Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
IS MAY Or HAZEL
TENNIS CHAMP|ON
Miss Sutton and Miss Hitchcock
viii Settle Question at
Nit. Washington
To BE DUEL OF RACoUETS
Northerner and Southland Favor
ite Train Hard for Event
on May %

mis- world are turned. The former, py
far the greatest woman tennis player
the world has ever known, and Hazel
Hotchkss, the remarkable racquet
wielder from San Francisco, who de-
feated the champion on the Ojai courts
a few weeks ago. Interest has increased
of late by the formal announcement
that the next meeting of these two will
take place in the Mt. washington tour
nament to be held May 2S on the new
courts of the hotel.
Three women have been ranked by
tennis experts as the greatest players
of the game. Miss Douglas eX-cham-
pion of all England, who defeated Miss
sutton once and was in her turn de-
feated by the redoubtable May; MISS
Hazel HotchlSiss and Miss May sutton.
These three so far surpass the host OF
experts among the feminine followers
of the game that they are placed in po-
sitions by themselves. OF the three,
May Sutton has the greatest string of
victories to her credit, and would prob
ably be ranked as first by unpreJudiced
experts.
The west, and in particular the Pa
cific coast, may well be proud of her
woman players, and California holds
the palm for the discovery and per-
fecting of the greatest number of lead
ers in the tennis world the game has
ever known. Florence Sutton, Mrs.
Bruce and Mrs. Doeg, completing the
Sutton quartet, might any one OF them
carry off the championship of the east
ern Journeys with ease and without the
loss of a set; in fact, they already
have accomplished this. Elizabeth
. Ryan, Coda Myer, Alice Ryan, Mary
Browne, Mrs. Farquhar, all are Pacihc
coast stars and have developed their
play under the balmy skies of sunny
Southern California.
EAST WAS SURPRISED
Mrs. Farquhar, nee Miss Marion
Jones, was the first of the western host
to invade the eastern fields, and in 1899
the east was first rudely awakened to
the fact that there was a tennis court
in the west and that her players were
of championship caliber. Again In 1902
Mrs. Farquhar Travelled to the colder
cline to test the eastern skill, and came
back an easy victor. In 1904 May SUIT
ton decided to forsake her homo town
for a while and seek fields of new en-
deavor. Eastern tennis, of the feminine
variety. affording her but little COM
petition, Europe remained to be con-
ouered, and the little champion pro-
ceeded to work sad havoc among tne
startled British ranks.
Mary Browne, Coda Myer and the
Ryans are second only to the cham
pion. Miss Browne is improving In her
style of play at every tournament, ana
will be a serious opponent for the
Suttons. or all comers, before the sea-
son has become history. Under her
brothers coaching she has passed rap
idlv ont of the high school champion
period into the world champion Glass;
and will make many OF the leaders
among the women look to their laurefs.
She possesses an overland smash that
even Nat cannot excel, and though at
times somewhat erratic, she can steady
down and give an exhibition of the net
game that would be marvellous even
though it were not feminine hand
that swung the racket
Eiizabeth Ryan is another of the
women who star at the overhead style
of play and, with May Sutton, makes
the strongest pair in the ladies' dou-
bles 1t Is possible to select. one Is
seen at her best in the doubles event,
her strongest point being her quickness
at the net and her ability with the
high ones A match long to be remem-
hered in local tennis circles is the con-
test between Simpson Sinsabaugh and
Nav Sutton and Winnie Mace and
"Bunny" Ryan, played during the first
Virginia tourney at Long Beach IL
is acknowledged to have been the fast
est display of the tennis game ever
seen in the south and 1t was largely
on account of the wonderful over
head work of the Ryan-Mace pair that
their splendid showing was made.
FAST LITTLE NORTHERNER
Golda Myer, the speedy little court
artist of Frisco, second only to Hazel
Hotchkiss among the northern misses,
possesses a great deal of Mary
Brownies vivacity, but prefers the un-
defhand play to the more strenuous
overhead variety. She has been fire.
ouent contestant in local Journeys and
always has been player to consider
among the finals.
The invasion of eastern courts has
revealed a marked superiority of fem
mine players of the Pacific coast and
'. when the dope" artists of the eastern
sporting sheets prepare their schedule
for the newborn season they always
keen a wary eye on the western courts
to find out whether one OF the "cham-
pions" expects to make another at
tack in the direction of the Atlantic.
There is no longer any wondering about
it. for the development of stars among
the women players of the east has
given in to the west, the England
lawns to the cement of the Golden
state, and the tennis world of the fu-
ture will look to California for the
champion women racquet wielders Oh
the world.
Those interested in the feminine de-
partment of the game and in fact all
the fans of the tennis art will set out
for Mount Washington hotel on the
2Sth and 30th of this month to watch
the finest schedule of thigh art" in q
tennis line ever shown on the local
courts. Owing to the numerous con-
tests to be held during the next few
weeks it was thought advisable by the
local tennis association to limit the
tourney to Mount washington to a
two-day schedule eliminating all but
the best racquet wielders In the south
and making the meet absolutely the
classiest exhibition the coast has ever
held
MISS SUTTON PRACTICING
The headline of the tournament will
of course be the match between May
sutton and Hazel Hotchliss, to be
pIayed on Monday afternoon. Sincs
May's defeat on the Ojai courts tennis
has been her watchword and constant
thought. Pratcice fast and furious, of
championship variety, has been her
only occupation, and If q little of her
English stubbornness-or, to be more
nolIte. determination-whic has been
shown at previous critical times in her
career. displays itself in this epoch
making match between the two play
ers, a repetition of the Hotel Virginia
match will probably be the outcome.
Lack of competition has been the cause
of the downfall of the champion, and