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doubles also, and the youthful flashes,
John Doeg and Frank Shields.
Mrs, Clarence Norment. jr. won the
closed Chevy Chase Club women's
championship, which followed the in
vitation play, and Harrison Irwin re-
tanned the mems crown.
Clarence Charest, local racketer, lost
the District championship to Capt.
Robert G.. Van Vliet, U. s. Army star,
who followed his brilliant performance
in the Army Sheridan cup play at
Columbia Club by breeZing through
| the District event to win the champion
ship over. field of SO contestants.
Robert Considine, figured prominent
ly in the majority of local and nearby
events this past year, winning the Dis
trict Public Parks title and the PENN
sula championship at Easton, Md plac-
| ing in the final of the Virginia State
event and, paired with Tom Mangan,
capturing the Middle Atlantic doubles
crown.
| Frank Shore captured the junior title
of the District and was runner-up to
Billy Jacobs for Middle Atlantic honors.
Jack Lynham won the boys local title.
but succumbed before the title round of
the sectional event for his class.
Frances Krucof again was the OUT
standing player in womens tennis, VIM
ming the District Of Columbia cham
pionship and the Women's Tennis
League titles. Marian Wells loomed as
the foremost junior racketer, annexing
the District junior title, the Holton Arms
School crown and placing in the semi
final or final rounds of several senior
events, including the Chevy Chase Club
championship, In which she bowed to
Mrs. Norment in the semi-flnals.
Women Win Doubles.
Corinne Frazier lost the Virginia
State singles title to Marywill Wake
ford, but Phoebe Moorhead and Caroline
Jansen brought home the doubles crown
Mrs. Clarence Norment and Misses Kru-
coff, Morhead and Frazier represented
Washington on the first Middle At
iantic team to compete in the Sears
cup matches at Germantown.
George Washington University's team,
led by Frances Walker, won the District
Women's Tennis League team champion
ship.
Central High School racketers won
the public high school title of the Dis
trict; st. Adams won the prep school
crown, and George Washington, George
town and Gonzaga, Catholic U. and
Maryland u. each had teams in the
collegiate class, in which no champion
ship series was staged.
Baltimore took the inter-city public
parks title from Washington, but the
Washington Junior players of the Dis
trict triumphed over the Baltimore
juniors to even the count. This Fall in
the inter-city indoor matches, the team
representing Washington has scored over
the American Legion squad and the
Racquet Club netmen of Baltimore in
the Baltimore Indoor League.
Team competition in the local leagues
for the championships of each loop
was followed by an inter-league title
series which resulted in victory for the
Treasury team of the Departmental
League.
Rcsuming the District team cham
pionships this year after a lapse of
activities, the title-winning teams of
each of the local leagues competed for
the crown won by the Henry Park team
of the Public Parks League, which de-
feated Treasury of the Departmental
League in the title match.
Other League Winners.
League winners for 1923 were, in ad-
dition to the two named above, Bureau
Of Standards in the Suburban League,
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League and District National Bank of
the Bankers League. Capital City
league was organized but did not COM
pete this year in the District titular
event.
In the annual Diplomatic Corps-State
Department team matches, the Diplo-
mats scored heavily. Departmental
racketers held a doubles championship
within their ranks, which was won by
Maj. L. S. Hobbs and Capt Hunting
ton Hills.