Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-18
OPEN TENNIS
SEASON TODAY
LONG BEACH TOURNAMENT Is
FIRST OF YEAR
MANY CRACK PLAYERS NAMED IN
VARIOUS EVENTS
No Championships Involved, but Re-
suits Will Give Good Line on
Prospects of South at
Del Monte

The tennis season in Southern Cali
fornia opens this morning with three
day tournament on the new cement
courts of the Virginia hotel at Long
Beach. While no championships are
involved in this tournament. 1t Is at
tracing unusual interest among deVo-
tees of the racquet for the reason that
such crack players of the southland as
Tom Bundy, Simpson Sinsabaugh, Nat
Browne Bob Variel and Louis Free
man will contest for honors In the
mems singles and the Misses Sutton,
Mrs. B. o. Bruce, Miss Seymour and
other prominent women players will be
in the women's singles.
The Southern California Lawn Ten
mis- association offers first and Sec
ond prize for each event and besides
these the management of the Hotel
Virginia offers a handsome silver tro-
ply, 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 1t
three times.
Entries closed last night and the list
includes manv of the crack players of
Southern California. The drawings of
the junior singles, mems singles and
women's singles were made last night.
The drawings in all double events will
take place this evening at the Vir-
ginia hotel, Long Beach. The play of
the junior singles and women's sin
giles will commence at 9 o'clock this
morning. Play for the mems singles
will commence at o'clock. The tour
nament will be played on the new &C.
ment courts of the Hotel Virginia at
Long Beach and will be under the aus
pfces of the Southern California Lawn
Tennis association.
The entries and drawings in the jun
ior singles are as follows: Warren
Ferguson of Hollywood will play Win
fred Mace. the crack tennis player of
Occidental college; Ward Dawson, the
champion tennis player of the Los
Angeles high school, will play Paul
Radir. Dawson is considered a COM
He is not yet 10 years of age and has
taken a set from Tom Bundy, whom
he played several months ago. Frank
M. Douglas, jr. the star player of
Hollywood high school, Is scheduled to
meet Wallace Coons, the champion of
Polytechnic, e. V. Weller will play
Arthur Cawston, the Harvard military
school crack.
In the women's singles Miss Dillon,
Mrs. r. o. Bruce, Miss Merrita Sey-
mour. Mrs. F. H. Seymour and Miss
May Sutton drew bye and will play in
the finals. Mrs. r. D. Farquar Is
matched with Miss Collins. Miss Eliza
beth Ryan will play Miss Alice Scott
and Miss Florence Sutton and Ell
eanor Peralta will play.
The drawings of the mems singles
resulted as follows: Ashby Keeney of
Santa Barbara will play S. M. Sinsa-
baugh of Los Angeles, F. J. Grant of
Los Angeles is matched with e. v.
Weller of Ocean Park. Winfred Mace
will meet Frank M. Douglas, jr., of
Hollywood; Warren Ferguson of Hol-
lywood is to play Edward Dietrich of
Los Angeles, e. Overton of Los An
geles will meet Nat M. Browne of Los
Angeles. G. B. Huntington of Sioux
City will meet G. Johnson. Sardar
Singh, Hindu. who is studying in Los
Angeles, will play Allen v. Duncan of
Los Angeles. Charles B. Hopper will
play Jack Mum. Tom Bundy and Paul
Radir are matched to play together,
Charles Grace of Whittier will meet
Lewis r. Freeman of Pasadena, Ralph
Noble of Santa Ana will play E. G. Ga
Iusha of Los Angeles. John D. Holmes
IF Pasadena will play Walter Wallace
Of Alhambra, R. H. F. Variel of Los
Angeles will play Ward Dawson and
Fred L. Wilson of Whittier, Louis B.
Smith of Long Beach and Will Bacon
Of Duarte drew byes.