Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-27
REACH SEM|-F|NAL
District Championship Tennis
Tourney Makes Progress.
FINISH preliminary ROUND
Louis Doyle and Norris Mclean
We're Winners of Feature
Matches Yesterday.
FINISH PRELIMINARY ROUND

tennis courts, Cathedral avenue and
Woodley lane. yesterday afternoon. when
play was continued in the twenty-third
annual renewal of the District champion
ship tennis tournament. Good progress
has been made in the mems singles. and
it is expected that the semi-fnals will
be reached this afternoon. Yesterdays
card called for the remainder of the
matches in the preliminary round. almost
all of those i'll the first round and several
in the second. Neither the mems doubles
nor the mems singles, consultations. were
started, but IL is expected that these viii
be broken into today.
The committee has decided to accedc to
the wishes of several of the woman en-
trants and to postpone the women's sin
giles for week or so. There are SO few
entries now on hand that it would hardly
pay to run then off. Several OF the best
woman players arc not yet entered. nut
1t is understood that they Will be among
the contestants at a later date. ana that
they will scare up some more players.
Several unusually brilliant matches
were played yesterday, the two attracting
the most attention being those In which
Louis /. Doyle defeated Albert j. Gore,
e. and Cd, and Norris Mclean gained
the decision over Walter Dunlop, 6l
20 and Is.
In the Gore-Doyle match. the former
sprang quite surprise by the eNcep-
tionally clever game he put up. lie play
ed almost as well as Doyle throughout
the match, most of the latterS points be-
ing scored Clearly on well placed cross
court shots which gave Gore no chance
for a return. At this style of game Doyle
showed up as easily being the class OF
the tournament, as time and again lie
pulled himself out of a hole by a well
yl1a oa1 hot ;,t-t aP 'Shr Ia
was strong and severe overhead, but this
may also be said of the loser.
Warm Contest.
Doyle started off in whirlwind style,
taking the opening game of the match
easily. but Gore soon found himself and
had the score of the opening set at
all at one time. He could not keep up
the good work. however, and finally lost.
G. in the second set it looked very
much as if he were going to turn the
tables on his opponent, as he won the
first game, lost the next and then took
two straight, making the scores in games
81. He later had it up to f., but the
| eX-champion was able to pull himself To-
gether and take the next four straight
games and with them the set and match
In the McLean-Dunlop 90 both players
seemed to be about equal and some faS
and brilliant tennis was shown. Botf
men played similar game, being conten
| to lob from the back court until they saw
| an opening and then to rush to the net
| from which vantage point they were abb
/ to score by speedy passes down the sid
| lines. Mclean took the opening set
/ which was a close one, 81, but lost III
next one. Is. The third WAS mucl
closer than the 6-3 score would indicate
| as each point and game was a hard
fought one and it was only after tn
| hardest kind of a fight that Mclean wa
| declared the victor. His service. Whc
| was exceptionally speedy and fairly &C
| curate. gave him many points, as Dunio
| was unable to handle 1t with any degre
! of certainty, but the latter also score
several points on his. SO that in TIM
respect things We're about even. McI.ea
played a very heady game. several time
catching Dunlop on the wrong foot q
| running away from the ball and oc
casionally lobbing the ball over his op
ponent's head as he ran up TO gain tn
net.
Spencer Gordon. p II. S. Cake. Lee Nc
Chung and Louis |. Doyle all did wha
| was expected of them. Cake, who IS. d
the way, putting up his best game now
had an easy time in mis- match wit
| Leech in the third round and won tw
sets by the score of I'll. Gordon cam
out victorious in two matches, defeatin
| Wood. 81 and 6-l. in the second roun
and Hillen, 81 and g., in the third
McClung had no trouble at all in dis
posing of SlatOr, TO and I'll, IN the sec
| ond round but met his match in tn
third round when he was pitted agains
]. NJ Wright, ex-West Point champion
Darkness called a halt to hostilities i
this match with the Army man havin
one set to his credit, 6-3, and the secon
set being tied up at . ALL
! Wright Looks Good.
| Wrights good work is making a Grea
/ FZ1I Of fhn mo eit N
| take notice, and should he manage t
gain a decision over McCluns he Wi
have to be reckoned with as d cham
pionship possibility. in this match wit
Boyd Taylor in the first round II
showed that he Is fast and has soot
| strong service. but as Taylor is also
| newcomer it is not possible to get a goo
line on his ability. He won the matcr
i6- and t-3
The closest match of the day was tn
| very first one played, when Herber
Childs defeated {. L. Alsberg two GU
| of three sets, 7-J. 40 and 70. Child
was the stronger in pinches and it WAS I
this superior steadineSS at critical stage
of the game that he owes his victory, a
in all other respects the pair appeared I
be about equal
| Drawings have been made for the men
doubles and mems singles, consultations
and are shown below:
Mems doubles. preliminary round-Tayior an