The Washington times., 1920-06-10

great record in District tennis annal:
The winning OF the Middle Atlantic
championship by Conrad b. Doyle
yesterday. carried with II the perna-
nent possession of the championship
trophy. Doyle Is three-time winner
Of the last bowl. 1t is his for keeps
along with another won years ago.
This fourteenth annual Middle At
lantic tennis championship Is another
and final triumph for the house OF
Doyle, victorious in the District ever
since Connie dethroned John c. Da-
wilson back in 1908 as District tennis
champion.
There have been years when Connie
Doyle has not won the title. Those
seasons were marked by the failure
Of the champion to compete. His
record Is unquestionably the most re-
markable in tennis history, as he has
never been beaten in the District in
any championship event he has en-.
tered.
Won Fourteen Years Ago.
Fourteen years ago, when the
Southern championship was taken
away from this section and the Mid
die Atlantic honor awarded, Connie
Doyle won. That was in 1906. In
1907 and 1905 Connie won the other
two legs on the Middle Atlantic Cup
and became permanent possessor OF
that trophy. From 1908 to 1913 Connie
/ oyle didn't compete for the title.
His work took him out of town each
spring and he was forced to stay out
of competition.
Harold Z. Doyle. older brother of
at % he No Nd
the titular cup. In 1000 and 1910
II. Z. Doyle won the title. r. L.
James, of Saratoga, was victor in
1911 and 1912, neither of the Doyles
competing. In 1913 Connie Doyle re-
turned to competition and won, as
Harold Il. Doyle defaulted to him in
the final.
In 1914 Harold +. Doyle became
permanent possessor of tho trophy
through third win, Connie being
unable to compete. In 1915 Spencer
Gordon, who also won the District
title that year, won the Middle Allan
tic championship, neither OF the
Doyles being in competition.
Won In Year 1915.
Connie Doyle competed and won the
first leg on this trophy in 1915. Two
patriotic tournaments were played
during 1917 and 1918. Last year,
while hard pushed by Fred Harris, the
Vermonter, Connie DOYLE, won
gruelling five-set match, Coming from
behind in what looked like certain
defeat, to a win of the title honor.
This year Doyle ran through almost
| without opposition as he was the
class OF the tournament. 1t was noised
| about that Connie Doyle would not
| compete this year. He has played at
| times this spring, and yesterday
wound up his career at Columbia.
Connie Doyle is determined to quit
| the game. 81 love to play" says Con-
ME-" but haven't the time to devote
| to II, and l feel that ] will never be
able to give enough time TO It to do
| my game justice. I'd rather stop now
winner than TO along to defeat
later on because of lack OF practice
and the fact that I haven't the time
to give to the game"
! Which Is a bit OF sound athletic
| philosophy and something that might
well be copied by champions OF for.
mcr years whose annual attempts at
'comebacks" prove ludicrous "fliv-
vcrs."
Did Much For Game.
| Tennis in the District of Columbia
owes much to the Doyles. Louis \,
Doyle. Harold T.. Doyle, Conrad i,
Doyle and Miss A. NJ. Doyle have all
been District of Columbia, Middle
Atlantic champions, Southern champ
ions, and club champions. They have
given the best they have to the game
and have brought II from nothing
to a hish plane.
And 80 Connie Doyle has decided
to Quit tournament competition which
marks the ending OF n great career
here. In years gone by had Doyle
gotten the chance to compete with
the ptars OF the ooustrv "a would