Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-04
TENNIS FANS TO
ENJOY BIC CAME
Miss Hazel HotchkiSs and Miss
May Sutton Will Cross Rack
cts Today
PLAYERS SHOW GOOD FORM
Local Experts Anticipate Hard
Contest for Victory in Siren
uouS Match
BY e. V. WELLER


When Miss Hazel Hotchkiss and Miss
May Sutton cross raclIets on the Vir-
ginia courts this afternoon there VIII
be crowd of San Francisco fans to
cheer her on to victory, but there will
also be an inspiring division in the
grandstand who will keep themselves
h-arse in an effort to show Miss Sutton
that they are on her side and are with
her to the finish. The game will be no
easy one for either side. Experts are
making statements to the effect that
Miss Hotchkiss' defeat in Saturdays
contest with Mrs. Bruce was something
of fluke and due for the most part to
the northerner's strenuous campaign of
the eastern tournament and her tired
feeling from the many nights on the
train.
Miss Hotchkiss also will be in the
best condition for her match in the
afternoon, for she is prepared to make
the best showing of her southern ap-
pearances, having regained her form
and entirely recovered from her travel
WEAKNESS. Yesterday, in a fast match
with Variel and Long, playing with
Mclaughlin, she made a fine showing
and clearly showed the assembled fans
that there was still a hard match III
sight for the "undefeated one" and the
May Sutton of the Mt. Washington
tourney will have to be a stronger
player in today's match.
May is confident of victory. She is
counting on it and when she is count
ing on a thing it will surely come to
pass. When you see her chin set in
a determined way you may know that
there will be a superhuman conqueror
who is to take her scalp in the line of
racket welding and you will have to
go far before you find such a super
human one, and the local fans are
banking on the idea that Miss Hotch
kiss is not superhuman. Miss Sutton
is driving as she never drove before.
She will stand any number of sets and
keep her forehand top drive working
steadily for the aces throughout the
sets. She is tireless and this is a
great asset for a tennis player; she is
easily the greatest general of the la
dies in court play and although Miss
Hotchkiss possesses a greater variety
of the chops and lobs Miss Sutton out
points her in the things that go the
farthest toward making a woman
champion.
Miss Hotchkiss plays more of an
overhead game than any of the wo-
man players except our own little Mary
Browne, and this style of play has al
ways been tiresome one for the feni-
nine element in the game. There is no
woman player who can stand the strain
of continued overhead play. Mrs. Lam
DeTI CldlIuGIS, nee MISS DOuSldSB WcIS
the only living woman player who ever
attempted the overhead style to any
great extent before Miss Hotchkiss,
and Mrs. Chalmers was easy for May
when May was playing her real game.
Place the best overhead player among
the men against the best back court
player and the overhead player will
win. Place the best overhead player
among the woman against the best
back court player and the back court
player will win. The power of en-
durance enters largely into the tennis
racket work and a woman cannot
stand the gruelling strain of the over
head variety of play.
The majority of the dopesters are
betting on Miss Sutton to win in
straight sets from the little northern
whirlwind, not because Miss Hotchkiss
is travel-worn or out of practice or
anything of that kind, but because she
is a better player and more able to
play the game of her life when it be-
comes necessary to take the critical
points. There has never been a Miss
May Sutton before in tennis annals,
and there will not be one again for
some time. She is the unbeatable
one" and as such will be given the
laurels of the century as the real queen
of lawn tennis.
Today's program includes every
variety VI pIdy1 1IOiIl Ileil uOuDleS
and consolation doubles to the wOmen's
singles and the special exhibition
match. This morning at 10 o'clock the
finals in the women's singles between
Mrs. Bruce and May Sutton will be
played, and there will be some special
exhibitions to keep the fans enter
tanned. In the afternoon the two star
attractions will be the exhibition match
between Miss May Sutton and Hazel
Hotchkiss, followed by the finals in
the Pacific states championship mems
doubles. Besides this the afternoon
program will include a number of ex-
hibitions and a full days program of
classy tennis exhibitions is an assured
fact. The carpenters were at work all
day yesterday in putting up additional
bleachers on the second court to ac-
Commodate the crowd, and if the ex-
pectations of the tennis fathers prove
true there will not be d vacant seat in
the whole grandstand.