Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-07
TENNIS CRACKS
AWAIT SIGNAL
ANNUAL TOURNAMENT OPENS
TODAY
EASTERN CHAMPIONS NOW ON
COAST
Famous Players Keen for Games
Which viii Be Played on
the Courts at Del
Monte

The twenty-flrst annual tennis tour
nament for the championship OF the
Pacific coast will open this morning at
Del Monte and will continue until the
the evening of Saturday, September H.
Anticipation of the proposed tourna-
ment has been keener than at any
previous tournament, due largely to the
fact tnat three of the best eastern play
ers will contest against the western
cracks. They are Irving Wright, Nor
man Niles and Wallace Il. Johnson, the
latter being Philadelphia's crack tennis
player, who recently gave Beais
Wright such hard struggle IN tnelr
match In the national tennis tourna-
ment at Newport
These men, with the possible excep-
ton of Nat Emerson of Chicago, are
the best of the younger crowd now star
ring in tennis circles, and their eastern
friends are confident they Will make a
good showing in the Del Monte tourna-
ment. The easterners are not Ignorant
of the fact that they are to play on an
asphalt court and that 1t VIII mean
hard practice If they expect to be able
to play the faster game which will be
required of them before the formal
opening of the tournament.
The three players, accompanied by
the coast last Thursday. The players
who are to participate at Del Monte
proceeded up the coast SO as to put In
a few days practice. George Wright
stopped at Los Angeles as the guest
of Bs II. Dyas.
10 Youngest Player
johnson probably is the youngest man
in the country who plays truly cham
pionship tennis. and is easily the best
of the college players, although he Will
not be seen in the intercollegiate tour
nament in the fall. He entered the
University of Pennsylvania from Hav-
erford last fall and played on the
freshman football team, but fell down
in his scholastic standing and was
dropped from the college at midyear.
lie viii return In the fall VIII not
be eligible to represent the university
in intercollegiate athletics for another
year. ...4
Not since the tournament of 1900,
when Malcolm ID. Whitman, Holcome
Ward, Dwight r. Davis and Beals z.
Wright came to the coast TO partlcl-
pate in "a tournament, has there been
an easterner entered in the champion
ship tournament.
The fasteners have just completed
a six weeks tournament at Newport:
This was played upon grass courts ana
the change to the asphalt courts is
considered a hardship.
Local players left Los Angeles FRI
day night for the north. In the party
are Tom Bundy, S. M. Sinsabaugh,
Harold Braley, A. E. Bell, A. G. Spald-
ing, Miss May Sutton. Mrs. o. e.
Bruce, Miss Ethel Sutton, Miss Ryan.
Miss Seymour and Miss Eleanor Per-
alta were expected to attend the tour
nament, but they left Friday for six
weeks tour of Mexico. stopping en-
route at Ell Paso, where they Will play
in a tennis tournament which Is being
pulled off in that city. Later they viii
play in tournaments which are to be
played at Mexico City.
The courts of Hotel del Monte, where
the tournament will be played, are con-
sidered to be the newest and finest In
the state. They are situated in re-
gion which is neither too warm nor too
cold.
Open 70 All
The tournament is open to amateur
PLAYERS. whether residents of the Pa
cific states or not, the committee re-
serving the right to pass upon the
eligibility of all entrants. Play VIII
begin each day at o'clock and con-
tinue as the committee may direct.
Contestants not appearing when their
matches are called will be defaulted
promptly All matches will be the best
two out of three sets, except the semi
final final and challenge matches or
the mems singles and doubles and the
final matches of the Junior events,
which will be the best three out of
FIVE sets. Advantage games Will be
played in all matches.
The beautiful challenge trophies
which will be awarded the winners or
the championship matches must be
won three times, not necessarily in sue
cession. before becoming the perma-
nj "a nlaVpr. The double
trophies only have been won more
than once by the same players, A. e.
Bell and L. r. Freeman having cap
tured them in 1902 and 1903. In addi-
tion to these there are first, second
and semi-final prizes in the mems sim
giles and first and second prizes In all
other events. =.
THE winner of the mems singles viii
be called upon to play the present Pa
cific states champion. Maurice NC
Laughlin. The winners OF the mems
doubles will be called upon to play
Maurice Mclaughlin and George James,
present holders of the Pacinc states
the women's singles will be required
to play Miss Florence Sutton, holder
of the championship. The winners OF
the championship in the Womens
doubles in 1907 were Miss Florence
Sutton and Mrs. b. 0. Bruce. In mixed
doubles Miss Florence outtoh aiiu
Simpson Sinsabaugh and in junior sin
giles Robert Strachan won. The junior
doubles championship, which Will be
played this year. is new event.
Must Enter Early
Mems and women's doubles will be
the first events on the schedule, start
ing Monday morning, September III
Next on the program will be the mems
and women's singles, beginning
Wednesday morning. September 8.
Mixed doubles will begin Monday
morning, September a. Entries to this
latter event must be In before 6 o'clock,
September IL. The junior singles and
doubles will begin on Thursday morn
ing, September IL. Entries must be in
by O'Clock September II. Only men
under 10 years Of ago who never have
won in an open event will be eligible
to play for the junior championships.
The players are particularly pleased
over the fact that they will have two
weeks in which to play the tournament
as in future tournaments many of the
players have played as many as one
hundred sets q day and were some |
times all in when 1t came to playing
the final and most important games,