Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-22
LONG DEFEATED
BY M'LOUGHLIN
BRILLIANT TENNIS IN MEMS
SINGLES FINALS
Hazel Hotchkiss Repeats Coronado
Performance by Defeating Flor
ence Sutton and VIII Meet
Champion May
Especial to The Herald

Especial to The Herald
LONG BEACH, Feb. Elm the fast
est mems singles ever seen on a local
court NJ. L. Mclaughlin this after
noon wrested victory in the finals from
Melville Long, the former coast cham
pion. After Long had secured the first
two sets, Mclaughlin took the three
following, each of them being of the
deuce variety.
When each player had won two sets
and the games stood seven all in the
deciding set, the crowd was brought
to it's feet, the excitement being in
tense. The scores were 2-6, 2-6, 8-6,
7-5, 81.
Tomorrow afternoon Long will play
T. c. Bundy, who is the defender of
the Virginia cup. The men who met
in the singles today are both north
erners, and both are known in tennis
all over the country. Thev made up
the American team which competed
recently in the Australian tournament.
One set was considerably like an
other in their match today. AT times
both played like fiends. They raced
from back line to net, from net to
back line, from side to side, and each
man credited himself with few back
hand strokes, made on a backward
body whirl after running half the
length of the court. In such plays the
balls went true, with but few eXcep-
tions.
Occasionally one or the other would
race for yards, lift a ball just off the
cement floor for a chop over the net.
Again the ball would Craze the top of
the net and drop over. There the
other player would be to lob it back.
A story of one set would be a story
of ALL with Mclaughlin gradually
wearing out his opponent, who at first
was picked to win.
It was the most sensational tennis
ever seen here, and probable the match
was as exciting as could be seen on
any court or in any tournament, the
men being so well matched
Whenever they have played against
each other the same sort of a grueling
contest has developed as was wit
messed today. Heretofore Long has
triumphed over his opponent Today
Long started out strong, and during
the first two sets played Mclaughlin
off his feet, chopping the balls to either
side or driving them where McLough-
lin could not reach.
In the third set, however after Long
had taken two games, his opponent
seemed to be gradually wearing him
down. Mclaughlin took the third
game of the set, also the fourth,
which was a love game. Long took the
next game, but Mclaughlin evened
brought on redhot tennis, Mclaughlin
chopping the ball away from Long,
winning the game. Long took the
next two, after which Mclaughlin
took three straight, winning the set
So. Mclaughlin was playing much
steadier game, and Long sent several
balls outside the court. In the fourth
set the games We're fought out in the
same way, going from deuce to Go
and 7--5.
The decisive set was wildly exciting
Long won from a deuce, cutting the
last ball cleverly to the east side of
the court. Mclaughlin served and
won the next game. Long falling in
his returns The next was love game
for Long, Mclaughlin driving the ball
into the net repeatedly.
Long seemed to be getting stronger.
He took the fourth game also, wind
ing it up with another clever chop,
While McLoughlin was disentagling
himself from the lineman on the west
of the court Long drove the ball safely
into the east side, yards away.
The men divided the next two games,
winning off each others serves. They,
repetaed this stunt. bringing the games
to 4-4. In the ninth game Mclaughlin
drove the ball into the net and out of
the court, and Long won. The other
man took the next, in turn, placing the
Dali DeuIl1ully ana 6uBlnS Oul dliSeiU
in rapid-fire work back and forth
across the net and all over the court.
The same fast playing continued
throughout the following four games,
each man taking -one alternately The
games then stood to Z. In the fif-
teenth game Long. serving, drove the
ball out of McLoughlin's reach. Next
he sent it out of the court, however
Sending it wild again, he made the
score 1880. Mclaughlin netted the
ball. making it 5000. 1t went to a
deuce, and from there straight through
the vantage to a win for Mclaughlin.
This victory off Longs serve made the
crowd expect a windup in the next
game, a deciding one If Mclaughlin
won his own serve. He drove the ball
wild love-15; Long knocked 1t out
15-all. Furious playing followed, the
men firing the ball back and forth and
getting it from every nook of the
court. Long won this rally, and the
score was 1880. Long drove Nc
Loughlin's lob into the net, and next