Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

day evening in one of the popular ten
mis- dances for which the Southern Cali
fornia Lawn Tennis association is
famed. Play will be continuous from
$3.50 O'Clock until noon and from 2
o'clock until 8. The courts are being
remodeled and will be in first-class
condition for the tournament Refresh
ments win be served during the day,
and everything will be arranged to
make the affair the society function of
the year.
The feminine fans will be in evidence
throughout the three days of play, both
on the field and in the grand stand.
Mrs. II. A. Phillips and Mrs M. L.
Whitaker will be in charge Of the re
freshment committee Thursday, Mrs.
G.. II. Barker and Mrs. w. l.. Percy
Friday, and Mrs. Abbot Kinney and
Mrs. NJ. M. Merry on Saturday. With
them will be associated the following
misses: Pansy Whitaker, Belle Whita-
ker Agnes Whitaker, Edith Whitaker,
| Gladys Percy, Margaret Percy, Lillian
Phillips, Aileen Phillips, Edna Black
more, Florence Eliot and Helen King.
Light luncheon at noon and tea in the
| late afternoon will be the refreshment
program during the tournament.
BEGIN EARLY
The tournament will consist of the
singles, open doubles, mixed doubles
and consolation singles, besides the
BOBBY prize play. The junior singles
will start at $3.50 Thursday morning
and will be played to the finals on
Thursday, the final match being played
on Saturday. The open singles event
| will commence at o'clock Thursday
afternoon and will be played straight
| through to the finals. The womans
event will begin at the same time as
the open singles and will be played in
the same manner, the finals being post
! poned until Saturday The doubles will
! be started Friday morning and the
whole day will be given over entirely
to that style of play, with perhaps a
! postponed match or two from the day
before on the mornings program. The
mixed and mems doubles will be start
ed together, and the contestants who
enter both will run the chance of de-
! faulting one or the other of two con-
| flicting matches.
Last years winners at Venice We're
as follows. Women's singles, Eliza
beth Ryan; Junior singles, Ward Daw-
son; mems doubles, Bell and Bundy;
womens doubles, Mrs. John Hickman
and Elizabeth Ryan; mixed doubles,
Mrs. b. o. Bruce and A. v. Duncan;
consolation singles, Ralph Noble.
THE FINALS
All matches will be the best two in
three sets, except the finals of the open
singles and doubles, which will be the
| best three out of five sets. All sets
will be advantage. Play will begin at
9S0 o'clock promptly each day, and any
| player not appearing at his scheduled
time will be defaulted. The 1910 rules
| of the United States National Lawn
Tennis association will govern the play.
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each player in every event. Entries to
the tournament will close Wednesday,
June %, and until that time can be
made with A. c. Way, First National
bank, Los Angeles; J. w. Lawrence jr.,
Bank of Venice; Thornton Kinney,
manager Of the tournament. Windward
hotel, Venice: Wallace Robb, of Dyas-
Clines. or at the Spalding store, 435
South Spring street. At the conclusion
of the tournament on Saturday even
ing, June 25, a tennis dance will be
given by the club, after which the
prizes in the several events will be
awarded.
The following are on the tournament
committee: Thornton Kinney, man
ager; H. Lee Blackmore, Huntington
Barker, Major w. L. Percy
The following prizes will be awarded:
Junior singles, first prize, Hackett &
| Alexander racket, second prize;
leather racket case, women's singles,
first prize. club challenge cup; second
prize, woman's sweater. Open singles,
first prize, Montgomery challenge cup;
second prize, Hackett & Alexander
racket. Open doubles, first prize, the
new doubles challenge cups of the Ven
ice Country club second prize. Ward
& Wright racket. Mixed doubles,
first prizes, club cups; second prizes,
women's and mems sweaters. Conso-
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hill racket, press and case; second
prize, sweater.
MANY ENTRIES
Entries have been coming in thick
and fast, and Manager Kinney expects
the largest list of any Southern Cali
fornia tournament. The following
names have been sent in to date:
open singles-Maurice Mclaughlin,
Melville H. Long. Tom c. Bundy (cup
holder), Nat Browne, A. V. Duncan,
Clifton Herd, Winfred Mace Ward
Dawson, Will Bacon, E. Barker, c.
Barker, e, G.. Galusha, Earl Shook,
Simpson Sinsabaugh, Paul Lowry, H.
F. Weller Salisbury, e. Weller, AL
phonso Bell, ]. w. Lawrence, jr.
In the open doubles the following
teams have entered: Long and Nc
Loughlin, Bell and Bundy Bacon and
Young.N e. Barker and c. Barker, p.
Morphy and p Barker. Lowry and
Weller, M. Ketchum and o. Marshall.
Women's singles-Miss Alice Scott,
Miss May Sutton Ito play winner), Miss
Florence Sutton, Mrs. B. o. Bruce, Miss
Coda Myer.
Junior singles-Lowry. Moore, Young,
Marshall, Ketchum, Weller, Barker,
Tinneman.
Mixed doubes-Miss May Sutton and
Tom G. Bundy, Miss Golda Myer and
Melville II. Long, Miss Alice Scott and
Will Bacon.
Players will have only a brief rest
before the big doubles tourney will be
on at the Virginia hotel, Long Beach,
to be held July 1, 2 and 4, Friday, Sat-
urday and Monday. This tourney will
be under the management of the Pa
cific States Lawn Tennis association
and will involve the championship of
the Pacific states. 1t is heralded as
the twenty-third annual tournament
and has always been of prime import
ance to western tennis cracks.
EASTERN TRIP
The tournament is open to all play
ers of amateur standing who are will
ing to take the eastern trip if success
full in winning at Long Beach. The
winners of the tournament will go to
Lake Forest, ILL.,. thirty miles north of
Chicago where the preliminary, ma
tionaI doubles will be held on the
courts of the Ontwentsia club, begin
ming August 2. The winners of this
tournament are entitled to represent
their club at Newport, where they will
play Hackett and Alexander, the pres
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