Evening star., 1936-06-01

TRANC1S STAN says 1t nearly
- every day, so we probably will
be permitted to use it just once
and tell you that things truly
are popping of" in this tennis game
of ours this week.
With the City OF Washington tour
nament dominating the current COM
petition, the younger 'uns and the
wimmen, God bless EN-, are to get
their share of the spotlight before
the week is out, what with the inter-
scholastic championships, the Sears
Cup matches and the women's division
of the City of Washington scheduled
10 hit the sports pages in the next
five days.
The interscholastics, scheduled for
two days on the Georgetown Univer-
sity courts, will begin Wednesday.
subjecting these kids, still in their
teens, to a test which would be
Stunned by players twice their age.
For, With .eams entered from every
school ii this section, the partici-
pants will be forced to play four
rounds of tennis each day, with the
winner and runner-up earning a trip
to the national interscholastic cham
pionships to be held at Forest Hills
in conjunction with the nationals in
September.
This is the first year that the inter-
scholastics have been staged in a
long time, it being the result of the
aim of the U. S. L. T. A. to develop
the country's youngest players for
Davis Cup teams. And how we need
them!
Anyway. the Capital will be well
represented with several youngsters
of outstanding promise entered in the
tournament. Fan Carver of st.
Adams, who has beaten every school
boy racketer in the city; Nate Ritzen--
berg, the current junior champion:
David johnson, the boys title holder,
and Charley Charming, captain of
Central Highs championship squad,
are just few of the many slated
to begin the competition.
4A1oG AOul l-IOulO-d-Ody u program, H.
cidentally, won't be anything new to
johnson. Up in New Jersey tourna-
ment last week, the heavily SUM-
tanned youngster played SO games in
a single day. What! A tennisthon?
As TO the fair sex, three of the
city's best players probably will
be in the Sears Cup matches, the an
nual competition between several
Eastern cities. which is scheduled for
Friday and Saturday. Mary Cootes,
the ranking No. l player of the Dis
trict, and Edith Clarke, her recent
conqueror at Richmond, are sure bets
to be on the Middle Atlantic team,
as Is Margaret Robinson, wife of the
young Army captain, Stanley K.
g All three, however, are expected
to be back in the city on Sunday for
the opening rounds of the women's
City of Washington tournament,
which also will be sponsored by The
Star. and which will start at the Rock
Creek courts either Saturday or
Sunday.
Sara Moore, the other candidate
from the District likely to make the
squad, was unable to participate in
the recent tryouts, having just as
'umed new position with the Gov
srnment.
The women's tournament is planned
70 start this week end, allowing it
TO be completed by the time the wom-
ms District tourney starts, on June
Is. Entries now are being taken at
,he sports department of The Star,
'r at Bill Shreve's Tennis Shop, 1919
Fifteenth street.
WE SHOULD remind the chairman
Of the Tennis Committee at CO.
umbia Country Club that the Hotch-
Kiss Cup matches, involving teams
rom Washington, Richmond, Norfolk
md Baltimore, are scheduled to start
N June u, and that it might be
wise to start the selection of the
,eam.
Really, there is nothing hard about |
,icking those who will represent the
Capital, now that all the best players
ire members Of clubs, one requisite
or membership on the team. With
Tom Mangan retaining his place on
he team It seems likely that Barney |
Welsh, Dooley Mitchell, Tom Markey,
Hugh Lynch. Ralph McElvenng and