The San Francisco call., 1906-08-20
SCHMIDT Is VICTOR
IN MATCH FOR
FULLER CUP.

The Fuller cup tournament completed
on the California Tennis Club courts
yesterday resulted in victory for Her
bert Schmidt. In the finals Schmidt
played a clever game and won three
sets out Of four from Grant smith
The latter, after beating Melville Long
in the morning. looked to have the tour
nament won. Schmidt had one OF his
good days and played great game OF
tennis Smith played IN miserable
form In the first two sets he won
only three games After 2-2 in the
hrst set Smith lost ten out OF the next
eleven games He made innumerable
errors. while Schmidt seemed unable to
miss anything.
In the third set Smith improved a
little, and after leading at Al finally
won out. SIS. The fourth set was a
repetition OF the third. Smith seemed
to have struck his gait and looked like
a winner He took four out of the first
Ave games and IL looked almost a GER
tainty he would win the set and even
UP the score. The lengthy expert fell
OF in his play at this point while
Schmidt improved The latter won
three games In a row. evening up the
score. Smith took the ninth game,
leading at 81 Schmidt ran out the next
three games cleverIy. giving him set
and match. The score was s-2. 81. 6-S.
7-s.
Two good matches were played Ia
the semi-fnals. Both went the full
three sets. In the first match smith
won quite handily from Melville Long.
The latter pulled out the second set
from lead of SIS. In the third set
Smith clearly Outplayed his opponent.
taking the first FIVE games The score
was 6-3. 10. 6-2.
The other serni-fnal match was the
closest Of the day. Maurice McLough-
lin. the Juvenile champion. was pitted
against Schmidt. Schmidt won by a
score OF s-s. 3-6. Ca
Some clever tennis was played at the
park Three players remain IN the first
class. Clarence Griffin reached the
finals, where he will meet the winner
Of the match between r. N. Whitney
and James A. Code.
Whitney played in his old time form
and beat Fletcher Elliott after he
looked to be hopeIessly beaten. Whit
ney offered to default in the second set
when Elliott had a big lead. but the
latter refused to take the match. Whit
ney put up a great finish and won out
handily.
Whitney followed up his victory by
taking state Champion Herbert Long
into camp The latter lost by narrow
margin
Clarence Grif1n played an excellent
game when he beat Harold Gabriel IN
straight sets. The latter made a good
showing In the second set. but Griffin
is in great form and won out cleverly.
Guy Lytton won the finals OF the
second class from Robert prolRa easily.
The latter was no match for hts oppo-
nent and failed to win a set.
The fnal match of the third class was
not played. Harold Getz and George
Han were the successful players and
will meet next Sunday.
The fourth class was won by
Schwartz In the finals he beat Brook
bank in long five set match.
The scores follow:
First cIass-R- N Whitney beat
Fletcher ElliN.t. &c. TO. 81; Harold
Gabriel beat Melville Long by default;
Whitney beat Herbert Long. So. 6-S.
7-5.
Semi mi-fnais-CIarence Griffin beat Ca
briel, s-3, 7-5; Whitney VS.. Code (post-
poned).
SECOND class-FinaIs: Guy Lytton
beat Robert Drolla, rs. 6-4, 6-1
Third class-Harold Getz beat George
Guerin. 81. 6-2; George Hall beat
Straehan, 6-1, s3 Hall beat Cowell
Us, So.
Finals-Getz VS.. Hall (postponed).
Fourth class-Levin beat Michaelis.
6-S. so; Brookbank beat Levin. so. SIS.
Finals-Schwartz beat Brookbank
81. rs. Cd. 2-s. 6-1.
Fuller cup tOurnament-Grant Smith
beat Melville Long. So. TO. So: Her
bert Schmidt beat Maurice Mclaughlin,
6-3. 3-6, Ga.
Finals-schmidt beat Smith. So. s-1.