Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-25
Over the Net
BY w. II. Hotel

Dumbarton Club has cincbed tho
pennant in the Washington Associa-
ton with four wins and no defeat.
both Chevy Chase Club and Column
bla Country Club teams have lost
three of four matches played.
Absence from the CITY of Ed Rurke
and Walter Nordlinger has greatly
weakened the Montrose team of the
suburban circuit. The District Junior
doubles champions are in a camp In
New York state and will go from
tnele to the national matches at
Forest Hills, August 80.
Miss Louise Kelley, who was rum
ner up to Miss MarywiH Wakeford
for the middle Atlantic title, is play
ing great tennis. She recently won
over Miss Wakeford and Miss A. NJ
Doyle. She got IS from her father
for winning the latter match.
Two hundred and three matches
were staged in the Women's League
in the ten-week series recently closed.
This is next to the largest number
years of it's existence. A like number
were played in 1916, the most being
put on in 1915, the inaugural season.
when 22S were decided.
Zeno Shimidzu, the japanese. who
played such great tennis in the Brit
ish championship. will play in the
national title tourney at Forest Hiiis.
He holds the titular honors of lndia
and Argentina. Shimid zu is twenty
eight years old.
Mrs. May sutton Bundy Of Cafffor-
MIA former champion, will make her
temperance in national competition
this fall in the woman's Champion
ship tourney at PhiladelphIa. MISE
Helen Baker and Miss Evelyn Ten
nant, other Pacifict coast stars. also
will compete. Miss Tenant is now
playing in the east and meeting with
much success.
Peck Grimm and Willis Davis won
the Pacific coast doubles champion
skip recently by defeating the kinSey
brothers, 1919 titleholders. in the final
Their victory gives them the right TO
compete in the national doubles at
ILongwood, beginning August TO-
Gerald Patterson and Normal
Brookes, Australians. will not defend
their American doubles title this year.
the latter having decided not to make
the trip to the United states. Fat
terson will come for the national
tourney and probably several events
preceding. IIdo ne WOh W. AIN>AA
in the challenge round in the Eng
fish championship singles, he. too.
would not have, come.
Leon de Turenne of Harvard has
been elected president of the Inter
collegiate Tennis Association. w. T.
MaIlery of Cornell is vice president,
Edmund Levy of California is secre-
tary and Kenneth Hawks Of Yale IS
treasurer.
The English Tennis Association
will secure new grounds to replace
the famous Wimbledon courts. The
new club will be constructed in the
same district in London The out
lay will be about $375.000.
J. c. Parke. the only foreign player
to score over the American Davis cup
racketers, is an old hand at tennis.
His victory over William M John
ston in the British title tourney was
not the first notable achievement at
the expense of Americans. Parke
won both singles over Americans IN
the Davis cup matches at Wimbledon
in 1913, defeating. Maurice McLough-
lin and Norris Williams. the former
in hve-set match Of hfty-nine
games 1t was Parke's amazing We
tory over the late Anthony Wildins
that enabled the British team to take
the Davis cup from Australia in l9lZ.
three matches to two.