Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
AMERICANS FARE
WELL IN ENGLAND
MAY SUTTON STILL IN LINE
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP
Ocean Park Country Club viii Intro
duce New Features at This
Weeks Tourney-Notes
of the Courts
BY j. G. GRIFFIN

Local tennis enthusiasts dropped all
doings during the past week to watch
the results in the big tournament at
| Wimbledon, England, and their vigil
has been somewhat rewarded. While
both Wright and Behr, the American
| representatives in the mems events.
succumbed to the superior playing of
their foreign opponents, May Sutton
more than held her own in the women s
| matches, and a return to her position as
champion Of the world Is more than
probable.
Wright and Behr were not entirely
without honors, as they both gave the
best in the tourney hard fight all the
way through. Behrs work on Thurs
day was particularly good, and he was
beaten only after five set match with
Brooks, the Australian crack.
Thus far May Sutton has cleaned up
her opponents with pleasing regularity,
and all her old-time skill is to the fore
in the endeavor to wrest the champion
ship from Mrs. Chambers and bring 1t
back to Los Angeles. Miss Sutton is
unusually popular with the galleries at
Wimbledon, and even though they are
cheering an outsider to victory the
English racquet enthusiasts hail our
| representative with delight.
Tourney This Week
Commencing with Junior and women's s
singles Wednesday morning and con-
tinuing through until the affair Is COM
pleted, the Ocean Park Country club
tourney this year will introduce at least
two features which are new to South
ern California. These are the junior
singles and the rules which will govern
competition in the women's matches
Hitherto 1t has been the custom in
the Juvenile events to allow all young
sters to play in the smaller division
until they graduated. That Is, the lads
could play until one had won the
tourney, when he would move on into
the faster company of the open tour
ney
This year former winnings will be no
barrier to entry, as age is the only
thing that will count. Nineteen years
has been set as the maximum age for
an entrant, and all the boys who can
keep their years under that figure Will
have a chance.
In the women's events one thing is a
foregone conclusion, and that is that
new champion will come to the front
for the single tourney, at least Inc
managers of the affair have at least
been forced to acknowledge that no
other player of the gentler sex in this
against any of the brilliant performers
who were born to the name of Sutton,
and as a consequence they Will not
play.
This has been brought about by nam
ing the Women's event as one In
which no former champion of a tourney
in Southern California can compete, and
as Mrs. Bruce, Mrs. Doeg and Miss
Florence Sutton have all held that
honor on many different occasions, they
will be left out of the running entirely
Admirers of clever racquet work Will
be keenly disappointed if the cham
pions do not appear on the courts at
some time or other during the progress
of the Ocean Park affair. True, they
will enter in the mixed and womens
doubles, but if an exhibition could be
arranged in which they could appear IN
singles the real tennis enthusiasts
would be more than delighted.
While the entries have not been offl-
cially closed the list for the tourney is
a large one, and competition will doubt
less be keen. Alfonso Bell is back In
his old form and will try to annex
all the honors in the mems singles, and
unless something unforeseen happens he
will accomplish his purpose. The big
fellow is going to try for his old title
of coast champion again, and his work
on the local courts will all be in the
nature of practice for this important
event.
Plans for Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara is sure to have tour
new this summer, but not at the end
of July, as was recently stated. The
Channel City enthusiasts wish to nave
their affair dated so as to afford local
players going north to participate IN
the championships at San Rafael
chance to stop over for Few days
practice on asphalt courts: AS the san
Rafael events come during the hrSt
part of September this would bring the
santa Barbara date down to the end
of August. :.
IF the tourney is held at that time 1T
will be a great help to the players VINO
will compete in the big event up north:
The courts at the Hotel Rafael are OF
the asphalt variety, and as there are
but few of them in or around Los An
geles it will give local players chance
to get used to the different surface.
Paul Schmidt, secretary OF the Coro-
nado Country club, has been most en-
nhatic in his declarations that a tour
new would occur on the hotel courts
near San Diego, and those who know
him saw that Schmidt will have his
way. He is going right ahead with
plans, and in all probability will come
out in a few days and announce the
date of the affair.
1t is almost certain that the Coronado
tourney will be held between the ocean
park events and the Southern Calltor-
MIA championships, or after the latter
affair and previous to the Santa Bar
bara doings. The Coronado Journeys
have always been favorites with local
players, and if Schmidt finally declares
that the affair will positively occur the
entry list will doubtless be well flled.
Owing to the illness of Mrs. Bruce
the finals in the mixed doubles at the
san Gabriel Country club were not
played yesterday, as had been an
in advance notices. The event
was held over from the tourney helo
at the country club two weeks ago, ana
according to the present schedule VIII
be played off in another fortnight.
Mrs. Bruce and Bundy and Mrs. Far
1uahar and Bell, the principals in the
eyent, have decided to play Off their
sntire match and throw out the set 70
which each side now is entitled. The
olayers state that they can hardly be
warmed up in q single set, so will start
N anew and decide the championship
FN. N.-I