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June 1920
By HARRY COSTELLO

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Young tennis players-the Junior
Davis Cup tryout group - today
we're entered in the Times-Hearst
Grand National Amateur tourna-
ment to be played on the courts OF
Potomac and Rock Greek parks
June IL to June 20, inclusive.
Major Charles w. Christenberry,
former Hawaiian Service doubles
champion, now secretary OF the
Army Tennis Association and vice
president of the District Of Colum-
butt Tennis Association, who is
chairman of the selection commit
tee in charge of the development
of young players in the District, in
accepting The Times invitation
to have his Junior Davis CupperS
compete in The Times tourna-
ment, said:
81 am happy to enter our
Junior Davis Cup tryOut group.
The experience will help them
immeasurably. We have mum.
Der of most promising players,
and our committee confidently
expects our young men to make
excellent showing In The Times.
Hearst tourney.
Incidentally, the Times
Hearst tournament, coming at
this time, when the United
States Lawn Tennis Association
is making every effort to aid
young players and to develop q
higher standard Of court play,
and craftsmanship and conduct
among players, should attract
field Of fine players"
The Junior Davis Cup Tryout
Group numbers IS players right
now and may be increased to 80
this week, due to an additional Is
applications just received by the
committee.
Outstanding among the young
Davis Cup aspirantS are Harry
Heffner, son Of Capt. Pete Heff-
ner, jr., Of the Infantry, and ninth
ranking junior Of the United
States; Albert Ritzenberg, Univer.
sity Of Maryland, a local boy, who
gives great promise Of developing
into q star; David johnson, the
youngster with the perfect tennis
form, just past his sixteenth birth
day; Harry March, Charles Chan
ming, John O'Malley, whose father
Is a commander in the Navy;
Ralph Buddy" Adair, acting every
DAY now as Barney Welsh'S train
ing partner; Dewitt Smith, an
other very promising player; Dolye
Royal, Miguel Nunez and Bob
Richardson.
It is possible that young O'Mal.
ley will mot compete in the
tournament. He is scheduled to
leave Washington to enter the
Naval Academy on June is, but
1t is possible that officials at An.
napolis may permit him to COM
pete.
Other youngsters whose names
have been listed as entrants in
the tournament by Major Chris
tenberTy are Warren Simpson,
Byron Matthews, James Burnside,
Gene Owens, Robert Bullard, Paul
Falconer, James Harley, Dewitt
Armstrong, Maurice Cowan, Tom
Walden, jr., Ken Daily, John
StrauSulh and Benton Groves.
:, When he heard that the Junior
Davis Cup Tryout Group had been
entered in the Times-Hearst Tour.
nament, M. F. Mike" Calnan,
widely known Washington banker
and sportsman, Immediately Of
3ered q trophy to go to the member
of the Junior Davis Cup Tryout
Group, who, in the Times.Hearst
Tournament by his style, form,
and action by his dress and con.
duct, and by his play, indicates
that he is the most promising of
the Davis Cup Tryout players in
the estimation of the selection
committee"
Committee Named
The selection committee is COM
posed of Major Christenberry, Tom
Mangan, Clarence Charest, Louis
I. Doyle and Clarence E. Phillips,
all of them closely identified with
tennis in Washington and the
Middle Atlantic States, and all of
them known far and wide for their
llnselfish efforts in developing
young players.
Said Mr.. Calnan, as the Times
accepted his trophy:
"The entrance Of the Junior
Davis Cup TryOut Group into
the TimeS-HearSt tournament
is the greatest thing that
could have happened to tennis
I'm this part of the country.
The selection committee will
have q grand opportunity to
see its youngsters compete un.
der regulation tournament con-
sditiOnS, and this means much,
for, under pressure, the su-
periOr prospect shows his worth
much more clearly than he
does In ordinary practice seS-
siOnS on the courts.
"The fact that The Times
invited the Junior Davis Cup
TryOut Group to compete in
The Times Hearst tournament
definitely assures the younger
players of the fairest of tests"
All the Junior Davis Cup Try.
put players entered in The
Times big tournament are be-
tween the ages Of is and 90
years, thus meeting the principal
eligibility rule that no player
may compete unless he or she is