The San Francisco call., 1906-07-01
MURDOCH WINS
TENNIS MATCH
Defeats Champion James
at California Club
Courts.
Miss Myer Reaches Finals
in Tournament for
State. Title.

Despite the strong wind yesterday
afternoon. the tennis matches played
in the state championship tournaments
were highly. interesting. There were
comparatively few spectators at the
California Club courts: bat the faith
ful few, who Will see tennis no mat
ter what the. weather conditions, We're
treated TO some close and we'll con-
tested matches.
In the mems event Percy MurdOck
and Herbert Long won their third
round matches. .Murdock disposed OF
Coast Champion James, while Long put
Clarence Griffin out of the running.
The semi -ffnaT match between Miss
Coda Myer of san Francisco and Miss
Bessie Valleau Of Alameda resulted in
an easy victory for the former.
BY far the best match Of the day and
one Of the best in the. tournament was
that between Murdoch and James.
While it went the full three sets, Muir
dock won. quite handily.. The closest
set was the. second, which was won by
James. The champion played his best
game in this set.
In the. Hrsr set MurGock forced mat
ters from the start and won five out
Of the first six games played. James
took the next two ga mes. but the tenth
game and set We're annexed By Muir
dock The Alameda crack clearly out
played his opponent in this set and at
ali times had him on the defensive.
James played q mere aggressive game
in the second Set while Murdock fell
: of a trihe at the start BY forcing
matters James took the first three
games and IT, appeared- he would win
the set handily. MurdOck however,
won four Of the next five games, even
ing up the. score. at IA. James went
into the lead az IA and won out. I-5.
The latter part OF this. set. was close
and exciting.
In the final set Murdeck~s went into
the lead early and maintained II
. throughout. As in the opening set. he
. had James playing a defensive game,
mostly in the back court. Murdock
led al So. and after losing the next
game won the ninth game easily. The
score was 6-3. 81, 63.
Both players were effective at the
net Murdocks superior back court
work undoubtedly gave him. the vic
tory. james showed rather poor judg-
ment in resOrting almost continually
10 a drive. he had no control over il
whatever. driving out of bounds time
after time. In the second set he uses a
chop stroke which proved much more
effective. He chops well and would inn
prove. his game materially by using
this stroke in place of his drive. over
sMurdock played his best game
throughout, and his victory was a well
earned one. If ne plays as well today
he should win the tournament easily
He has beaten James. Foley and Gard
ner.s the cleverest players in the city
AS the three remaining contestants are
hardly as skiIlfuL as those just men
toned, the Alamedsn is expected to
carry off the hOnors.
The other third-round. match was be-
tween Clarence Griffin and Herbert
Long. While the match was not as
close or exciting as many that have
been. played. il proved interesting. Grif-
In played good tennis. but Longs
speedy drives proved too much for him
All three sets We're won by .6-3 scores
the first and third going 20 Long and
the second TO Griffin
The semi-fiual match. between Miss
Yalleau and Miss Myer did not prove
s much OF a contest. Miss Myer outplayed
her opponent all the way and won quite
easily. Miss Nalleau has had. little
practice OF late, which accounts ia q
% measure for her poor showing. Miss
sMyer played 4 clever. game. and much
is expected of her when she meets Miss
Hotchkiss in the finals on The afternoon
of the Fourth Of july. The score was
6-3, g. .ss
rhe semf-hnaI matches7.ofs thes mems
tournament Will be pl3Eedb this morn
ing. The first match viii be between
Percy Murdock and Melville Long.
While the former is. expected TO win. ne
viii find his younger opponent hard
man 10 dispose Of Early in the year
Long beat Coast Champion James in a
tournament with ease, II. be plays his
best game ne cannot be denied cha nee
10 carry off the honors This match
viii be played at 10 O'Clock or a little
. later.
The other semi-fnal match, which
will be played shortly after II o'clock
viii. bring together Herbert Long and
Harold Gabriel. AS both are sluggers
the match should prove both fast and
exciting Il IS not expected the sets
viii be very long. Young Gabriel has
an excellent chance TO. win the tourna-
ment and VIII be the man 10 beat.
The final match win be played at 2-3G
O'Clock.
The handicap mixed doubles tourna-
ment commenced In the park before the
fire was completed yesterday afternoon
The final match CAME up for decision