Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-14
MAY SUTTON
SAFE HOME
WORLDS CHAMPION GETS JOY
Full WELCOME
HER TRI-sTATE SILVER BOWL
STRAYED
She Proposes That Eastern Tennis
Players Be Invited to the Coast
for Annual Tournament
Next Season

Srecal to The Herald.
PASADENA. Sept. 13-After days of
anxious expectancy the family and
friends of Miss May Sutton were this
evening rewarded by her arrival on the
Santa Fe limited at $40 o'clock. She is
in splendid health and spirits and says
she enjoyed her trip abroad though she
was busy with training and playing
much Of the time.
Miss Sutton was met at the train by
her parents, brother and sisters and a
party of friends who gave her a rous-
ing reception. This is the third time
this young woman, who is not yet %
years old. has returned with the laurels
of victory. and today she comes as the
tennis champion of the world.
Delay at Cincinnati was caused by the
Tri-State league. in which she has won
the championship three times. which
gives her the ownership Of the silver
bowl valued at SSeo. the prize in this con-
test IL is now Miss Suston's property,
though at the present tire the hand
some trophy IS temporarily lost and she
was compelled 10 return Acvae without it,
Within the past few months the sse-e-
tAry Of the Trs-Stass aeassse has died ard
no one else seemed 40 be sarasaaar enough
with the &fsSsr< Of the essS-ss to tell
where the 9-opAses were &sgs- OsAs1 Of
Scs-S have promised 20 eonss1ase the
search and either Ena the bowl o. re-
place 1t wssn another saaoc IS handsome
and Va11zess and denver II 10 the right
fs,l owner.
Only oacs in ire whole series 81 games
played ey The csazrso1 Sszszs sAs Sam
msr was she defeated. and thai was IN
April On The courts at Manchester when
even the English press declared the con-
= H.
she uo1 the wo-al'S Championship from
Mrs. Kate Chambers. who IS Miss Doug
lass was the winner 81 the championship
last year
Wins in America
throughout the Wales tournament she
was uniformly successful. capturing the
Marquis Of Butte cup, a solid gold and
silver trophy valued at sSa1 In addition
to these great successes on foreign soil
Miss Sutton won many tournaments in
her home land. including the Newport
the New York indoor
and the Canadian cham
pionship at Niagara.
A suggestion which meets with unani-
nous favor here is made by Miss Sutton
in regard to next years tournaments.
She will propose to Mr.. Wright that the
eastern tennis players be invited to come
west and play a series of games next
summer on California soil.
Heretofore 1t has been taken for granted
that any aspirant from this state who
sought honors in the tennis playing
world should journey across the conti-
nent and make the contest on eastern
courts. Games could be scheduled mere
with certainty of no Interruptions from
weather conditions.
May Sutton has had a remarkable rec
ord as a tennis player, since she was
II years old. 1t was in 1901 that she
was called into the game on the home
courts to make out two teams of doubles
with her sisters. Florence, Violet and
Birdie" all remarkably clever and sue
cessful at the outdoor game. The train
ing with her older sisters was the best
the little girl could have had.
When the now famous Santa Monica
tournament came up and the girl went
with her big sisters to take part in the
sport, no one thought of her figuring
among the winners till she held out for
a place in the semi-finas. To the sur
prise of all the spectators she held her
place and won from her older sisters
in the finals.
Champion at 10
Inspired with hope by these successes
she felt equal to entering the state cham
pionship tournament at San Rafael little
later, when she was 10 years cd. All the
noted players and winners of trophies
went down before her skilful handling of
the racquet and ball and she returned
home champion of California. Since that
time she has been defeated but three
times by a woman. Two of these defeats
were by Miss Douglass, from whom Miss
Sutton this year won the championship,
and the other was by Mrs. Stearns on
the Manchester court last April.
Miss Florence Sutton has been distin-
gushing herself along the coast this sum-
mer and now Miss May cannot claim all
the honors of sllilful tennis playing. In
the games which just closed at Del Monte
she won the championship in the singles.
the doubles and the mixed doubles Be
ing now the state champion she might
try for the international championship on
the Sutton court since the return of her
sister.
Members of the Country club are plan
ming for public reception in honor of
Miss May Sutton as soon as enough of
them have returned from their summer
vacations to take the project up and
carry IT to success.
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