Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-06
SOUTH LOSES
TENNIS BATTLE
M'LOUGHLIN AND JAMES WIN
DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP
CLASSY BATTLE PUT UP BY BELL
AND BUNDY
Southern Players Take First TWO
Sets, Only to Lose Next Three
to Northern Cham
plons
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sides playing fast strong tennis, the
match held today to determine tne
championship Of the Pacific States as, as,
sociation went along nip and tuck uhtll
the heartbreaking finish.
Bell and Bundy of Southern can
fornia first took two sets. Then Two
sets were captured by McLoughlln ana
James.
The interest in the following set was
intense. It went TO 5-4. McLoughlin
and James took the next game In a
driving finish, cinching the concluding
get the northern men retaining thelr
championship in mems doubles. They
:. will go to Lake Forest, ILL.,, to partlcl-
pate in the preliminary national dou-
bles.
From start to finish the tourney to-
day was interesting. The two teams
appeared evenly matched. McLoughlln
and James may have had shade the
best of 1t, so far as concerned the
work of the two teams, but 1t was
small shade and a considerable portion
of the time the southern men played
rings around them. The first two sets
were won by Bundy and Bell with ap-
parent ease, both men playing carefully
and with accuracy. Neither appeared
furried or worried Mclaughlin and
James, on the other hand, seemed ner-
vous and disconnected at times.
The grand stands were crowded with
spectators, who found plenty at which
to cheer. The two teams shared the
plaudits of the assembly of admirers
equally.
James First to Serve
The play started at 2:45 o'clock, Nc
Loughlin and James being on the north
side and having the wind to contend
with James served first He started
with an unlucky double fault. Bundy
placed the first one over out of James
reach but Bell failed to return the
next serve. James sent one into the
net. Bell did the same, but Bundy put
the next one over so that Mclaughlin
could not get 1t, winning the first
game, from a 30-40.
The second game found James and
Mclaughlin not playing at their best.
James failed on a return and, moment
later, sent one into the net. He placed
one beauty down the middle of the
court and was applauded for 1t. Bell
sent one outside and the score was
80-30. From the deuce, which followed,
the game went back and forth until
Bundy returned one like a cannon bail.
1t bounced far out of reach and won
the second game.
James hard return early in the next
game was a feature. Some fine play
ing back and forth followed. Nc
Loughlin and James both sent the ball
outside, helping their opponents to a
S0-40 score; but It went from that to n
erners S.ie.ly took their first game.
Fine Work for Southerners
Bundy and Bell made 1t 81 by taking
the next. Bundys serving and Bells
return Of a hard drive were features.
The northerners had 30 points at the
close. They took the next game, how
ever, after long struggle after 1t
reached deuce. Bundy and Bell won
the next, making it to 2.
ant a from
Mclaughlin, and the latter could not
send 1t back. Bundy added another
hard smash, the ball bouncing to the
backstop. With the game 400, James
sent one beyond the pale. McLough-
lin and James played the next one COOL
ly and annexed 1t when Bell failed to
return a hot one which McLoughlin
sent over. Games, 4-3.
The next game was long strung out,
Bundy and Bell starring in the returns.
James sending of the ball out made n
deuce. Bundy served one which Nc
Loughlin failed to put back, and Bundy
returned a hard one, which bounced
into the grandstand and was not re-
turnable, making the games 5-3.
Games at 5-4
James serving. the next game went to
the northerners. James sent the ball
outside, but made good by placing it
prettily in a corner of the court for a
point. With the game at vantage in,
Bell failed to return one. This made
it 5-4. Bell lost on his serve in the
next, Bundy sending the ball outside
twice. Games, 5-5. Bundy and Bell
took the next one, Bundy winning from
S0-40 score by sending lively one,
which bounded out of reach.
Bundy served the next game, and
both he and Bell played fast tennis,
winning when the others had but fif-
teen points. This finished the set, 7-5
in favor of the southerners. A great
demonstration followed.
The players changed sides, Bundy
and Bell going against the sea breeze.
The first game was shutout for the
southerners, James serving and the
southern men apparently unable to get
in the going. The next one Bell and
Bundy took Mclaughlin showed his
expertness in this game in chasing and
whirling on a faraway bounder, Both
Bundy. and Mclaughlin played heady
ball, placing the ball carefully. Bundy's
hard return, too hot to handle, closed
the game.
Playing Fast Tennis
Bell and Bundy won the next three
games, some of the fastest tennis of
the match being played, however Nc
Loughlin made a double fault on his
serve. Bell played spectacularly In
the fourth game of the set, sending a
hot return bounding out of reach to
the backstop and the next one into the
grandStand.
The northern men were weak in the
following game. They took the next
two games, however, in the first of the
two-the crowd going wild with excite
ment as the players kept the ball in
air, going back and forth on hot re-
turns, sensational pick-ups and fast
running
The southern players took the next.
Bundy doing some heady placing of the
ball at the east side of the court. This
made 1t 5-3 in the southerners' favor
AT this juncture a woolly black dog
stopped the game, insisting on racing
about the players feet. He was finally
incarcerated in a spectators pocket.
James and Mclaughlin took the next
after a struggle, but lost the next.
which was a love game. This gave the
southerners the second set GA.
At this time the southern team
looked good to win, having only to
take one more set.
Northerners in Front
At this point James and Mclaughlin
began to play startling tennis, racing
over the courts, getting everything the
southerners could offer, placing their
drives and sending them hard. Bell
and Bundy took three games in the
set. The southern men were playing
well, but not we'll enough.
After rest the next set started at