The Washington herald., 1917-08-05

Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock
on the Municipal Courts War and
Navy will meet for the title in the
Departmental Tennis League. Both
of these teams reached the ulti-
mate round by their victories OF
last week. Navy. last years win
ner, is generally picked to repeat.
but War has some exceptionally
good men in Gore. Pratt, Leech,
Buckingham, Thomas, Edwards.
Duncan, Stauffer, Bentley and
White and may spring a surprise.
Navy will place It's dependence in
Candor, Burton, Calder, Bates,
Pryor. Gibbons, Clary and Sutclir.
Representative ]. J. Fitzgerald Is
playing a very good game of golf
at Columbia these days. He is, no
| doubt, the best OF the Copgres-
sional delegation now playing at
any of the local clubs.
Next Saturday will be a special
day at the Washington Golf and
Country Club when a match between
two selected teams will be held. There
Will probably be about thirty players
on side and they will be paired and
foursomes played. This will be In
preparation for the match between
picked teams from that club and the
Bannockburn club. the first meeting
of which is slated for the following
day On the Cabin John Bridge course.
Challenges have been very numerous
travelling back and forth between
members of these two clubs and they
have eliminated in series of
matches between the pick of the two
organizations. The first will be played
next Sunday at Bannockburn while
the second will be played at the
Washington Golf and Country Club
on a date to be decided upon later.
J. Floyd Cissel, formerly a member
of the Columbia Country Club but
now living in New York city, was a
visitor at his "old stamping ground"
last week as the guest of C. Arthur
Slater.
Jack Dudley and Paul Conklin. win
ners Of the District Junior and Boys
tennis titles. respectively, for 1917, will
represent Washington in the National
event in these classes at the West
Side Tennis Club. Forest Hills, New
York, on August % and following
days. This will be the first time
Washington has ever been represented
in these classes. Both of them showed
considerable class in the event here
and their work in the Metropolis will
be watched with much interest.
The Harvest Home tournament is
now being planned by the Bannock-
burn Club and the Tournament Com
mittee expects to announce the dates
and conditions of play within the next
week or so. The event will be held
much earlier this year than usual.
Next Saturdays tennis matches in
the two big leagues-the Suburban and
the City and Surburban-are as fol-
lows. in both cases the matches Will
be played on the courts of the clubs
first named:
Suburban League.
Argyle VS.. Princeton.
Home VS.. Euclid
Racquet VS.. Bureau of Standards.
City and Suburban League.
Sherwood VS.. Spring Road.
w. Ry. & E. Co. VS.. Takoma.
Y. NJ. c. A. VS.. Fairmont.
The qualifying round for the August
tournament at the Columbia Country
Club ends TODAY. The Green Commit
tee announces that the scores made on
''Eynon Day in the special events, as
well as all others up TO that date may |
be used IL desired.
John Bryan won the first eight in |
the July tournament at the Washing |
ton Golf and Country Club. with |
Charles H. Dooiny, jr.. who was best
IN the second night. the only other |
winner decided. An August event will
probably be held but the matter will
not be definitely decided upon until |
today when the tournament committee |
will get together and make a decision. |
DR.. Thomas J. w. Brown and DIR. |
Bruce L. Taylor are the semi-finalists |
In the lower half Of the Henry-wili- |
iams cup event. while In the upper |
half William Mackie 10 the only one
who has advanced that far. Mackie |
will have as hts opponent the winner |
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