Evening star., 1911-06-11
LOCAL TENNIS men IN
RICHMOND TOURNEY
Strong Group Of Washington
Players After Prizes in the
Virginia Capital.

There Is large number or local men
entered in the seventh annual Old Do
minion tennis tournament which will
start tomorrow on the courts of the
Country Club Of Virginia, at Richmond.
Va, and several of them do not expect
to return empty handed. The local dele
cation, composed Of Louis A. Fischer,.N.
w. Mclean, John Britton, John 4.
Graves. w. B. Wood. A. ]. Gore and NJ.
L. Steele. will leave the Union station
at 8 o'clock this morning. The Doyles
expected to go up until the last minute,
when they were Unexpectedly detained on
account of important business which re-
quired their attention.
This tournament is considered the most
important one in the south. both in the
number and quality Of the entries at
tracted to it. The Hermitage Challenge
cups are offered in each class, and bril-
liant tennis is always on tap. In order
to win this year the local contingent
will have to defeat Theodore r. Pell Of
New York, r. L. James of Philadelphia,
Fred Colston Of Baltimore and Richard
H. Palmer of New Jersey. The latter
is the present titleholder in the men :
singles, he having won it twice. Should
he be successful In defending his ute
this year the handsome trophy will be-
come his permanent property.
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The Lawn Tennis Annual is just out,
and the official ranking OF the different
players Is causing no end OF comment.
Strange to say, neither Conrad b. nor
eHarold e. Doyle is ranked at all. al
though last year Connie" was placed
ever, that the Doyles did not fill out the
blanks sent them by the ranking COM
mittee' which would show their per-
formances for the year. and it is proba-
bly, due to this failure on their part
that they are not given a status in the
tennis world. They are ranked high in
the doubles, being placed tenth, the. fol-
lowing named pairs being placed above
them in the order named: II. H. Hackett
and F. B. Alexander. T. c. Bundy and T.
Hendrick, E. II. Whitney and r. Bishop
w. A. Larned and G. L. Wrenn, N. w.
Niles and A. 8. Dabney. jr., c. NJ Bull,
jr., and II. G. Martin, L. III. Waidner
and p. Gardner, C. F. Watson, jr.. and
Grant.
The first local name to appear on the
list, in fact the only one. Is that OF
Spencer Gordon. who is ranked sixty
mer vacation last year, Gordon made
quite reputation for himself, winning
with others, the Allegheny mountains
championship. and that it is on account
of his out-of-town work that he was
given this rating.
Several other local men have beater
Gordon during the year and are consider
ed the better players, but as 1t is neces
sary to send in the scores made in al
least three tournaments dntercity matches
or practices matches not being counted)
and WASHINGTON only has three open af
fairs, they have been unable to meet ths
requirements because of their missing one
Of them or having the misfortune Of play
ing poor game at that time.
X r.
The first of the intercity matches in
which the all-Washington team will COM
pete will be played Saturday at Norfolk.
Va, with the team of that city. Capt.
III. E. Doyle has not yet decided upon
his team and will be glad to try out any
candidates who would care to make
a bid for a place on it. From present
indications, besides himself, Conrad B.
Doyle. w. B. lizard, p. H. S. Cake.
Spencer Gordon. N. w. Mclean, John
Britton, A. J. Gore. L. A. Fisher and
]. U. Moorehead look to have the in
side track.