Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-03
DIES AND GORDON
TENNIS V|CTORS
Defeat Hills and Grosvenor in
Doubles of District
Tourney.

Yesterday was to have been the con-
GLIDING one of the twenty-first annual
District tennis championship tournament
which has been going on at the Bachelors
courts during the week, but several Of the
matches have taken SO much longer to be
played than was expected on account OF
their running into extra games that the
finals Of the consultations in the mems
singles and the challenge round bet zen
the Doyle brothers and Gordon and ID .es
in the mems doubles will be decided to-
morrow at 3 O'clock.
Two finals were decided in yesterday
matches. Homer Dies and Spencer Gordon
defeating Ralph w. Hills and E. P. Gros-
venor in the mems doubles and Miss
Marie Winner landing the title in the
woman's singles. winning from Miss Doo-
little. Both matches brought out some
classy play, that in the mems doubles at
tracing special attention.
In this match some Of the best tennis
ever played in the city was Shown. Hills
and Grosvenor got a splendid start, win
ming the first set, Ga, after play after
play of the 'hair-raising'' variety had
been made. At the opening of the set
both sides played very cautiously. being
content with careful back-line placements,
and at the same time awaiting opportuni-
ties to win the stroke. Hills and Gros-
venOr seemed to have the better Of this
style Of play and won by the score shown
above.
Players Warm Up.
The second was similar to the first both
sides having gotten warmed up to the
contest and using much more speed. After
fourteen hard games Gordon and Dies
managed to turn the tables on their OPP
ponents and took the set, SO.
At the beginning of the third set the
excitement was at high pitch and the
crowd had left the other matches and all
attention was centered here. Hills and
Grosvenor won the two opening games
after several long rallies. At this point
they weakened. losing the next six games
In the fourth and last set Gordon and
Dies completely outplayed their opponents.
Gordon stopped playing the hard driving
game which has made him famous and
took to lobbing. This change Of pace
seemed to be the undoing of both Hills
and GrOsvenOr. neither knowing how to
handle it. With the exception Of the first
game which was a deuce one and which
eral times before the winner was decided
upon, the set was an easy one for the vic
tors
This was very popular victory as well
as well-earned one. Both Dies and
Gordon played fine individual games, and
their team work was almost perfect
Each had strong, swift serve which
was hard to handle, their defense was
almost impregnable. and several times
defeat was turned into victory by some
seemingly impossible play. Gordon, who
is an ex-Princeton champion, played the
better game of the two, but Dies. who.
next to the DOyles. is considered one of
the best members of the Bachelors Club,
is entitled to a great deal of credit. he
being very steady at critical stages of the
game.
Hills and GroSvenOr played an erratic
but at times brilliant. game The team
work which had characterized their play
in the early rounds of tie tournament
was conspicuous by it's absence. In the
last set their anxiety to win lost them
many points as neither was able to re-
turn the ball with any degree of accu-
racy. The winners. Gordon and Dies,
will meet the Doyles in the challenge
round tomorrow, and this match should
be worth going long ways to see.
Honors fora Miss Winner.
Mis- Marie Winner won the champion
ship in the women's singles, defeating
Miss Doolittle in rather easy style by
the scores of 6-3 and Go. In this match
the winner played an exceedingly strong
and snappy game, playing her opponent
off her feet. Miss Doolittle played well
at times, and the games were much more
interesting than the score indicates as
several of them were deuce ones. and
brought out long and exciting rallies
Miss Winner has an exceedingly strong
service, which won her many points. AS
have been on the program, no challenge
match Will be played.
In the mems consola tions Tolman and
Graves won out over Fischer and Steele.
respectively, in the semi-final rounds of
this class. ard these two will meet for
the top hqnors tomorrow.
Beginning Tuesday and running through
the week. a handicap tournament closed
to members of the Bachelors Club will
be held An effort will be made to ar
range the handcaps so that all of the
matches will lie closely contested. Near
ly all of the members who have been
competing In the District tourney have
already entered, and prospects for an in
The Summaries.
The summaries for yesterday are as
follows:
Mems singles. challenge round-Louis l. Doyle |
defeated e. Il. Doyle by default
Dies defeated Lincoln and Graves 10 and ct |
FinaisS(;ordon and Dies defeated Hills and
r p Grosyenr IS, st. CO and 6-i.
Mems consultations semi hnals-Tolnan defeat |
Ell Fischer. 6-3. SO aud g. Graves de-
Women's singles. semi final roSnd - p"e-
FnaIs-Aliss Marie Winner defeated Miss Doc
little e., and 60
The matches on the schedule Tor tomorrow are:
Mems doubes. challenge round-Doyle and Doyle
M.ms consultations. final round-Tolman vs.
Graves.
Vanderbilt Horse Second.
PARIS. October Wv. X. Vanderbilt's
Ramesis III ran second in the Prix Inter-