The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-18
BELL BEATS LONG
ON SAN RAFAEL
COURTS
Defeat of Coast Champion Is
Feature of Second Day of
Tennis Tournament

AS was expected the second days
play of the state championship tennis
tournament at San Rafael furnished
some exciting matches and incidentally
a surprise or two. Among the latter
was the defeat of Coast Champion Mel
vile Long at the hands of Alfonso
Bell of Los Angeles, a former holder
of the same title. The victory of Carl
Gardner over Thomas Bundy of Los
Angeles also proved q surprise.
Both events were completed to the
finals. The successful players in sin
giles were Alfonso Bell of Los Angeles
and Carl Gardner of San Francisco. The
two remaining teams in the doubles are
Bell and Bundy and Long and Gard
ner. The finals of the singles will be
played this morning at 10 o'clock and
the doubles in the afternoon at 2:30
o'clock. The women's singles will be
played down to the finals today.
Bell and Gardner were easily the
held the coast championship In 1908.
played in his old time brilliant form
and after a hard tussle in the first set
took the second easily. Bell played a
miliar with his style of play by putting
up an equally strong game in the back
court Even when he was champion
Bell was woefully weak on ground
drove and chopped splendidly from the
back court and passed the coast cham
pion repeatedly.
In justice to Long 1T is only fair
to state that he has played much bet
ter in the past than he did yesterday
but his comparative poor form was no
tactics of his opponent. Long served
better than he has been doing recent
ly, but made number of double faults
In the second set.
In the opening set each player won
on service up to 6-6, when Bell broke
in and took the next two games Bell
played slashing game in the second
set and clearly outplayed the cham
pion- The latter was no match for
his opponent either at the net or in
the back court.
After Bell had beaten Long 1t looked
as If two of the southern California
cracks would fight it out In the finals.
In the morning Gardner had all he
could do to beat Duncan and for this
a great surprise. The latter holds all
the titles down south and he was
looked upon as a likely winner of the
tournament.
After the first three or four games
it looked as ii Bundy would win about
as he pleased. Gardner seemed un-
and INDUCED him with the net posi-
tion most of the time. The local player
got started when the score stood a.
against him and by following in on
from the net took the next three games
straight and finally won the set, 81.
Gardner Kept up the killing pace In
the second set and won the first three
games. Right here he seemed to be-
come fatigued and faltered a bit.
Bundy was quick to take advantage OF
the respite and quickly ran the score
up to So IN his favor. Gardner once
more fought for the net and by drop
ping the balls at his opponents feet
as he came up and playing the balls
low and fast he ran out the next three
games and set
Gardner played the best tennis he
has ever shown and deserves great
credit for his victory. The same can
hardly be said of Bundy. He made
numerous double faults and Melted easy
balls. Gardeners running in on service
seemed to discomfort him, and he fell
down on easy chances.
The matches played yesterday re-
suited as follows:
Singles, second roupd-Bell beat Hotchkss by
default; Long beat Busch, 6-2. Ga; Gardner beat
Duncan, 3-6, ga, 81; Bundy beat Finnigan.
3d. B1.
SemiAnals-Bell beat Long. S-6, GO; Gardner
beat Bundy, 81. rs.
Doubles, semifinals-Long and Gardner beat
Strachan and Knowlton, 6-2. GA; Bell and Bundy
beat Hotchkiss and Gorrill, by default.
The drawing for the ladies' singles
resulted as follows.
Miss May Sutton vs.. Miss Beatrice Hewitt,
Miss Dora Roberts ; Mrs. Fletcher vs..
Miss May Conner, Mrs. Neimeyer Miss Flor
ence Sutton