The San Francisco call., 1905-03-04
.RACKETS TO FLY
ON PARK COURTS
Tennis Doubles to Be
Played by Juveniles
and Young Ladies.

An interesting tournament will be
played to-day on the Golden Gate
Park tennis courts. The juveniles
and the young ladies will join forces
and will hold the first of a series OF
handicap mixed doubles tournaments
Thirteen of the cleverest young ladies
at the park and a like number Of the
best players from the Junior Club will
be in the competition.
The most heavily handicapped team
is Miss Lulu Wegener. the strongest
of the lady players, and Harold Getz,
a first class player among the boys.
They will play from 10 3-6 behind
scratch. Miss Vera Crocker and NJ.
Mclaughlin will lowe 15 1-6." Nc
Loughlin is the club champion and a
clever young player. Miss Crocker is
hardly as clever as Miss Wegener, but
will give her partner good support.
Two three-time silver loving cups
have been donated for the event. A
tournament of this kind will be held
once every six months. Play will be-
gin promptly at o'clock this morn
ing. All matches will consist of two
sets out of three. The affair will be
managed by Mr.. Marvin, founder Of
the boys club.
One of the Alameda County cham
other comes up for decision this af-
ternOon. AS was expected, the dou-
bles went to the Baker brothers. They
were easily the best team in the tour
nament. Long and James made a
good showing against them in the fin
ais, but the Bakers were too strong
for them and took three sets out Of
fol-
Clarence Foley caused a surprise by
winning the singles tournament. Fo-
ley has always been a clever young
player, but rather Indifferent. He was
at his best throughout the tournament
and played a steady game. His hard
est match was with Carl Gardener in
the semi-finals. The latter had beaten
George James in straight sets and
looked to have a good chance to meet
Baker. Foley upset calculations
however, by taking Gardener into
camp after three close sets. Gardener
won the first set easily. but after los
ing the second by a very small mar
gin seemed to lose heart and made
rather a poor showing in the third
set. Foley was as steady as a clock
and played an excellent game.
Fred Adams was the surprise of the
tournament. He has been COM
ing to the front slowly but
steadily. He hardly looked to
have a chance to reach the finals but
did so and made an excellent show
ing against Foley. He failed to- get a
set, but the first two went to S-6 and
Foley had to play his best to win.
A. Brabant is another player who
made a good showing in the tourna-
ment. He is not a new man like Ad-
ans, but has not been playing in this
vicinity long. He has done most of
his playing in Australia. where he
was considered one of the best play
ers. He started at the park in. the
third class and is one of the best men
in the first class
The challenge match which will be
played to-day should be an interesting
one. George Baker, the champion. Is
q strong favorite and his clubmates
figure he is almost sure to win. He
will find Foley no easy man to heat
The latter's chances do not look good
but still he undoubtedly has a chance
to win.
The handicap singles Tournaments
which was started at the park about
six weeks ago will be completed to-
morrow. The semi-finals and finals
have yet to be played.
The continuous tournament which
has been on at the California CIub for
several months is anything but a s,c-
cess 1t was thought that when the
days grew longer the PLAYERS would
meet oftener and take more interesf
in the tournament Few matches are
being played, however, and tbere
seems little or no interest in the af-
fair. Unless there is a sudden CHANCE
the tournament should be dronnaS
All of the players who were origina Il,r
in the second class, with the excep-
ton of one. have gone up into the
first class. Paul Jones is the renoain~
ing PLAYER, and the only course onen
to him is to go back a class or up a