The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-17
Jockey Miller Makes Excellent Showing
TENNIS CHAMPION
LONG DEFEATED
BY FOLEY

Many interesting tournament matches
were played on the tennis courts yes
terday. The feature was the match
between Melville Long and Charles.
Foley. They met in the final round
of the championship class of the class
singles tournament for the Hammond
cup. Foley played in his old-time form
and beat the coast champion in a i've
set match.
1t was an excellent match. with both
contestants at their best The fact that
all five sets We're one-sided was due
to the position of the sun. AT this
time of the year the sun in the fore
noon is low and the player in the north
court is at a great disadvantage. The
first four sets were all won in the
south court In the fifth and deciding
set the contestants changed courts
after the odd games and the set went
TO Foley.
Foley played with all his former
skill and his victory was well earned.
Long fought every inch of the way.
but his opponent proved too clever for
him. Yesterdays defeat makes the
third for Long since he won the coast
championship in September. In all
three matches he lost by a narrow
margin and to a good player. The
score in Foley's favor was So. as. SO.
o-s 6-3
Harold Gabriel had an easy time
winning the first class. The default
of Clarence Griffin in the semi-finals
made il plain sailing for Gabriel He
met B. r. Nourse in the finals and won
without exerting himself. Griffin was
rather piqued because he was put in
the first class instead of the cham
pionship class. and for this reason de-
faulted. Had Griffin made his showing
against Foley before the players were
classified he would undoubtedly have
been put in the championship class
His form previous to last Sunday
would hardly have warranted the
committee in placing him in the high
est class. Griffin and Gabriel should
have both been placed in the cham
pionship class.
The second class was not finished
D. K Shanks and George Fuller
reached the finals 1t is expected
leaving town Wednesday for q con-
siderable stay.
The drawing for the interciass play
of was held yesterday and resulted as
follows: Preliminary round-Thirkel
Fourth class VS.. Watson third
class); Foley championship class VS..
Gabriel first CLASSY. First round
LlsSeF iull1 CidSSJ ana SGankS or
Fuller tsecond class, byes-
The handicap doubles tournament
played at the park yesterday fur
nished some good matches The han
dicaps were arranged unusually well
and almost every match was close.
The best match vas that between
Fred Adams and Charles Foley and
Harold Gabriel and Clarence Griffin
The latter had a handicap OF over
- =
them the match. Foley and Adams
won the first set easily and almost
took the second Griffin and Gabriel
won the third set by a wild margin.
Five teams remain in the competi-
ton They are Gabriel and Griffin.
Long and Gardiner. Martin and Cowen,
Dunlap and Baker and James and
Guerin- The three last named are in
the semi-finais. Gabriel and Grimm
and Long and Gardiner will fight il
out for the fourth place.
The scores follow:
Preliminary round-Harold Gabriel
and Clarence Griffin (owe 15) beat
Charles Foley and Fred Adams lowe
Is $50, Id, So, Ga: n. Martin and
t15), 81. ga, 6-4; Hall and Mann
fscratch) beat Allan and Allan as $50.
Sd. As, 81: Code and Korbel C5l
beat Getz and Gayness lowe $50. by
default; Dunlap and Baker lowe Isl
beat Schwartz and Finn (15 $50, rs.
SIS, 81; Whitney and Lytton lowe Isl
beat ]. Strachan and yensano (15 3-s),
ga 81.
First round-Martin and CoweII beat
Hall and Mann. Ga. Ga; Dunlap and
Baker beat Code and Korbel 6-s, 81:
James and F. Guerin (owe 15) beat
Whitney and Lytton. ell, 1913.