Evening star., 1935-08-18

the vicinity OF 2435 Massachu-
L sets avenue this afternoon
should indicate the public's interest in
seeing the ''Winnah and new cham
peen" crowned on the Embassy courts
sometime around 5 o'clock.
Yes. Dan Suttenfeld's tournament
for the boys who never had a chance
comes to an end today. and of the five
entrants who we're left in the quarter
and semi final matches yesterday nc:
one ever has come near winning d
local championship. Look at EN-
Alan Staubly. Hugh Trigg, Spencer
Howell. Ray Stocklinski and Don Gar
ber-tennis players, tried and true.
but Up to now their songs been blue.
They could spot you or me four
games a set and our chances Of win
ming one set in a match would be
about as thin as the sheet Of paper
you're holding. But stack EN- up
against the city's bigger boys and
they'd last about as long as a Wash
ington pitcher against an all-star
team.
They've always given the top notch
ers plenty of trouble at first, but to-
ward the end of the second set they've
folded up or broken down and it's
been the same old story of the same
old names winning. But it hasn't
been that way during the past week.
Suttenfield, who looks after his en-
trantS with something akin to perennial
solicitude, has observed with no little
delight that his patrons have battled
as hard the past eight days as II
they'd been fighting for major cham-
pionship. There's a cup awaiting the
winner with the inscription, Cham
pion-EmbaSsy Tournament" and If
you don't think that first word means
something to these boys, then you
probably believe Max Baer's coming
back to the ring merely for the love
Of money.
But Suttenfeld is not the under
dogs sponsor, exclusively. AS soon as
the unranked doubles teams finish
their tournament which opened yes
terday, he's staging au invitation
tournament to which the best 16 play
ers Of the District will receive bids.
WHILE the Embassy singles tourna-
ment ends today. BcbSey Turney
says her chiSelers affair would close,
too-if she ever could get her players
to pull down the curtain. Over q
week, now the entry list of around 80
has been engaged in singles and dou-
bles competition and, at last, the end
is in sight.
And unless rain, hurricane or nom
appearance of contestants land the
latter is the most likely postpone 1t
further, the tournaments singles semi
final matches will be played tomorrow
with the finals on Tuesday. while
doubles will be wound up with semi
finals on Tuesday and the champion
ship match Wednesday.
Arthur Simmons, State Depart
ment's nearest approach to the es-
sence Of unorthodoxy as illustrated by
Representative Hamilton Fish some
two months ago, already Is in the
finals and awaits the outcome of a
semi-final match tomorrow. This will
involve Bobby Burns and the winner
Of the Kahl Sprigg Johnny Hatch
match which is to be finished today
Sprigg and Hatch started their match
last Thursday, but were forced to quit
after battling two hours, Hatch win
ming the first set, 81, and Sprigg
the second, 8-6.
Because Simmons semi-flnal oppo-
nent, Spencer Howell, was no more
than his equal, Mistress of Ceremonies
Turney had a premonition Simmons
would win. She claims that an un-
orthodox player can beat any one not
too far his superior any day in the
week.
Had you noticed that not one girl
is left in the Chiselers' Tournament?
And we thought they could outchisel
the boys!
Hither and Yon.
| AS A GUEST of Rudy Vallee on his
"A radio program last Thursday,
World Champion Fred Perry said that
one of the best recommendations ne
had for Donald Bulge was that he
twas red-headed and came from Cali
fornia." wouldn't o black-haired
Washingtonian be liable to 60 any
place, Fred?
When Thomas D. Carson, president
| of the Wardman Properties, Inc,
leaves the hospital, probably tomor-
row. the fate Of a possible tournament
at wardman Park Hotel will be closer
to o decision. Otto Glockler, profess
sional at Wardman, hopes to stage an
invitation tournament there next