Evening star., 1935-07-07
VIRGINIA AND D. c.
PLAY TO FOLLOW
Three Weeks of Battling to
Get Under Way Week
From Tomorrow.

tition for the h orSes n oc
championships Of Washington,
l. Maryland, Virginia and the
Metropolitan area will get under way
q week from tomorrow with the run
ming of the seventh annual Evening
Star tournament.
Maryland's fiippers, primed by half
q Summer of keen informal battling,
will start the irons flying. Then will
come in succession the Virginia,
Washington and Metropolitan events,
with the last named bringing together
survivors of the previous play and
the defending champion, Clayton G.
Henson of Arlington, Va.
Ture-up matches Of the last sew
eral weeks and play In the Metropoh-
tan Singles League indicate that the
competition in The Star tournament
will be sharper than ever. Since last
year the game generally has doomed,
a number of budding stars of 1884
have improved greatly, and the usual
crop of unknowns with surprising abil-
ity should add to the excitement.
Following are the dates:
Maryland-July IS and Is,
with entries closing July 13.
Virginia-July Is and ls,
with entries closing July is.
Washington-July % and 23.
with the deadline set for July
20.
Extraordinarily IS and rs.
The Virginia title will be contested
on the courts of George c. Thompson
at Falls Church and the Washington
and Metropolitan tournaments will be
held on a municipal playground lay
out vet to be selected. 1t is likely
that the courts beside the Tech High
swimming pools, on which the District
and Metropolitan events have been
held for several years, will be aban-
doned for a spot where more specta-
tors may be accommodated COM
fortably. Capacity gatherings have
been the rule since the tournament
first was held and the Metropolitan
play-of has outgrown the old layout,
Saunders Now Boss.
ALL entries should be mailed or
"A phoned to The Star sports de-
parment, National 5000, branch 375.
An entry blank will be published daily
starting early this week.
AS in the past, the Virginia tourna-
ment will be directed by the former
State champion, George Thompson,
but there will be a change in the
management of the Washington event.
experimenting this will be none
other than Harry Fraser Saunders,
former Metropolitan champion and
present Washington titleholder, who
recently joined the staff of the Mu-
nicipal Playground Department in the
unique capacity of horseshoe in
structor.
For the remainder OF the Summer
and probably throughout the Fall
Saunders will tour the city's numer-
Gus Fairgrounds, giving lessons to all
who would have them-without cost.
More to Come.
THE Stars tournament. though cli-
- making the season. will not end it..
Far from 1t. One of Saunders duties
will be to promote two tournaments
on every playground, one for grown
ups and one for boys IS years old and
under, with the winners to meet for
the city playground championships.
Although a title will be at stake, the
Fairgrounds senior tournament will
be essentially a buffers affair. Any
player who has reached an advanced
stage of a major event in the past
will not be permitted to compete.
First-claSs courts will be installed
on all grounds and shoes provided.
Full details about the playground
pitching will be published during the
next several days.
Next to The Star tournament, the
annual invitation event, held in con-
nection with the Mclean, Va, carni-
val, is of greatest interest to the ex-
perts, the lads who bang an average
of so or more per cent Of their irons
onto the stakes. This will be held
July 81.
Henry Huschke, in charge at Nc
Lean, is hard put to make his selec-
tions. Heretofore 16 players have
been invited to try for the valued
Mclean prizes, but this time Huschke
may limit the field to eight.
Tie for League Lead.
TN THE meantime, the struggle goes
on apace in the all-star Metropol-
itan Singles League. with those two
brilliant rivals, Boo Henson and Harry
Saunders tied for the lead with clean
states of six wins.
Following are the league statistics
and the schedule for this week:
STANDING.