Evening star., 1915-06-13
TENNIS NEWS AND NOTES.

| An important meeting of the De-
partmental' Tennis League was held
Monday evening at which time the af-
fairs of the league were discussed and,
following the prediction in last Sun
days Star, the bylaws with respect to
postponed matches were amended. The
original provision regarding postpone
ments was to the effect that unless
| they were played within two weeks
they would 20 in the discards and
could not be played. At Monday s
meeting an amendment was agreed
upon as follows:
| That the requirements Of the by
laws be waived as to postponed
matches up to and including those
scheduled for Saturday. June 5. so they
may be played within three weeks
from the date of this meeting, at a
time and place designated by the sec
| retary."
| A general amendment covering fu-
ture cases also was made which au-
thoyizes the secretary to designate
time and place during the succeeding
and such postponed matches shall be
matches" BY this authority, the fol-
lowing dates have been set by Secre-
tary Doyle for matches postponed from
| the dates shown. to be played on the
Bachelors Courts, at o'clock.
June IA, Justice vs. Commerce, post
poned from May 20. June Is, Labor
State vs. Interior. postponed from May
20. June is. Agriculture VS.. Post Office.
Treasury We. War, postponed from May
90 June IS, Interstate VS.. Navy, post
poned from June 5. June 81, Commits
sioners v.. Smithsonian, postponed
| from June >.
! These matches. together with those
already played during the week, will
| bring the schedule up to date.
Tennis is booming in Petworth these
days and the "suburbanites" are all
to water" The Petworth Tennis Club
recently held a meeting. elected off,
GERS and outlined plans for the year.
The club decided to build three new
courts and to increase its member
ship to thirty-hve. The courts now
| has been reached and there Is now a
| waiting list. The officers for this year
are as follows: President. Oliver F.
Jones: vice president. H. Buckingham
and executive committee. J. H. Hol-
| mead, r. II. Garrett and F. p. Trott.
NJ. G. Clear has been appointed to rep
resent the club in the Suburban Tennis
League.
There seems to be quite a lull in
tennis at Chevy Chase, following its
annual event and, as Capt Moorhead
| expressed 1t. the players are all rest
ing up" for awhile.
Two postponed matches were played
| last week in the Departmental Tennis
League, Interior taking four out of
Ave from Justice Wednesday. and Com
day. This latter match was for
| blood" and was one of the closest
| yet played in the league. Four of
the five matches called for the third
went the limit in games. The sum-
| maries of these two matches follow:
INTERIOR 4: JUSTICE. l.
Justice tcolton and Mikkel.onl defeated In
| terror MARINE and Holhertl. Ga and Ga.
1n,fre sna spas Rn :na Sor1' I and % Justice
Hinton and simpson,. e3 and Ga.
Interior Fry and Colv1ile) defeated Justice
tsornborger and Bartley), 6-3 and 81.
COMMERCE. 3: TREASURY. 2.
Commerce Dates and Edwards) defeated
Treasury tDeMotte aud Armstrong. e. and
meres eeres % ans Wi'm.r' VII ea s ana o si
ana defeated
Commerce fCrago and Phelps defeated Jus
| tice (Bans ana Buell) 6-5, 60 and Ga.
Treasury Pierce and Balearl defeated Com
| merce tWilhelm and Grfin) 4-6. 6-4 and G-t.
| Series No. s in the Women's Tennis
League Is scheduled to be played this
| week. with the following matches on
the docket:
Washington Heights vs. Chevy Chase Club.
Columbia Country Club Mount Pleasant.
Washington Country Club vs.. Y. NJ. C. A.
Mid-City Club Agriculture.
High School Teachers Bannockburu.
Because Of the bad weather of the
past week or SO. there are still q num-
] Der of postponed matches which must
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