Evening star., 1914-04-22
GOOD PROGRESS MADE
IN TENNIS TOURNEY
Many Matches Decided in Opening
Play of Chevy Chase Clubs
Closed Event.

Because of the heavy rains of Monday
the opening of the annual closed tourna-
ment of the Chevy Chase Club, play
was begun yesterday afternoon, and al
though the weather overhead was all
that could be asked for, underfoot the
courts were rather soggy and to some
degree slowed up the play.
Very good progress was made and the
tennis committee expects to end the
event Saturday, when Spencer Gordon
viii defend his title as club champion,
which carries with it the navy cup
donated by former Secretary of the
Navy Newberry, against this years win
her.
The mems singles, scratch, furnished
the best matches Of yesterday, the Nor
gan Graves match and that between
Walter D. Wilcox and ]. Upshur Moor
head easily being the features. In the
hrst-named, Dudley Morgan sprang quite
Graves, as Graves was generally con-
ceded to be the better man. but Morgan
has been doing good work with the
Georgetown University team and has
been coming" steadily, and in yes
terday's match he deserved the victory.
he covered the court to perfection.
Graves is a hard hitter and played his
usual good game. with the result that
every contest was close and the winner
was in doubt until the last ball went over
the net.
The Wilcox-Moorhead match, which
was one of the most important in the
tourney in that it disposed Of one of the
best in the event, also came in the nature
of a surprise, as Wilcox. after taking the
opener. 64, could not keep up the good
work and lost the next two, 60. This
match was much closer than the score
would indicate, however, as many of the
games were deuce ones and Wilcox lost
over half Of those in the last two sets
by just one or two points. In the first
set he never showed to better advantage,
but Moorhead improved in the second
and third and won them, the heavy balls
and soggy court apparently just suiting
his hard, driving game, most of his points
coming. on errors by Wilcox. who could
not return these drives with any degree
of certainty, and who lost many q point
by driving to the net.
Fielding Simmons and ]. L. karrick
furnished a good match in the prelimi-
nary round of the same class, the latter
losing out, 10. 6-1 and 6-3.N Both men
Simmons being steadiness personihed.
while karrick did some wonderful
ground-covering. making any number Of
seemingly impossible returns, but he
could not keep his opponent away from
the net, and this was largely responsible
for his defeat.
The handicap event did not furnish
anything unusual, while but one match
in the women's event was decided, Miss
Leutze winning from Mr.. Knauss in the
first round. 6-3, Is and rs. This was
very close match and was anybody's
until the very last. Miss Leutze taking
the third and deciding set after tying 1t
up a. sail: -,
follow:
FIELDING si%Seas sef.sted ] R'ehn Ksrsisl a"a.
walter D. wilcox: ~ 90 and Q.
lor al and SO; Ralph ". reis Hills defeated Ed.
srSS. sags W. Dss9 c:.ss sRa Gstsoest
Graves, IS and -; J.: II; Hopkins dsfeated
women's singles: scratch. nrst ro.nd-Mis.
Mems singles. handicap. first round.D. Dnd-
ley Morgan tminus 30 defeated J. 8; Baker
Gefest.d ~ c.pse :na .nu, Isl ;,
]. L. Karriek minus 15l defeated v. N. Cush
man tminus 15). 60 and 60.
with the following matches on the caro-:
Mems singles scratch, preliminary round-C.
Harding T. ,r:,s,., y, F. Simmons j. L. Aosrhead
second round-J. B. Moore vs. R. W. Hills.
G,,cs sr0nn II vs. .,un.r q
Women's singles. scratch, drst round-Mrs.
Carlisle Mrs Laushlin. Miss G. Britton 70.
Miss Rusgies, Miss 6. Hinckley Miss Lip
pett.
Second round-Miss Du Bose vs. Miss Wood.
Miss Allen Mrs. Brooke.
Mems singles, handicap. first round-C. Hack
EFT tminus 15) vs.. r. Simmons tminus half 30).
E. B. Babbitt minus s0) C. Brown (minus
30,. ]. n. Hopkins minus l5) vs. G. Harding,
jr minus 3O). H. Howard tminus 15) VS.. p. N.
Taylor tminus half 15).
Second round-E- W. Donn 1r. (minus 30). vs.
D. ID. Morgan (minus 30y. T. II. Low tscratch)
j. L. Karrick minus 15l.