Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13

Tennis goods are selling as they
never sold before; tennis courts are
springing up as they never sprans
before: tournaments are plentiful;
tennis has become a game of such
Importance that the Southern Cali
fornia sportsmen are awakening to
the fact that there is another field
for thrills beside the diamond, some
thing outside of sparring mills and
16 to shots on pony race at SalI
Lake or Emeryville. When three thou
sand people will toll wearily up a
mile long incline or pack into tlny
box of a car for the trip to be on
hand for an exhibition match of the
game upon which no title depends as
at Mt. Washington, the game has at
tanned a degree of interest that sets
it high in the world of sport.
Entries are now crowding in to A.
c. Way at the First National bank,
and to j. w. Lawrence, jr., at the
Bank of Venice for the seventh annual
conclave of the order of racket WELD
ers to be called to order on the courts
of the Venice Country club, Venice,
at o'clock Thursday morning, June
2S. 1t is highly probable that the list
will exceed that for any previous tour
nament held in Southern California,
and 1t already has passed the mark
of last year by a goodly margin.
Ward Dawson, last years Junior
champion and considered by many of
the experts to be second among local
players only to the peerless Tom
Bundy, will defend his title of junior
champion at Venice in the coming
tournament, and undoubtedly will an
mex the cup for the winning leg. DaW-
son has been coming" for the past
four years. Starting in by winning
the local tournament of the Los An
geles high school, he has forged ahead
of player after player, defeating some
of the best the south has produced
and taking a set last year from Maur-
ice Mclaughlin, the internationalist.
His tremendous reach and his remark
able endurance are points that bring
him many set from less fortunate
player He has his only difficulty
when matched with Nat Browne.
Browne is the hoodoo of the younger
element. His passing drives are un-
solvable puzzles to Dawson and others
of the juniors, but each year sees the
younger boys creeping up closer, and
ultimately Browne will meet his de-
feat.
Win Mace, considered a serious con-
tender for Junior honors, is no longer
allowed the pleasure of entering this
event, having won an open tourna-
ment He will be compelled to con-
fine himself to the open singles or
pair with some one else for a chance
in the doubles. Mace has never de-
feated the lengthy high school cham
pion and 1t was matter Of no small
amusement to the fans at Long Beach
last year to witness the defeat of
Mace in the Junior singles, only to
see him win in the open event. Mace
is a wonderful player, however, and
a few more years on his racket hand
will improve his play fourfold.
Gerald Young is another junior
upon whom the gods look favorably.
He is entered in the Venice tourney
and should give a good account of
himself. Young was the child wonder
of several years ago and now has ac-
quired an eight-foot reach that stands
him in good stead. His work in the
Ojai and Mt. Washington meets was
of high class and he will be figure
to be considered in the junior results
at Venice and Long Beach. With the
juniors developing into championship
timber, and new juniors forging ahead,
the tennis game is growing and still
growing and the end is not yet.
Tom Bundy, ranked among the best
tennis players of the world, around the
twenty-first mark, and the twelfth best
player in the United States, is without
a peer among local court artists. His
work in the east last year and the
wonderful improvement in his game
during the past four seasons are
known points of history. "Bundy's
serve" is a byword to be heard on
every side. and his introduction among
local players of the peculiar reverse
twist worked sad havoc in the tourna-
ment dope sheets. Bundy has won the
Montgomery brothers challenge cup,
the first prize in the gentlemen's sin
giles at Venice, twice in succession
last year securing his second leg on
the goblet only by defeating Maurice
Mclaughlin in a gruelling four-set
match Mclaughlin will again be
down to make another try at the cup,
but the bookmakers are advising
"Bundy," and, notwithstanding the
northerner's victory at Mount Wash
ington, there is every reason to believe
that the cup will remain with Bundy
for the future.
The Suttons will be the principal at
traction at Venice in the women's
events, but there will be no Hotchksses
to match against the local champion.
Miss Mary Browne and the Misses
Scott will be matched against the ten
mis- sisters and it is possible that Mrs.
Far1uhar will send in her name later.
But the Venice tournament has been
noted not so much for its display of
talent, although there is always plenty
of that, but for the new players who
are coming into prominence and take
the Venice means of trying themselves
out in a tournament. The Venice tour
ney is more of a private affair and for
this reason it attracts the players who
are timid of entering the big mills for
the championship.
At the Virginia the tournament man.
ayers are already planning for the
coming Journeys. Yesterday Sipsa-
baugh end Variel, the committee in
charge of the Pacific states double
championship tournament. were regis
tered and spent the day in figuring
out the necessary preparations for the
two summer events. They are fully
decided to give the courts coat of
green, such as the Mount Washington
courts now wear, and this will be done
within a week or two. Besides this,
new bleachers will be erected. suffi-
cient to accommodate the crowd that
is expected for the second local meet
ing of the season between Miss May
Sutton and Miss Hazel Hotchkiss. The
Mount washington grand stand was