The San Francisco call., 1909-06-06
PLENTY OF ACTION
FOR THE TENNIS
EXPERTS
Cracks Promised a Strenuous
Time in the Many Cham
piOnShip Tournaments
By GRANT SMITH
H

Championship tennis tournaments are
coming thick and fast, and the cracks
will have more strenuous season than
ever before. Changing the date of the
coast championship doubles, which
heretofore have been held simultan-
eously with the singles, has made it
necessary TO sandwich in the state
championship tournament The latter
event has been set for June 10 to 10,
and as the San Francisco championship
tournament was completed only last
Monday and the coast doubles Will be-
gin July l. the fans certainly can not
complain of a lack of championship
play
The coast doubles will be played at
Long Beach, and the only team from
the bay counties that will participate
consists of Maurice McLoughlin and
George James, who are the present
holders OF the title. 1t was expected
that Melville Long and Carl Gardner
Would participate, but the last men
toned player will not 'be able TO go
south.
The 1909 doubles champions viii go
east and participate in the national
doubles. Two players also will be. sent
from this coast to compete in the
singles. 1t is almost certainty that
Melville Long and Maurice Mclaughlin
will be two of the four to go east. If
McLoughlin and James successfully de-
fend in the doubles they will repre-
sent the coast in doubles. Their most
Thomas Bundy of Los Angeles. If
Bell and Bundy beat Mclaughlin and
James, Long and Mclaughlin will no
doubt. be picked to represent the coast
in singles If, however, Mclaughlin
and James are successful the singles
representatives will no doubt, be Long
and Bundy.
The state championship tournament
hTincr al = rI7ce e.,Tr1
that contested the san Francisco cham
pionship, with the addition of Thomas
Bundy and Simpson Sinsa abaugh of Los
Angeles Bundy is the cleverest PLAYER
in the southern part of the state. and
as he has twice beaten Mclaughlin. the
latter probably will not have as easy
a time as he had winning the Alameda
and San Francisco championships
Miss May Sutton will participate in
the women's singles and will surely
prove the winner of the tournament.
She and Miss Hotchkiss the present
champion, are sure to meet in the chaI-
lenge match and a meeting between
this pair is what the fans have been
hungering for
The continuous tournament which
had been In progress for two months
at the california club, finally came to
an end last Sunday. The event proved
even less successful than it's predeces-
be sprung again in the present gen
Grafton What little interest there was
in the event was confined to the lower
class men. Melville Long won the
prize for the championship class. He
drew at the top, beat Carl Gardner
once and was never challenged by
Maurice Mclaughlin, the only other
player in the class.
The first class prize was won by S.
Rose, second class by E. Bolger, third
class by NJ. Gerry and fourth class by
G. Lissen. The special prize for the
contestants making the most advance
ment was awarded H. Curtis, who
started second on the fourth class and
finished last in the second class.
An open handicap singles tournament
will be held on the Golden Gate park
courts today. The annual election of
officers also will be held