Evening star., 1912-10-03
District Tennis Tourney Down
to the Semi-FinaIs Today.
BATTLES ARE EXCITING
Graves, Cake, Gordon and Chapman
the Winners in Games
Yesterday.

All vi the poorer players nave Deen
eliminated from the mems singles event
in the twenty-fourth annual champion
ship tournament for the District which
is now being played on the Bachelors
courts at Woodley Park. the third round
having been completed yesterday after.
noon and the semi i-fnals being on today's
card. Generally speaking. yesterday
brought out the best play of the tourna-
ment. every match In this class was q
good one
In his match with II. l.. Mapes, p. H.
s. Cake did what was expected OF him
| and won, but Mapes put up a good, stiff
argument and it was all that the veteran
| could do to get away with the long end
of the score. Mapes showed. not only
in this match, but In the one In the pre-
vious round. when he defeated Albert J.
Gore. that he has been underrated and
| is much better player than most peo-
BILE think. The best Cake could do was
O. and S-6
Conditions yesterday just suited Cake.
He is a very heavy man and the courts
| We're as hard as concrete. He never
| showed to better advantage. Mapes
proved to be a great ground coverer and
his stroke was working unusually well.
He started Off with a nice squirt. which
, gave him the first two games OF the open
| ing set. Cake took the next. which WAS
deuce one, and then Mapes took the
fourth, making the score 81 In Mapes
favor. Cake is noted as being a great
uphill player and he lived up to his rep
utation by gradually overhauling his op-
ponent and winning out by great nm
ish. The card for the first set was:
Cake. "a 444 10 4-3o--6
Mapes. 46 4 4O1 = 5 O-30-4
In the second set Cake had the count
Al. and it looked as IL he would win
| easily, but Mapes rather Unexpectedly fol-
lowed the example set by his opponent In
the previous set and evened things up at
5-all. From this time on IL was nip and
tuck. first one leading and then the
other Cake finally took the set, and
with it the match. by winnin.; the four
teenth game. The card for the second
set was:
Cake. 424653OO O42O44 s4e-S
Mapes... 1 6-A6-6
Spencer Gordon won from Freddie"
Hoffman, but not by the large margin
expected. the match being the closest
kind of one. "a and rs being the scores
Hoffman played a very steady game and
he gave Gordon good run for his
money.
| Good progress was played in the mems
doubles, which were started yesterday.
the preliminary round being finished with
| the exception of one match. This event
| is attracting lots of attention, as there
are several good pairs entered. all OF
whom have a chance to win out. Har-
old E. Doyle and Louis A. Fischer looked
very good yesterday, this combination
| winning twice. Both matches were easy
| ones, H. X. Bentley and G. I. Sinclair
round. so and 90, and A. j. Gore and
P. L. Treanor losing In the first round.
l6+ and 90.
The Leech-Leech and Hornidge- HELEN
match in the preliminary round furnished
lots of excitement. the brothers being de-
| feated in two deuced sets. SO and lO-S.
In each set the result was in doubt until
the last ball was sent over the net ana
each side was within single point OF
winning on any number or occasions. The
summaries follow:
Mems singles: Second round John X. Graves
defeated w. D. Dunlop. 81, 8.s and S,S
Third round-Spencer Gordon defeated william
feated ini 3. Hillyer, 7%s and s-2: p. H. s. Cake
defeated H. L. Mapes 6-4 and SO.
HELEN defeated A. 4. Lewis. 60 and 8-l; AL.
bert NJ chesfy Pau, Defeated l.
Mems doubles: Preliminary round-Harold K
Poys and md Louis Eisehss efested ans
Sherman and Kitch defeated Lee McCiung and
partner. by default; Hornidge and HELEN defeat
Doyle and Albert W. Howard defeated Deakin
and Dove. IS and 90 John Britton @ and an :.
Trumbull, 6-1 and rs.
First round-Harold E. Doyle and Louis A.
Fischer defeated A. ]. Gore and p. l.. Treanor.
"a and e..
Play will be continued this afternoon.
when the semi-finals in the mems singles
will be decided, the first round OF the
mems doubles started and the prelmi-
nary and first rounds of the mems sin
giles, consultations, completed. The card
follows:
Mems singles. semi.final round-SpenceH Cor
don VS. winner of Graves Sinclair match; Z. ID.
5. Cake c. L. Chapman.
Mems singles, consultations, preliminary round
C Herrle vs.. b. Davidson. tr.; DIR. ID. NJ.
Green vs. r. =. Day: A. Y. Leech, tr., vs. II.
K. Bentley.
First round-Sam Herrick vs.. ]. c. Howard;
Second round-Albert N. Chesley Vs. Arthur
HELEN. ,,,
Mems doubles, preliminary round-Floufnoy
and Flournoy VS. Hilyer and Davidson.
First round-Sherman and kitch vs. Hornidge
and HELEN; L.. 1. Doyle and Howard vs. win
ner Flonrnoy- Flournoy- -Iiillyer-Davidson match;
Lundy and Mapes Britton and Mclean.