The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-10
Sports
SEVERAL EXCITING
CONTESTS MARK
DAYS PLAY

The first days play of the class
singles. tennis tournament for the
Hammond cup at the California CLUB
was productive of some interesting
tennis. The feature was the match
between Charles Foley and Maurice
McLoughlin. The tennis was high
class and the spectators We're Kept on
the anxious seat until the last point
had been played. Foley won the closest
kind Of a three-set match
Young Mclaughlin started OF like
winner. taking the first nVe games.
At that point Foley played as sooo
tennis as he ever put up in his career
With a brilliant burst of speed he
took seven straight games. winning
the set by a score of 10.
In the second set Mclaughlin out
played his opponent in the early stages
and soon had a lead of So. With the
score standing 1915 in his favor. in
a bit anxious and made several bad
errors Several times he was within a
point of the set, but did not win until
sixteen games had been played
After the first four games of the
third set all of which went to Foley,
II looked as if he would win as he
pleased. Mclaughlin put up good
uphill game and took four games in a
row. making the score "A. The young
service. He pulled up from o-4O to
deuce, but lost the game.
FOLEY IN EXCELLENT FORM
In the tenth and last game of the
set Mclaughlin overcame a lead of
4o-15, but again lost. The score in
Foley's favor was TO. 79, ga.
Foley played the best game he has
put up in month. McLoughlin's lack of
tournament experience cost him the
match. He has several times OF late
come dangerously close to beating top
notchers. but has invariably fallen
down when the pinch came. He be-
comes overanxious and misses easy
chances.
Coast Champion Melville Long put
an end TO George James winning
streak. The champion outplayed James
and the latter failed even to make a
showing. James was without his usual
speed and Long, who was at his best,
won almost as he pleased
Carl Gardner made a good showing
against Long. At times he outplayed
the champion, but was hardly as
steady Long did not play as strong
game as he played against James in
the morning. but this was probably
due TO the fact that he was up against
e harder game.
The third, fourth and fifth classes
ners being Arthur Watson, W. Thirkel
and Gus Lisser.
Melville Long and Charles Foley
reached the finals in the championship
class. Three players remain in the
first class Harold Gabriel won a place
in the finals, where he will meet the
winner of the match between Clarence
Griffin and B. F. Nourse. Four players
in the second class were unbeaten.
They are George Guerin, George Fuller.
d. X. Shanks and w. G. Knowlton.
RESULTS OF MATCHES
The scores follow:
Championship class. preliminary
round-Melyille Long beat George
Semi finais-Melvine Long beat Carl
Gardner. SO. as. Ga Charles Foley
First Class noI prefiminiary round
George Busch beat Arthur Chesebrough,
81. 60: Clarence Griffin beat DR.. Bush,
First round-Ray Cornell beat Sidney
Salisbury. GA, 6-3: Harold Gabriel beat
Busch, As, 6-3. SO: Griffin beat Harry
Wellbe by default: B. F. Nourse beat
Harry Rolfe. by default.
emi-fnals-Gabriel beat Cornell, S.
So: Griffin VS.. Nourse fpostponed).
Second class, preliminary round
George Guerin beat l. Stemfeld. 7-5,
7-e; Fitz Guerin beat l. Stemfeld. rs,
ga; George Fuller beat Albert Kenyon,
by default Du Val Moore beat MouIton
Warner, by default; d. X Shanks beat
Henry Mills. ga. rs. SIS; w. G. Knowl-
ton beat ]. r. Lewis, 81 Ga
First round-Guerin beat George Cut
ter, 81. 81; Fuller beat T. Guerin. 6-3,
So: Shanks beat Moore, by default;
Knowlton beat Paul Jones, ga, ga
Third class-Arthur Watson beat H.
Jones. by default; H E Punnett beat c.
c. Kuehn, Ga, So
Finals-Watson beat Punnett So,
7-5
Fourth class. preliminary round-K.
Monteagle beat H Lund. by default
First round-Thirkel beat Monteagie
2-e. So, 50; DR.. Noble beat N Blais-
dell. 6-3, s6-z.
Finals-Thirkel beat Noble, As. SIS,
Is.
Fifth CLASSIFICATION beat Anderson,
by default
Final-Gus Lisser beat Orbetson, 81,
$40. ga.