The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17
ANNUAL TENNIS
TOURNAMENT
OPENS
Experts Ga1ker at San Rafael
CC1rtS ard Fast FIay N arkS
the Opening MatChes

The annual tennis tournaments for
the championship OF the state COM
menced on the Hotel Rafael courts at
San Rafael yesterday. AS usual the
first days play proved little more than
r wedding out process. In almost every
case a good player and poor one
came together, with the result that
the match was won in straight sets
sEspeciaIly was this so with the singles,
Nhe preliminary and first rounds tall-
Sng to produce a three set match.
Only the two preliminary round
amat ches of the doubles We're played.
land the last one Of the day furnished
the only real contest Alfonso Bell
aRnd Thomas Bundy, the southern Cali
1ornia champions. were on one side of
the net and Or. Sumner Hardy,
aGormer coast champion and \. Dun
can, one Of the Los Angeles trio ana
late OF Princeton. on the other.
This match lived up TO the promise
st held forth and was easily the tea-
Eure of the days play For time II
Cooked as if the southern champions
would meet defeat at the hands OF the
makeshift team During the early
part of the match Hardy was the star
performer. but lack of condition,
coupled with an absence Of team work,
turned the tide IN favor or the visit
ing champions, who won out by a mar
row margin The score in favor OF
Bell and Bun6y was 6-S. %, 6-3.
In the other preliminary round
match of the doubles Melville Long
and Carl Gardner beat +. p. Finnigan
and 3. i. NOuTse in straight sets The
score was g. 20. The losers played
good tennis in the second set. but were
outclassed by their opponents. The
four remaining teams in the doubles
are r. Strachan. and w. G. knOWlton,
Carl Gardner and Melville Long, Al
fonso Bell and Thomas BundY Ralph
GOvril and Miller Hotchdss- The
in hp nod
Strachan and KnowltOn and Hotchkiss
and GOVrill stand little or no chance of
winning. and the other two teams are
almost sure 10 meet IN the nnais Fri
The only match in singles that
proved at all close was that in which
Duncan of Los Angeles beat NourSe Of
san Francisco in straight sets, both
Of which went TO 81 Long. Gardner,
Bundy and Bell all won their matches
as they pleased. and il was impossible
10 get a line on any Of them. Long
probab bly, showed the best form Of the
~ lot when he beat Robert Strachan
without eNerting himself. The Golden
Gate park expert was in poor form and
made sorry showing against the
coast champion.
The singles matches today viii no
doubt prove more interesting than
those played Yesterday. but the real
fight viii not come until the semi final
round is reached in the afternoon. The
only morning matches that look at all
promising are those between Busch
and Long and Duncan and Gardner.
Bundy and Bell oUtclass their OPP
ponents in the second round. 1t looks
almost a certainty that Bell. Long.
Gardner and Bundy viii reach the semi
finals. There viii be big doings when
these four get together.
Yesterdays matches in singles re-
suited as follows.
Preliminary round-R. Strachan beat
Ralph Gorrill. e., ca.
First round-M Hotchkiss beat D.
Berry by default: A. +. Bell beat c.
Hayden. 60. O.; George Busch beat
G A. Broadfoot. 6-3. 6-1. Melville
Long beat Strachan. 90. 60; A. Dun
can beat B. T. Nourse. 81, 81; Carl
Gardner beat ". A. Bethel, 60. 60;
Tom Bundy beat c. r. Allen. 6-3. e.;
r. P. Finnigan beat ". @. Knowlton,
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