Evening star., 1915-02-21

possibility of the winner of the mems
doubles being allowed to compete in
the national doubles championship
Heretofore. the custom has been to
hold but four sectional championships
in the doubies-the eastern, played at
Longwood; the southern, played at At
lanta; the Pacific coast, played at San
Francisco. and the middle western, de-
cided at Chicago. These four winners
have then played preliminary ROUNDS
at Chicago, and the winner has played
the challenge round at the national
championships at Newport. A change
was made at the recent meeting OF the
United States Lawn Tennis Association.
which now provides that there be ten
sectional doubles championship eVents
played, the winners of each TO De
eligible. but the same ruling diseriml-
mates against the Middle Atlantic As
ISOLATION, as it provides that players
in this section must compete in the
eastern championships at Longwood.
| The local clubs are up in arms at enls
provision, and there is a good chance
| that it may be amended in time to Al
| low the winners of the mems event IN
! the middle Atlantic tourney TO COM
pete in the national title meeting at
| Chicago in the fall.
At the eleventh hour" C. B. Doyle.
| who is easily Washington's leading
exponent of the net game. learned tnaI
he would not be as assignsd Ign aOsea%sntl 70 spss1a
| ~, be able to compete in the spring
tournaments Last year Doyle was
sent to Brazil just before the tennis
| season started and was away until the
latter mart of September A few weeks
ago he was told to prepare for seven
| month trip to Peru. He hnaliy man
aged to escape it when his substitute
was suddenly taken III and Doyle was
! was all packed and he expected TO
leave Friday afternoon, when at the
| last minute 1t was learned that the
ailing one was well enough to go, anu
| SO he was let Off second time.
There seems to be a general misun-
derstanding among tennis players with
thspei. the Chevy W Chase G @ courts April 2s with
| the Harvard University team. This Is
not to be a Chevy Chase-Harvard
match, but in reality match between
| a picked Washington team and the
| college Quartet. The local team will
probably be represented by Conrad B.
| Doyle, Harold e. Doyle, Spencer Cor
don and Harvey Bundy. The latter.
who is a member of the Chevy Chase
Club, played on the Yale team in 1907.
| 1908 and 1909. and appears to be an
exceptionally strong player. as he has
beaten Spencer Gordon several times
| and has had no trouble at all in de
feating the other members of the club
He is brother to Thomas N. Bundy
of Norfolk the present southern cham
pion. 1t is planned to pit Connie
Doyle against National Champion r.
N. Williams, who Is number 1 man on
the Harvard team, and local enthu-
siasts will get an opportunity of see
ing their favortte against real player
Doyle Is practicing daily, both in the
Y NJ C. A. gymnasium and on the
cement court at Chevy Chase, and
should be at his best. He and his
brother will also play in the doubles.
although the latter is not particularly
anxious to play singles and may give
away to a substitute in this class.
As he undoubtedly is number man in
Washington it is to be hoped that he
will change his mind and play in both
classes, as it is desired to make as
good a showing as possible against
the visitors.
The annual rumor that the Bachelors
Club was unable to renew its lease on
the Woodley Lane courts for the COM
ing season and will dfsband IS travel
ing the rounds again, but, as usual.
there is no foundation for it. Secre-
tary Arthur HELEN of that organiza-
tion states that the Bachelors do not
anticipate any trouble in extending
their lease and that in any event the
club will not disband. as there are any
number of desirable sites available for
it's use i'll case a change is necessary.
He states that the Bachelors will 'be
doing business at the old stand long
after some Of the other clubs have
gone under
The closed tournament Of the Chevy
Chase Club will be played on May
and following days with the usual pro-
gram of scratch and handicap events.
Spencer Gordon. the present champion,
will be compelled to play through the
Scratch event and many claim that he
will not repeat with the ease which
has marked his victories of previous
years. as in Harvey Bundy. one of the
new members of the club. he will meet
his match I AS a matter of fact. Bundy
is probably a better player than the
present champion, and, all things be-
ing equal, should win out. The cham
pionship event will be scratch one
but there win also be a handicap
singles for men. scratch and handicap
singles for women and handicap dou-
bles for both men and women.
A great deal of enthusiasm is being
shown in the proposed departmental
tennis league, and present indications
are that this will be the most success
full Of departmental sports. In one de-
Agriculture-over $50 candidates have
sent in their names. while about eighty
or ninety have indicated their desire
to try for the team in several of the |
others.
Walter u. Wilcox is now chairman n !
of the tennis committee at Chevy |
Chase, succeeding Edward W. Dom, |
devote the necessary time to the posi- /
tion during the coming season and so |
turned in his resignation. Dom has
shown himself to be an exceptionally |
hard worker and a man of tact and |
judgment. and he was without doubt |
one of the best chairmen the tennis |
committee has ever had. Wilcox. who |
succeeds him, has been on the tennis |
committee for some time, and his Sc
lection met with general approval at |
the club. He is now on a three-week |
trip to Cuba, but expects to start |
things "humming" when he returns.
Chairman A. 7. Leech. jr.. of the
tennis committee at Columbia Is very
anxious to arrange a match with the
Harvard team. to be played at his club
the day following its match at Chevy
Chase. He talked with Capt. r. Nor
ris Williams about 1t at the meeting
of the N. L. T. A a week or SO ago, but
nothing definite was decided upon The
schedule given out by the Harvard
team shows that 1t will only be in this
section two days, however, and that
both of these dates are fllled-one with
Chevy Chase April % and the other
at Baltimore on the following day.
Manager Miller Higgins of the ST.
L.,