The San Francisco call., 1906-06-13
INTEREST WAVES
IN TENNIS CLUB
Golden Gate Park Organ
ization Shows No
Sign of Life.
Absence of Tournament
Play Noticed by
Visitors.

yyhat has hAcone Of the Golden Gate
Tennis Club? is a question that park
tennis enthusiasts, both players ana on
lockers. are asking. For time after
the arue and fever from which the city
lately suffered, the public courts were
so little in demand that they were con-
stantIy being pounced upon as sites Tor
camps supply stations and projected
soup kitchens. That they were spared
was due solely TO the efforts or The
Call, backed by the support OF NaJer
McIvor. the commandant OF the park
military district. No one with ofneial
authority in tennisdem, apparently.
made even an attempt at protest
Since the soup kitchen was releSated 70
a precinct without the pale or the ten
mis- courts the wisdom of the move has
heen made apparent for the great play
ground has been thronged from morn
till night with racket wielders on the
Younger division, while scores OF resi-
dents of the park district gather TO
watch the competition as OF yore
But there has been a dsarth OF
tournament play on the public courts.
where before the disaster players were
being brought together in frequent
eompetfEon Mr.. Marvin, the patron
saint" of the juveniles, has kept up In
terest among the younger experts with
fp,nronoptu tournaments and announces
that he will soon bring on bigger cup
events: but beyond the enorrs OF tnis
enthusiast. who is doing more for ten
mis- than any other man on the Pacific
coast, nothing has been done Before
the fire doubles event for men had
heen completed almost to the finals,
hut il has never been finished A mixed
doubles also awaits the summons for
the final match other fixed events that
provided almost weekly competition at
the park courts appear 10 nave oeen
he inn
The temporary obliteratfon OF the
Golden Gate Club is being shared oy the
ladies' annex, also Not in months mas
this organization attempted to revive
its dxed events The members say in
exclamation that the disaster or April
IS scattered its officers and reduced the
organization in numbers OUTSIDERS
who have shown a friendly interest IN
the welfare of the ladies annex IN the
past suggest a reorganization and the
resumption of tournament play WIN
fewer competitors rather than the as
handing of the club because or the tenn
norariIy unsettled conditions. IT is
argued that with a display OF energy
on the part Of its ofdeers, dearsls in
sporting goods and others who are
prontinr through the tennis boom
might readily be induced to lend hand
bv providing an occasional tournament
trophy TO stimulate interest In the
game. Tne same aEB uLIiches - 70 S~1~'
would apply to the parent organizaion,
inasnnuch as the park clubs. being un-
able to derive revenue by charging ad-
mission TO the public courts. are com
peIIed to depend largely upon popular
support in return for the entertainment
tbev nroviae the holiday throngs that
seek free recreation in Golden Gate
Park.
The inertia apparent among the clubs
that utilize the public courts is onset
bv the activity of the California Tennis
Club. whose annual San Francisco
cbannionship event has reached the
anal stage and whose energy succeeded
in bringing to this city and 10 the
clubs private grounds the state cham
ptonship tournament. hitherto decided
at San Rafael. With the latter event
decided. the experts will have breath
trC smell during which, perhaps, re-
vival of competition on the pubic
courts may be effected