The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-05-03
SinqIes Tournament
Mears Finish
Redistribution of Players Prom
ises Better ennis on Park
Courts
By Grant Smith

The class singles tennis tournament
begun on the Golden Gate park courts
last Sunday will be completed today
The much needed Redistribution of the
players proved q great success. as a
majority. OF the matches played went
the full three sets. While there are
still a few players who are not exactly
where they belong. the committee used
good Judgment, and play IN the various
classes should prove closer than in the
past
OF course. interest centers chiefly IN
are left TO contest for the honors- Coast
Champion Maurice Mclaughlin won one
OF the final places last Sunday and will
meet the winner of the Carl Gardner
Harold Getz match Getz caused a gen
uine surprise by winning the first set
from Gardner in their seminal match
Until quite recently Getz, who is still
a member of the junior club, has fig
ured In the second class. and nobody
expected he would make trouble for a
player of Gardeners caliber. The lat
ter's success in the Ojai valley tourna-
ment made 1t almost an assured fact
that he would reach the semIfnals
portunity OF beating Mclaughlin a.
rectly. Possibly Gardner moderated
Getz' ability and did not take the match
as seriously at the start as he should
have done. At any rate, Getz won the
first set and. although he lost the
second, still has q chance Of putting
Gardner out of the running. The de-
-
It would be quite a feather in S. r.
Marvin's cap should Getz dispose OF
Gardner and meet Mclaughlin in the
finals. However. IL is not very likely
that the two Juveniles viii come to-
gether. Gardner will no doubt take
Getz' measure. and there should be a
battle royal when he meets the cham
pion. Il is quite possible that the lat
ter has had too much OF IL lately and Is
a trife stale His form has fallen of q
little of late. as evidenced by the fact
that George James took set from him
last Sunday. Previously Mclaughlin
had beaten the ex-champion with the
greatest ease. While James played
much better tennis than usual. he
hardly figures TO take q set from the
champion when he is at his best.
II Mclaughlin is at all of his game
it is more than likely Gardner Will
beat him. me latter IS playing the
best game of his career and at the
present time is the champions most
dangerous rival. It is to be hoped that
the two come together. as they have
always furnished a good match. and
with each meeting Gardeners chance
seems to increase. Mclaughlin is the
present holder OF the cup
In the second class Paul Hardeman
and Joseph Schwarz will meet in the
finals Each has won the cup and
they are undoubtedly the best players
in the class. In the semifineIs Harde-
man beat Horace Mann, who repre-
scented Stanford in the intercoIleg
tennis meet two weeks ago.
Fred Bass and Paul Curtis will meet
in the finals of the third class. Curtis
Just graduated from the fourth class
where he won the cup three times sue
cessiyely He won both his matches
without the loss OF set, and Ii looks
as If he will have almost as easy a
time in this class as he did in the one
below. Il is quite probable, however
that he will ind Bass to be quite q
stumbling block.
Four players remain In the fourth
class The seminal matches will be
z. NJ Cameron VS.. W. r Jacques and
S. A. Buchanan VS.. j. E. Levin
The lower class matches will be
played in the morning. the finals OF the
second class at about noon and the
finals Of the first class at ESQ o'clock