Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-22
NORTH TO SEND
CRACK PLAYERS
LONG AND GARDNER TO PLAY
AT LONG BEACH
SOUTHERN CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE
INVOLVED
All Arrangements Complete for Annual
Tournament at Seaside, Be-
ginning Next Monday
Morning

been completed for the twenty-fourth
annual play in the Southern California
tennis championships, and the courts of
the Hotel Virginia at Long Beach have
been selected as the place where the
crack racquet Wielders of this part of
the state will meet. The tourney will
open Monday July 81, and continue
until the following Saturday.
All the events usually included again
will hold sway this year, consisting of
mems singles, women's singles, junior
singles, mems Doubtless women's doubles,
mixed doubles, consolation singles. and
as an additional feature the manage
ment has added a women's special
singles event, which was such pleas
ing number on the card at the recent
Venice tournament This event is for
woman players who never have won in
an open tournament and will attract
goodly list of entries.
The junior singles and womens spe-
cial singles will be played, beginning
at 9 o'clock, and mems singles and
women's singles at 2 o'clock Monday
July q. Announcement of the time of
play for the other events will be made
from the courts.
First and SECOND prizes viii be
awarded in each event in addition to
the following prizes; Cawston chal-
lenge cup, for mems singles, won in 1904
and 1905 by Eugene Overton, in 1906 by
Vile II. Long; Montgomery Bros chal-
lenge cup for women's singles, won in
1904 and 1905 by Mrs. Harold Hope
Doeg, nee Miss Violet Sutton, in 1906
by Mrs. B. o. Bruce, nee Miss Ethel
Sutton, and in 1907 by Miss Florence
Sutton; the association challenge cups
for mems doubles, won in 1899 by Sum-
ner Hardy and A. G. Way, in 1900 by
Percy Murdoch and r. G. Hunt, in 1901
by A. e. Bell and H. H. Braley. in 1902
by Lewis r. Freeman and ]. r. Brit
ton, In 1903 by A. E. Bell and A. c..
Way, in 1904 by T. w. Hendrick and S.
M. Sinsabaugh, in 1905 by A. E. Bell
and A. c. Way and in 1906 and 1907 by
Nat Brown and S. M. Sinsabaugh. All
OF the aforementioned challenge cups
must be won three times by the same
players for permanent possession.
In the junior events the same rule
that was followed at the last tourna-
ment will hold sway. This makes the
affair open to all youngsters under 10
years of age, irrespective of whether
they have ever gone to the end of the
lists in previous affairs of the kind.
The finals and challenge matches in
mems singles and mems doubles will
be the best three in five sets. All other
matches will be the best two in three
SETS All sets will be advantage. Play
will commence promptly at o'clock
and at 2 o'clock each day. Any player
not appearing when match is sched-
uled will be defaulted. The 1908 rules
of the United States Lawn Tennis as
ISOLATION will govern tho play.
Entries to all singles events close
Saturday July 25, and can be made
with A. c. Way, care of First National
bank of Los Angeles, or S. M. Sinsa-
baugh. 500 West Third street. The
closing of the entries for all doubles
events will be announced later. An en-
trance fee of $3.50 for the mems singles
and 81 for each player in every other
event must accompany the entry.
At the conclusion of the tournament
Saturday evening, August l, a tennis
dance will be given at the Hotel Vir-
ginia under the auspices of the as
ISOLATION. during which the prizes will
be awarded.
The Southern California Lawn Ten
mis- association, under whose auspices
the tournament will be conducted, has
appointed the following committees to
y act in connection with the big event:
Publicity-T. c. Bundy, A. G. Way,
A. V. Duncan.
Finances. M. Sinsabaugh, A. G..
Way, Eugene Oyerton.
Management of plays. M. Sinsa-
baugh, T. c. Bundy, r. H. F. Variel,
ir.. Nat B. Browne, Charles B. Hopper.
Entertainment Eugene Overton,
Charles B. Hopper, R. H. F. Variel. jr.
Melville Long. present holder of the
Pacific coast championship, will de-
fend the Cawston challenge cup in the
mems singles events and probably will
be accompanied by another San Fran
ciscan, probably Carl Gardner, and
they will enter the doubles as team,
representing the northern club.
Robert Strachan, the infant phenom
who created such a sensation by his
wonderful playing at the Potter tour
nament, will play at the Long Beach
tournament and also will play an ex-
hibition match with his brother, j.
Strachan, who is only 10 years of age,
and it is said can WELD the racquet
with almost as much accuracy as his
older brother. This event alone will
tend to increase the size of the crowd
that will journey to the seaside city
for the tournament.
e>S
All the members of the Southern
State league were present at a meet
ing of the directors last night at 1341a
South Spring street. Secretary Mu-
sante sent in his resignation, which
was accepted. President Tom Vacher
presided The schedule arranged for
next Sunday is as follows: Eagles VS..
DolgeVille, at Dolgeville; Pico Heights
VS.. Riveras, at Los Nietos. The presi-
dent of the Southern State league
would be pleased to hear from two
other clubs in regard to making the
league a six-club circuit.