Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
CAPTURE HONORS
IN ASSET MATCH
Win Over Howard and FaTin.
Considine and Charest
to Battle Today.
RY CORINNE FRAZIER.

past week. and should eliminate today
in a duel of wits between two colorful
local racketers who have survived sin
giles play. one of whom. Bob Considine,
has already annexed the doubles title.
paired with Tom Mangan. Clarence
Charest. the other singles challenger,
will be having his fourth try at the
title-having won 1t three times-twice
on the Dumbarton courts. In 1922 and
1923. and once at Wardman Park, In
1925
The match Is to be called at 3
o'clock.
Both players will have a large fol-
lowing in the gallery, Judging from
Side-line comment yesterday while the
fans watched Considine and Mangan
nose out the fighting Navy team En-
signs Bill Howard and James Farrin,
in a four-Set encounter. 6-3, As,
10-S, 1913. The last set was the
longest PLAYED during the tournament.
In Considine will be the hope of the
rising youth who are basing their faith
in him upon his versatile service,
smashing cross-court drive, strength
overhead and last but not least-his
miraculous speed in court covering
which enables him to get the shots
that have been neatly put to bed and
tucked in around the corners with
flnal pat by his opponents. When ex-
tended the farthest. ConSidine can be
counted upon to show up the strongest
Veterans Look to Charest.
Unon Charest the hopes of,the rooters
for veteran" talent are pinned. and
these are based upon many things
chiefly, the canniest head for tennis in
the District. which rests between this
veterans two shoulders-and an un-
uuenchable spirit that has shown itself
unbeatable In his every appearance
throughout the past To-day grind to the
title round. Charest has quite a few
other assets upon which his sympa-
thizers may count. too. among them a
Observation-Disclosures not particularly
speedy service-and magnificent court
generalship gained after years of ex-
perience.
Altogether. unless one or the other
cracks under the terrific strain, this
match should fittingly crown the great
est local tennis event the Capital has
ever known.
There is just one thing which threat
ems to mar the Scene-and that can be
avoided. 1t would be too bad If a
repetition Of the faulty judging Of yes
terday's final encounter should be re-
peated. The fault lay. not with the
gether with Col. Wait c. johnson and
other oldtimers have been more than
generous with their services and most
faithful in the performance of their
duties. 1t lay. rather, in the placing
Of Judges on the lines whose vision was
imperfect or who were unaccL stoned
to officiating In championship matches.
Granting that the judges were doing
their level beSt-and 1t was obvious
that they were straining every nerve TO
their difficult task, number Of their
close decisions yesterday were not only
unfortunate, but costly in the ex-
treme at critical junctures. Things Of
this sort, apparently trif1es to the OBJ
server, often completely demoralize
tense players, and utterly spoil poten-
italy interesting encounters.
This, fortunately, was not the result
In the doubles yesterday, for it was in
tensely interesting from the first to the
last point. despite the Earring note
but 1t might easily follow on the heels
Of similar judging in tight singles
event like the one anticipated today.
Considine and Farrin Star.
Bob Considine and the dynamic
Jimmie Farrin were the individual stars
Of yesterdays title doubles match.
Considine's speed and reach were
matched across the net by an unbe-
lievably amazing agility which permit
, ted Farrin to cover almost as much
territory as his lanky riVal-and the
headwork of a seasoned veteran which
the MILDLY has developed In an in
credibly short space Of time.
Mangan gave Considlne good support
in the backcourt but was at his usual
game of hurdling the backstops with
his overhead volleys. That is, up to
certain point Then, at the critical
moment in the fourth set Mangan came
through with three magnificent smasheS
which gave his team the victory.
Howard played brilliantly in streaks,
acing Considine on number OF occa-
sions-and that is going some-even
with Bills cannonball service. But he
had great difficulty in mastering Man
CANS delivery and f1ubbed almost as
many returns as he made good when
ever the Columbia Club player was
holding forth.
The FIRST set went to Mangan and
Considine in short order, the younger
pair seeming to have gone stale tenn
porarily after their duel with Gwynn
king and Dooly Mitchell whom they
defeated early in the afternoon in the
postponed semi-final match. The scores
were So, 1l-9, Ga. Only the third
set was played yesterday, however, the
other two having been completed before
TOTAL darkness CAlleQ IldlC EIlOdS'
Catching their stride in the second,
the Navy pair forged ahead for Ct
count, seemingly as easily superior as
their opponents had been in the opener.
The third set was anybody's until Man
gan and Considine established lead in
the seventeenth game and succeeded In
breaking through Farrins service to
make 1t 1913, aided by the calling of
footfaults on the server at critical
point.
Question of Stamina.
From one marathon the quartet went
into another. this even more grueling.
reducing itself finally to a matter OF
who could last out two games In row.
Mangan and Considine finally accom-
plisled this feat in the twenty seventh
and twenty-eighth games winning Con-
sidines service for the advantage and
coming through Farrin's for the f1rst
time in 10 games to win the match.
In ali. the match contained 65 games
and side-liners who could remember
back into the nineties were comparing
II among themselves with an almost
forgotten championship Of the long ago
which contained the world record mara
thon set 20 to 81, totaling Sc games.
One of the notable features Of the
otherwise topnotch exhibition was the
dificulty experienced by all four play
ers in taking their own services through
the first three sets In the fourth play
was more orthodox in this respect.