Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-09
Experts in Condition to
Play with Speed
and Skill
Annual Championships May Be Hello
at Ocean Park-TroW Hendrlck
Making Good on Eastern
College Courts
By j. G. GRIFFIN

lHs ddyS VI llOOSEA WSdtHSr UutSdu'
and up-to-date sports, stated that Il
took more than one swallow to make E
summer, and the good people Of the
land accordingly watched for two ol
more brides before they dug out the
open-work collar buttons and pune.
tured lingerie and otherwise prepared
| for the season of ice cream sodas anG
fans.
This is all changed now, and if yoU
want to get the true dope on the rea.
summer season the best thing to watch
is the advent of the tennis shark
Whenever announcement is made that
tournament is to be played the
barometer can be thrown in the ash
heap and real bets on hot weather laid
at any old odds.
So an announcement to the effect that
the San Gabriel Country club will hold
an invitation tennis tournament next
Saturday is sure indication that sum-
mer is here. OF course this is but a
preliminary event to the big ones which
will hold sway later in the season, but
all the same it discounts the fact that
1t rained three days ago, and paves the
way to many busy sessions on the as
phalt.
Saturdays affair at San Gabriel will
be the first real tournament of the sea-
son, and aside from a few college and
interscholastic affairs, will give the
racket wielders their first chance in
many long months to enter into real
competition. Invitations have been
generously bestowed on all the promi-
nent tennis players of the south, and
unless all signs fail goodly array of
talent will be on hand when the first
service is called.
The old-timers will come forth in all
their glory, and unless something real
nifty has been developed in the ranks
of the younger players they will again
divide the trophies and prizes to suit
themselves. Simpson Sinsabaugh, A
G. Way, Hal Braly, OVerton, Alfonso
Bell and the rest of the galaxy of stars
which has swayed things in the local
tennis armament since the time of Me-
thuselah will all be there, and, SO 1t is
whispered, they, like wine, have i'm
proved with age.
Bell in Great Form
Bell in particular is showing the form
which made him famous all over the
country and placed him in the front
ago. The big fellow has been practic-
ing for months in anticipation of the
coming season, and his numerous ad-
mirers all agree that he will prove a
formidable adversary for any man in
the game.
1t is Bells plan to play in all the
local Journeys and then, if possible, to
invade the north and win back the Pa
cific coast championship which was
once his. He will not stop at San Ra-
fael either, but will continue on his
way and annex all the loose prizes to
be found in British Columbia and the
Puget sound country.
Sinsabaugh, Way, Bundy, Brown, Ov-
erton and all the rest of the stellar
lights which shone over the local as
phalt in years gone by will also be in
line to show the youngsters how it is
DONE Sinsabaugh in particular will
have a chance at the tourney next Sat-
urday, as In the doubles he is undoubt-
edly the best player in this end of the
state, and can smash them as hard as
he wants to over the San Gabriel nets.
Braly is in fairly good form for so
early in the season, and with the rest
of the old brigade will make anybody
who wants to try step around lively to
do anything towards obtaining the long
end of the scores.
Next Saturdays affair at the San
Gabriel Country club will be in the
nature of one-day tourney, and only
mems and mixed doubles will be
played. Invitations have been sent to
most of the prominent players in South
ern California, and while no responses
have yet been received, it is probable
that most of those who draw "bids"
will be there to compete. The follow
ing have been asked to participate:
Many Are Invited
Mrs. Bruce, Mrs. Doeg, Mrs. Faroua-
har, Misses Browne, Florence Sutton,
Elizabeth Ryan, Ruby Garland, the
Scott sisters, Rowan, Donnell, Hutton,
Conger, Early and Squires.
Messrs. Bell, Bundy, Overton, Variel,
Way, Sutton, Jones, Wayne, Caswell,
Woodbury., Hopper Overton, Bumiller
Belcher, Rowan, Hart, Donnell, Law
renee, K. Mace, Bernheim, Harris, Pot
ter, Wallace, f. G. Hart, Irvine, Sinsa-
baugh, Scott, Bacon, Carleton, A. Mace
H. A. Clark, Wachtel, Purcell, Farqua-
har, Halsted, Noble, Doeg, Bruce, Full
Ter, Mellen, McGilvray, Braly and
Holmes.
If but one-half of this array of talent
appears at the pretty San Gabriel club
next Saturday the tourney is bound tc
be success, looked at from any stand
point. The club is making unusual
preparations to insure such a termina.
tion, and two new courts are now ir
course of construction, to be finished
by Saturday. These new courts, to.
gether with the two which have beer
in use for some time, will provide plen.
| ty of space on which to play off the
scheduled games, and 1t is thought thai
the tourney can easily be completed ir
the one day allotted to it. All foul
courts are of gravel, and while they
may bother some of the players who
have been performing on the cement
and asphalt, fast games will undoubt.
edly prove the rule.
The drawings for the San Gabrie
| tourney will be held some time this
week, and as replies to the invitations
are expected by Wednesday at the lat
est, all arrangements for the first tour