Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-01
CHAMPIONSHIP TO
| GO BY DEFAULT
bvERTON DECIDES NOT TO.
MAKE DEFENSE
As a Result the Winner of Ocean Park
Tournament viii Assume Title
Of Champion Of South
ern California

Play in the annual tennis tournament
at the Ocean Park Country club con-
tnued yesterday with play i'm the hrst
and second rounds of the mems singles,
the preIininaries and first rounds of the
women's singles and with few scat
tered matches in the mems doubles.
The first matches on the courts were
those of the mems singles in the MORN
ing, when late comers met in the pre-
uminary rounds which had been sched-
uled for the courts yesterday.
H. Noble defeated r. II. F. Variel
rs, 6-2 The former University of Cali
fornia star was caught off his game by
the Pomona man. who. after winning
the first set in a hard fought contest,
walked away in the second and had lit
tie difficulty in winning. While some
of the games in the second set went to
deuce. the Pomona man never was in
danger of losing the set.
His play at the net was strong ana
his lobbing was of high order, while
Variel constantly lost the location of
the lines and drove return after return
into the net.
Russ Makes Sinsabaugh Work
L. Russ, new man, developed a
strong game and made Simpson Sinsa-
baugh waltz for his match. Russ was
defeated only by the close score of 60.
11-9.
In the first set Russ was afflicted by
stage fright and he did not play any
thing like the game of which he was
capable, but in the second he settled
down to work in good earnest, having
forgotten his awe of the good old wagon
in the opposite court.
Time after time he took Sinsabaugh' 5
serves, only to lose through careless
ness and bad judgment. Even as-it was
the set went to deuce five times before
the old standby finally won out, and
even then Simpson was as much all in
as his defeated opponent.
The northern players showed up well
throughout the day. Adams defeated
Gabrielle 6-1. 6-4 Crawford beat Brad
ford Ga, 60; Foley tied Nebeker to his
chariot wheels to the tune of 6-3, 6-2,
while Gardner dtfeated Elliott 6-1, 6-3.
Florence Sutton made her first ap-
pearance on the courts this tournament
with Miss Seymour in the women's
singles and took her opponent into
camp 6-2, 60, while Eleanor Peralta
defeated Miss Hutton 6-2, rs.
Mrs. B. Q. Bruce, who formerly was
Ethel Sutton and Miss Alice Scott
trimmed Miss Browne and Miss Bundy, |
The defeated girls are the
sisters of the Browne and Bundy who
fought it out for the July tournament. !
1t was announced on the courts to-
day that Eugene Overton, who holds
the championship title for Southern
California, will not defend it this year.
Overton made one of the crew of the
Lurline in the race between San Pedro
and Honolulu recently and feels that
he cannot spare any more time for
pleasure this summer.
New Champion Certainty
This leaves the winner of the chal-
lenge match the holder of the title for
the coming year.
The matches scheduled for the courts
today are the best of the series, espe-
cially in the mems singles
The following mems singles matches
will be played:
Gardner meets Browne.
Foley meets Bundy.
Bell meets Braly.
Adams meets Sinsabaugh.
From these matches will come the
winners of the title, and as the men
have not played together before, spec
ulation as to the winners is rife.
The match between Bundy and Foley
probably will be the most exciting of
the day, as the northerners and south
erners are both backing their men to
win.
Following are the results of yester-
days play:
Open Singles
First tround-SinSabaugh beat Henry
by default; Bundy beat Noble Ga, 6-1;
Foley beat Nebeker 6-3, 6-2; Crawford
beat Bradford GA. 60 Dawson beat
Steele 6-3, 6-S, 6-4; Braly beat Wayne
6-2. GA; Bell beat Gowan 6-1, 6-3.
Second round-Gardner beat Elliott
6-1. 6-3; Browne beat Jones 60, 6-1;
Foley beat Crawford rs, 6-1 Braly
beat Dawson 6-3. So; Bell beat w
Mace 60, 6-1: Adams beat Spaulding
6-3 1-6, 6-2; Sinsa baugh beat Russ g.
11-9.
Women's Singles
Preliminary round-Mrs. Bruce beat
Miss Browne 6-3 6-1 Miss A. Scott beat
Miss Bundy so. 60; Miss F. Sutton
beat Miss Seymour 6-2, 60.
First round-Mrs. Bruce beat Miss A.
Scott rs, 60; Miss F. Sutton beat Miss
Dobbins 6-2, 6-1; Miss Peralta beat Miss
Hutton 60, 7-5.
Open Doubles
Preliminary round-Steele and Grace
beat Buttolph and Aiken CO. ga
First round-FOley and Gardner beat
Lave and Lawrence 6-1, 6-2; Wayne
and Variel beat Dawes and Stanton 60,
60; Spaulding and Donnell beat Galu-
sha and Hutton by default; Browne
and ciuea haIpb heat Maca and No