San Francisco Call, Volume 93, Number 26, 26 December 1902 — TWO TEAMS LEFT IN TENNIS PLAY [ARTICLE]

TWO TEAMS LEFT IN TENNIS PLAY

MacGavin and Smith Are to Meet Hill and McChesney.

Two interesting tennis tournaments were played on the courts yesterday. The holiday event at the California Club was a handicap doubles. On the Golden Gate Park courts the class singles tournament commenced last Sunday was completed. Twelve teams entered the doubles event and at the end of the day's play but two were left to contend for the silver cups. The successful teams were Drummond MacGavin and Grant Smith and Drs. Hill and McChesney. The former played from scratch, while the latter were on the "fifteen" mark.

MacGavin and Smith met W. B. Collier and H. W. Crowell on even terms and beat them easily. R. N. Whitney and Frank Mitchell, the other scratch men, were beaten by Drs. Hill and McChesney. The latter received a handicap of "fifteen." After losing the first set they pulled out the next two. MacGavin and Smith had a close call in their match. They met the midget team from Powell High School, John Cassell and Alec Beyfuss. The latter, aided by a handicap of "half of thirty," gave their lengthy opponents a hard tussle. The score was 8-6, 7-5. Following is a summary of the tournament: ¦ " ¦

Preliminary round— F. S. Mitchell and R N Whitney beat the Lisser brothers. Hand and Gua (% of 40). 6-0, 6-^: Alden Ames and Sidney Smith (15) beat Hush Hume and Ray fcplivalo, 1-0. (5-2. 9-T; W. B. Collier and H. W. Crowell beat Dan Volkmann and Robert Woodward (30 and 2-<i), 0-0, 6-1; J. D MacGavin and Grant Smith beat John Cassell and Alec Beyfuss (% of 30), 8-3. 7-5. First round— Drs. Hill and McChesney beat AYIlliam Volkmann and.C.-H. Arnold (V~ of SO). 6-1. 0-0; Mitchell and Whitney beat Ames and Smith (30 and 2-6). 0-1. 6-1: MacGavin and Smith beat Collier and Crowell. 6-3, 6-2; J G. Gibson Jr. and Herbert Schmidt beat Sidney Salisbury and Charles Kuehn 6-1, 8-6 Semi-final round— Hill and McChesney (15) beat Whitney and Mitchell. 2-6. 6-4, 0-3; MacGavin and Smith beat Gibson and Schmidt (15), 6-4, 6-2. MacGavin and Smith will meet Hill and McChesney Sunday afternoon.

Will Allen again carried off the honors ir. the first class on the Golden Gate Park courts. He beat Will Frost three sets out of four. The score was 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3.

• George Janes won the second class in clever fashion. He took three straight sets from Miller Hotchkiss in the finals. The score: 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Jr the semi-finals Hotchkiss beat Horace Mann, 6-2, 6-4, and Janes beat George Tcuchard, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. In the second round Touchard beat Nelson Ambrose 11-13 6-4. C-4.

The third class honors were won by H. Long. In the final f he beat H. Adams, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2? In the semi-finals Long: beat L. D. Roberts, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4, and Adams beat T. D. Black, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2. In the second round Long beat A. McFarland, 6-3, 6-3; Roberts beat Leilich, C-4, 6-2; Adams beat Sayre by default, and Black beat Skaggs by default. - ¦ . ¦

M. Long won the fourth class, taking the final match in straight sets. He beat Scott Lewis. 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Long is the smallest member, in the club, but is a clever player.. . ' . In a special match on the California Club courts Harry Nickel . beat - Judge Frank H. Kerrigan, 6-4, 6-3.