Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-28
CHEVY CHASE TENNIS
Fifth Annual Spring Tourney
of Club Under Way.
FIRST ROUND COMPLETED
Harold Doyle Defeats Champion
Moorhead in Straight
Sets.

Under ideal weather conditions and be-
fore an unusually large and fashionable
gallery the fifth annual spring tennis
tournament of the Chevy Chase Club
was gotten under way yesterday after
noon, the first round being practically
completed and the second broken into. No
less than fifty-one entries have been re-
ceived for the mems singles and this is
by far the largest number who have ever
competed in any single tennis event in
the District.
The tournament was marred somewhat
by the large number of defaults made
necessary by the failure of entrants to
show up, many of the out-of-town stars
being among the sufferers. r. L. James of
Philadelphia, A. s. Bowie of Baltimore,
Frederick c. Colston of Baltimore. F. b.
Washburn of Philadelphia. G. NJ. Church
of Princeton. and probably wallace john
son Of Philadelphia, were some OF the
most prominent who lost by default BE.
cause of misunderstanding the last
named will be given until today to report,
but it is hardly likely that he Will do so.
OF the great many matches played
yesterday, several brought out some
exceedingly fine tennis. The very first
one on the card-that between J. Up
shur Moorhead, the club champion,
and Harold E. Doy1e--was of unusual
interest, the last named winning IN
straight sets. Ga and Ga. In this
match both players were somewhat err
ratio at times, often making some OF
the poorest plays and than following
them with Sensational ones. The match
was most interesting, however, and
the result could not be foreseen until
the last ball was sent over the net.
Doyle did not experience tho trouble
in handling Moorheads speedy drives
that most of his opponents have had.
and. as Moorhead's driving is his
strongest asset. this is largely respon-
sible for his defeat Both men seemed
to be content to play back-court
game. and great deal OF lopbing was
done, although occasionally one OF
them would work his way up to the
net for kill or pass down the side
lines. Doyles reverse service. which
was accuracy pensonified. baffled his
opponent quite little and it gave him
several points on aces The winner
the game. and in both sets managed to
take the last two games after four-al
had been reached.
All Of the visiting players won their
defeating Edmund Boyle. G. A. Gordon
Of New York city defeating Fred Holtz-
man, Walter Taylor of Norfolk winning
from C. F. Rockwell, James Mullen of
Hugh G. Whitehead OF Norfolk gaining
the decision in his match with John w.
Calvert. and with the exception of the
Mullen-Poe match the victory in each
case was a most decisive one. which
means that some unusually fine tennis
may be looked for in the later rounds.
In the match between Poe and Mullen
the latter. after having lost the first set.
6-S, showed an unexpected reversal of
form in the second. and on several occa-
sions he had the visitor in hot water, be-
ing within but few points OF the set
and three times being within one point
but each time Mullen managed to tighten
up and stave of defeat. After the adj
vantage had shifted from one side to the
other several times he was able to take
the two necessary consecutive games and
thereby capture the set, which carried
with it the match.
Many look for Ralph W. Hills to
reach the later rounds. as he is putting
up a strong game at this time. He had
very little trouble in taking r. ";
Deakin into camp yesterday. 20 and
6-1. Deakin put up hard fight in the
opening set and made Hills hustle some
to beat him. but his efforts in the first
seemed to tire him to such an extent
that Hills had little or no trouble in
taking the second. al.
F.. J. Bates won one OF the few