Evening star., 1938-06-01
Bx BILL DIsMER. Jr.

Because of the imminence Of the
Sears Cup matches. it has been de-
cided to play of the championships OF
The Stars women's tennis tournament
Immediately instead of waiting to "dou-
BILE up" with the men over the week
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Consequently, Margaret Robinson
and Dorette Miller were to play Anne
Ellis and Margo Lee for the doubles
title this morning while tomorrow
morning Mrs. Robinson and Sara
Moore will meet for the singles crown
at II o'clock. The Arny-Navy Club
was to be the scene Of both matches.
Mrs. Robinson entered the final by
defeating Winnie Suite. the Journeys
dark horse among the women, in
straight sets yesterday. Ga, Ga.
The Sears Cup matches in which
Washington will be represented are
scheduled for Baltimore on June 10-1l.
Tryouts will begin next week and fair
net leaders here were afraid to run
the risk Of rain Sunday which would
delay the women's finals and bring
them into conflict with the tryouts.
If The Star tournament of 1888 were
notable for no other development, it
would go down in history as one in
which nine-year precedent was
broken. Not since the tournament was
inaugurated in 1929 has any woman
champion repeated, nine different
players holding the singles title.
Former Champions Clash.
Tomorrow, however, will see the
swapping of that record, for both Mrs.
Robinson and Miss Moore are former
champions. Miss Moore won the last
tournament not sponsored by The Star
in 1885 and Mrs. Robinson won the
FIRST Star-sponSored tourney the fol-
lowing year. Should Miss Moore win
tomorrow it would mark the first time
that she has received The Star Cup.
Meanwhile, the semi-final bracket
in the mems tourney was to be filled
today with the playing of two matches
at Edgemoor. Its. Jimmy Farrin and
Stan Robinson were to meet in one of
the semis, while Hugh Lynch and Mel
Tarpley were to meet in the other.
On Friday the winner of the Farrin-
Robinson match will meet youthful
David johnson, while the Lynch
Tarpley survivor will face Allie Ritzen-
berg. Both of the latter entered the
next-to-last bracket by winning
quarter-f1nal matches yesterday.
Tomorrow's program in the mems
events at Edgemoor calls for the
doubles semi-flnals in which Dooly
Mitchell and Ralph McElvenny, the
flrst-seeded team, meets Maurice Gou-
beau and Melvin Tarpley, while Farrin
and Howard, seeded second, face John
sen and Lynch.
Play in Privacy.
r Probably never in the history of any
local net tourney has an important
match like yesterdays semi-final be-
tween Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Suite
been played in the comparative privacy
which marked the court atmosphere.
The lack of spectators was due to the
fact that there had been some uncer-
tainty as to when Mrs Suite, stricken
last week by a severe cold, would be
able to play again. Both girls reported
yesterday as being ready to play, how
ever, and wished to do so despite the
lack OF pre-match publicity.
For Mrs. Suites supporters, per-
haps it was just as well that they were
not there to see it. Opposed by a
smart netwoman, Mrs. Suite found
herself outmaneuvered by constant
stream OF drop-shots which rendered
her hard-driving game just about use
less. Mrs. Robinson started dropping