Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-12

There is not an idle racket in the
local tennis camps, with the 1910 South
ern California championship tourna-
ment at the Hotel Virginia approach
ing, and the hotel management, to-
gether with members of the Southern
California Lawn Tennis association, are
planning a meet the like of which the
fans have not seen in many day. 1t
will be a real local tournament, with
Southern California talent on the
courts, and as the past few Journeys
have shown we have talent around
to shame and play rings around many
of the lover the Rockies" sectional
champions who think they are picking
an easy chance when they make the
trip to Los Angeles for the purpose of
entering local events.
Bundy and Hendrick, the Pacific
States doubles champions, will leave
shortly for the preliminary doubles
meet at the Ontwentsia club, Lake
Forest, ILL.,, and the dope is pointing
their way for a straight victory In
that round robin affair. Their victory
over Mclaughlin and Long was an
neXed through merit alone and steady
play throughout. If they can vanquish
as strong a duo as the internationalists
will be represented in the national
doubles tourney at Longwood and give
the Hackett-AleXander national title
holders the scare of their lives II there
is not a new champion pair introduced
before the tennis enthusiasts of 1910.
The tennis fever is at its height, and
by the time of the August tourney
there will be more players in the south
than ever before. Climate and sur
roundings are conducive to the de-
velopment of star racket wielders, and
the attractions are proving big draw
ing card for the eastern fans. Lawn
courts will undoubtedly be introduced
into Southern California tennis circles
before long, and this move will mean
an increased exodus of the eastern
cracks from their native haunts.
Lawn court playing, according to the
experts, is tennis at its best. There is
less of that tired feeling around the
courts when the play is on lawn, and
the green of the turf Is restful to the
eye of player and spectator alike.
Someone is bound to try the lawn ex-
pertinent here before long, and it will
undoubtedly prove the best move of
them all.
EITHER COURT ACCEPTABLE
Cement court playing will never lose
it's fascination, however, and there are
always InOSe VINO are dIleT LHe SClen-
tific points of the play and declare that
only on the cement and asphalt courts
can the game be developed into the
highest possible art. A cement court
player gives a lawn court player the
advantage when he meets him on the
turf, and vice versa. When McLough-
lin and Long went east to the New
port tourney they were greatly handi-
capped by the lawn court play, and
would haUa
better showing If they had been ac-
customed to the grounds. When Whit
man and Clothier were in Southern
California some weeks ago they had
their first experience on the hard sur
face courts and lost number of
matches with the local stars. The ce
ment court and lawn court game are
two different styles of the game and
the player who is accustomed to one
needs a long siege of hard practice be-
fore he becomes proficient at the other.
The cry has gone out for the transfer
of the national Womens championship
tourney to the Pacific coast courts, and
the tennis fathers are hearkening to
the cry. There is no reason that the
championship should be held in Phila-
delpha other than that 1t has been
held there for the past score or more
of years, and now that the west has
decided to keep championship laurels
for good, 1t is high time that change
should be made The Golden Gate Ten
mis- club is anxious to stage the tour
ney, and a far greater entry list of
crack feminine experts can be secured
for the event if the San Francisco club
secures the meet The west has the
pick of the feminine tennis playing
world, and there are a score of players
here who could duplicate Miss Hazel
Hotchkiss' success of a month ago with
almost the same ease. The champion
ship tournament should be held where
the majority of the players are located.
In the east Newport has been the
lodestone of the masculine side of the
play, and rightly so, but the last wo-
mems championship held on the courts
Of the Philadelphia Cricket club
brought forth an entry list of less than
thirty, and according to American
Lawn Tennis the entry list in the event
has been steadily decreasing in size
and class instead of gaining In the
manner of the Newport event
The west can secure this event II