Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-10
WESTERN PLAYERS
DESIRE TOURNEY
Women's National Tennis Cham
pionships May Soon Be Held
on the Pacific Coast

With the showing of the local fem
mime stars in the last Virginia tourna-
ment returns the hope of the western
fans that another year or so will see
the national women's championship
tournament a tennis feature of the Pa
cific coast. Never in any of the local
Journeys has the talent in this line of
the sport been so promising, and the
entry list in the women's special event
alone was greater than the last women
national championship event held in
Philadelphia and far outShines any
event of it's kind in the world.
With more and better women players
than any section of the tennis map can
boast why should not the champion
ships be held where the local clubs are
able to send representatives without a
weeks trip across the continent during
the training period? The west is not
after the Newport or Longwood cham
pionships-not yet, at least-that will
be a future coup, but the west is after
an event which it rightly should have
not only on account of an even division
of the spoils in the big annual tennis
events, but because women's national
championship tournament held on the
western slope would attract almost
twice the list of experts the east has
been able to gather, and the class of
of the last few Philadelphia women S
championships.
May Sutton does not find 1t an easy
matter to leave home for a trip across
the continent that would take at least
months time, and there are many
more local players who, if they were
able to go, might waltz easily through
the lists of the Philadelphia affair and
duplicate the performance of Miss
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the interests of western tennis during
the past two seasons and travelled sew
eral thousand miles to keep the title on
the coast.
With May Sutton. Hazel Hotchkiss,
Florence Sutton, Mrs. Bruce, Alice
Scott, Mary Browne and Golda Myer on
the coast, each one of whom might
carry away the national title without
difficulty unless some new talent arose
among the eastern camps, there is no
logical competitor for the west when a
comparison of the possibilities for a
successful tourney is made. Philadel-
phia has no more plain on the title
than the not very logical assertion she
has held the affair for the past twenty
Ave years or so, and the claims of the
coast tennis circles are bound to be
recognized sooner or later.
The Sutton sisters and Miss Hotch-
kiss were the only national champion
possibilities three years ago, and it is
since that time that the other aspirants
to the title have arisen in the west.
Every year sees a greater number oil
entries in the Women'S special singles
and every years sees the graduation OF
some of the specials of the previous
year into the open singles class,
Twenty new players weere lined up
against each other in the Southern Cal
ifornia championship tournament for
the specials title, and everyone of the
number showed that with few years
more experience in handling the racket
there will be closer fights in the open
event.
MISS STRUVE PLAYS WELL
Miss Josephine Struve made her
first appearance in open tournament
on the Venice courts and tried out
again in the Virginia event. She is
without exception the gamest little
racket wielder of the newer element
and she tries for every point from the
first service to the last. She is one
of the star tennis artists of Marl-
borough and represented her school in
the interscholastic tournament at OLA
this year. The tennis fathers have
predicted a bright tennis career for
her if she sticks to the game and
to leap into the first class of the fem
mime experts.
The McVay sisters, Laura and Hell
enc, Wellesley champions and con-
testants in many of the eastern Wom-
en- Journeys, made a strong bid fol
the honors in the Southern California
special event, and won their way
through the first rounds with ease
They are possessed Of a good variety
of strokes and handle themselves wei
in the following of the play They
have plenty of chances and plenty OF
time to bring home the winning.
Miss Florence Allen has been seen
in a number of the local tournaments
but has not had fair chance to win
her way to the front with the Suttons
lined up against her. She won the
ladies' special event last week by tax
ing a match from Miss Yoch
Not one of the twenty-one that sent
in their names for the Long Beach
tournament have repented of their
rashness, and every one will be seen
on the courts again in the next tour
ney. The tournament fever is hard
one to purge from the blood, and once
it takes hold is impossible of exter-
mination.
The Septe1- ber Del Monte tourna-
ment will be the principal attraction
of the state tennis year, and there will
be a large delegation from the south
to take part in the event. Win Mace,
the Southern California champion, Will
be a participant, and with him will go
Browne, Freeman, Holmes, Sinsa-
baugh, Ward Dawson, the Rogers
brothers and many others of the local
cracks. Tom Bundy will return in
time for the event, and Mclaughlin,