Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-06
FAvOR|TES BEATEN
IN TENNIS TOURNEY
Hedekin Loses to Watt and
Purinton Bows to Hills in
D. C. Title Play.

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n mated as the result Of yes
NV terday's long program. play
in the District of Columbia
tennis singles championship
tournament was resumed this after
noon at Edgemoor Club.
Lieut.. David Hedekin, the runner up
in the Sheridan Cup final Saturday and
of the seeded stars, was beaten by Lieut.,
Watt, Navy Leech Cup racketer yester-
day.
Jack Purinton, another Of the seeded
players. fell before Capt. j. Fl, Hills, an
stars were straight set victims.
Capt. r. c. Van Vliet and Tom Man.
gan, generally picked as probable final
lists in the tourney, were listed for third
round rcatches today. Maj. d. New
garden and Don Dudley were TO meet
these players.
Jim Mitchell. younger brother Of
Dooley, was forced out Of competition
by the intense heat yesterday. With
the score 5 to 2 against him in the
third set, after dividing the first two.
he defaulted to Bob Burwell when on
the verge of collapse.
Number of Upsets.
Several upsets marked yesterdays
matches. Haas furnished a surprise by
removing Coronel. Both E. S. j. and
]. S. E. Young. the youthful Navy
Leech Cup players were stopped in first
round matches. Carter Baum assumed
a prominent position by defeating Hoff-
man, very decisively in straight love
sets. Rathgeber and Newly, putiic
parks players, carried their matches
three sets before bowling Newly made
an especially stanch stand against
Maj. Hobbs.
Capt. J. H. Hills defeated Underwood
in the only third-round match played
to date, 60, 6-l.
Results of yesterdays matches:
FIRST ROUND.
DOYLE. defeated Young. 10-S. 81; Watt
defeated Hedekin, 6-4. 81 Klotz defeated
60, 6~3; Coronel defeated Douglas by de-
Iault; Dodge defeated Byrne, So. 6-3;
s tsnBrt aefs ss,ss aO Tas c9 Y.o
mans defeated Shepard by default.
ssperTy defeated Bliss; 81: 6-i; Phillips
defeated Garnet. "a, % Bowen defeated aste
Dawson by default; Troth defeated STAN by
b. Dudley. defeated Silva, Ga 81; .Rath-
berger defeated Sickler by default; Newly
de Hobss d RsshsSa gec "a Sd Judd de-
feated STANDBY. "a. 81; FITZGERALD de-
feated Parsons, 81, Is; Burwell defeated
Mitchell. So, 81, 52, default. Pitman
defeated Tomeldon. So. 6-i. Ell; Simon
defeated Wooden, Ga. 6--1: Ladd defeated
Bakshain, 60, 6-3: Shore defeated Drown.
60. Go; Crews defeated Ballinger by de-
fault; Paschal defeated Young, 90. IS
Godfrey defeated Bradley. Ga, So
SECOND ROUND.
Van Vliet defeated Haney. SO, SO;
Newgarden defeated KTanauer, 60, SIS;
Jack Dudley defeated Deveau. 81. So;
Rittenbush defeated Simmons by default;
May defeated Mudd BY default; ONeil de-
feated Yeomans, Go. 60: Holt defeated
Taylor, Ga. 6--4 Haas defeated Coronel.
s4. SIS. Ga. Z: Yeomans defeated
Troth; so-s, e. Mansan defeated Finley,
Dudley defeated Rathgeber. 4-s. ga.
6--i; Hobbs defeated Newly, 81. g..
60: Ladd defeated Simon. f0-e. 6-4;
Shore defeated Crews. 6-4, 6-z; Ring de-
feated Benton. 6--3. Ga; Thomas defeated
Hotfecker. 60. 6--i; Rutley defeated Cal
Ian. GO, S-l; Oxrieder defeated Purinton.
"a, 81: Underwood defeated GOLDSMITH
by default; S WallenStetn defeated Harding.
Is. IS; Prechsler defeated Delavera BY
default.
THIRD ROUND.
Hills defeated Underwood, so. 81