The San Francisco call., 1906-09-23
CLOSE CONTESTS
IN THE MIXED
DOUBLES.

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An interesting handicap mixed dou-
bles tournament was played on the
Golden Gate Park tennis courts ;yester-
day. Eight teams participated and all
of the matches were close. The handi-
Gaping was we'll done, as the scores
prove. The best match of the day. was
that between Miss Golda Myer and Har-
old Getz and Miss .vodden and Henry
Guerin. The latter had a handicap of
owe 10 3-6. In the third and deciding
set Miss Myer and Getz led at 5-3. but
their opponents made it games all. In
the eleventh game Miss Wooden and
Guerin had lead of 400, but lost the
game Miss Myers clever back court
work was the feature of the match. She
and her partner won by a score of SIS,
3-6,.S-6.
was that between Miss Vodden and
Guerin and Mrs. Neimeyer and B.
Brough. The latter had a handicap of
owe &c. which proved to be about
right. Mrs Neimeyer and Brough won
the first set easily, but lost the next
two by narrow margin.
As -asresult of the days play three
teams remain in the competition. Miss
Myer and Getz reached the finals. where
they will meet the winner of the match
between Miss A. Cook and c.. Axelrod
Strachan.
The tournament will be completed
today.
Yesterdays matches resulted as fol-
lows:
Miss vodden and Henry Guerin lowe
$50 beat Mrs. Neimeyer and B. Brough
lowe $50, is, rs, 6-4; Miss Myer and
Harold Getz (owe 3o) beat Miss, Crocker
and Maurice Mclaughlin (owe 15), 63,
Q5 $50 beat Miss Greenberg and B.
Botkin (owe 3-6), S-6. 81; Miss Mearns
and r. Strachan (owe 15) beat Miss
Gully and w. Patterson (scratch),
6-3, 81.
Semi hnals-Miss Myer and Guerin
lowe 30) beat Mrs. Neimeyer and
Brough lowe s-6), SIS, 3-6, SIS.
A handicap singles tournament for the
Judges cup will be played on the Cali
fornia Club courts today. The trophy
has ben donated by Judges Trout,
Hunt and Kerrigan. three devotees OF
the game. The event has attracted an
unusually large entry list, twenty eight
players having affixed their signatures.
The handicaps were arranged yesterday
and are unusually large. The poorer
players have complained in the past
that the odds have not been big enough
for them to win. If lower class man
does not carry off the new trophy. he
cannot blame the Handicapped.
Melville Long, the coast champion. is
the most heavily handicapped player.
He has been placed at 30 As below
scratch. Clarence Griffin Fletcher Ell
lliott, George James and Herbert Schmidt
will play from the owe so. SO mark
The limit players will play from 80
above scratch. The drawing resulted
as follows.
Preliminary round-Harold Gabriel
(owe 30) vs.. Fry tso); B. Webster 600
VS.. Thirkel 900; Chester Smith
(scratch) VS.. DR.. Lovegrove tscratch); s;
w. G. Know1ton (scratch) VS.. Fletcher
Elliott (owe 80 3-6); Maurice McLaugh-
lin (owe 30) VS.. 3. F. Nourse lowe 30);
H. E. Punnett (4.6) VS.. Harry Elliott
| (scratch) Arthur Watson tscratch) VS.
Clarence Griffin (owe so 3-e); Melville
Long lowe 80 4-6) VS.. George Busch
(owe 800; George Cutter (scratch) VS.
Henry Lund 600; DR.. Noble GOD VS.
George Fuller lowe s15); Henry Guerin
(scratch) VS.. Charles Kuehn $50; Her
bert. Schmidt (owe 80 3-6) VS.. Frank
Mitchell lowe 800.
| First round upper half-N. Blaisde1l
15) vs.. George James (owe 80 3-6).
First round. lower half-D. o. Shanks
(scratch VS.. Albert Kenyon (owe f5)