The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
Golden State
The Big Spot
On Tennis Map
Wonderful Work of CaIifornia
Players Makes An the
East Take Notice
By GRANT SMITH


been entirely OF the tennis map. The
eastern cracks. previous to that time.
We're aware of the fact that tennis
was played in the west chiefly beeauss
four Of their leading players made a &
7 trip to the COAST in 1900. The Victory.
of Sumner Hardy over three Of the.
visiting cracks and the fact that with
his brother sam he won the doubles
championship with lac two eastern.
teams in the tournsment earned some
slight recognition. for the. coast play.
ers.
May Sutton's invasion of the. east and
also Great Britain ana her wonderful
string OF victories over the. greatest
women tennis players in the world
made her famous and also showed. the
high development of the game on. the
coast. at least so far as women were
concerned.
Last month Hazel Hotchl<iss OF
Berkeley went to Philadelphia and an
nexed the national championship al
most as easily as Miss Sutton had done
it. This. victory was further proof
that the western women are superior
to the eastern play 81,
The easy victories OF: Miss sutton and
Miss Hotchkiss coupled with. the sue
cess of the local men players over the
three visiting fasteners last year. is
responsible for the present fnvasior of
the east by i've Of the. best players. on
I the coast.
Last week the coast players. won both.
singles and doubles championships OF
the northwest. Their sweeping victory
came as a surprise because ef the fact
that the visitors were playing for the
first time on grass courts simpson
Sinssbaugh and Nat Bundy.. the south.
! ern California team. caused q genuine
surprise by beating Nat Emerson. and
Harry Wardner. holders: of. the western
doubles championship. In the finals
| Sinsabaugh and Bundy were beaten BY
George James and Maurice Mclaughlin.
the Pacific states champions in doubles.
Emerson and wardner in the 1908 ON
cial ranking were placed sixth in the
United States
In the singles. Long and. McE.oaghlin
met in the finals and after a: hard I'VE
set match. in which Long won. the hrst
I two sets Mclaughlin emerged a win
ner In the challenge match. last sat.
urday Mclaughlin beat: Nat Emerson
7 in straight sets. Emerson ranks SEA-
enth in singles and the fact. that Mo
Loughlin beat him easily makes IL look
as if the best of the coast players can
( hold their own easily wftk any of the
eastern champions.
/ In the national tournament at New
port last year Emerson got as far>as
/ the sernifnals. where he. Mayed a four
! set match with former. Champion
Z Beals Wright, who UltimatelN won che
\ tournament and host to LarneCl in the .
l much easier. time beating Emerson.
/ than Weight did a year ago.
( In the western: tOurnament, which
is second only in Importance to the
national championship event. the coast
players followed up their success Of
1.-THE previous week and have proved the 8
sensation of the week at Lake Forest
/ Early in the week Mclaughlin and
/ Long caused the eastern cracks. to sit .
/ up and take notice. They moved down
/ their opponents with ease, and 1t
\ looked to- be only question OF which
/ one of the two would prove the tour
nament winner and meet Emerson in
the challenge match.
/ According to the press dispatches
McLoughIin's chances of running
I looked better than Longs. but the..un-
expected happened on Thursday. when.
Mclaughlin was nosed out. by his team ,
mate. Tom Bunny. Although Bundy q.
had twice beaten McL0ughltn in the
southern part OF the state during the
year and. in fact. was the only player
/ on the coast TO do the trick. his VIC
tories were attributed to the.fac that
rrt4 r~11 r~o1
courts. Bundy's victory on Thursday
makes il look as IL the southern Cat
| fornia champion is entitled TO. more
consideration than he gets at home
His victory over Mclaughlin was all
the more unexpected because of the 2
fact that LOng beat Bundy in the
northwestern championship last week
with ease. While the local fans we're
sorry to see Mclaughlin lose they took o.
some small comfort from the fact that
he lost to coast player. Almost to a
man they figure that Mclaughlin
would make better showing in the
later rounds than Bundy
The chances of James and McLOUghlin
in the national preliminary doubles
certainly look good. In the eastern
tournament a week ago R. %. Little
and E p. Larned who were looked
upon almost sure winners. were
beaten by n. w Niles and A. S.sDabaey.
Inc same tHAnS happened III the west
ern doubles during the week Emer-
son and Wardner. the western. cham
pions. were beaten by Trux Emerson
and r. A. Holden. II was thought the
champions would qualify with ease.
1t is not expected that the SOUTHERN
champions will prove very formidable
II the coast champions play TO their
hest form they should earn the right
to play Hackett and Alexander in the
challenge match of the national doG-
bles. This match win be played Au-
gust Il.
Two tournaments will be completed
on the local courts today. The finals
of the handicap doubles tournament
commenced last Sunday on the Golden
Gate park courts will be played at 2.30
O'Clock Guerrin brothers will be on
one side of the net and VI. Rose and
Guy Lytton on the other. They win
meet on even terms. both being handi-
capped at over SIS
At the California club the first OF
series Of tournaments for the Troutt
cup will be finished. The three class
winners will meet in the playoff under
handicap conditions. Harold Gabriel
of the first class and George Cutter OF
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