Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-04
ONE GOOD MATCH
Features First Day in Middle
States Tennis Tourney.

The Middle Atlantic states champion
ship tennis tournament was started yes
terday afternoon on the courts Of the
Bachelors Lawn Tennis Club at Wood
ley Park, and twenty good matches were
gotten out of the way.
Al Howard, the popular captain Of the
''all Washington" team, figured in two of
the best. His opponent in the preliminary
round was H. E. Wilkinson of the United
States Navy. Wilkinson plays an un-
usually strong game. and his work was
one of the surprises of the day. After he
and Howard had split even on the first
two sets he took a flying start on the
third and deciding one, and captured five
straight games. 1t looked to be all over
but the shouting, but Howard, by sud-
den rally of exceptionally brilliant tennis.
managed to take the next five, tying
things up at deuce, from which point he
managed to go oat when he allowed his
opponent but one game in the next three.
In this last set Howard played as he has
never played before, and the large gallery
on hand had many opportunities for ap-
plause, of which they never failed to take
advantage.
Howard had G. L. Lewis as his oppo-
nent in the first round and this match
was even better than the first. Lewis
looked TO be one OF the DeSt men III tnc
tournament, and the game he put up yes
terday was revelation. He covered
acres of ground, had an unusually strong
and accurate service which puzzled How
ard not little, and his placements could
hardly have been improved upon.
The former District champion could do
nothing with him in the first set or In the
early stages ofthe second. Toward the
latter part Of the second set Howard
seemed to have figured out his opponents
,v,1 w. aIt.nl lx-0 n
game lead and finally won out. Ga. The
third and deciding set found the men
playing about an equal game, Lewis, al
though viSibly tired, still keeping UP his
After the advantage had shifted from one
side to the other throughout the entire
eighteen games which the set called for,
Howard finally managed to win out. This
will probably be the hardest match he
will have to play.
A l.. HELEN and +. j. Bates played
an interesting match in the first round,
the former winning after three hard sets.
Bates captured the first, ID, and had the
score 3, in the second, but made sew
eral careless shots which gave his op-
ponent another lease on life, he taking
this set and following this win up with
another in the third, which gave him the
match.
norHerrick match. Treanor is by far
the Youngest player who ever entered
the middle Atlantic championships, as he
Is only sixteen years old. He played a
very good game and should show up well
In the consultations, in which his loss to
Herrick has placed him.
The summaries for yesterday follow:
Mems singles-Preliminary round: Z. Buck
incham defeated 4. J. Gore by default: Sam
T.m Heath defeated Harry errb sms and
CT; u. Hi1yer defeated II. Sargent. Go and
al: NJ. Trumball defeated I. Hyde 12-1O and
81: G. L. Lewis defeated G Alsberg. 6.1 and
se,,sa W H s,;. and nc d s la, Levi,
Mclean Mclean defeated a c. A. Barnard. ga and s-s
First round: p. o'Boyle defeated F. simmons
i bates Bate and s and 81 Helen w. death Ss:sS
fsfsssd SurnGaE Stevens s.d s R
Ga and los: c. r Chapman defeated A. E.
Lewis, 60 and 60; Norris W. Mclean dc
feated G. A. slator, 81 and Ga; John X.
default; 5; Hurley defeated George Pearson
Aspinwail. SO and 60; Capt. Wilson de-
feated Edward Morgan. Ga and 60.
| Drawings in the women's singles and
mems doubles will be made this afternoon
| and play started in these classes. The
| following matches are on the card for
the mems singles:
First round-Louis A. Fischer vs.
Chauncey Hackett E. Buckingham VS.
! R. Hornidge. Sam Herrick VS.. Tom
Heath. D. Hillyer VS.. NJ. Trumball.
! Second round-E. O'Boyle VS.. A. HELEN
| Hackett match. John Britton VS.. winner
of Hornidge-B buckingham match. A. w
| Howard vs.. c. T. Chapman. John K
| Graves VS.. Norris w. Mclean, c. Herrle
VS.. S. Hurley and D. Woodward VS.. Capt
Wilson.