Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-18

mems doubles in the Chevy Chase tour
nainent. many getting him confused with
Harold Hackett of the famous double
team of Alexander and Hackett. while
! others claimed that he was relative
| of this famous player. He states, how
ever. that he is no relation of Harold
! ,Hackett nor to James X. either he
added jocularly, when asked about it.
| At an interesting meeting held last
week plans for the Brookland Brother
| hood Tennis Club We're formulated.
The Brookland Brotherhood is a social
organization in Brookland which
| boasts of a membership of several hun
dred. The athletic committee. com
posed of A. a. Ormsby, chairman. and
c. +. Saltzman and c. b. Phelps. which
| has charge of making arrangements,
has obtained two courts. one at 18th
and Newton streets and the other at
, 18th and Kearney streets. and it is
quite likely that others will be OBJ
| tanned if much interest is shown in
! the game as is now indicated. If pres
,ent plans materialize each court will
have a team and officers and a series
of matches between the teams repre-
isenting the various courts Will be ar
ranged The organization has nearly
two hundred members who are inter
| ested in the net game. and banner
year on the courts is anticipated
/ The ranking committee of the Columbia
|
| 1914 rating of its players. and it expects
| to complete its task and make its report
| this afternoon or Monday. By this plan
| all of the racquetters of the club are
given a rating to start with and they
| then challenge one another, the winner
| going up the ladder and the loser drop
| ping down. This does a great deal to-
| ward keeping the players interest up
| during the off season. as lots of good
| natured rivalry exists and the players
| are all out to better or retain their po-
sitions. so that the matches are gen
| orally for blood
| Undoubtedly worlds record was es-
! tablished by Wallace Johnson on the
Chevy Chase courts Wednesday when
| he won twenty-three consecutive points
| from Theodore r. Pell in the second set
Of their match in the final round of the
mems singles. In this set Johnson won
| the first five games and had the count
forty-love in the sixth before Pell scored
q single point. OF course, this many con-
secutive points is not record and prob
ably many stars could do the same thing
If competing against novice, but the
fact that this was made against PLAYER
whose name appears among the first ten
in the national ratings makes the feat
sound almost impossible. and many were
heard to remark arter the trick had
been turned" that they would not have
believed 1t had they not seen it with their
own eyes.
Since J. Ballard Moore sprang into
prominence by his defeat of ]. Upshur
Moorhead in the closed Chevy Chase
event. many have wondered where he
received his tennis training. as this was
only his second local tournament. his
first appearance being in the District
championship event on the Bachelors
courts last fall. when he was eliminated
in the third round by ]. K. Graves. 1t
now leaks out that he has been playing
ru,itf ia
which. of course. explains everything:
Young Moore ertered the all-comer's
tournament at Newport last year and
was the only Washingtonian to pass the
but reached the fourth, where he was
defeated by no less a parsonage than
Wallace johnson.
considered one of. the best players in the
would pair up with ..Ror' Doyle in the
Chevy Chase event, was here Monday in
an effort to get entries for the annual
Maryland state championship tourna-
ment. open to all corners, which will be
played this year on the turf courts of
the Baltimore Country Club at Roland
Park. beginning tomorrow. Colston ex-
planned that because Of urgent business
he was unable to come here for the
Chevy Chase event, but that he expects
to compete in this one. Wallace john
son Is the title holder and Will defend
against this years winner, which will
likely be. Colston, unless Bull and Pell,
both of whom have entered spring sur
prise
Moorhead's victory over Harold Doyle
in the second round of the Chevy Chase
tournament came quite a surprise. In
the last three tournaments in which both
have entered 1t has so happened that
the two have been drawn in the same
half and each time Doyle has been the
winner SO that this years victory has
given the Chevy Chase player not a little
satisfaction.
The Washington Country Club. which
is fast branching out, has its courts In
good shape and expects to hold q closed
tournament before long to decide the club
championship. At the beginning of last
year 1t was seen that so much interest
was being ta..en in the game that addi-
| tional courts were necessary and the club
| now boasts of four exceptionally good
ones.
| During the absence of Connie Doyle.
A. Y. Leech. jr.. is acting as captain OF
| the Columbia Country Clubs tennis team.
| In addition to picking the team. he Will
arrange q schedule of interclub matches
between both local and out-of-town
j! teams. He is now in correspondence
| with several clubs and expects to an
| matches In q few days.
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