Evening star., 1938-05-25
ONE Of 5-FOOTERS
DUE TO WIN TITLE
Suite, O'Steen Favored by
Precedent in Playing
Robinson, Moore.
By BILL DISMER, JR.

Robinson, Moore.
BY BILL DISMER, JR.
Two players. who stand more than
feet tall only when wearing high
heels, tomorrow play pair of net
women who have been giants" in Dis
trict tennis circles for the past few
years in semi-flnals singles matches OF
The Stars tournament at the Army
Navy Country Club.
Winnie Suttie-the latest, smallest
and cleverest addition to women's net
ranks here-meets Marge Robinson,
winner Of The Star Cup in 1896, in
the first match at o'clock.
Willie OSteen, the other 5-foote.,
engages Sara Moore, City Of Washing
ton champion in '35. in the second
match at o'clock.
According to precedent, at least one
of the "dwarfs" is certain to win, for
never in the nine-year history Of the
tournament has City Of Washington
champion succeeded herself. Should
Miss Moore and Mrs. Robinson both
win tomorrow to enter the finals,
precedent would naturally be broken.
Playing Doubles Semis.
This morning four doubles teams
met in semi-finals matches to deter.
mine which pairs shall play for the
team title Friday afternoon following
the singles clash between tomorrow's
winners.
Dorette Miller and Mrs. Robinson
the seeded No. / team, was favored 70
defeat Cynthia Davis and Jane Will
merding in one of this morning S
matches, but the other. between Miss
Moore and Mrs. Suite, the second
seeded pair, and Anne Ellis and Margo
Lee was regarded as a toss-up.
Mrs. Suite. who started to play ten
mis- in Jacksonville, Fla, in 1881 only
because a couple Of rackets happened
to be lying around the house, still is
the sensation of the tournament. To
date she has dropped only five games
in winning three matches in straight
sets. Each time she has blanked her
opponent at love in the second set
after getting the feel" OF her racket
in the first.
F0Otwork Is Lauded.
Yesterday, in defeating Cynthia
Davis, who has all the earmarks OF q
fine player destined to win q District
ranking If she continues to play IN
local tournaments this summer, Mrs.
Suite never was pressed. Miss Davis
took one game in the first set and then
went the way of all previous victims
of her opponent.
Looking scarcely 10 years older than
her l3-year-old daughter, Winnie
moves around the court with all the
agility of one in her teens. And. &C
cording to Capt. Al Gore, an old-timer
who has seen many player come and
20. no woman in the District exhibits
better footwork than the current rage.
Mrs. Robinson may be the one to
stop her tomorrow. but Marge's 4-6,
60, e-1 scores against Margo Lee
Yesterday in the 1886 champs first
start was nothing to raise Mrs
Suites eyebrows unduly. The '36
titlist may have been fooling with
Miss Lee in that first set, but that
has to be proven. Then, too, q first
round bye and second-round default
may have cost Mrs. Robinson some
much-needed experience.
Willie O'Steen Improved.
Not all of tomorrow's excitement will
be taken up by the Robinson-Suttie
match, for the clash between Sara
Moore and Willie O'Steen promises
plenty of action. Willie, probably the
the best girl player ever developed on
the Districts Fairgrounds, has i'm
proved so per cent over last year-and
she wasn't bad in 1887. Her game.
always hard-driving one. has become
more consistent, and her racket is not
sending the ball on wild out-of-bounds
flights as often as formerly.
In defeating Dorette Miller, Ga,
Ga, the 20-year-old Miss O'Steen
definitely took her place among those
having finally arrived in senior ranks.
Yesterdays victory was especially
satisfactory to the winner, as Mrs.
Miller is ranked just one notch ahead
of her in the local ratings. If she con-
tinues her improvement. Miss O'Steen
should land in the first five this season.
Rain Causes Recess.
Halted at the end of one set when
q downpour flooded the courts, Miss
O'Steen and Mrs. Miller took one
hour intermission and-looking skepti-
cal when told Army-Navy's courts
would be playable if the rain stopped
agreed to wait. Within an hour after
the last drop had fallen, the har-tru
courts again were hard and true.
Mans conquest of the elements and
their effects again had been demon
strated.
Miss Moore was given hard fight in
the first set by Elinor Finckel which
went to IS, but the latter completely
folded up in the second, which she
dropped at love. Miss Moore's hard
driving was causing Elinor to err on
nearly every shot and she never had
the chance to rally as she did in the
first set when she came from behind
at Is to tie at sail.
Yesterdays Results.
~ auartes,finals: Sara Moore dsteatea; e;
RSs;: Ss5i:es sd.s ai;.:t.d siai:
boyss Boysst. e Mii.1. go 60 w5M. os's'n defeated