Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-05
SEM|-F|NALS TODAY
Will Be Played in Middle States
Tourney.
MCLEAN WINS BEST MATCH
Defeats Graves by Playing Some of
the Fastest Tennis of
the Day.
MCLEAN WINS BEST MATCH

Good progress has been made in the
Middle Atlantic States tennis cham
pionships which are now being decided
on the courts of the Bachelors Lawn
Tennis Club at Woodley Park the third
round and the semi-finals of the mems
singles being carded for this afternoon,
there being but one remaining match
in the former.
All of the good matches of yester-
day were pulled off in the second
round. John X. Graves and Norris w
the best one. the latter winning, "a
and 6-3. Mclean hurt his arm sew
erai years ago, and the constant tennis
ne has been playing for the past few
painful after-effects which naturally
affect his game. and he is not doing as
well this year as last on this account
Despite this handicap, he put up a very
good game yesterday
Graves is very steady player. with
strong service and not a little speed.
he gets over the court well and is
rather accurate in his placements His
opponent depended upon his speed yes
terday. and this is what carried him
through. He also showed up strong on
his back hand and ended up his match
on one of the prettiest of these shots
imaginable, returning ball which APP
parently he had no possible chance of
getting, it clearing the net by but a
side. Graves was so surprised that his
opponent had reached the ball that he
was not prepared for it, and Mclean
scored the final point which decided
the match.
Howard Gets Another Match.
"Ar' Howard who is picked by many
to win the tournament. which will prob
ably carry with it the title, as the pres
ant nh< ,oy,i0r -
phia. is not expected to be on hand to
defend it this year, won his match with
C. T. Chapman, 6-3 and ca. Howard
played much steadier game than those
of yesterday, when he just managed to
stave off defeat in the last sets. Many
of the games in this match were close.
but Howard was never in any trouble,
and always managed to take the last
and important ones.
John Britton won a hard-fought three
set match from r. Hornidge. 90, 2-6
and 60 being the final scores. The
players were much better matched than
the scores would indicate, a great many
of the games in each set being deuced.
Britton was extremely fortunate in the
last set in getting as many games as he
did. and had Hornidge had any luck at
all, the game-score would have been much
closer, as four out of the six were deuced
and Hornidge was within a single point
of game several times.
The summaries for yesterday are as fol-
lows:
Mems singles: First round Louis A. L., Fischer er
II. Hornidge defeated f. Buckingham, 6-3 and
90; Sam Herrck defeated Tom Heath. S-6 and
81; u. Hillyer defeated NJ. Trumbuii, 50 ana
Second round-A. HELEN defeated Z. OBo!le
81 and 81; Louis A. Fischer defeated + ".
Deakin. 90. 80 and 80: John Britton de-
". Howard defeated c. I. Chapman. SO and
ca: Norris W. Mclean defeated John X
Hurley. Ga and 6-s: Capt. Wilson defeated D.
Woodward. 90 e. and 6-3.
Play will be continued this afternoon
in the mems singles. and the mems sin
giles, consolation and mems doubles, draw
ings for which were made yesterday, will
be started. The card calls for the fol-
lowing matches:
Mems singles: Second round Sam Herrick vs..
ID. Hillyer.
Third ronnd-A. Helan VS.. Louis A. Fischer
John Britton VS.. winner of Herrick- Hlilyer
match. Albert W. Howard vs.. Norris w. Nc
Lean. c. Herrle Capt. ID. Wilson.
Mems singles. consultations: First ronnd-Chaun-
cey Hackett +. J. Bates ID. Lfbbey VS.. b
c. Flournoy. W. c. Hill vs.. c. A. Slater. III.
Lerch G. Pearson
second round-J B. Aspnwall VS.. A. f. Lewis.
G. A. Barnard T. Hyde. Ii. Sargent vs.
Edwin Morgan. l.. Simmons vs.. II. +. Wflkin-
son. W. L. Stevens +. l.. Treanor f. Buck
ingham Z. Alsberg.
Mems doubles: First round-Slator and Heath
VS.. Howard and L. /. Doyle. Chapman and
Graves VS.. Moorehead and Grosvenor. Wilcox
and partner Hurley and Trumbuil. O'Boyle
and Morgan Hackett and partner.
Second round-Britton and Mclean Wood
ward and Dove. Fischer and Hellan Leech
and Lerch.