Evening star., 1916-04-30
TENNIS UNDER WAY
Chevy Chase Clubs Invitation
Tourney Starts With Singles.
CLOSE MATCHES ARE SEEN
Throckmorton's Defeat of Moorhead
Proves the Feature Bat
tie of Day.

The morning round Of the Chevy Chase
Clubs annual invitation tennis tourney
was played in the shadow of heavy, over
hanging rain clouds. Fortunately the
deluge held off and the pre-
Iiminary and first rounds were gone
through The play was to have started
at 10 o'clock, but owing to the business
duties of many Of the players it was de-
cided to relax the usually rigid default
rule and permit the contestants to ar
range their schedule as long as the
matches were gotten out of the way in
time for the second round.
Owing to business exigencies the crack
Metropolitan District racketers. r. S.
Baggs and S. H. Voshell. will be unable
to compete The chairman Of the tennis
committee. James H. Hopkins received
their declinations at noon yesterday by
telegraph.
Irving c. Wright of Boston telegraphe
he would arrive at noon today. He was
fortunate in drawing the bye in the up
per half of the draw and was not com
pelled to be on hand for the first match
A few matches were run off before noon
In these mostly local players competed
]. R. James of Saratoga had fast morn-
ings workout, defeating in turn j. L.
Armstrong of Washington. So. 6-l,
and Immediately thereafter showing u. L.
Lewis of Dumbarton the ropes to the
tune of 6-3. rs. in a hard-fought pat
tie Another morning n match h was ina tnat md ne,
J. H. Mclean. which the former won'
6-3. 6-1.
The afternoon matches were late in
starting. but at 2:3O o'clock j. Ballard
nf No
Hillyer Of Dumbarton got started: In
this the home player triumphed but not
until he had uncovered everything he
had Moore's serve was breaking high and
to the left. and Hillyer found some diff
Guilty in handling it, as the reverse bound
forced him frequently out of court. per
mitting his opponent to cross-court the
returns with ease.
Feature Contest.
The feature match of the afternoon
came in the contest between Harold
Throckmorton of Princeton, the inter-
scholastic champion. and J. Upshur Moor
head of Chevy Chase. Throckmorton. who
is touted as one OF the leading players
among the younger men Of the country,
has been at Chevy Chase for the last few
days and has been displaying exception
ally fine tennis.
As the players warmed up it was
his brilliant days. as he seemed to have
implicit confidence in his strokes, going
right and hitting the ball hard and ac-
curately. In the first set the Princeton
man did not seem to be able to get go
ing. and he frequently missed easy
shots. Throckmorton possesses magnif-
icent ground strokes and is very strong
on his backhand, this department of his
game having a peculiar likeness to that
of r. Norris Williams, in the manner in
which he NETS the ball.
Moorhead won the first set at GO
without much opposition from his brill
liant opponent, but in the second set a
worried frown appeared on Throckmor-
tons brow and he saw that the match
was not to be a mere practice contest.
He put on an extra head of steam in
this session and pulled through with a
60 victory. The finest tennis of the
match came in the third set with both
players going at top speed and with
Throckmorton little erratic. Moorhead
forged his way to 20 lead. but here
Throckmorton unleashed his speed and
tied the count. Again Moorhead led at
40, and again the collegian uncovered
some great passing shots and kno,:ed
the score at all. Thrcckmorton
dropped the ninth game on his own serv
ice, and when Moorhead led at 40-3O and
5-4 it seemed to the large and inter-
ested gallery that all that remained was
to congratulate the home player on his
victory. But on the match point Moor
head lobbed deep and high to Throck-
morton's forehand. and the latter TAX
ing the long chance. made a magnificent
smash, which sent Moorhead scrambling
for the high-bounding ball with not the
slightest chance of reaching it. With
this shot the interscholastic champion
seemed to regain his fast-ebbing con-
fidence, and ran out the set and match at
SIS.
Connie" Doyle did not meet with