The San Francisco call., 1910-02-27
TENNIS RESULTS
VERY UNCERTAIN
California Club Teams Matched
in Doubles Play Varying
Styles of Game
By GRANT SMITH

| Two tennis tournaments will be COM
! pleted on the local courts today. AT
/ the California club the handicap
doubles tournament for the cups pre-
I sented by Doctor Younger and Douglas
Grant will be disposed of. The first
and third class players will finish their
I tournament commenced on the Golden
! Gate park courts last Sunday
The California club event is down
to the seminal round and the three
remaining matches should all prove
close and interesting. Two of the most
! heavily handicapped teams are still in
the competition and each will meet a
team playing from scratch. In one
half Harry Weihe and Sherwood Adams
(owe l5) will oppose Cutter and Nourse
(scratch), while in the other half Rose
and Finnigan (owe 15) will meet Derby
and Wescott (scratch).
Weihe and Adams will find them
selves up against two of the steadiest
players in the club and will have to
play pretty close to their old time form
to dispose of their opponents. Cutter
and Nourse simply get the balls back
in good shape and depend upon their
opponents nets and outs to win. The
old pony team is by no means as
steady but they play a much faster
game. Adams is in good shape at pres
ent, but Weihe is not as sure of his
strokes as formerly.
In the other seminal match the han
dicap team is the brilliant but un-
steady one. while Rose and Finnigan
play steady, careful game. Derby re-
lies almost entirely on his forehand
drive and rarely uses any other stroke.
Wescott's forte is his overhead work
He is a good smasher. but his back
court game is not up to that of his
partner. Rose and Finnigan play well
in all parts of the court and can be re-
lied upon to make very few errors.
The semifinaI matches will be played
in the forenoon. while the final match |
is set for $50 in the afternoon. The /!
semiinals will consist of two sets out
of three and the finals three sets out of |
once and will go to the winner of the !
permanently.
In the first class event at the park |
George James looks a sure winner. He /
won his matches last. Sunday without /
exerting himself and went in to the |
finals without the loss of a set He |
viii meet the winner of the match be-
tween Batkin and Fitz Guerin in the /
finals. The latter started their semi
final match last Sunday and it proved
one of the closest played on the public
courts in some time. The score stood /
set all and u when darkness put a
stop to play. The entire match will be
played over this morning and If both
play as well as they did last Sunday it
will be well forth going to see. 1t was
expected Batkin would prove a rather
handy winer over Guerin, but the latter
played unusually well and looks to
have a good chance to beat his younger
opponent Neither one looks to have
much of a chance against James, who
should win easily in the finals.
In the third class Flanders quail
fed for the finals, where he will meet
the winner of the semifinal match be-
tween Still and Bass. The last men
toned player has twice won the cup
and is expected to score his third and
final win today. If he does he will
play in the second class in future.
The defeat of Mclaughlin and Long,
he international team, at the hands of
and Browne at Long Beach
asst week proved a great surprise. Long
Ind Mclaughlin won the first set
"a silly, but made a poor showing in
he next two sets. The change from
urf to asphalt no doubt affected the
,lay of Long and Mclaughlin, but at
hat they figured to win easily from
he southern California cracks. Nc
loughlin redeemed himself by winning
he singles.
Miss May Sutton once more took
diss Hazel Hotchkiss, the national
hampton into camp, and with such !
ase that the little Berkeley player ,
lardly looks to be classed with her. !
iiss Sutton's easy victory proves that
he is playing as well as ever and she :
hould regain the title of worlds cham :
ion if she decides to go after it this I
ear
Carl Gardner. a former crack of this I
ity, has been distinguishing himself I
n the national indoor championship ,
ournament in the east. He reached
he semifinal round of the singles, :.
there he was beaten by George Touch
rd, former Berkeley player, who,
nth Gardner, won place in the finals
the doubtless