Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-13
CHAMPS TO PLAY
TENNIS TOURNEY
BIG EVENTS BOOKED FOR VIR-
GINA COURTS
ANGELENo RACQUET WIELDERS
MAY GO TO DALLAS
Among the Woman Players Who VIII
Compete in the Contests viii
Be Champion May
Sutton
BY RED PERKINs

year for this coast VIII ldhS pi"NN "a
the courts at the Hotel Virginia, Long
Beach, July 1, 2, and 8, The playing
will be for the Pacific coast champion
ship in mems doubles. Inc WlillleI winner
will go to Chicago to play the chah-
pions from Chicago and New orleans
tournaments, and the winners there
will go to Newport to compete against
the eastern cracks. Thus the virginia
tournament will be a stepping stone
toward international honors and VIII
bring out the classiest playing ever
seen in Southern California.
June "a. % and 26 the seventh and
-eighth annual tennis tournament Will
be held on the courts OF the venice
Country club. .,-
July Is and II the annual tennis
tournament for the challenge trophy OF
the Hotel Potter will be played on the
courts at Santa Barbara,
On August and the twenty-fourth
annual tennis tourney Will be held on
the Long Beach courts. AT INDEFINITE
dates there will be other smaller tour
naments in Southern California.
1t is expected that several members
of the Southern California lawn tennis
organization will participate in the
intermountaip tennis match which VIII
he held at Salt Lake the latter part of
June.
The Pacific states singles champion
ships will begin at Del Monte Septem-
Der and will last throughout the en-
tire week.
A number of Los Angeles racquet
wielders are thinking of going to Dai-
las to take part in the coming tennis
tournament which will be held there
starting September l.
There will be one or two tournaments
held at Portland, Seattle ana van
o1nt1th nf I1IlV and
August, at which players from Los An
geles will in all probability participate
This is the first time in the history
of Southern California tennis matches
that the Pacific coast doubles were
played in Southern California, the
northern clubs always getting inns
honor
In order to bring both the eastern
and northern cracks to Southern Cali
fornia the Los Angeles association was
compelled to join the national assocla-
ton.
This year there will be only mems
doubles, while women's singles Will De
played as exhibition games only.
Among the women who in all PROB
ability will compete will be Miss May
Sutton, the worlds woman CHAMPION
and her two sisters, Florence sutton
and Mrs. Bruce of Santa Monica. Mrs:
Farquhar and Miss Elizabeth Ryan OF
probably. Miss Mary Browne OF Poly
technic high school and Miss Alice
SCOTT of Durate will be among those
who will compete in the Women's sim
giles from Los Angeles county. MISS
Hazel Hotchkiss of Berkeley and MISS
Coda Myer of San Francisco will be
sent invitations to enter the southern
California tourney.
Owing to the fact that the Los An
geles asnpciation does not desire to tire
their most promising candidates for the
Chicago and Newport tournaments
there will be no mems singles TINS year.
OF the San Francisco delegation VINO
will participate in the mems doubles 1t
is expected that Maurice Mclaughlin
and George James of San FRANCISCO,
present holders of the mems doubles OF
the Pacific coast, will be present to de-
fend their titles.
Good Matches at Seaside
Melville Long, holder of the mems
single championship of the racine
coast; Carl Gardner who ranked
among the best players in the doubles;
Robert Stradan, who for the past NJ
teen years has been successful in WIN
ming the Santa Barbara tournament IN
the mems singles; DR.. Summer HARDY
and Charles Foley with other tennis
experts, will be in Long Beach to play
In the various matches
Among the PASADENA leduSIS wiz
will compete are Louis r. Freeman and
John Holmes. Sidney Morgan of san
Diego, now attending Stanford uniVer-
sity. will no doubt be present to uphold
the honors of the southern city team,
Winferd Mace of Occidental college
NAV be the only intercollegiate player
TO enter unless u. S. G. or Pomona de-
cides to enter candidates. Gerald
Young of Quartz is thinking OF enter
ing the tournament as partner in the
mems doubles with Ward Dawson,
Harold and Charles Rogers of Los An
eeles high school, This school captured
the mems doubles in the recent Ojal
tennis tournament, and its players VIII
be present to represent the Blue ana
White, with Ralph Noble to help them
out.
Harvard military academy may send
to Long Beach Cawston and Nebeker
as promising contestants. Eugene
Overton, former Southern California
tennis champion, is expected to arrive
in time for the opening day of play.
Among the northern cracks that VIII
be present will be Payne and Arm
strong of Tacoma; McBurney OF Spo-
Kane, who is holder of the Pacific
northwest e,r, championship; swengers of
Victoria, Tyler and Russell of Seattle,
Goss and Sham of Portland.
The Southern California representa-
tives will be Thomas Bundy and AL
fonso Bell. who are said to be two of
the hest men in the state in the dou-
hes with III. Brady, Allen Duncan,
Pohert Variel, Claude Wayne, Mat
browne, S. M. Sinsabaugh and Ralph