Bakers by score Of 10. The next
set they won easily. The third set went
10 Mann and Drolla- They looked to
have a good chance 70 make it sets
ell In the fourth set. This was the
closest set Of thu four and was won by
the Baker brothers after fourteen
games had been played. The complete
score was rs, 6-3. 4-6, SO This makes
the winners second victory and they
are now in the lead in the race for the
cups
A round robin match has been ar
ranged BY six Of the most prominent
young players Of the Golden Gate and
California clubs. IT is not an inter
club affair but il happens that the
players are from each club They are
Carl Gardner, George James and Her
bert Long of the California Club ana
Clarence Griffin. Charles Foley ana
Neil Baker Of the Golden Gate Club.
Two matches were played yesterday
and were won by Long and James
Long beat Griffin and James beat Fo-
ley.
There was no tournament at the Cal
ifOrnia Club, but all Of the active play
ers were ont practicing for Thursday
tournament Champion MacGavin was
at his best yesterday. He played Bar-
ry ROlfe three sets. The best the lat
ter could do was 10 win two games in
the first set. In the last two sets he.
failed to get q game.
Many other Interesting matches were
played and resulted as follows:
california cub Baldo Ivancovich beat
Harry sullivan. 6-3. 90. Carl Gardner tied
Prank Mitchell &C los. Harold Gabriel beat
Merle Johnson 1-5 o.. Moulton Warner and
J. Thorne beat George Cutter and Arthur
r p Robbins. &C.. ca 70 Ga: Arthur
Chesehrough ana Du Val Moore beat sher-
WOOD Adams and orFille Pratt So, 6-s 6-3:
Sidney Salisbury beat Paul Jones IS: George
Armsby beat Knowiton. 6-3. Ga. Little beat
Gus Ldsser g. G-3 Sc. Hans Llsser beat
Little. Ga 60; Hans Lisser beat KoehIer
sc. 2-6 6-3 Charles kuehn and Grant smith
tied Al Kenyon and Ray Cornell. 2-6 c-3 6-3
81 W s MacGavin beat Dr. Younger G-3
O. Sc. J. H. MacGavin beat Harry Rolfe
62 GO 60: George Fuller beat DR. Love
grove 6-4 &c. 6-3, Rolfe beat Knowlfon
60 c-3. III Gabriel beat n Blaisdel Ga 8-3
Park courts: Finals of handicap doubles
tournament-George and Neil Baker lowe 81
beat Horace Mann and Robert Drolla 60
IS 6-3. 4-6 sc.
Round rohn-George james beat Charles
Foley 80. 81. IS ca. Herbert Long b at
Clarence Griffin. Sc GO ga. 0-1
Practice matches-Guy Lytton and Fred
Adams tied r. Drolla and O. hall 90 Ga:
n Mann and r Finnegan beat Lytton and
Adams c.. s-6 rs. J. A. Code and c Dun
lar beat j. Brady and L.yfton. 6-3 80: T.
Cuerin beat @ Guerin, 70: g James beat F.
ITinnegan 7-5 60. Dunlap and Code beat
Pradv and Foley 6-3 sc: Guerin and ID
lennon beat Haynes and I johnson. CO. Is.