Evening star., 1937-07-21
VICTORY FOR D. c.
PAIR HELD LIKELY
CoIvin and Greipenker| Of
Baltimore May Offer Stiff
fest Opposition.
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.


n tennis courts tomorrow be-
~ come the scene of week
4 "A ends struggle to be recognized
as the Middle. Atlantic sections best
mems doubles team, with the odds
highly in favor of local pair winning
that recognition for the third success
sive year.
For, despite the fact that the
Middle Atlantic territory embraces
Maryland, Virginia and West Vir-
glnia besides the District of Colum-
bla, only one Of those States--Mary-
land-today had entries in the hands
OF the committee which will make the
draw at 6 o'clock tonight.
Price Colvin and Ed Greipenkerl
again will head the Baltimore dele
CATION of not more than four teams.
but Virginia and West Virginia are
unrepresented. Colvin and Greipen-
kerl will be seeded, but all other seeded
teams likely are to be District two
komes
The old bromide of a wide open
night once more must be applied be-
cause, for the third straight year, no
defending championship team is
entered. Ralph McElvenny, who was
half Of the winning pair in both 1885
and 1886, will be playing with his third
partner in as many years. Mac won
with Barney Welsh in IS, but with
Welsh competing out of town last
at tho tipoa tho hill1a
were on, Gilbert Hunt became his
partner. This year, Hunt is out OF
the city and so McElvenny will team
with Tom Mangan, 43-year-ol vet
eran, who never has failed to be
ranked in the Middle Atlantic section
since he started to play here in the
early 20s.
New Champion Likely.
INCIDENTALLY, it is doubtful how
much OF fight McElvenny and
Mangan will put up, inasmuch as, even
II they did win, they would not go to
the national doubles tournament. for
which they would be eligible. Mac has
just returned from a tWo-month trip
aboard, and business reasons would
prevent Mangan's leaving the city for
the nationals
And so the fight probably lies among
the teams of Colvin and Greipenkerl
and several local combinations. Promi-
nent among the hometown contenders
will be the formidable combination of
Hugh Lynch and Ed Mather, the local
Junior championship team of Harry
Hefner and David johnson and the
two Buddles-Adair and Goeltz-who
have won several out-of town cham
plonShlpS in the past two years. 1t is
probable that they will be seeded in
that order, with Colvin and Greipen-
kerl slipping in somewhere and the
Mangan- -McElVenny combination &C
corded recognition by being another
rated pair.
Sure to be in the running, however
are the local teams of Joe Baker and
Fred Doyle and Bob Bradley and Harry
Goldsmith. Both combinations reached
the late rounds Of the same tourney
last Summer.
Matches Start at 5 O'Clock.
ONLY once in the three previous
years the tournament has been
held at ArmyNavy has a Wash
tngton team won. That was in 1894,
when the Virginia combination of Al
phonso Smith and John Wheatley
bagged the title. Although sectional,
the tournaments site has been kept
here because Washington is the geo.
graphical center of the three States
forming the territory.
Even then, the center seems a little
too far for West Virginians to come
especially when there seems little
hope for one of their entries getting
very far.
The matches, all of which will be
the best three out of five sets, will
begin a. S o'clock, unless convenient
for opposing teams to play earlier
Since the har-tru courts are fast
drying, rain will not necessarily mean
a poStponement Contestants, there
fore, are advised TO be on hand at
the time their matches are scheduled
to avoid defaults.