Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-01
TENNIS GROWING
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Various Styles of Play introduced
That Increase 1t in Popu-
lar Favor
SQUASH BEING PLAYED HERE
Coming Tournaments in CaIifor'
MIA Promise Greater Class
in Contests Than Before

Tennis is attracting a great deal
more interest in the south than it has
been able to germinate heretofore.
The game is coming to be one of the
headliners on the local sporting calen-
dar and the branches of the sport for
a long time popular in the east are
gradually being introduced into the
Southern California athletic schedules.
Squash tennis, one of the leading
diversions of the New Yorker is just
lately entering into the program To-
cally. and courts for contests in this
side line of the tennis game are being
constructed in the athletic halls and
gymnasiums of local hotels and clubs.
Squash is a combination of tennis and
handball The. server stands about
twenty feet back from the wall and
drives the ball against it. striving to
bounce the ball into the service court
as in tennis The ball must strike two
feet above the floor and within the
boundaries of the court. Players de-
clare it is as many sided as tennis,
while it possesses the snap and speed
of its mother game, handbell.
Another development of the tennis
game is tether tennis, which has found
a place on every playground locally.
1t is played with the same implements
as lawn tennis, but the ball is secured
in a net holder and strung to the top
of a pole about eight feet in height.
The game consists in attempting to
wind up the cord while your opponent
strives to prevent this and at the same
time wind 1t around the other way.
Tennis itself now holds a place from
which it cannot be ousted by any other
sport. For year-round interest 1t holds
the record among local sporting circles.
The defeat of May Sutton by Hazel
Hotchkiss in the last tourney at Oiai
will keep the players on the qui vive
until the Southern California cham
pionships In August, when these two.
the greatest women players the world
has ever known. will meet for the de-
Gliding trial of the coming holder of the
championship.
Bundy and Mclaughlin. with Mel
Vile Long, the Stanford player. will
furnish the thrill in the mems singles
event, and Mclaughlin and James are
slated to show up the rest of the as
pirants to double hOnors. The latter
two. by their work on the eastern
courts, have shown themselves second
only to the national champions Hack
EFT and Alexander. and If the plans of
the Southern California association
materialize, it is possible that these
two topnotch pairs of racket swingers
will be seen in action on the local
give Los Angeles the premier events
in tennis circles of the year and give
the game a boost the like of which it
has never known.
Whine Mace. present holder of the
Southern California championship
probably will have to doff his honors
this year If the invasion Of the north
ern and eastern stars becomes real
ity With Bundy in the running and
Dawson and Charley Rogers playing
the games Of their lives this season, the
Southern California champion of 1910
certainly will be we'll entitled to the
laurels he will acquire. The Mount
Washington and Venice Journeys will
give the followers of the court game
amnle time to prepare for the real
thing in August. and the opportunities
for developing the best YETI in the
tennis line looks like a sure thing.
Take Saturday afternoons for little
warming up out in the back yard. ye
embryo champions; use the grape ar
Dor for n net. persuade FidO to corral
the Wild ones, and get those volleys
and Lawfords down to sure thing,
and then one may expect with certain
interest that the north and the east
are not so much after all, and always
have to take into account the Southern
Californian in doping up" the winner
of the championships.