Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-17
TENNIS SINGLES
CLOSE TONIGHT
TOURNAMENT AT LONG BEACH
BEGINS TOMORROW
BRINGS OUT BEST PLAYERS OF
THE SOUTH
First Racquet Event of the Season
Attracts Large Number Of
Cracks-cement Courts
Are Completed

The first annual open lawn tennis
tournament Of the season will be played
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this
week on the courts of the Hotel Vir-
ginia at Long Beach. The courts only
recently have been completed, are con-
structed of cement and have been gem
orally offered by experts as the finest
In Southern California. The meet will
be under the auspices of the Southern
California Lawn Tennis association.
The events will be: Mems singles.
mems doubles, women's singles, wo-
mems doubles, Junior singles and mixed
doubles. There will be a first and sec
ond prize for each event. and in addi-
ton the management of the Hotel Vir-
ginia will offer a handsome silver cup
to be known as the Virginia cup" to
be presented to the winner of the mems
singles: The cup must be played for
annually and will become the property
of the player winning it three times.
The trial matches will be the best two
in three sets. and the finals will be the
best three in five sets. All sets will be
advantage. The women's events will
be the best two in three sets all the
way through, and all sets advantage.
Junior singles will be open to any play
er under 10 years of age. Play will be-
gin promptly at $3.50 o'clock each morn
| ing and continue until 1890 O'clock,
beginning again at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon. Any player not appearing
when match Is scheduled will be de-
| faulted. The 1908 rules of the United
States Lawn Tennis association will
govern the play.
| An entrance fee of 81 for the open
| singles and 81 for each player for all
the other events must accompany the
entry. Entries to all single events will
close tonight with S. M. Sinsabaugh,
| etr no nt
". S. Anderson, Hotel Virginia, Long
Beach. A tennis dance will be given
at the Hotel Virginia at the end of the
tournament, Saturday evening, June 20.
The tournament committee is V. s.
Anderson, Jean G. Drake, George c.
Flint and A. M. Goodhue. The manag-
ers will be s. M. Sinsabaugh, T. c..
Bundy and r. H. r. Variel
| Among the players already entered
to participate is Clarence Hobart, one
of the best eastern players and who
ranks as sixth best player in the United
States. Hobart has been asked to at
| tend and play in the tournaments to be
held here this summer, but he has not
decided as yet. T. c. Bundy, who won
| the Coronado championship last year
and this year, and is one of the best
players in Southern California; A. f.
B. Bell and L. r. Freeman, old time
Southern California champions; Nat B.
Browne, who won at Venice, July 4
last S. M. Sinsabaugh, r. H. F. Variel,
c. B. Hopper. John d. Holmes, e. G.
Galuska, A. V. Duncan, j. S. Cravens.
Sardar Singh, Ward Dawson and W.
Mace also will play.
Among the entries in the events for
women players are Florence Sutton,
Mrs. B. o. Bruce, Mrs. Robert Far
quar-, Alice Scott, Mary Browne, Mer-
rita Seymour, Eleanor Peralta and May
Sutton.
Florence Sutton, sister of May SUIT
ton, the champion, will play In all the
/ tournaments this summer. She is hold
err of the women's championship Of the
Pacific coast and Southern California.
1t Is probable that she will have diff
Guilty in holding these titles, however.
as her sister, May, intends to play this
summer Also and she is considered the
superior player of the two.
The first series of the summer tennis
matches will open July 1 at Venice
and continue four days. The same
rules will be in force at this match as
will be in force at Long Beach. The
next series will be played at Santa
Barbara, July 17-17-1S. The 7outhern
California championship tournament
will begin July 81 and continue until
August 1. This match will be played
at Long Beach or Venice, as the com
mittee may decide later in the season.
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