The San Francisco call., 1906-10-15
CLOSE MATCHES IN
THE PARK TENNIS
TOURNAMENTS.

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ties championship tennis tournaments
on the Golden Gate Park courts yester-
day While defaults were more snu-
merous than usual. the matches played
were, as a rule. close and interesting
Play was confined mostly TO singles
only four doubles matches being
played
Two players reached the semi final
round in singles They were Harold
Gabriel and George James. The progress
made in the other half was not so
good Maurice Mclaughlin will be pit
ted against the winner of the Reuben
Hunt-Ciarence Griffin match. The win
ner Will go into the semi-hnals- The
other seni-ina1 place lies between Mel
Vile, Long and George Guerin The
coast champion should win the position
easily There will be a great fight
between Hunt and Griffin and between
Mclaughlin and the winner of that
match.
The biggest surprise of the day was
the .defeat of the Long brothers In
doubles. Pitted against Marius Hotch-
kiss and Ray Gorrill. two second-class
men,. the Coast and State champions,
were taken into camp. In doubles the
champions play much below their sin
giles form. and, by careful. steady work.
Hotchkiss and Gorrill carried of the
nonors- There is no excuse for two
such players as the Longs losing
match of this kind, especially after
winning the first set easily; but Hotch-
kiss and GorrilI. deserve great credit
for their victory. They played fine
uphill game against players who ap-
peared to outclass them.
Hotchkiss further distinguished him
self by giving exChampion James a
hard contest The latter won the closest
kind of a three-set match Hotchkiss
has always proved a stumbling block
to players who rank above him. He
plays a careful and determined game
and his errors are few.
James encountered more difficulties
when he met Harold Getz. The ex-
champion was inclined to undertate his
clever young opponent at the start.
Getz evened up the score from rs in
the first set and then lost 81. The
second set was also close. Young Getz
has come to the front with rush and
will bear watching.
After beating State Champion Her
bert Long in straight sets. Fred Adams
was treated in a like manner by young
Harold Gabriel. The latter was in great
form and defeated Adams handiiy
Maurice Mclaughlin won quite easily
from Herbert Schmidt. While the
match went three sets. the Junior Club
star was never in much danger of los
ing.
The best match in doubles was that
between Reuben Hunt and Clarence
Griffin and Herbert Schmidt and Harry
Rolfe. The first two sets went to 10
each side winning one. In the third
set Hunt and Griffin led at So, but
their opponents pulled the set up to
"a. Schmidt and Rolfe had a good
chance to even up the score. but were
not equal to the occasion.
Another good doubles match was
that in which Charles Dunlap and
George Baker disposed of Harold Ga
briel and Maurice Mclaughlin. The
youngsters started in at such a smash
ing gait that they appeared to have
their veteran opponents outclassed in
the first set, but toward the finish they
fell down. After leading at ST. they
lost five games in a row From this
point on each team won on service un-
til the twenty-fourth game. The set
might have been going vet had not
Mclaughlin attempted to kill a BAH
that was going far out of bounds. his
failure costing him service game. He
and his partner led at 1915 in the last
game. but lost it,
Baker and Dunlap won the second
set easily The winning team did some
excellent lobbing, while their younger
opponents made the mistake of smash
ing everything that was served up to
them The scores follow
Singles: First rornd-Herbert Long
beat George Hall by default; R. n.
Whitney beat James Strachan by de-
fault; George James beat Marfus Hotch-
kiss. 6-3, 8-10 6-4; Maurice McLouzh-
lin beat r. Jones by default; Herbert
Schmidt beat Fletcher Elliott by de-
fault: Reuben Hunt beat Guy Lytton.
6-3, 6-2; James Code beat s. Ledeman
by default; Melville Long beat Harry
Rolfe, 6-1. SO.
Second round-Fred Adams beat Her
bert Long. 6-4. 6-3; James beat Whitney
by default; Mclaughlin beat Schmidt,
6-2, 1-6. 6-3; Melville Long beat Code,
so. SO.
Third round-Harold Gabriel beat
Adams, So, 6-3; James beat Getz, 81.
GA.
Doubles Preliminary round-Charles
Dunlap and George Baker beat Mau-
rice Mclaughlin and Harold Gabriel!
1911, 6-1; Reuben Hunt and Clarence
Griffin beat N. and NJ. Martin by de-
fault; Herbert Schmidt and Harry Rolfe
beat Isedeman brothers by default; II.
Hotchkiss and r. Gorrill beat George
James and Fletcher Elliott by default.
First round-Hunt and Griffin beat
Schmidt and Rolfe Us. So Cd: Hotch-
kiss and Gorrill beat Long brothers.
2-6. TO, 6-4; Adams and Lytton beat
Guerin brothers, is. SO. SIS.