The San Francisco call., 1905-08-21
JAMES PLAYS
CLEVER TENNIS
Defeats Herbert Schmidt in
Straight Sets on the
California Club Courts

Two tennis tournaments were played
yesterday by the racket wielders. On
the California Club courts an interesting
class singles event was run off, while on
the public courts at Golden Gate Park
a similar event commenced last Sunday
was completed. The winners at the Cali
fornia Club were George James. first
class; Albert Kenyon, second class;
Charles Kuehn, third class, and q.
Browne, fourth class.
The first class was productive Of some
exceedingly close matches which proved
the classification to be good one. James
and Herbert Schmidt came together in
the finals. The former won in straight
sets. Schmidt made a good stand IN the
first set, which went to 1913. In the sec
ond set James played better tennis, while
his opponent seemed to weaken. This
set James took easily by score of 6-2.
Probably the closest and most inter-
esting match in the class was that be-
tween Harry Rolfe and George Musch,
who won the Northwestern championship
recently at Portland. These two cracks
met at San Rafael in July and Rolte won
easily. His opponent has improved won
derfully since then, as the score of yes
terdays contest proves. OF the first two
sets each player took one comfortably,
but the third was nip and tuck affair.
Rolfe was declared a winner after
eighteen games had been played.
In the semi-finals Schmidt beat Rolfe
after losing the first set This match was
also close. In the other semi-final
match James beat Roy Cornell in straight
sets. the last of which went to deuce.
In the second class Al Kenyon. after
having q desperate struggle with DIR.
Lovegrove in the opening round, won his
next two matches easily. In the finals
he beat a. z. Beyfuss about as he
pleased.
All three matches in the third class
went the limit, the final match beng the
longest of the day. The contestants were
Ed Bacon, winner of the cup in the last
tournament, and Charles Kuehn. The
match went the full five sets, none of
which was at all close. Kuehn wound it
up with q 60 set
G.. Browne, a newcomer at the club,
carried off the fourth class honors. DR..
withdrew before the completion of the
second set. Browne won the first set 10,
and led at So in the second set.
The scores follow:
First class, preliminary round-George Busch
beat NJ Long by default
First rornd-Dr. Bush beat b. F. Nourse.
Ga. e-3: Herbert schmidt beat Carl Gardner,
SIS, e-3, 6-1; Harry Rolfe beat George Busch,
s-2 As Ie-ss- BAY eornesi beat DIR. Busi1..2-e,
T-5 Ga: George James beat H. Long, e-4. SO
Semi-fna ls-Schnlidt beat Rolfe, 3-6, 81. rs;
James beat Cornell, 6-3, 7-5- Finals-Janes
Second class-H- Mills beat 6: Cutter. %.
Ga; A Beyfuss beat II. A. Biddle, ,3-6, 1o-S,
11-9:- A. G. Kenyon beat DIR. Loyegrove. ST..
SIS, e-3. Semi-hnals--Beyfuss beat Mills. O..
3-6. 10: Kenuyon beat c.. 7. Smith. Sc, e-1.
FTnsls-Kenyon beat Beyfuss. 6-2, So.
Third class-C. 6. Kuehn beat A Z. Black,
90. Ga, 6-2: e. Bacon beat G. P. Fuller, 6-3.
6-s, Cd. Finals-Kuehn beat Bacon, 6-1, e-2,
2-6. 2-6, GO.
Fourth class-G Brown beat Colonel Eth
ridge. 81. s-e. First round-Brown beat Major
Ducat, 6-3, 5-4; DR.. Noble beat White, 6-3,
81. Finals-Browne beat Noble, T-5, So.
default
On the park courts Marius Hotchkiss
beat F. Guerin in the finals of the sec
ond class. The score was 4-6, 6-4, Sc, So.
In the third class G. L. Hall beat H.
Getz in the finals by a score of 6-3, Sc,
6-4 In the second round Getz beat C.
Guerin 6-3. 6-5. In the semi-inals Hall
beat N Martin So, GA. and Getz beat
A. Kahn 6-2, ST., e-1