Evening star., 1938-05-31
Seeded Nemen Tits Add Sparkle City Tournament
SELECT LOT OF 8
ON COURTS TODAY
Meet Due to Reach Semis
Friday-Robinson, Farrin
Renew Service Feud.
BY BILL DISMER, JR.


Seeded players were to meet for the
nrst time today as The Stars tennis
tournament sped toward its semi-final
round at Edgemoor Club. Four mem
bers OF the host club, one member Of
Army-Navy Club and three public
parks players compose the group of
quarter -finalists who are battling to-
day and tomorrow.
With the completion of two matches
tomorrow-the other two being sched-
uled this afternoon-the singles COM
petition will have caught up with the
doubles draw in which the semi final
stage was reached yesterday.
In that flight, the seeded No. 1 team
/. Of Dooly Mitchell and Ralph McEl-
venny is ready to play Maurice Gou-
beau and Mel Tarpley, while the Sec
ond seeded pair of Jimmy Farrin and
Bill Howard meets David johnson
and Hugh Lynch. Both matches will
be played Thursday, with the winners
clashing for the doubles title on Sat-
urday.
This afternoon, fourth-seeded Allie
Ritzenberg was meeting fifth-seeded
Ray Stocklinski and third-seeded
Frank Shore was meeting eighth
seeded David johnson. 1t was a pair
of intra-park, intra-club matches,
both Ritzenberg and Stocklinski rep
resenting the municipal courts, while
Shore and johnson both belong to
Edgemoor.
Army-Navy Rivalry Renewed.
Tomorrow an old Army-Navy ri
valry will be staged between two of
the country's best soldier, sailor ten
mis- players who have represented their
services in Leech Cup play for nearly
a decade. That will be the match
between Army's Stan Robinson and
Navy's Farrin. Farrin is seeded sec
ond and Robinson sixth. The other
semi-flnal tomorrow will send Lynch,
the tourney favorite, against Tarpley,
the unseeded contestant who yester-
day ousted the man Who accounted for
the lone elimination of a seeded
starter.
When the semiS are over, the win
ner of the Farrin-R Robinson match will
meet the winner of today's johnson
Shore encounter and the winner of
the Lynch-Tarpley match will meet
either Ritzenberg or Stocklinski.
Barring rain-and the tourney came
through the holiday week end ahead of
schedule despite threatening weather.
semi finals in singles should be played
Friday. The title doubles match is
scheduled for Saturday, leaving only
the singles duel for The Star Cup on
the program for Sunday.
1t is possible that the woman final
lists, the last Of which is to be decided
tomorrow or Thursday, will decide to
hold their championship match in
conjunction with the mems titular
match on Sunday.
A look at the draw sheet shows
Stocklinski, Lynch and Farrin as the
only favorites to have advanced in
straight sets and-in that order-to
have lost the least number of games.
stock" has dropped only six games in
two matches, defeating Dewitt Smith.
Jrp in two love sets and whipping
Buddy Ada yesterday, 6-3, 6-3.
Lynch has lost II games, but has
played three matches Pat Deck ex-
tended him more than his other two
victims when he carried the No. en-
trant to 6-3, 60 yesterday.
Farrin has dropped one more game
than Lynch, but has played one less
match. But the manner in which
the Navy star whipped Ricky Willis by
Ga, 6-3 scores during the holiday
program shows that Jimmy is ready
for the final test
All other survivors have had their
troubles. Twice has Shore been ex-
tended the limit of three sets, al
though he broke that jinx by beating
Austin Rice, 6-1, 6-3, yesterday.
Robinsons uphill fight to subdue How
ard by 4-6, 60, 6-3 scores was his |
first three-setter, but he had a time
with Don CARRIER the previous day be-
fore he finally prevailed at 6-3, 10-S.
johnson dropped the middle set to
Ray Sherry yesterday, winning only
after a 6-1, 4-6. 81 match.
Tarpley Given Battle.
Tarpley has conquered his last two |
opponents in straight sets, but Jack |
Hoyt gave him real battle in the
first round when Tarpley dropped the
first set Tarpley's conquest of 1t.
Sherburne, incidentally, came by
scores of Ga, 6-4. Ritzenberg, given
a whale of fight yesterday by Bill |
Buchanan, still prevailed in straight
set scores of Ga, 6-3, but Hugh |
Trigg carried him the limit of three
the previous day
Although they're no longer in the
running for the doubles crown, Don
CARRIER and Hugh Trigg played as
great pair of matches yesterday
as any team ever played in a single |
day. The underdogs against Buchan-
an and Shore, CARRIER and Trigg drop |
ped the middle set, but won the deci- |
sion at 6-4, Is, 8-6. Then, against |
the young and promising team of
johnson and Lynch in the quarter |
finals CARRIER and Trigg made game
effort only to succumb at 6-3, 2-6. |
6-1.
Mitchell and McElvenny also played
Buddy Adair and Tony Latona and
Lee Childs and Reuben Gordon. With
Latona playing only for the second
time of the year, he and Adair proved
no match for the favorites in a 6-1.
60 verdict. Childs and Gordon were
even more effectively squelched by
Go, 6-1 scores.
Easy for Farrin, Howard.
Farrin and Howard have played
only one match to reach the semis,
subduing Bob Bradley and Hubert
Treuthart yesterday, 6-1, 60.
Today's schedule and yesterdays re-
suits:
Today's Schedule.
Singles.
Quarter finals Is o'clock)-Allie RitZen-
berg VS.. Ray Stocklinski; 5 80 Frank Shore
VS.. David johnson.
Yesterdays Results.
Singles,