The San Francisco call., 1909-08-03
CaIifOrnianS
Will Compete
With Champs
Long, Mclaughlin, James, Bun.
dy and Sinsabaugh to Meet
National Tennis Experts
By GRANT SMITH

eFt-e Abf aNLouSlllu ana James re-
manning in the vicinity of Chicago and
Long. Bundy and sinsabaugh going to
New York
To date the coast players have played
for two championships and won both
Further than this. they have taken
both final places in each. At Mime
tonka. where the northwestern cham
pionship events were played, the play
efs from this state had the finals of
both singles and doubles to themselves.
the visitors did not participate in the
western doubles last week, but took
both places in the finals OF the singles
The preliminary national doubles will
pe played today and tomorrow on the
courts Of the Onwentsia club at Lake
torest. near Chicago. This event will.
be limited to the four sectional cham
plons-Maurice Mclaughlin and George
James, Pacific states champions; n w.
Nlies and A. S. Dabney Jr., eastern
champions; TruX Emerson and R. A
! l1oloen Jr., western champions and
". Grant and T. r. Peel. southern
champions.
Inc Pacific states champions seem to
nave an excellent chance to win this
event, and thus qualify for the cbal-
-enge match Of the national doubles.
Mhlch VIII be played at Newport. Au-
s1st T. The coast players appear to
Aold the eastern and western cham
pions safe, but may go up against
liouole II they meet the southern cham
pions. The latter are a couple of clever
New Workers who went south to oualf-
~ and they are sort of dark horses
Feel is a well known doubles PLAYER
who ranks high. while Grant is famors
as an indoor player.
The consensus Of oninion ar,o,z
local followers Of the game is thar
y Long and Mclaughlin had. iofned
iorces instead OF James and McI.ough-
iih' the local champions would surely
ngure in the national doubles match.
with Long playing the best game of
MS career, he and McLoughlin would
prove a much stronger combination
man the present coast Champions
James a. times plays sensational tennis.
pul otten falls down and makes
poor showing.
however, IL is too late now to make
a chauge. as James and McLoughlin
Qualihed, and Long could not be sub-
stltuteo II is to be hoped James will
nave one Of his good days When he
slrlkes' ms gait he is demon, but he
y allO8eLner too unreliable. 1t is ex-
pecUee by the local fans that James
and Mclaughlin viii dispose of the
oIher sectional champions and get A
crack AZ the national champions.
II Long plays TO his form of last
week he ought to win the New York
state championship. He should have
an easy time winning the tournament.
Probably the hardest man he will have
10 beat viii be Fl. MolIenhauer, win
ner Of last years. event The latter
made q good showing against H. H
Hackett IN the challenge match If
Long does get by he VIII be UP against
the strongest player he has ever met.
Hackett, with Alexander, holds the
national doubles ehampfonshfp and has
years. The local champion after his
form OF last week has a chance against
any Of them, and as he is always full
OF self-confdences II viii occasion little
surprise here II he takes Hackett into
camp.
With Long in.the tournament, Bundy.
and Sinsabaugh do not figure Bu1dy
may get as lar as the finals if they
drop him in the opposite half from
Long, but II doesn't look as if he could
ge1 by the coast champion. And this
same Long. who is proving a sensation
IN the east was beaten in straight sets
by James two months ago and for the
last six months has been taken down
the line by almost every member of
tsle championship class on the coast
For coast champion his form was
awful. and he certainly had the record
for double faults.
While AIcLoughlin was eclipsed by
Long last week and must redeem HIM
SCH TOT Lle 4tLedl ne SuHereQ at the /
hanos OF Bundy in the western cham !
pionship. the sorreI top player will
surely get back in the limelight this /
week and should stay there.
Considering the conditions under |
which the coast experts have been
playing their success has been won |
derful. In the first place not one of
them ever saw turf court before and
had meyer played in spiked shoes. Then |
again they left the fog belt and got
right into the severe eastern heat. An /
other thing that worked against them
was their lack Of experience, but there
S. no reason. to believe that any of
them suffered from stage fright.
The showing OF Mclaughlin and Long
is all the more wonderful because Of /
the fact that they are respectively only /
II and ls years Of age. The former is
q high school boy, while the latter is
not yet out Of college They are going /
up against men who have been in the /
championship division for years. West /
ern champions develop just about 10 /
years younger than eastern champions. /
no mar has ever won the national |
championship until after he had /
reached 25. while there have been more 1
Pacific states champions under 20 than
there have been over.
In July Miss Hofchkiss won the ma
tional championship at Philadelphia /
Two weeks ago she won every title in /
the Pacific northwest and last week /
she caEried of all the honors in British /
Columbia LoTg and Mclaughlin have /
cleaned up everything. in sight in the /
neighborhood of minneapolis and Chi
cago, and IF they can repeat further
east the coast players viii have pretty /
nearly every title OF any Importance in 4
the country. and without the aid of /
May Sutton at that
Will Line Up Today
CHICAGO. Aug. For the first
time since the worlds fair tournament i
a national tenpis event viii be played 1
in Chicago tomorrow. Out at the
OnWentsia club Of Lake Forest in the
afternoon the four premier double
teams Of the United States will clash /
in the initial round of the prelim
mary national doubles Wednesday
the winners Of tomorrOw's matches
viii meet in the finals TO determine
which of the sectional champions viii
have the right to challenge Fred B.
Alexander and Harold H. Hackett,
holders Of the national championship
for the American title
The first match tomorrow will bring
together r. A. Holden Jr. and Trux