Evening star., 1938-06-08
BOYS AND JUNIOR
TITLES AT STAKE
Doubles Honors in Former
Class Will Be Decided
This Afternoon.
By BILL DISMER, Jr.

Stars junior-boy tennis tournament
were to be crowned today as a prelude
to tomorrow afternoon when cham
pionship singles matches in both
classes will be held at the Edgemoor
Club.
Today it was to be the team OF
Maurice Cowan and John Lincoln
against Chandler Brossard and Eddie
Richardson for the boys doubles title
Cowan won the same championship
last year with Tom Walden.
Immediately after they finish their
joint quest for a championship, Bros
sard and Richardson will take oppo-
site sides of the court in the
remaining semi-final match in boys
singles. The winner will meet little
Bobby Bensinger tomorrow for the
championship of the youngest class
competed for in the city.
Star Trophies to Winners.
Preceding that clash. however,
David johnson and Miguel Nunez will
take Edgemoor's center court" for
the match which will decide the
junior singles championship. The
Johnsen-Nunez duel should start
around o'clock tomorrow afternoon
with the Bensinger- -Brossard or
Richardson match Immediately fol-
lowing.
Trophies emblematic of their cham
pionships will be awarded to the
winners by The Star at the conclusion
Of the days activities.
The only championship which will
remain to be settled after tomorrow
will be in junior doubles. One semi
final bracket is yet to be filled in that
competition and it is not likely to be
occupied until tomorrow. David
johnson and Dewitt Smith, the seeded
No. team. will face Henry Watts
and David Silverman in the lower
bracket but the semi-final opponents
of Ham Bonham and Ken Dalby, the
second-seeded team. are yet to be de-
cided. They will be either the team
of Nunez and Tom Walden or Harry
Brinkerhoff and Leonard Sokol, de-
pending upon which beats the other.
Because the interhigh schedule
keeps both teams busy today and
because Nunez is playing in the title
singles match tomorrow, the date OF
the Junior doubles final is uncertain,
but it is likely to be played either
Friday or Saturday.
Nunez Best Schoolboy.
In addition to gaining the right to
play for the junior crown tomorrow,
Nunez earned the right to be Wash
ington's schoolboy representative in
the national interscholastic tourna-
rnent at the Merton Cricket Club next
month. In the absence of specially
designated scholastic tourney here,
The Stars event was sanctioned as
an interscholastic as well as Junior
center tournament with the provision
that in the event of schoolboy en-
trant failing to win, the one which
advanced furthest should be the rep
resentative.
Because johnson is no longer high
school student, Nunez automatically
becomes the Districts representative,
whether he wins or loses tomorrow.
Only the occurrence of terrific up
set would land Nunez the champion
ship, for johnson stands head and
shoulders above all other Juniors in
the District and is at the top of his
game.
In four matches against some of
the best contestants, johnson has
lost only six games, winning all his
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the six sets he has won have been
taken at love, giving some idea of
King David's superiority. Grant Will
mer, ST. Adams No. / player, was
supposed to offer a stern test yes
terday, but bowed by 81, 60 scores.
Further evidence of Johnsen's su-
periority is shown by the fact that
Wilmer was able to score only Is
points in the first set and IA in the
second, Wilmer gained one distinc-
ton, however. He was Johnsen's only
victim who was not blanked in both
sets.
After Their First Titles.
Nunez, while he has beaten four
interscholastic rivals en- route to the
finals, has had his troubles and does
not appear in Johnsen's class The
swarthy Mexican has had his troubles,
two of his four opponents forcing
him to three sets. Leonard Sokol
carried him to 6-1, 2-6, 6-I yes
terday and at times looked as if he
might beat the second favored player.
Tomorrow's boys final will result in
one youngster grabbing the first
championship of his life. Richard
son, pupil at Anacostia High School.
entered the tournament as the Sec
ond-seeded player, but Bensinger has
stolen the spotlight completely by his
sudden and sensational rise to fame.
The latter lost only two games in his
first two matches before upsetting
Maurice Cowan, Ga, Ga.
ToDAYs SCHEDULE.
-o'clock-Boys' doubles final Cowan
ans Inooln vs. Srosssrd and RICHARDSON
ardson VS.. Brossard.
ToMoRRows SCHEDULE.
oclock-Junior singles final johnson
. o'clock-Boy singles final, Besinger VS..
winner Brossard-Richaroson match.
Yesterdays RESULTS.
Junior SINGLES tSemi-FinaIs).
David johnson tseeded No. IL defeated
Grant Wilmer, 6-1, 6-2: Miguel Nunez
Sseeded No. % defeated Leonard Sokol
tseeded NO. 3. 81. ,2-6. 81.
=, Maurice Cowan and John Lincoln (seeded
no. ID defeated Bill Kerr and David Smith,
81. 6-S, 6-4: Chandler Brossard and
Eddie Richardson tseeded No. 3 defeated
Ranlet Lincoln and Lee Sterling. 6-3,
Junior Doubles.
First round-Miguel Nunez and Tom
Dsyid Kay, 13-1I, 7-5.
Quarter -fnals--Ham Bonham and Ken
renee Swank. 6-1, 3-6. 6-3; David
Johnsen and Dewitt Smith, jr.. defeated
Byron Matthews and Bob Richardson, 60,
6.3; Henry Watts and David Silverman
oefeated Lewis Ericsson and Tom Laniean.
6-3, 3-6. e..