The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-20

WORK CUT OUT FOR
Tennis PLAYERS
Finals of the California Club
Will Be Contested
Tuesday Next
By GRANT SMITH

With a handicap doubles tournament
In progress at the California club and
two of the classes Of the Golden. Gate
club meeting at the park both tennis
players and fans will be kept busy to-
day. The finals of the club event will
be played Tuesday afternoon and no
doubt whatever matches that are I'M
played at the park today will go over
TO the holiday The competition at
the California club is for the two
handsome cups put up by Doctor
Younger and Douglas Grant
AT the park the first and third class
players will meet The second and
fourth classes were completed last
Sunday and were won by CutIey and
! Morgan respectively There viii no
doubt be few entries in the first class.
Ma urice Mclaughlin. who won the lasc
tournament OF the kind and inciden1-
ally carried OF the cup for the third
and last time. IS still in the southern
part of the state. Melville Long his
teammate. is entered in the California.
club event and is not expected to play
at the park. George James. the only
other member OF the championship di-s
vision, has entered and looks TO hayes
the hOnors at his mercy. If he plays.
he viii surely have his name engraved.
first on the new cup The other play
ers who will make up the class and
dispute the honOrs with James are b.
gan, 3. Guerin and possibly one or
two others. These players all look to
be outclassed by James, though Batkins
has improved wonderfully OF late and
may give the coast champion all ha
can take care Of
In the third class Fred Bass stands,
out almost as much as James does in
the first class. He has won the cup
twice and is expected 10 carry il orr
for good and all today. Paul Harde-i
men, w a. Marcus. j. Schwartz and
c. G. Curley. the other winners of the.
cup. have all graduated from this class
and unless some young phenom comes
to the front Unexpectedly Bass should.
graduate.
The annual championship event OF
Alameda county. which heretofore has
been held Washington's birthday, will,
not be played this month. The dele
gates TO the Pacific states lawn Tennis
association were to have met at CorO-
nado last week to draw up a schedule
of championship events for the year,
but did not do So
President Sumner Hardy announced
during the week that the meeting will
be held through correspondence and
the schedule viii be announced within
month. Just when the Alameda.
championship event will be held aud
where will be determined by the as
sOciation when the schedule is ar
ranged. The next championship event
is that for the championship of San
Francisco. which has always been held
May 80. 1t is not expected this date
will be changed.
President Hardy is in favor of lin
iting the sectional championship events
to bona fde residents of the section
in which the tournament is held In
other words, only residents of Alameda.
county can contest for the Alameda
championship and only residents of
San Francisco are eligible to compete
/ in the San Francisco championship
event. Doctor Hardy contends that
too many titles fall to the same PLAYER
as in the case of Maurice Mclaughlin
and Melville Long, who have divided
nearly all of the titles between them
in the last three or four years
Hardy cites the case of PeII and
Grant, who last year went from New
York and won the championship of the
southern states, thereby qualifying for
the national preliminary doubles. This
is an unusual case and has little or no
bearing on the situation on this coast.
While some of the delegates win favor
Hardy's plan, it is expected a majority
will vote against it.
By closing the events to outsiders
the players of the various sections will
be robbed of an opportunity to play
against such experts Miss May Sut-
ton. Miss Hazel Hotchkiss, Maurice
Mclaughlin and Melville Long, and the
spectators will be denied the privilege
of seeing them in action. OF course.
there will be certain events, such as
the coast and state championship tour
naments which will be open TO all
corners. but these tournaments will be
held out of the reach of many of the
sections
President Hardy has at last sue
ceeded in getting the southern CalifOr-
mia clubs to Join the Pacific States
lawn tennis association. and Is now
giving his attention to the clubs OF
the Pacific northwest. When the lat
ter come in the association will be in
control of tennis on the coast from top
to bottom.
Melville Long. who is indulging in a
little light practice TO get In shape for
the intercollegiate matches. has.
changed his style of play since re-
turning from Australia and has an
nounced his intention of cutting out
the chop stroke and combining himself
TO a drive in the back court He hg-
ures that the chop stroke, which is
very effective on asphalt courts. loses
its effectiveness on the turf and is
not near the point winner that the
drive is.
As Long expects to go east again
next wear he will change his style OF
play to make his game as effective as
possible on the turf This viii hurt
his game on the asphalt, but as Long
is after national instead of local hon.
ors he may decide to stay out Of the
local championship events