Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
RACKET W|ELDERS
TO HOLD TOURNEY
Championships at Virginia Are
Scheduled for the First
Week of Next Month
WlNFRED MACE WILL DEFEND
Many New Players Will Enter,
and Results Are Diff
cult to Dope
WlNFRED MACE WILL DEFEND

"The Southern California Lawn Ten
mis- association announces that its
twenty-hfth annual tournament to de-
eide the Southern California champion
ships for the current year will be held
on the courts of the Hotel Virginia,
Long Beach, commencing Monday, Au-
gust l, and ending saturday, August g."
Thus heralded, the principal event Of
the tennis year has been officially an
nounced, and the members of Southern
California tennis circles have begun
united campaign TO improve the games
of their individual experts.
Any amateur player may enter the
tournament, no special invitation being
necessary, and the special endeavor of
the committee in charge is to persuade
the new players to send in their ap-
plications and try out in the tourna-
ment that has been established mainly
for their benefit.
The events will be mems singles,
women's singles, women's singles (spe-
ciaG, junior singles, mems doubles,
women's doubles, mixed doubles and
consolation singles.
Junior singles and women's singles
(speciaD will begin at a. m, and
mems singles and women's singles at ,
p m. on Monday, August l. Announce
ment of the hour for commencement of
other events will be made later.
The Cawston challenge cup for mems
singles was won in 1904 and 1905 by
Eugene OVerman; in 1906 by Harold
II. Braly; in 1907 by Melville II. Long;
in 1908 by Thomas c. Bundy, and in
1909 by Winfred H. Mace.
ftNsa
California champion, may hold the title
FOR another year if he keeps up his
present winning streak and improves
in the manner he has been showing
during the past few weeks. Nat Browne
and Ward Dawson, in the opinion of
those who know, are the only players
on the local courts who might press
him to a strenuous fight, but as Mace
will not be compelled to struggle
through a grueling series of prelimin-
aries the odds are swinging his way
Mace plays the prettiest game of any
player on the southern courts, and IL
he loses his erratic streaks can make
the best of them hustle.
OLD TIMERS ENTERED
All of the old-tlmers will be entered
in the Virginia lists. Freeman, Bell,
Browne, Braly, Duncan, Sinsabaugh,
Holmes, Hopper, Way Nariel, Wayne,
will all be seen in the race for the
honors, and there will be an array of
new blood that will keep the veterans
guessing and inspire some fresh spirit
into the event.
With the number of new tennis clubs
organized around the local racket
haunts there should be a star bunch of
the younger element, and without doubt
there will be some surprises in the
dope list before the tourney is well
under way.
Sinsabaugh and Browne will pair in
the doubles and are picked to win un-
less Braly and Duncan take a decided
brace in the practice this week. Dun
can is playing his usual steady game,
but Braly showed up poorly on the Mt.
Washington courts last week, and
seems to have lost his old-tme speed
and strength.
The appearance of May Sutton In her
favorite tournament will attract good
number of the fans, who fail to ap-
precate anything in the minor bill
and only turn out when the world S
champion is scheduled to play. The
Sutton family will have walkaway In
the womens events, but as there is a
woman's special singles there will be
/ ample opportunity for the more timid
of the feminine stars to try out their
skill in the racket play.
The Montgomery challenge cup foI
women's singles was won in 1904 and
1905 by Mrs. Harold Hope Doeg (Miss
| Violet sutton; in 1906 by Mrs. B. .
Bruce Miss Ethel Sutton; in 1907 by
| Miss Florence Sutton, and in 1908 and
! 1909 by Miss May Sutton.
! The Southern California association
! challenge cups for mems doubles were
! won for the first time last year by AL
! phonso e. Bell and Nat B. Browne.
All the challenge cups must be wor
| three times for permanent possession
! The wins need not necessarily be IN
| succession.
First and second prizes will be
| awarded in each event. The finals ano
championship matches in mems singles
! and mems doubles will be the best
| three in five sets. All other matches
will be best two in three sets. All sets
will be advantage. Junior singles viii
| be open to any player under l9 years
of age. Women's singles (speciaD vii
! be open to those who have never Wor
an opan tournament. Play will beglf
promptly at a. m. and p. m. eacI
| day. Any player not appearing Wher
match is scheduled will be detaulted
| The 1910 rules of the United States Ma
tional Lawn Tennis association viii
! govern the play.
Entries to all singles events close OF
| Saturday, July 30 and can be made III
! to that date with A. c. Way, Acare o
! First National bank; Nat b. Browne
1927 Pacific Electric building, or S. M
| Sinsabaugh 1925 Exchange building
The closing of the entries for all the
doubles events will be announced later
An entrance fee of $1.50 for the men
singles and 81 for each player in every
other event should accompany entry
At the conclusion of the tournamen
Saturday evening banquet Will d.
rendered the tennis players, durlht
which the prizes will be awarded.
Following the banquet tennis dance
will be given in the ball room OF th'
Hotel Virginia, under the auspices o
the Southern California Lawn Tennis
association. .,,-
The management of the Hotel Vlr
ginia has made a special rate to actua
! contestants in the tournament ana 'h'
members of their immediate 1amlnes:
Electric cars direct to the Hotel VT
ginia, Long Beach, leave the Pacih'
/ Electric station, Sixth and Main streets
Los Angeles, on the even hour ah'
every twenty minutes thereafter Re
turning, cars leave the Hotel virgins
in Long Beach on five minutes past Inc
| minutes there