The San Francisco call., 1906-06-10
FOLEY DEFEATS LONG
AND THUS QUALITIES
FOR TENNIS HONORs
Four Men VIII Compete Today
for Championship at the
California Club.
Big Tournament Of the Year
VIII Be Played in
This City.

one more player was weeded ort ~
the San Francisco champjonshin tenris
tournament yesterday The dafaof -
Melville Long at the hands of Charles
Foley narrowed the coEpetition ,iou,
to four. These four experts are Ifar-
bert Schmidt. Herbert Long cbar:ss
Foley and George James. The first two
ana iast Two mentioned will be opposed
TO each other in the semi-finals this
morning.
The Foley-Long match hardly came
UP TO the standard. Long played good
tennis at times. but is capahle of n,t-
ting up much better game. Folay va,
far from being at his best. hut nossfhI,,
did not try his hariest However H.
played we'll enough to win. ana in
straight sets at that
Inc hrst set was well contested aud
interesting. Foley won the fret two
games. BY playing to Folev's hacls
hand and taking the net position long
won three games straight. which nut
him a game in the lead. This. howevay
was the only time in the match that he
led. Foley led at 4-s, Sd, and finally
won out, 7-5.
Long seemed discouraged after the
first set. while Foley picked up consis-
erably. The outcome was never in
doubt after the first set. Foley took I'VE
80
set 6-3. The score was tx. ca
For the first time since its in,ue,ro
tion IN 1901 the State Championship ZEN
mis- tournament will be PLAYED In this
city. The event has always heen held
at San Rafael For several wears the
players have complained of the aytremo
heat at San Rafael in July. and ba ve
enoeavored to have the event held else
where Under the existing conditions
-,f7.- l. -
gates TO the Pacific States Lawn Tennis
Association to make the change AT this
time Many of the players are too hnsv
TO get off, and the success of the tour
nameHt If held across the bav would he
doubtftl. Most of the players who COM
pete iRthe September tournament take
their annualvacation al that time. The
coast championship event. as in the
past. will be held al San Rafael In SEN
tember.
At the meeting yesterday the motion
carried made no mention of future STATE
championship events. IF it can be ar
ranged to charge an admission fee the
event in 1907 viii probably be held at
Golden Gate Park. The admission fec
will be devoted TO the purchase Of
prizes. The class OF the tournament
comes from San Francisco, the people
in San Francisco are most Interested in
held here. II is thought the ,han-e.
will be as welcome to the general public
as TO the players themselves
The committee elected to handle the
tournament is: DR. Lovegrove CHAIR
mani, J. NJ. Baker, Charles Foley aud
Herbert Schmidt r. T. Crawford was
elected referee.
The mems tournament VIII start Sun
day, June "a. Play will be resumed Sat
urday afternoon, June 80, and the tour
nament will be completed Sunday, July
l. The women's event will be played
on June % and June 80.
The championship matches for both
men and women will be played in the
Afternoon of July 4. The women's chal-
lenge match is set for 80 and the mems
for 2:3O.
All matches viii be two sets out of
three except the mems finals and chal-
lenge matches. which will be three out
of five.
Players reaching the semi finals in
the mems tournament will receive
prizes. There will be two prizes for
the women's event. No consolation
tournament will be held.
Spectators will be charged an admis-
sion fee of 25 cents TO the grounds on
the first four days ana so cents on the
4th of July.