Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-16
TENNIS STARS
SHINE ON SAN
GABRIEL COURTS
Bell and Way Win in
Mems Doubles
Hard Fought Finals Result in Defeat
for Browne and Sinsabaueh.
Mixed. Doubles Are Not
Finished
by j. G.. GRIFFIN

BY j. G. GRIFFIN
They held a tennis tournament at
the San Gabriel Country club yester-
day, and a real tourney it proved to
be, too. Not that any championship
was at stake or that many events were
played, but the undoubted class OF
the contestants, together with the rare
skill of their efforts and the closeness
of the matches, made up for all else,
and the large and enthusiastic gallery
was amply repaid for the energy eX-
pended in applauding.
Brilliant playing, together with prll-
liant skies and a brilliant setting,
marked the affair as one of the most
delightful of it's kind ever held in this
section of the state. Mems and mixed
doubles were played. and when the
falling shades drove the players from
the courts Bell and Way had disposed
of all their opponents to gam the
laurels in the mems events, while Mrs.
Faruuhar and Bell and Mrs. Bruce and
Bundy divided the honors in the mixed
doubles, with one set each to thelr
credit when darkness ended the matcn.
The finals of the mems doubles,
which found Bell and Way on one
side of the net to oppose SinsabauSn
and Browne ON the other, terminated
in one of the hardest fought events OF
the KIM ever NllDtooCQ Ill NoCobhSA'' a.
California. Two sets out of three were
decided on as the final test of supre-
macy, and every one of them. particu-
larly the last, were busy periods from
the first serve to the end.
Sinsabaugh and Browne worked their
way to the finals by consistently NOW
ing down all opposition that confronted
them. In the first round they met wood
bury and Hopper, the Los Angeles
Country club stars, and after a sharp
tussle in the last set annexed the long
end of 6-2, S-6 score.
In the second round Bundy and
Roberts were the victims, two sets of
6-2 being the result, and in the semi
finals Variel and Wayne succumbed
after they had taken the first set 6-4,
fought their way into the second to
lose at 6-S, and then falling down in
the final set to allow Sinsbaugh and
Browne to win it at 6-3
Easy for Bell and Way
In their first round Bell and Way
carried Cassell and Purcell before them
in straight sets of six love 6-1, and
followed suit in the second round by
defeating Barnwell and Wallace by
the same score Donnell and Holmes
made a gallant stand in their match
against the big fellows in the semi
finals, but the younger players met
defeat, after winning the first set with
GA to the tune of two 6-2 sets.
In the finals Bell and Way started a
rush and by consistently placing the
sphere in out of way corners and along
the side lines took the first games.
Browne and Sinsbaugh finally got to-
gether, but their efforts were too lare
to help much, the set going to Bell
and Way by a GA score.
In the second set Sinsabaugh and
Browne opened up by taking the first
game with a love score, and followed
by annexing the second handily. They
went to 1-3 after Brownies serve, but
on the next service the score climbed
to A. A deuce game, with Bell serv-
ing, brought it up to 4-3, but S1nsa-
baugh won out on the next and landed
it at 3-5, Another deuce game, with
Way starting the play, set the score
at 5-4. but Browne, after getting 40-love
on his opponents and then allowing
them to make it 40-30, served fast
one to Way, which the veteran could
not reach, winning the set by a score
of Ga
After short rest the teams returned
to the courts for the final set and Bell
opened up by serving a deuce game,
which he and his partner finally won.
Brownies service made it one-all, and
winning the next period. Sinsabaugh
won on his service, but Bell threw
game away by making double fault
after it was vantage-in. Browne again
won out on his service, setting the
score at "a, but Way turned the tables
by dishing up a love game to his op-
ponents. Way and Bell managed to
gather in the next game, one of the
deuce variety, and then the period of
the day began.
Hard Fought Game
With the score four-all Bell settled
down to serve and the game quickly
ran to deuce. Back and forth went
the vantage point, coming to deuce
fourteen times before two points were
scored in succession by the same side,
Bell finally ending the agony by clever
ly placing a hot one down the side line
when it was vantage-in.
Browne allowed the other players but
fifteen points in the next game, and
with the score five-all Bell and Way
pulled themselves together for the final
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