The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
FAIR PLAYERS
ON THE COURTS
Handicap Singles for the
Cochran Cup Brings Out
a Bevy of Likely Stars
SEVENTEEN TO COMPETE
San Francisco Cracks Win
Everything in Sight in
Alameda County Contest

The good weather has enabled the
tennis players to catch up with their
schedules and for this reason there
will be but little doing on the courts
to-day and tomorrow. The only tour
nament on the tapis is a ladies' handi-
cap singles event, which will be played
on the park courts to-day. This tour
nament is for the Cochran Cup, which
Is in the possession Of Miss Lulu Veg
ener, the club champion. Miss Veg
ener played from ''15 2-6'' back OF
scratch in the last tournament To-
day she will be ''2-6'' farther back, and
as most of the other players have had
their handicaps increased it is expect
ed a new winner will develop
Seventeen of the clubs strongest
players will be in the competition.
which will begin promptly at O'Clock
this morning. All matches will be two
sets out of three.
The Golden Gate Club has an unfin-
ished tournament to dispose of, but it
will probably be put over until a week
from tomorrow. Two of the four re-
naming players will compete in the
Alameda tournament tomorrow. They
are George Baker and A Brabant- The
event across the bay will not consume
more than one day and the park play
ers will surely play their three remain
ing matches on March ).
In the Alameda County champion
ship tournaments on Wednesday the
San Francisco players won everything
in sight. Particularly was this so
with the park contingent. OF the six
players left in the singles four are from
the park, one from the California Club
and one from across the bay. In the
doubles Long and James have won one
of the four semi-final places The
other three places are open to a num-
ber of teams.
A. Brabant caused quite a surprise
by beating both the Long brothers. He
first beat Melville Long easily and then
in two long close sets disposed of Her
bert Long. Brabant Is an aggressive
player and his tournament game is
fully up to his practice game His
weak spot is his back hand. In the
singles he first meets Charles Foley.
The latter is playing great tennis and
ought to dispose of the Australian
champion, though not without a strug-
gle.
Fred Adams upset calculations when
he beat Charles Dunlap. The latter is
one of the strongest players at the
park while Adams has never been con-
sidered a first-class man. He beat
Dunlap decisively. the score being one
sided. Adams will meet the winner Of
the Griffin-Noble match
Carl Gardner looks to have an ex-
cellent chance to meet Baker for the
championship. He defeated George
James in straight sets and played a
consistent game throughout the day.
The doubles championship undoubt-
edly lies between the Baker brothers.
Long and James and Gardner and
Long The Bakers are considered to
have almost sure thing, but they will
have to play their best to beat Long
and James.
There will be no tournament on the
California Club courts tomorrow.
Many continuous tournament and
practice matches will be played.
The first tournament of any impOr-
tance in March will be the mixed dou-
bles event. in which the Ladies' An
mex and the Junior Club will partici-
pate The boys will join forces with
the young ladies and an interesting
tournament should result. Two hand
some silver loving cups have been Of
fered for the event, which is scheduled
for next Saturday.
The qualifying rounds OF the indoor
tournaments will be played early in
March. The semi-finals and finals will
be played at the pavilion in April.
The tournaments down to the semi
finals will be played on the park and
California Club courts. There viii be
singles and doubles tourney, one to
be played at each place.