The San Francisco call., 1909-10-23
Tennis Matches,
Will Be Played
This Afternoon
Feature Will Be the Meeting Of
Miss Hazel Hofchkiss and
Miss May Sutton

The Portola tennis matches will be
played on the Golden Gate park courts
today. There will be eight matches,
the first of which is scheduled to start
at 10 O'Clock. There will be womens
singles and doubles, mems singles and
doubles and Junior singles and doubles.
The big match of the day will be
that between Miss May Sutton, former
champion of the world, and Miss Hazel
Hotchkiss. the present champion of the
United States. These two fair experts are
easily the best women tennis players in
the United States and, while today.s
match Will be only an exhibition af-
Iair with no title at stake. 1t Is safe
to to sTsa'e' Min' that both will do their best
Miss Sutton never throws game,
even In practice, and, of course, 1t goes
will try her hardest to win. To be
the. first in the country to beat the
invincible Miss Sutton is the ambition
of Miss Hotchkiss' life.
Tne match will be called at 1880
o'clock and. as it will be Miss Sutton
first appearance in this city. q record
crowd will be in attendance, despite
counter attractions.
The first match of the day Will be
called at 10 o'clock and will bring
together the Strachan brothers and
Charles Rogers and Willie Johnston.
Rogers is the present junior coast
champion, while Strachan held the title
last year These four midgets should
furnish an interesting contest.
At 1880 o'clock Miss Hotchkiss and
Bruce and Miss Florence sutton in dou-
bles. Mrs. Bruce. who was formerly
Sutton, is at her best in doubles, and
the match will be a fast one.
Robert Strachan will meet In singles.
Two doubles matches are scheduled
to begin at 1880 o'clock On one court
Simpson Sinsabaugh and Nat Brown.
Driscoll and Dr.. Sumner Hardy, two
former coast champions. On the other
court George James. the present coast
champion and Percy Murdock sl,nsn XVI VIII meet
Miss May Sutton and Miss Hazel
Hotchkiss will meet at 2:30 o'clock.
Miss Golda Myer and Mrs. B. Q. Bruce
will try conclusions at o'clock, and
the last match of the day, that between
George James and Nat Brown. will be
played at $50 o'clock. All matches
Grandstands have been erected on
three sides of the two exhibition courts
and there will be seats for all. No
admission fee will be charged.
Bay Counties Drawing
The drawings for the bay counties
championship tennis tournament, to be
held in the park courts tomorrow, were
held last night. Forty players entered
the singles event and 20 teams entered
the doubles. Only the upper half OF
the singles will be played tomorrow
The drawings resulted as follows:
Singles upper balf). October "a, 1909.
Preliminary round-E. Cahill VS.. E. z. Finni-
gan; B. H. Botkin vs.. H S. Morgan; Fl. Mann
VS.. G.. J. James: P. Hardenan VS.. j. Schwarz
First round--R. Hunt VS.. Jack Diebert; 2.
Huff VS.. j. R. Cahill; o. e. Foley Us. j. |. Die
bert G. NJ. Guerin VS.. W voorsanger; F. Finn
VS.. G.. Fl. Cutter; C. Curley VS.. H. F. Hobson.
Singles (lower half, October 81. 1902
Preliminary round-H. Fuchs VS.. p. Jordan
L. H Levinson vs.. C. e. Allan; d. Samuel Weiss
VS.. W. Johnston; r. strachan vs.. II. Rosenberg
First round--J. A. Code VS.. G. s. Grace; Ray
Greenberg VS.. c. Skaggs; p G. Gaskill VS.. a.
Rosenberg; ". n. Ambrose vs. Z. Grifhths; w
G.. Knowlton w. W. Fortrell; +. Guerin vs.. j. F.
Cassel.
Doubles, November z, 1909.
Preliminary round2-Janes and Murdock vs.
Ambrose and Hotchkiss; Skaggs and partner vs.
CasseII and partner; Schwarz and NJ Rosenberg
VS.. Allan and Roifs; r. Strachan and Fuchs vs.
Diebert and Diebert.
First round (upper half)-J. Cahill and Dodge
VS.. Johnston and Hardeman Morgan and Grace
VS. Code and partner; Curley and Mofftt rs.
Foley and Hunt.
First round tlower half)--Jordan and Mann vs
Huff and yoorsanger; Knowlton and Fottrel vs..
Finnigan and partner.