Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-15
IMPROVE TENNIS
COURTS At BEACH
VeriCe Country Club Making Ar
rangements for Banner
Tourney of Season
WIND SHIELDS TO BE PUT UP
Hollywood Players Organize AS
sociation and viii Have
New Grounds There

With the first or the DlS summer
tennis Journeys only a week away, the
cracks of the local courts are putting
inc in some strenuous days with the
racket and ball. The Venice courts
were full yesterday, many of the play
ers being beginners at the game, but
determined to make a good showing
A contractor was on the courts with
the tournament manager, marking
snots which are to be given new
coat of cement, and 1t is the plan 10
erect a new wind break on the ocean
side that will do away with great
deal of the sea breeze, which is a Zoe
+o accurate shots. New nets Will pc
in place tomorrow, the backstop nets
will be put in perfect repair and all
the miscellaneous minor points that
make the perfect whole will be attend
ed to thoroughly.
A number of the crack tennis
nlavers of Hollywood and vicinity
have organized the Hollywood Tennis
association and already have started
work on a new field of courts, located
at Sunset and Vine streets, Holly
wood.
The organization plans to hold
series of tournaments during the sum-
mer with the surrounding tennis or
ganizations. AS a number of the best
known players of the Hollywood dis
trict are in the organization 1t is eX-
pected that the game will be greatly
benefited through the efforts of the
association.
A meeting of the association was
held Monday night and officers for the
coming year were elected. A. M.
Strong was elected president r. A.
Wvnne secretary and E. Parker treas
urer r S. Hoover was elected man
ager of all tournaments and matches.
G. L. Eastman was chosen as captain
of all tournament teams.
Two of the club members have fg-
ured to some extent in local tourneYs'
Hal Gorham and Claude Wayne. The
former won the interscholast1c cham-
pionship at Ojai several years ago and
was considered one of the first rank
among local court artists. He has not
heen entered in any of the Southern
California matches for some time, ana
his membership in the Hollywood CLUB
will have a strong influence in bring
ing him back into the fold. CLAUDE
WAYNE and R. H. F. Variel were men,
bers of the Stanford tennis team for
several years and played in the Mount
Washington tourney few weeks ago.
They are considered one of the best
doubles teams in the south and can
make the internationalists Long and
Mclaughlin, look to their laurels.
The membership of the club en-
braces the following: Hal Gorham, G.
L. Eastman, F. w. Hance, A. M
Strong. r. A. Wynne, T. C. Wynne
G. F. Holbrook, H. Wade, Edward
Linely, F. S. Hoover, A. F. Shaw. L.
Farrell, Guy Hogan, E. Parker Dich
q n-60 q
A. Bassett, T. ]. Froelich and Clauo
Wayns.
The virginia courts at Long Beach
will be the center of attraction July
/, . and 8, when the Pacific states
championship in the doubles will be de-
cided Entries are being received from
all over California and a larger ns' 1,s1
| than last year is assured. Besides the
regular double matches the prelimin'
arv round of which will start at 9:3C
/ o'clock, July 1. there will be some ex'
| hibition matches Of ladies' singles by
some of the best players of the femi'
nine tennis world today Miss Haze
Hotchkiss Miss May Sutton Miss Col
| da Myer, Miss Florence Sutton Mrs
| B. o. Bruce Mrs. Farquhar, Miss Mary
Browne and number of others vii
! be scheduled in this event, the frs
round of which will be played the sec
ond days play, Saturday, July 2
Among the local players who are plan
ming on taking part in the comint
championship doubles tourney are Ton
Bundy, Simpson Sinsabaugh, Hal BY
erly Lew Freeman. A. c. Way, Wayne
Variel, Long Mclaughlin, Sumne
Hardy. Dawson, Young, Mace, Doug
las, Dietrich. Noble, Hopper, Cawston
Gorham. Salisbury, Duncan, Bell, Har
ry Rogers Charlie Rogers, Nat Browne
Herd, Hendricl, Bacon, Overton. Blu
miller, Holmes. Huntington, Johns
Banks, Barker and Galusha.
S. M. Sinsabaugh, manager of tn
doubles tournament at the Virgini;
July /, 2 and 4, received a letter from
Maurice Mclaughlin yesterday whicl
stated that he, Mclaughlin, and Mel
willie H Long were counting on beini
contestants in the dor bles at the Vir
ginia and that Miss Hazel Hotchkiss
who left Sunday for Philadelphia t.
defend her national title, would be a
Long Beach July to play her sched
uled match with Miss May Sutton.