Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-02
BY Il. v. WELLER

The first days play on tne virginia
courts, Long Beach, in the twenty
fifth annual tournament for the cham
pionship of Southern California,
brought some new stars into the lime
light and stirred the veterans into
roseate prophecies for the future of the
game in Southern California and the
west The greatest number of new
bloods that have ever graced a local
tourney entertained the galleries with
varying degrees of skill and displayed
class of an order that augurs well for
their future chances in the court game
First in Importance of the days pro-
gram were the women's singles for
those who have never won in an open
tournament Twenty-one entries were
recordev for the event and there was
only one default Miss Edith Osmond
and Miss Josephine Struve fought out
a three-set match in the preliminary
round that kept the galleries guessing
the outcome from the start. Miss
Struve took the first set in easy fash
ion, but lost the second on the change
of courts. The third set was a close
battle, Miss StruVe coming within a
point of the match several times. She
weakened, however. at critical point
and Miss Osnond ran out the set, 10
Miss Strive is one of the best court
among
perts. and with a little more experience
and the acquiring of a little more
speed and strength to her strokes Will
come to the front in a hurry, Miss
Osmond plays a. heady game, and lacks
only long swinging stroke to develop
her style of play to perfection.
Miss Helene McVay took her first
match in the women's speclal from
Miss May Richards without the loss Of
a game and will make a strong bid for
the honors in the event. Her strokes
are accurate and we'll placed, and pos
sess enough of the speed to put many
an opponent on the defensive from the
start. Miss Agnes Yoch put Miss Os-
mond out of the running in the first
round in an evenly contested match,
the latter almost bringing In the VIC
tory in the second set with a good lead.
From his showing in the open event
Ella Fottrell looks like the 1910 Junior
champion. He has q terrific service,
more difficult on the return than Nc
Ioughlin's heavy twist and records q
number of passes with his forehand
drive. His baCkhand is woefully weak
and many of his drives go over the line
or into the net, but his ace-or-nothing
style of play is too much for the ag-
gregation lined up against him in the
present tournament.
SHELDON SHOWS CLASS
Carl Linn had a warm time of it with
Dolph Allen in the preliminary round
of the juniors, losing the first set 6-l.
and playing see-saw in the second set
until Allen weakened and started net
ting his shots. Linn ran out the sec
ond set 6-3 and the last~6-4. Emery
Rogers had the same kind of tussle
with ball. dropping the first set from a
deuce score and annexlng the second
and third 6-4 6-3.
sheldon is showing up we'll in the
present tournament and probably viii
be Fottrelrs opponent in the junior
finals if the program comes through
as expected. He defeated Merrill in the
open event with ease, and dropped only
one game to Banes in the first play in
the juniors Newell took Hartman
down the line with the loss of only two
games and will meet Fottrell this
morning.
Forty-six entries in the open singles
break last wears record and set a new
mark for the local Journeys. In the
preliminary round ten matches were
played yesterday afternoon, and some
of the matches promise well for the
later rounds in the singles matches.
Claude Wayne was in great fettle for
play yesterday and took Lowry into
camp i'm easy style Wayne was slow
in starting and dropped four gaines Of
the first set, but flashed into topnotchl
form In the second meeting and lost
only two points in the entire set.
FottrelIs defeat of the veteran Blu
miller gave the galleries line of the
Younger players chances. Bumiller
was clearly out of practice anl during
the first set could not fathom the mys-
teries of Fottrell's great service. The
second round was an even break, the
game score running to deuce four
times before Fottrell could break
through Bumiller's serve.
Claude NJ. Butlin was not sched-
uled for eny matches yesterday, but
appeared IN a mixed doubles practice
match, playing with MISS Mary
Browne against Wayne and Miss Myer
The Mexico chamuion Is clearly off