The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
Rare Tennis Played
by Juniors
Johnston and Strachan Battle
Three Deuce Sets in Tour
r1dnent
F. BY Grant Smith

The members of the Golden Gate
Junior club held their monthly class
singles tournament ON the Golden Gate
park tennis courts yesterday AS usual,
the contestants We're divided into four
classes. Two of the classes. namely.
the third and fourth, were completed.
the respective winners being Marsh and
Bull. Four players remain in the first
class. Maurice McLoughlin won a place
in the finals. ". Johnston reached the
Semifinals, where he will meet the
winner of the match between Frank
Hobson and John Strachan.
Play was completed to the semifinals,
the successful players being King,
Smith. HUFF, Leyinson and Curley.
As usual, Champion Mclaughlin OF
the first class was called upon to give
odds to his opponents. He first allowed
Botkin handicap OF owe 15 3-6 and
Won by very narrow margin His
next cponent was Fuchs, who received
the large handicap of owe ) 3-6 and IS.
Again the champion came out on top.
but he had an even harder time tlan
he did against Botkin.
The only otherematc tch played in the
first class was one of the closest ever
played on the public courts The con-
testants We're Wilber Johnston and
Robert Strschan. These two youngsters
played beautiful tennis, and so evenly
were they matched that all three sets
went to deuce. The first set required
l6 games and the final set 25. 1t was
expected Strachan would win. but
Johnston surprised the spectators by
nosing his opponent out.
The scores follow:
First clsss-w. Johnston beat r. strachan
81, 81, 1911; NJ. McLoughiu lowe Is s-6p beat
b Botkin tscrateh) 81, 7-5 60; Fuchs beat
Fuchs (5). 10-s. oil e-3.
;. Second class Preliminary round: Hun beat
First round-Levinson beat H. Johnston, Ga
20 81; Curley beat Robbins. 81. s-6. CO
P. Curtis 81, 60
Third Preliminary round Mccarthy
beat Pinner by default; Grimes beat Ward
First round Mccarthy beat Hochstadter, Ga
6-S; Marsh beat Grimes, 10. 6-4.
Finais-Marsh beat Mccarthy. 7-5. SO.
Fourth elass-Prelmnary round: Bull beat
First round-BuIl beat Nathan. 2-e, s-s. 60
Baird beat Fronfeld, Ca, 10.
Finals-Bull beat Baird, Ga, 6-3
The class singles tournament which
was commenced on the California club
courts last Sunday will be completed
today. In the first class Maurice Nc
Loughlin and Carl Gardner will meet
in the semifinal round Melville Long
viii oppose the winner in the finals. Ir
the second class A. Rose and e. P Fin
nigan Will clash in the finals
The Berkeley tennis club has sent
out invitations for the opening of its
courts and clubhouse next Saturday aft
| ernoon. They are situated in the col
| lege town on Hillegass avenue near
| Derby. A number of special matches
have been arranged in which the talent
will come mostly from the local clubs
The program is as follows: o'clock
George James VS.. Melville Long. Maur-
| Ice Mclaughlin VS.. Carl Gardner. :
o'elock-Charles Foley and Herbert
Long VS.. McSwain brothers of Berkeley
/ Miss Hazel Hotchkiss and H. Hotchkiss
vs.. Miss Ethel Radcliffe and E. Rat
| cliffe, all OF Berkeley 4 o'clock-Mc-
Loughlin and James, coast champions ir
| doubles. VS.. NJ. Long and Gardner, and
] John Strachan vs.. Weller Johnston The
| latter are two clever midgets of the
] Golden Gate tennis club.
The first championship event of the
year wiz be commenced on the Calffor-
/ MIA club courts next Sunday. 1t viii
/ be the annual scratch singles event fol
| the championship of San Francisco. En-
! tries will close Friday night. when the
drawings will be held The final match
will be played on the afternoon of the
| seth and the challenge match on the