Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-04
CHEVY CHASE WINS
0utpIays Columbia Country
Club in Tennis, 5 to 4.
EVEN ON THE SINGLES
Moorehead and Wilcox Save the
Day for Chevy Chase
Club.

was most successfully launched yesterday
afternoon. when the Columbia Country
Club and Chevy Chase teams met on the
formers courts in an interclub match.
This was a return match. held over from
last year, when Columbia won 6-3. In
yesterdays event the visitors turned the
tables on the home team and won by )
matches to 4. the teams breaking even
on the singles. and Chevy Chase taking
the odd match in the doubles.
Although Columbia lost. yet the teams
were SO closely matched that it was not
until the last set was over that the
winner could be decided. With the count
standing four matches each. Capt. J.
Upshur. Moorehead and Walter Wilcox
saved the day for Chevy Chase by de-
feating Norris w. Mclean and c. A.
Slator. although at one time it looked as
II they were doomed to defeat. With
each side having a set to its credit, the
Columbia pair had the score 6-5 and
4O-3O-being within a single point of the
set-only to lose that game and the next
two.
But yesterdays match brought out one
thing that gave great satisfaction not
only to the Columbia players. but to To-
cal tennis enthusiasts in general. and
that was the fact that the Doyle broth
ers. who are looked upon to keep Wash
ington on t,se tennis map, are going at
their best Three of the four Columbia
victories were theirs. each winning his
singles match and the pair coming out
in top in the doubles.
The feature match of the afternoon in
the singles was that between the two
captains-MOorehead of the visitors and
Connie" Doyle of the home team. The
Chevy Chase player received flying
start and captured the opening set. but
Doyle came back and took the next two
rather handily, 1--S e. and Go being
the score. After Doyle once start ed he
showed all of his old-time form. with the
exception of his service, which was not
quite as accurate as it should have been.
MOOrehead, as have all of the Chevy
Chase players. has had the use of cement
courts and has been playing all winter,
and his game of yesterday was Of the
best, his defeat being due simply to the
fact that he was outclasSed.
The closest match of the day was that
between Harold 3. Doyle and Spencer
Gordon. the number two men, Gordon
losing out after three spirited and un-
usually fast sets, Sc, 4-6 and 10. In
this match some exceptionally brilliant
tennis was shown and the players ap-
peared to be SO evenly matched that the
result was in doubt until the very end.
Doyle owes his victory to his superior
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his ability at placing the ball. He was
accuracy personiffed. losing but COM
paratively few points by knocking the
ball from the court. Gordon looked to be
in midseason form, and put up splendid
game.
The doubles. as usual, seemed to at
tract more attention. Only three matches
were played in this class. but all of them
were good ones. The Doyle-Doyie Cor
don-Graves affair was the feature. and 1t
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was much closer than the 6-3, Ga score
would indicate although many who saw
it think that the brothers could have
ended it earlier had they so desired.
They displayed their best form individ-
ually and their team work was almost
perfect They lost many points by prac-
ticing up on their strokes. The Chevy
Chase pair looked very good. especially
Gordon, although Graves was generally
there when needed and backed him UP
nicely.
Both of the other matches brought out
deuce sets, Brown and Dunlop defeating
Leech and Deakin. Go and 10. and
Moorehead and Wilcox winning from Nc
Lean and Slator, G-3. 80 and So.
AS each club has now won a match. the
rubber will be played in the near fu-
ture, but the date or place has not yet
been decided upon.
The summaries follow:
Singles Chevy Chase, ): Columbia, 3l-Con-
rad B. Doyle tcaptain,. Columbia, defeated J.
Upshur Moorehead tcaptain) Chevy Chase, Is,
ca and 60; Harold E. Doyle Columbia, de.
feated Spencer Gordon. Chevy Chase, Sc. 4[6
and IS; Norris W. Mclean, Columbia. defeat
ed Walter Dunlop, Chevy Chase, 81 and Sc:
Cuthbert Brown, Chevy Chase, defeated f. C..
Leech, Columbia, &c. 60 and 60; Walter
D. Wilcox. Chevy Chase. defeated c. A. Slater.
Chase. defeated A. Y. Leech. jr.. Columbia.
6-i and 12-10.
Doubles Chevy Chase, 2: Columbia. D-Har-
old F. and Conrad b. Doyle, Columbia, de-
deated Spencer Gordon and John Graves. Chevy
Chase. Ga and Ga: J. Upshur Moorehead and
w. Mclean and &. 4. Slater, Columbia, 6-3.
SO and SIS: Cuthbert Brown and Walter Dun
lop Chevy Chase defeated z. c. Leech and e.
l.W. Deakin, Columbia GO and IS.