Evening star., 1936-06-07
TOP R|TzERBERGS
IN STAR CITY TILT.
Losers Reach Final Round
in Big Upset-SingIes
Crown Clash Today.
BY BILL DISMER, JR.

~ONQUERING the teams which
4 earlier in the day had pro-
\ vided the biggest upset the
~ City Of Washington doubles
tournament ever has known, Barney
Welsh and Ralph McElvenny won
their first championship in that tour
ney yesterday afternoon when they
trimmed Allie and Nathan Ritzenberg
in the finals. of The Star-sponsored
competition, 60, 6-3, So.
On that same court at Edgemoor
Club, the Ritzenberg brothers, junior
champions of the city. had astounded
local netdom with q smashing 3-6,
6-3, IS upset of Dooley Mitchell
and Tom Markey, thus knocking the
defending champions out Of the op-
portunity to receive the first prizes
the tournament has offered in years
The mems division of the tourna-
ment will end this afternoon with
the singles final in which Yelverton
Garnett, surprise" player Of the COM
petition, will meet Welsh, seeded No.
1, on the Edgemoor court, starting
at $3.50 o'clock
Immediately after the singles en-
counter, tourney prizes will be awarded
with The Stars Gold Trophy going to
the singles winner for one year.
Doubles Win Scored Quickly.
RARNEY and Mac, free from the
perennial challenge of their stern
est foes, turned on the heat with every
scorching stroke at their command
to pound out 60, 6-3, 60 tri-
umph that restored to normalcy
situation that had been completely up
set by two kids still in their teens.
There's still pride in the eyes of
the Ritzenbergs this morning. though,
as they reflect on the day in which
they made their first impression on
Washingtons senior netdom. BY vir-
tue of their role of flnalists, they must
be classed as the city's No. doubles
team, were up-to-the-minute rank
ings released.
Granting that Mitchell was way off
form and that he received little aid
from his partner, Markey, the i'll
fated defenders would have had to
be almost letter perfect to circum-
vent the Ritzenbergs' ambition yester-
day. Having advised close friends
we're going to take 'em" before tax
Ing the court. the junior champs
made good their threat with a ven
geance. although not as the dime novel
would have it, from the very start.
''No Contest" After First Set.
Mitchell and Markey took the
first set with no outward display
OF alarm, but from that point on it
was mo contest"-for the champs.
Working with the smooth precision
of teamwork they have practiced for
years, Nate and Al literally stormed
at their highly rated foes, taking the
second set as easily as Mitchell and
Markey had taken the first set to
deuce the match at l-all.
Then the local interscholastic
champions proceeded to give no quar-
ter, taking the lead at the outset of
the third set and never being headed.
After watching the Ritzenbergs an
mex a lead Of "a, Mitchell and
Markey tied 1t up at A and SIS.
but Allie won his service and then
the brothers broke through Markey's
service for the set and match.
Even as they had foreseen victory
in the semi-flnal, however, so did
Nate and Allie anticipate their defeat
at the hands Of Welsh and McElvenny.
Major Setting for Match.
IN A major league atmosphere, with
Tom Mangan, president of the
Middle Atlantic Tennis Association,
handling the umpire's job to perfec-
tion, and lirfesmen at every strategic
point, Barney and Mac reiterated
their supremacy over the best oppo-
sition the tournament could offer.
running through the first set at love
before easing up.
Nate won, at service, the first and
fifth games in the second set and
Allie took the third on his own serve,
but the Welsh-McElvenny team tied
the count at Sail and then coasted in.
In the third set, again, the cham
pions toyed with the minors at the
outset, permitting the Ritzenbergs to
annex the first two games before run