Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-15
BY w. H. HOTEL.

BY w. II. HOTEL.
Play / the junior. boys and girls
District championship tennis tourna
ment will start on the Dumbarton
Club courts Monday. June 80. Play
each day will be from $3.50 to 10
o'clock. This was decided yesterday
by Louis I. Doyle, representative Of
the National Association, for these
events, and Cecil Dowd, who will
handle the tourney. This will be the
first time girls District title events
have ever been held.
There will be eight events, four for
each of the male and feminine sex.
There will be junior singles and dou-
bles. boys singles and doubles and
singles and doubles in the two sec
who will not have reached the age of
nineteen on or before July /, and
boy Is one who has not reached six
teen on or before that date. The same
stipulations apply to the two girls
classes.
Entrance fees for the juniors is 81
in the singles and rs cents in the
doubles and in the boys events IS
cents for the singles and SO cents for
plying in the girls classes.
Entries. which close June % at 6
o'clock. should be made with Cecil
Dowd. 1926 Girard street northwest
War. leader in the Departmental
League, will play two matches dur
ing, the week, meeting Smithsonian
on the Municipal courts on Tuesday
and playing Treasury at the Bureau
of Standards Thursday. War has not
lost contest in it's two matches of
five doubles each. 1t is not likely that
Smithsonian or Treasury will hand
the War team jolt. but either is
likely to win a contest or two. There
also will be two other matches in the
league during the week. Commerce.
which holds second place, will play
ShfppinS-E Emergency on the Munich
pal courts Tuesday, and Interstate and
Justice Trade will meet at Bureau of
Standards Thursday.
Matches listed in the Suburban
League next Saturday are as follows:
Holmead, at Bureau of Standards;
Euclid. at Home Club. and Argyle. at
Racquet.
Columbia Country Club and Dunn
barton Club will meet next Saturday
on the formers courts in a Washing
ton Association match. They also
have postponed match which posi-
bly, may be played a week later at
Dumbarton.
Fred Conger. former Williams Col
lege star, who is playing for Ship
ping Emergency, in the Departmental
League, has Joined the Dumbarton
Club and is counted on for future
matches in the Washington Associa-
ton. Conger, who recently got out of
the Army aviation service, has not
gotten on his game as yet. but has
played enough here to show that he
has the latent ability. He is a nota-
BILE addition to the local tennis ranks.
Spalding's Tennis Annual, edited by
Samuel Hardy. has made it's appear
ance. 1t contains it's usual fund of
tennis Information. Hardy has writ
ten of the handicapping system in
England. which he believes could be
applied in America with good effect
He also tells of his Thirty Years
In Tennis" his experiences as play,
States and to Great Britain. where he
has met all the leading British and
Australian players.
Robert Lindley Murray, national
champion, who has played Connie
Doyle in exhibition matches here on
two occasions this season. is getting
in as much practice as possible. al
though he has not appeared in a
tourney this year. Murray, who is
located in Buffalo. gets to New York
frequently and then does q regular
marathon for a couple Of days, going
from one club to another to meet
ranking players. As far as IL known
he has not been beaten in singles,
Connie Doyle's tie in a two-set duel
here being his nearest approach to de-
feat.
Ishiya Kumagae. tho Japanese star,
10 not playing with Sechirio Kashio,
his fellow-countryman,i in the doubles.
Kumagae with Francis T. Hunter as
partner recently won the doubles in
tho Yonkers tourney, allowing Elliott
Bin5en and Embree Henderson, a
youthful pair, only seven games in
the final.
Harold Throckmorton, who 10 we'll