Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-05

on the courts Will DO great zeal
He will bear watching.
Alternating a deep shot with short
one lust over the net. Wright is a
master of this game and has used 1t
to defeat men who would probably
have either beaten him or played him
closer had he used drive rather than
a chop. o,,.-.
wright's record is as follows:
Won Palm Beach, d. r. N. Dana, 6-2,
6-1; C. r. Gardner final. GA, Cd, 2-6,
6-3. Lost Longwood, d. Niles, 6-3, 6-3,
4-6, SO; Palmer, 6-2, ga, Sc; Sulloway,
So, S-6, Ga; lost to Mclaughlin, semi
final round, GA, 5-7, 6-8, 4-6. Lost New
port, d. Church, 7-5, 36, 6-1, 6-1; Niles,
GA, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3; Holden, 6-3, TO, 81;
NJ. G. Chance, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3; McLough-
lin, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2: lost to Bundy final,
3-6, 3-6, So, $40.
T. c. Bundy, who defeated Wright in
the final Of the Newport tournament Is
something of the same type of player.
He relies mainly upon his cleverness at
the net and a very puzzling reverse
twist srvice, which he usually follows
in. He has no glaring weakness, but he
realizes that his back court work needs
strengthening and is working harder
every year to cultivate drive. He has
always depended upon a chop stroke,
which, however, he places very little
reliance as yet. He has undertaken to
develop this stroke only in the last two
years, and as he is not what may be
termed natural player-one who
makes his strokes with easy grace ana
form---his progress has been somewhat
slow. Like Wright, he is a great pace
changer and a splendid general. When
he found that he could not beat Il. @.
Colston at Newport in the semi-finaI
round by rushing to the net on SER
vice, owing to the latter's deadly drlV-
ing, he stayed back. Then alternating
soft chops just over the net with lobs
and deep, hard shots, he completely oe-
moralized the Baltimorean driving
and accomplished his downfall with
surprising ease after the loss of the
first set.
Bundy's record for last season fol-
lows:
Won western, defeating w. T. Hayes.
S-6, Ga, 6-2; l.. H. Waidner, 90. So, 81;
defeating G. c. Thomas, jr., So 6-3,
GA; w. B. Cragin. jr., AS, GA, 6-3, 6-3;
Colston, 6-S, 6-1, 6-S, 63; Wright, 6-S,
6-3 6-S, 1913. Intermountain (Salt
Lake,, defeating S. M. Sinsabaugh,
final, 1-6, 6-1, 6-3. Lost Southampton,
defeating l.. E. Mahan, 6-2, S-6, 6-3; lost
to M. e. Mclaughlin. semi-tnal
TOuuQy 90, f-O, G-O
Bundy first stepped into the tennis
limelight in California in 1906. In July
of that year he won the open Venice
Country club singles, defeating some
of the best Los Angeles players, and
later in the month took the measure of
visiting crack from San Francisco,
Charles Foley, who was supposedly the
strongest player in the northern part
Of the state at the time, in Southern
10 10 81, mic o11cbin Four VV1plSS
later he was runner-up in the big Pa
cific states championship at San Ra-
fael, losing to M. Fl. Long, who cap
tured the title. The following year
was an off one for Uphill Tommy"
although he won the first open event
of the season. In 1908 he defended this
title, causing quite a stir month
later by decisively beating M. Il. Nc
Loughlin, the coast champion, who
was thought practically inVincible so
far as California players We're con-
cerned at the time. He lost the final
to Gardner, in this, the Ojai valley
championship, but followed this up by
annexing every title he played for in
the south of the state. However, he
went down before Long in the semi
finals of the premier event at Del
Monte in September.
In 1909 he lost his Coronado title to
Mclaughlin, but turned the tables on
him at Ojai and again at Venice. Less
than a month later Mclaughlin got his
revenge In the semi-tinal of the North
western championship at Lake Mime
tonka, Mimi, which was the first event
the team of Californians played in on
their way east A week or so elapsed
before these two met again in the semi
finals of the Western at Lake Forest
ILL.,, where Bundy won in desperate
match, after being within point of de-
feat. In the final he met severe de-
feat at the hands of Long, who won the
title. Coming directly to Bay Ridge for
the New York state event, he went
from the train onto the court and was
beaten by r. d. Little after hard
fight. His next appearance was at
Newport, where his progress was
stopped only by Clothier in the semi
finals, in a very good four-set match,
wherein Bundy came within an ace of
tying the score at sets-all.
In February of this year Bundy
challenged Mclaughlin for the Coro-
nado title in Southern California, and
was beaten in four sets. Two weeks
later Mclaughlin again defeated him.
this time in a five-set encounter, taking
from him his title of Long Beach
champion. They met again in an inYi-
rational tournament at Mt. Washing
ton, Cal, in May, Mclaughlin winning
two of three sets. In the latter part of
June he lost his Venice title to Long.
taking one of three sets, A week later
came his first real triumph in doubles,
when with T. w. Hendrick he won the
coast title and right to play at Lake
Forest, ILL.,, in the preliminaries, by
defeating Long and Mclaughlin in the
finals, He played through the Western
singles and finished up his last round
matches in whirlwind fashion, literally
sweeping such men as Ludke and
Waidner off their feet.
Winning the doubles with Hendrick,