The San Francisco call., 1910-09-08
MISS SUTTON And
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LONG FAVORITES
Racket WieIderS Picked TO Win
Our in Mems and Women's
Classes

s ..-DEL MONTE. Sept. WAS Douglas
Grant born under a lucky star. or is it
snerely that his friends are particularly
Unfortunate where he is concerned?
These are two questions that are con-
. slderably agitating the guests here to-
day Prior TO his departure last night
FOR the golf tournament at Burlingame
Grant counted up his winnings of the
last three weeks, since the opening Of
rae local golf contest. After paying all
his expenses, his bets and his other
debts OF honor. Grant was last night
yearly S2,000 to the good
= F--Seven hundred dollars clear ] made
out OF the Calcutta pool he explained,
-'and then there were various other lit
-stIe lucky bets" A certain game OF
klondike. played just preceding his de-
'parture. netted him in one fell swoop
S1.Q69, Charles ". Clark handing him
his check for that amount SO Grant
went of beaming and happy Even If
some of his friends, masculine and fem
= mime, lost pretty heavily when they
bet on him for the golf championship,
+..he himself. If he played not under
-iUcky star, certainly bet and gambled
& under one.
-.- There was general regret felt at his
- taep dlLuEes ZOO l0I IIAuN buNo Up a
clean, good game. be II golf or tennis.
land his athletic conduct is well liked
= by friend and foe. Charlie Clark also
Feft last night. the Burlingame tourna-
I ment proving a great drawing card TO
those who have enshrined golf as
" newly discovered god.
@-.< Golf however. has taken a decidedly
secondary place here all this week
since the advent of the tennis experts,
She courts being from : until 8 daily
?. fhe center Of all activity around the
hotel General disap ppointment was felt
! today At the opening of the women's
doubles AT the nonappearance OF Miss
2. Nora Brewer Of san Mateo, who was to
have cOntended for honors with the
sffree sutton sisters. Miss Brown, Miss
Hazel Eotchkiss and others. Her name
was duly entered and her reservations
.fnade. but neither she nor any of her
--party appeared. and no explanation was
- forthcoming.
+. whether the first report Of an auto
mobile accident last night is true. or
whether Miss Brewer just exerted
Romans natural prerOgatiVe and
i changed her mind. history does not
state. and the doubles have gone on
without her.
-. Tonight and tomorrow there viii be
. a general exodus Of the Hillsboro set
for the Crocker ball. the golf tOurna
2
!. the contestants for tennis honors and
their friends are stin filing the hotel to
.0verfowing. The main interest centers
..in the finals Of the mems and women s
= singles when the palms of victory viii
he. awarded TO either James or Long
~ and 10 either Miss Nav Sutton or her
sturdy little rival Miss Hazel Hotch
KISS
/ The contests for the 1910 champion
= ship Of the Pacific States Lawn Tennis
: association IN mems singles and in
mems consolat ton singles were brought
..rQ the seminal rounds on the courts
here TODAY In the upper half of the
rnpionship singles Melville II. Long
heat 3. Batkin in three straight sets,
80 81 6-3. and Percy Nurdock. after
.. most stubborn struggle, won from r.
90 Hunt -0-6. 81. 6-1 SIS. Ga. In the
:. lower half W. Bacon defeated DR.. ".
p. K. LoTegrove 81 6-3. Ga. 6-1. the doc
tor not being ia SO good condition as
Efs opponent. and Gerald Young won
from W q. Knowlton. thes core being
r 6-5. 6-1, 6-3. In the semi finals tomor-
= row Long viii meet Murdock and Bacon
.e55viu be matched against Young. There
is little doubt that Melville Long will
:. win the tournament and viii challenge
- George J. James for the championship
s of 1910.
: In the mems consolation singles w
= j.. Davis won by default from Douglas
70 zsnt, W. O. Hunter beat Roy V Hol-
. u n. 6-3. 6-3 ". Johnston beat Ella
i g. GslUsha, 81. 60, and J. r. Edwards
= defeated Clinton de la Montague, 6-l
90.
In the semi-fnal round Johnston won
: from Edwards 6-3. 60. and Will meet
ia the final round the winner of the
: -.lDav avis-Hunter match.
;. In the mixed doubles Miss valleau
and Percy Murdock, who had been
piJted against Miss Nora Brewer and
R. Splivalo. reached the first round
: withOut a contest. the latter couple
not having reached Del Monte Miss
Hazel HOtchkiss and NJ. II. Long beat
Miss Mary Browne and S. NJ Sinsa-
-bsugh, Ga. 6-S. Miss KaIleau and
Percy A1urdOck are drawn against Miss
>--tsolda Myer and George J. James. Miss
.. Florence sutton and r. q. Hunt beat
o Mrs H. Kearne and NJ. ". Redmayne.
::6-l. 6-l, and Miss May Sutton and
. Gerald Young defeated Mrs. Bruce and
: .Dr. Sumner Hardy, Is. 6-1, 6-l. In the
.semi-nnal round Miss Hotchkiss and
N Long VIII meet the winner of the
= match between the Valleau- -Murdock
and Myer-Janes teams, and Miss Flor
:. ence sutton and r. Q. Hunt will play
"a gainst Miss May Sutton and Gerald
- Young.
: The match that attracted the most
;. attention was the one played in the
morning in ladies' doubles between
= Miss May Sutton and Miss Mary Browne
As one team, and Miss Florence Sutton
and Mrs 3. o. Bruce as the other. The
latter pair won the first set 6-2, but
lost the next Two and the match Ga,
.-6--3, the winners having taken four
O.: games 10 the losers II. AS the score
.sh0M4 the teams were matched very
=. egenls. Each contestant made many
> pretty strokes. May Sutton using her
.8orehand drive with good effect and
her partner placing several balls pref
riy between her opponents.
The winners win meet Miss Hazel
: Hotchkiss and Miss Golda Myer. who
/: oefeated Mrs. Kearne and Miss Vail
:. lesC.
-. An the mems doubles byes were drawn
p 12E Finnigan and Hotchkiss and by
Eyburn and Sheldon in the upper half
: and by Johnston and Knowlton, Bacon
land Young in the lower half Long
. ana sinsabsugh beat Ball and Rogers,
.''t-O, b--l, Lovegrove and Nourse beat
:: Redmayne and Holland, e-3. 6-I.
.-J-ottreL and Batkin are drawn against
J. n d41rcock and Hunt. Gorrill and Hunt
a.er defested Code and Davis, 6-3, Sc.
:. johnston and Knowlton are matched
against Bacon and Young.
Ia the mems draw doubles Galusha
-iand wider defeated La Montague and
= RedmaVne. g. e-1 ana min 49,