Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-23
TENNIS TOURNEY
DRAWS EXPERTS
CALIFORNIA; GREAT PLAYERS
ENTER
souTHERNERs WILL COMPETE
FOR HoNoRs
Throne Of Lovers Of Racquet and
Net VIII Witness Contests
on the Courts at Del
Monte

Monte
with only two weeks before the Del
Monte tennis tournament Tor tne lawn
tennis championships of the Faeanc
coast, the local players find themselves
in condition to make the piay or their
lives for the much-coveted honors
which will fall to the winners OF the
various events. The approaching tour
nament will be the twenty-h first annual
match tor the Pacific coast champion-
ships.
the coming event will be called upon
| to play the present Pacific states
champion, Maurice Mclaughlin OF san
Francisco. The winners of the mems
doubles viii be required to play
Maurice McIa lghlin and George James
holders of the Pacific states title IN
this event. The winner of the wo-
mems singles will play Miss Florence
Sutton holder of the championships
The winners of the women's doubles IN
| 1907 were Miss Florence Sutton ana
Mrs B. o. Bruce. In mixed doubles
| the winners last year were Miss Flor
ence Sutton and Simpson Sinsabaugh.
and in junior singles Robert Strachan
won. The junior doubles champions
ship is new event.
Begin September
| The tournament will begin Monday,
| September z, and will be concluded
| Saturday, September IS, and will be
played in the new bituminized courts
of the Hotel Del Monte. The tourney
will be conducted under the auspices
of the United States National Lawn
| Tennis association, directed by the Pa
cific States Lawn Tennis association
! The different events will be as followss
| Mems singles, mems doubles, women's
singles, women's doubles, junior
singles. junior doubles and mixed
doubles.
The tournament is open to all anna
teur lawn tennis players, whether rcs-
idents Of the Pacific states or not the
committee reserving the right to pass
upon the eligibility of the entrants.
/ All entries except for the mixed
doubles and junior events should be
sent to r. w. Guerin at the Hotel Del
Monte not later than s 2. m. Satur~
day, September 5. The entrance fee
for men and women's singles will be
4 50, and for men and wornen's doubles
$1.5O for each player. Each player in
other events will be charged 81.
Play will begin at 8 o'clock each
morning and continue thereafter as the
committee may direct. Contestants not
appearing when their matches are
called will be defaulted. All matches
will be the best two out of three sets,
except the semi-final, final and chal-
lenge matches of 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 tournament viii be under the man
J agement of the following committee.
whose decisions on any questions that
may arise must be accepted as fnal.l
. Fitz w. Guerfn, chairman; 3. c.
Adams, C. r. Gardner.
Prizes Are Magnificent
The beautiful challenge trophies
which are awarded to the winners of
the championships in the different
events must be won three times, not
necessarily in succession, before be-
coming the permanent property of q
player. The mems doubles trophies
have been won more than once by the
same players, A. e. Bell and l.. r.
Freeman having captured them In 1902
and 1903 In addition to these theirs
are first, second and semi-fina1 prizes
in the mems singles and first and sec-
ond prizes in all other events.
Mems and Women's doubles will be
the first events on the schedule, begin
ming Monday morning, September Z
Next on the program will be the mems
and womens singles, beginning on
Wednesday morning, September g.
Mixed doubles win begin Monday morn
ing, September IA. Entries to this event
must be in before 6 O'clock September
12. The junior singles and doubles will
begin on Thursday. September r. En-
tries must be in by o'clock, Septe1n-
Der 12. Only young men under IS years
OF age who never have won an open
event are eligible to play for the junior
championships.
Any player when called upon by the
committee will be expected to assist in
scoring and "lining" matches, in ac-
cordance with ruling of the tourna-
ment committee.
/ fasteners Coming
without doubt the approaching
tournament will be the largest and
most successful ever held west OF the
Rocky mountains. With large scat
tering OF eastern cracks vino viii jour-
iney to the northern resort Immediately
the Newport national tournament lis
lcompleted. The advent of the eastern
players to the western tournament.
however, IS moro OF an experiment than
anything else, as they are used to play
ing on the grass courts in the east.
The recent failure of Beaas Wright
and Charles Hopper to make good on
the cement tennis courts in the City OF
Mexico seems to have dispelled the
fears of the California players that their
championship titles would take the
overland route to the eastern coast.
The westerners assert that the eastern
champions win be unable to adapt
themselves to the faster game which
will be required of them when they
tackle the hard course. In contradic~
tion to this fact, however, Beal1 c.
Wright, one OF the eastern players who
has announced his intentions Of ap-
pearing at the Del Monte tournament,
holds forth that they viii be able to
adapt themselves to the fast game just
as Miss May Sutton adapted herself to
the slow game OF the lawn courts when
she made her frst trip to the east and
beat everybody whom she played with
but a short weeks practice.
However, Archibald G. Way, the re4
tired veteran of Los Angeles and man
who has followed the game for many
years, says in reply to Wright: Mics
Sutton is one player in q thousand who
could so adapt herself to new playing
conditions In so short a space OF time.
She can play any game either fast or
slow, and unlike any other living player
can adapt herself to any court con-
structed of any material in the shortest
time necessary to play championship
game 7 dare say also that she would
win."
ALAMEDA, Aug. Stockton's VIC