The San Francisco call., 1906-06-02
TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP.
WILL PROVIDE PLAY
OF HIGHEST GLASS

The annua2 scrat@n singles tennis
tournament for the championship of
San Francisco, which was commenced
last Wednesday, wiil be completed to-
morrow. Despite the existing conds-
tions she present tournament is one of
She most interesting ever held IN the
eity. There is an abundance Of class
and ghe matches on the opening day
were. as a yuie. close ana hotIy cops
tested
The Ave experts remaining ia She
competition Will furnish some great
matches. The first to be played will
be that between Charles Foley and Nell
vile Long They have a second-round
match to play and it will be disposed
OF carly tomorrow morning. While a
majority expect Foley 60 beat Long,
the latter has a good chance to win.
Long has played some excellent tennis
in the past, especially when he defeat
ed Coast Champion James a few months
ago. If Long gets started right Foley
will have to exert himself to win
Herbert Schmidt and Herbert Long
will meet in the semi-finals of the up
per half. Both have had considerable
practice of late and are playing better
tennis than ever. Schmidt played a
great game on Wednesday, and unless
he falls down will be hard to beat.
Long had nobody to beat on Wednes-
lay, but has been showing up well in
Practice. 1t is a toss-up between the
TWO and a victory for either would
occasion little surprise. Long and
Schmidt both hit the balls hard, and a
ipectacular match should result
In the lower half Coast Champion
George James will meet the winner of
the M. Long Foley match in the semi
finals. The champion is in great form
and is playing fully as well as he ever
did He has been out of form for
many months. bat in his present con-
dieion he stands an excellent chance of
carrying off the honors.
Many expect either James or Foley
TO win the tournament. When they met
last James won easily, but the match
was unsatisfactory. The wind was
blowing almost a gale; and many claim
Foley did not make much of an effort
to win Foley is determined to beat the
champion should they meet and a
match between the, two would be well
worth going to see.
The man who wins the tournament
will be up against hard game when
he meets Champion Gardner in the
shape and playing better tennis than.
he ever did before. Gardner has i'm :.
proved his overhead work wonderfully
and is. handling lobs much better than
he used to. In fact. the champion has
improved his whole game. and If he
loses the title his successor will know
he has been playing tennis Last wear
Gardner and Foley met in the semi
finals. and the former won 6-3, 6-l
This viii show how rapidly Foley has
come to the front. On his work in the
last six months he would. easily hank
No. 1. One year ago he failed even to-
make showing against Gardner.
Schmidt reached the finals last year
and won one set out of four from Gard
ner, the last two sets going to SIS. In
the challenge match Gardner won three
les sets from Murdock and lost a 6 a
set James did not compete last wear.
OF the players in the game at present
Foley is the nearest APPROACH to ex-
Champion George Whitney: Foley. has
an excellent style and fine strokes, but
has not the headwork Whitney nos
sessed- When Foley learns to work
his opponent as Whitney did he win
be IN a class. by himself. whitney had
the chop stroke almost to perfection
both forehand and backhand Foley. is
not as clever at this style of play, bur
he drives much better than whitney
did. Foley has but to learn. to force
his opponent outoof position to become
an even better player than whitney
was
Invitations are out for scratch ana
handicap tournaments to be PLAYED ar
Stockton on July 4. AS the State
championship event is played on that
date. IL is not likely any of the local
crae--- VII compete at stockton.