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Show 00 PROFESSIONALS ARE ! GIVEN A SHOCK A surprise which was not part of the official reception was sprung on the California tennis players who toured the east this summer when they returned to their native state recently re-cently Evidently several ambitious youngsters had been practicing with the racquet all summer and the horn'? comers received a distant shock in the California slate championship turnr. ment In the doubles, .Maurice E Mi Loughlin, paired with Wlckhani Havens, was defeated in throe Straight sets by B H Botkin and C K Pole Claremc .1 (.riff in, win aer of the western snipics bampton-ship, bampton-ship, was eliminated by Norman Ambrose, Am-brose, an unranked player. In two ser Another upset came when Griffin and John R. Strachan. who played sfcLoughlln and Bunday at Newport for the United States doubles dou-bles title, were defeated by W K Johnston and E. Fottrell In three straight sets. nn |