Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20
TROPHY TO DOYLE.
Over McCIung in Final
Round Ends Tourney.
IN GOOD FORM
Is Slow to Get Going, But Finally
Overcomes Opponents Big
Lead.

of the game. Harold e. Doyle won the
championship in the Columbia Country
clubs annual tennis tournament. his
yesterdays victory over Lee McClung
in the final round Of the singles event
giving him the title and the custody
of the handsome trophy for the year.
AS this is the initial event, his name
will be the first to be inscribed on it.
He won three out of four sets, 1t.
"a, 6-3 and GO being the final
scores
Doyle has been putting up a brilliant
game throughout the tournament. and
his work of yesterday was gilt edged.
He showed no weakness, covering
acres of ground. playing equally well
at the net or on the base line. and hav-
ing service which McClung could
handle with no degree of certainty and
which counted him any number of
points on clean aces or poorly returned
shots by McClung
getting started. and lost the opening
set in quick order. McClung getting the
Jump on him, and taking six Of the
first seven games before he knew what
was happening. Meanwhile, he was
getting warmed to his work, with the
result that he showed steady improve
ment. and was playing rings around
his opponent in the last two sets.
The second set was the best of the
four the result being in doubt until
the last ball was sent over the net
At the end of the seventh game Nc
Chung was leading. "a. but Doyle ex-
perienced u timely rally and took the
next three. allowing his opponent but
four points in them
In the last two sets it could easily
be seen who was the better man. and 1T
was merely'a question of by how much
Doyle would win. McClung fought
rallies resulted. He seemed to place
the ball just as well as usual. but
Doyle outgeneraled him on the of
fensive and anticipated his defense.
match follows:
FIRST SET
DoyIc Observation-Disclosures. :ao342 go
McClunS Observation-Disclosures . r o-SS-o
SECOND SET.
M 1St!H ii go
THIRD SET.
R Ssciuns :.:::: esi:itse ' s-$-s
FOURTH SET.
McClung ............. 2 232 i o-2o-2
Three matches in the mems singles,
consultations, were decided, two of them
bringing out some exceptionally close
battles. In the third round J. II. Parme-
lee defeated A. E. Heaton, 49, S-6 and
63 being the score. AS is indicated by
these figures, the men were very evenly
matched and it was only after the hard
est kind of fight that Parmelee was de-
clared the winner. HeatOn took the OPEN
ing set and was within point of the
second when Parmelee frightened up and
finally nosed him out. In the third Par
niece received a good start and was
leading 81. Heaton managed to tie
things up at all. but could not stop his
opponent from taking the next two,
which gave him the set and with it the
match.
Parmelee had another hard match in
the semi-fnals. After taking the first
set from b. c. Flournoy. 60 the latter
second to go to sixteen games before he
was finally defeated.
E. o. Leech won his match with III. b.
Davidson. jr., in the other semi-final
match, 6-1, +6 and 11-9. The first and
second sets brought out nothing out of
the ordinary, but the third and deciding
one was hummer and twenty games
were necessary in order to reach a deci-
sion.
The summaries:
Mems singles, final round-HarOld E. Doyle,
Columbia, defeated Lee McCIung, Chevy Chase,
by To- Ga. 6-3 and 60.
Mems singles. consultations; third round-J
H. Parmelee defeated A. b.. Heaton by &C.
S-6 and "a.
Semi-finaI round-E. o. Leech defeated II.
]. Ii. Parmelee defeated y. c. Flournoy by Go
and 81.
The tournament will be brought to a
close tomorrow afternoon. with the final
round in the mems consultations between
f. o. Leech and ]. III. Parmelee.