Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-25

The second days play at the Venice
Country club tournament gave the
tennis fans something to talk about for
quite a while. Not so much for the
brllliancy of the matches. although
there was plenty of that, but for the
great number of events gathered into
a single days play. The four cement
courts of the club were filled every
minute of the day, the great number
of scheduled matches making 1t neces-
sary to postpone the dinner hour until
after the tournament. On no other
grounds in the south would 1t have
been possible to hold such a tourna-
ment within the scheduled three days.
Great credit is due the manager,
Thornton Kinney, and his able as
sistants for the clockwork regularity
with which the matches were played.
Mclaughlin and Long shone as the
especial stars of the tourney, although
Mclaughlin almost ran into snag
when he came up against the Southern
California champion, Winnie Mace.
This match was easily the feature of
the day, and although 1t was played
at dusk, a number of fans occupied
the chairs in the gallery and cheered
the plucky little fighter in his uphill
contest with the internationalist
The score ran in a one-sided manner
throughout the set, Mace not being
able to solve McLoughlin's speedy
serve and getting a number of aces
chalked up against him on account Of
McLoughlins ferehand drive.
MACE PICKS UP
But when the players moved to the
gallery court and came in out of the
wind Mace's lobs and crosscourt
slices, which had been blown out by
the sea breeze which Is the heaviest
handicap to a player on court four,
became points, and the points devel-
oped into games that cost the north
erner the scare of his life. Mace
started in by getting his own serve,
and the game zig-zagged back and
forth to five-all, when Mace, with a
succession of angle shots that brought
him round after round of applause,
secured the points that gave him the
set
With the score one-set-all, the fans
who knew began to nod their heads
and make preparations to leave as
soon as Mclaughlin had finished with
the little southerner, but when the
score ran to 3-love in favor Of the
southern player, the bleachers pre-
pared to wait. For a time 1t looked
as though Mace was going to annex
the set and teh match. Mclaughlin,
however, never weakened in his serv-
ice, and the gruelling pace began to
tell. The score ran 1-3 2-3, and when
the San Francisco player tied the score
at 3-all the result was easy to pro-
phesy Mace had made his game fight
and had given Mclaughlin enonugh to
keep him thoroughly busy and a little
more Mace played the game of his
life and showed clearly that he is i'm
proving his game In the speed line
and cutting some of the short lobs into
aces in the angles. Mace will give the
winner of the Southern California
championships the struggle of his life
when August come around, and the
challenge round of the championship
tournament will be the big feature Of
the meet.
MISS SCOTT A WINNER
In the woman's singles Miss Scott
looks like the winner She is the pos
SCISSOR of a fine overhead stroke and
plays a heady game. She has easily
disposed of her opponents up to the
finals, and is expected to annex the last
match. Her only weakness is her
nervousness, and she never begins a
match, no matter with whom she plays,
but she becomes intensely nervous in
regard to the result. By the time Miss