The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-16
CHAMPIONSHIP OF
SAN FRANCISCO
AT ISSUE
Ninth Annual Tennis Tourney
ar California Club Only a
Week Away
By GRANT SMITH

The ninth annual tennis tournament
for the championship of San francisco
viii begin next Sunday op the Cali
fornia club courts. The event will, il
possible, be finished on that date up to
the semifinals. Play will be resumed
on Saturday, May %. when THE semi
finals will be played in the morning
and the finals in the afternoon. The
challenge match. as usual, will be
played on the afternoon of May 80. IL
the entry list should prove unusually
large, and there is reason to believe
that it viii, this schedule will have to
be changed somewhat In the event OF
a heavy entry list, it would hardly be
possible to reach the semihnals on the
first day. In this case the semifinals
and finals will be played on the Goth
and the challenge match one week later.
Entries viii close Friday evening.
May p, at o'clock, and must be sent
to 4. p. Finnigan, care of the California
tennis club. An entrance fee of 30
cents will be charged.
This years event should prove of
/ unusual interest, as the artistic Grant
cup. emblematic of the championship,
may be disposed of permanently. Maui
rice Mclaughlin, holder of the trophy,
stands an excellent chance of making
il three straight. He will play the
winner of the tournament in the chal-
| lenge match.
/ Mclaughlin will no doubt have either
Long, Gardner or James to beat, and in
his present form looks almost sure
winner over any one of the three.
Coast Champion Longs recent form has
been away below par and his chances
of winning do. not look any too good.
Mclaughlin has experienced little or
no difficulty in disposing of James and
Gardner in the past and has little TO
fear from them.
The San Francisco championship was
inaugurated in 1901. when it was won
I by George r Whitney, for years the
undefeaLed champion OF the coast.
Whitney retired before the next tour
nament was played and the title went
TO Grant Nj. Smith. Up to this time the
IsGrant cup had not been put up and
Smith was compelled to play through
the tournament. He was beaten by
Hodgkinson in the semifinals. who, in
turn suecumbed TO Drummond Mac
Gavin in the finals. MacGavins was
the first name in the Grant cup In
1904 Percy Murdoch beat MacGavin in
took the cup away from Murdoch in
1905, and in turn relinquished it TO
Charles Foley in 1906. In 1907 Maurice
Mclaughlin won from Foley and in
1908, for the first time in the history of
the event successfully defended. He
beat Melville, Long in the challenge
match. The Grant cup is an exact re-
production of the state championship
cup and is one of the most artistic pre-
sented in years.
The second annual tournament for
the women's championship of San Fran
cisco will be played at about the same
time as the mems. Miss Hotchkiss of
Berkeley won the title last year, but as
only residents of San Francisco are
eligible this year the holder of the title
will be barred. With Miss Hotchkiss
out of il a number of the local women
look 10 have an equallyNgood chance of
succeeding to the title. The strongest
candidates are Miss Eodden, Miss
Mearns and Mrs. Neimeyer-