Evening star., 1937-06-21
BOYS STARS FACE
IN SEMI MATCHES
Quarter finals Are Gained
by Juniors-CroWn TiIts
Listed at Edgemoor.
BY BILL DISMER, JR.

champions were close to being
crowned as The Stars City OF
Washington tournament this
afternoon was to have its last series
OF matches at the Sixteenth Street
Reservoir courts before shifting to the
Edgemoor Club for title rounds.
A seeded VS.. and unseeded player
for the boys singles title scheduled to-
morrow was assured as Tom Walden,
seeded No. l, met Maurice Cowan,
seeded 4, in one OF todays semi finals
while Jack Walsh met Dick Williams
In the other. Both Walsh and Will
hams have proved sensations, the
former having eliminated the third
seeded player in the second round and
defeated Billy Walker, Jersey City
champion, yesterday. Williams. from
Episcopal High School in Alexandria,
has progressed without the loss of a
set.
Cowan and Walden, who became
singles rivals also without loss of a set,
later were to team at doubles. being
scheduled to play Alva Ducan and Bob
Jones IN a semi-final match The
other semi-final doubles match was to
bring together Chandler Brossard and
Harold Titus, winners of yesterday S
most thrilling match against George
Horkan and Lincoln The Cowan-
Walden and Brossard- Titus combina-
tlons are favorites to play for the team
championship.
Tomorrow's scheduled title singles
match will start at 3 O'Clock. with the
doubles following Immediately there
alter, on the Edgemoor courts.
Juniors In Quarter Finals.
A S FOR the Juniors, three quarter
final singles matches listed TODAY
were to determine semi -flnaliss for
tomorrow. championship tilts in both
singles and doubles being scheduled
for Wednesday.
David johnson, seeded No. 4, already
is IN the quarters, awaiting the winner
OF the Harry March Miguel Nunez
match that was listed today. In the
other bracket Harry Heffner, first
seeded junior. and Doyle Royal seeded
sixth, were to meet for the right to
play the winner Of the Billy Turner
Bob Chichester match. Turner is seed
cd third; Chichester was not seeded.
Doubles pairings found March and
Turner matched against Chichester
and Smith today. the winners to take
on the vlctors OF the Bernard Blankin-
Harold Landsman and John Durst-
Ken Dalby match In the semis The
other bracket was one step behind.
Byron Mathews and Bob Richardson
awaiting the outcome Of an encounter
between Harry Hef1ner and David
johnson, the favorites, and Dewitt
Armstrong and Jack Hoyt. Nunez ana
Royal, however, were to play Harry
burst and Charley Mehl in one OF
todays quarter finals.
Battling Is Brisk.
NO LESS than four of yesterdays
20 matches were Of the type best
described as hot. Walsh, the I'M
seeded boy threat, dropped the flrst
set to Walker. Is, and was behind,
love-3, in the third set before he
rallied to win five of the last six
games. The scores Of his last two
matches were 81, e..
Nunez, the native Mexican from
Western High School, took an hour
and a half before he could eliminate
Landsman, IS, IS. Billy Turner
also found his hands full with Leon
ard Sokol, boys champion last year,
before he could win, 81. Is, s-4.
The days climax, missed by many.
however, came in a boys doubles
match in which Brossard and Titus
whipped the second-seeded team of
Eddie Richardson and Jack Walsh,
After the first two sets had gone op-
posite ways, both by scores OF 81,
each team had a match point in the
finale before Brossard and Titus
finally won by 81.
The never-say-die spirit Of both
teams was beautiful to behold, the
eventual winners fighting OF a match
point in the eighth game with the
score So against them and Walsh
and Richardson, staving off two
match points by long rallies in the
last game of the day.
A shot by Brossard at Walsh's feet
finally ended the struggle after more
than two hours of plaV