Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
TENNIS FINALS
At PASADENA
HENDRICK AND SINSABAUGH
ARE THE WINNERS
Bell and Way Unable to Withstand
Onslaught With Raequet-May
Sutton's Clever
Work

Those who were present at the Gem
trail courts at South Pasadena yester-
day afternoon saw some Of the clever
ests tennis that has been played here
abouts in many day.
Long before it was time for the
games to start many spectators had
gathered on the bleachers Tennis, of
all games, is decidedly a game for
ladies and gentlemen, and because 1t is
so many society sisters were along
the side lines showing their knowledge
and interest in the game by sitting
perfectly calm when a good play was
made or else by talking to their neigh
Dor.
Nevertheless the tennis went on and
now and then the grand stand would
fairly shake with good shot" pretty
stroke" and the like
AS was expected Miss May Sutton
defeated Birdie" two straight sets.
In the first set May was so generous
as to "allow' her sister eight points
out of the twenty-five in the set Flor
ence did not succeed in getting the
points when they would win her
game, and May was given credit for
winning a love set, something, how
ever, which is not a rare thing with
the champion. No other lady that has
been seen by western players can
make May work as can sister Birdie.
The ball would be sent first on one side
and then on the other. In the second
irJi fret
that was all she made The closeness
of the game cannot be judged at all by
the score, for every point was closely
contested. Very few points were won
on one stroke, but many times the ball
would go over the net at least a dozen
times before point was finished.
Finals in Doubles
The finals in the gentlemen's doubles
was also a fight from start to finish.
The match was won by Trowbridge w.
Hendrick and Simpson Sinsabaugh
from A. C. Way and Alphonso Bell.
Shortly after the first set was started
Bell and Way had won two games,
then the unmarried men woke up and
such tennis they put up is not often
seen. Both Hendrick and Sinsabaugh
seemed 20 be unable to miss ball.
Drives. smashes, lobs, in fact every
thing they hit, went in. They could
not help but win at such a pace and
consequently won the next six games
straight, taking the set at to 2.
Way and Bell Come Back
In the second set Bell and Way
played up and after a hard fight of
twenty games took the set by score
of 1913
The third set was no exception as
to hard plays and many phenomenal
volleys. Hendrick and Sinsabaugh won
out the decisive set by score of GA,
Hendrick and Snsabaugh played
game that would require Warde and
Davis or the Doherty brothers to be
in the pink of condition to beat them.
All in all it was one of the best
matches of gentemen's doubles seen
in this part of the state for many sea-
sons.
Bell missed many of his usually sure
shots-killing lobs. He has been
little off on this part of the game and
this being one of his best and most
reliable strokes, without it he is pretty
much at sea.
The other close and interesting match
was in the mixed doubles, between Miss
Violet Sutton and Sinsabaugh, and
Mrs. Bruce and Trow Hendrick. 1t
took three sets to decide it and every
point was a short battle at that.
Everything was finished but two