Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-23
TENNIS PLAYERS
LOOK To ENGLAND
EYES OF RACQUET WORLD
TURN ABROAD
international Championship to Be
Settled This Week at Wimble-
don-May Sutton Is in
Rare Form

Local racquet gossip and doings will
be relegated to the pastor maybe
future-this week. while the eyes of the
entire tennis world of this and every
other country where the game on the
courts is played. This week the big in
ternational championships at Wimble-
don, England, will be played and the
United States has an unusually good
chance to annex high laurels in every
thing and make a clean sweep of the
card.
In the women's events our own star,
May Sutton, will uphold the honor of
California and America against the
pick from across the pond. In the
mems singles and doubles Carl Behr
and Beals Wright will meet all comers
and strive for the championships so
long held by the Doherty brothers.
This years contests at Wimbledon
will be more than usually interesting
and close, as many things have COM
bined to put the players on more
equal footing. In the first place the
Dohertys out of the game, and
this gives the men in both singles and
doubles a fair field all the way through.
Then May Sutton, who went against
and was defeated by Kate Douglass for
the Womens championship, is in rare
form, and has already demonstrated
that she will not be denied.
May Sutton Wins
In the recent contests for the cham
pionship of Kent, a preliminary to the
real tourney of the season, Miss Sutton
turned the tables on her last years
successful opponent and defeated her in
clever fashion. AS Miss Douglass has
been married since last season and now
bears the name of Chambers many of
those who were watching Miss SUIT
tons progress with interest failed to
note that it was the champion of the
world she defeated when she van
quished Mrs. Chambers.
In the mems events the fight for the
championships will be played right
through to the bitter end. AS the
Dohertys retired, and at the time
they did so held both the singles and
doubles laurels, there will be no cham
pion to challenge and new one must
be crowned.
Hitherto it has been generally pre-
dicted as foregone conclusion that the
Dohertys would win wherever they
and for several seasons the
American players went over the seas
with but forlorn hopes of winning.
They felt that the champions so far
the rest of the competitors
that struggling was almost useless, yet
they fought against the big fellows all
the harder.
Without going up against this fore
gone proposition the American repre-
will undoubtedly annex the
aurels and return to this country with
the championship in tow.
And this is particularly true of May
Sutton. The sturdy Pasadena player
1as demonstrated that she is in better
'orm than ever, and her decisive defeat
If Mrs. Chambers shows that Miss SUIT
-on will be harder to beat than ever.
She is more fully acclimated this year,
md her long preliminary work on Eng
ish courts has undoubtedly served in
good stead.
Nothing definite has been decided
n regard to the Southern Califor-
lila championships yet, but a meet
ng will be held some time this |
week and the outline for the seasons !
zig event drawn up. A. G. Way, presi- |
lent of the association, has been
the week in Santa Barbara.
md his fellow members on the board !
lid not feel as though they should take
lction without the presiding officer.
AT the same meeting in which the |
affair is discussed the |
)cean ParK tourney Will also come be- |
ore the directors. The Fourth of July, |
m which date the tourney is supposed |
o start, is rapidly approaching, and !
must be done soon or it will |
'e too late.
Next Saturday the finals in the mixed |
oubles, which were unfinished at the
Quincy held a week from yesterday,
will be played off on the courts of the
ian Gabriel Country club where the
matches were also held.
drs. Bruce and Bundy will play against
Grs. Farquhar and Bell, and as each
ide has one set to it's credit another
ct for either will mean the champion
hip.
American tourist in England, seeing
farm laborer digging a deep drain:
What are you digging here for?" ask
d the tourist.