Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-30

CLEVELAND, June 30.--Willis E.
Davis and H. Van Dyke Johns Of San
Francisco will meet George NJ. Church
and Dean Mathey of the West Side
Tennis Club today in the challenge
round for the national clay court dou-
bles championship. The Californians
earned the right at the Lakewood Ten
mis- Club here late yesterday afternoon
by defeating C. B. Doyle Of Washington
and w. B. Knox of Pittsburgh in the
final round, sets to 1, at So, 60.
6-1, 60.
The winners had reached the final
round earlier in the day by winning
from A. T. Spaulding and T. w. Hen
bricks of Buffalo at 81. 81. 6-3.
while Doyle and Knox disposed of
Charles Benton and H. F. Petite, Cleve-
land city champions, at GO. 60, 6-1.
The semi finals and final Of the doubles
were both played in the afternoon to
accommodate Mathey, who has to get
back to New York on business Satur-
day.
Big Crowd Sees Doubles.
The largest crowd of the week came
out to see the doubles matches, and If
it's applause may be taken as criterion
it was well pleased with the tennis.
However, the enthusiasm shown by the
onlookers over some beautiful rallies
was as nothing compared with what
they showed when a number of trains
loaded with soldiers bound for the
front went by. The trains passed right
by the back end of the courts, and as
each one of them went by every man.
It'll t. 10 1e a
up and cheered until they became a
mere speck far down the line. The
players left their rackets on the courts
and climbed into the stands to get a
chance to see the boys Off
Besides the two rounds of doubles and
the passing of the troop trains the
spectators had plenty more sport to
round out the day. They saw Davis
climb into the final round of the sin
giles by defeating Charles S. Garland
of Pittsburgh at 4-6. 60, 6-1. 60
in one of the most spectacular contests
of the tourney. In the woman's singles
both semi-fnal round matches were
staged and brought Miss Martha Guth-
rie of Pittsburgh and Miss Molla Blur
stedt. the playing through champion.
into the final round. Miss Guthrie
gained revenge for her defeat in the
titular round Of the Ohio state tour
w. Bickle of Toronto at 6-1. Sc, e.,
and Miss Bjurstedt won as easily as
usual. defeating Miss Florence BALM
of New York at 6-1, 6-3. Miss Guth-
rie plays Miss Bjurstedt for the cham
pionship today, and if she does as well
as she did Wednesday she should make
a better showing than when she played
the Norwegian girl for the metropoli-
tan title.
Doyle Plays Well.
Practically every one in the galleries
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shape up against Davis when the two
played opposite in the doubles. The
reason for this is that Doyle is gener-
ally picked as the man who will have
to meet Davis in the final round for
the right to challenge Richard Norris
| Williams. The Washington player will
play William S. McElroy of Pittsburgh.
New York state champion in the up
per half semi-fnal this afternoon, and
the quality of his game throughout the
tourney has made him the favorite. 1t
| might be said right here that in spite
OF the fact that his team lost, Doyle
suffered none by comparison with Da-
Wis. He played the best tennis of the
four on the court, but his partner
Knox. was terribly weak after the first
| set.
beautiful tennis. He made gets that
seemed superhuman and was as steady
| as time. He seemed anxious to try
what he could do against Davis and al
every possible opportunity directed his
attack against the California state
champion. In the duels between the two
Doyle almost always prevailed. HI,
| sharp chop drives had Davis guessing
from start to finish. and should the two
meet in the singles the battle should b.
a memorable one. Knox had little Il
do in the opening set. for the Califor
mans seemed unable to draw their fr'
| away from Doyle. That is the mail
reason why they lost the opening set.
In losing the set, however, Davis ant
Jenna found out that tho Washington