Evening star., 1938-06-29
J0HNSEN F0OzLES
CHANCE TO SHINE
Junior Apparently Needed
Only Confidence to Beat
Lynch for an Upset.
BY BILL DISNIER, Jr.


An sos was being broadcast from
the District tennis tournaments head
quaters at Columbia Country Club to-
day, but in this instance the three
call letters usually indicative Of an
emergency denoted just the opposite.
For the SOS from Columbia stood for
Same Old Story'-which just about
describes the progress of the current
event which will decide the District
mems tennis champion for 1888.
One look at the IA survivors reveals
the same old names of Welsh, Mitchell,
Lynch, Breese, Latona, Howard and
Farrin. with such comparatively un-
familiar names as Baker, CARRIER,
Stocklinski, Waymack, Smith, Robin
son and Adair almost certain to pass
into oblivion before another 48 hours
pass.
OF the latter group, which includes
some better-than-average players, four
were expected to bow out today when
they met either players who outclassed
them or clashed themselves. Joel
Baker met Champion Barney, who
looked to succeeding match with Ray
StocklinsN; Don CARRIER was reckoned
no match for Bill Breese, Ed Way
mack had nothing to threaten Dooly
Mitchell and Stan Robinson and Bud
dy Adair met in q fourth-round
match. Dewitt Smith faces Mitchell
in the next round.
johnson Disappoints.
Any chance the tourney had of pro-
viding q real sensation by sending
junior into the semi-f1nals was lost
yesterday when promising David
johnson dropped match he might
have won from Hugh Lynch. In the
opinion of many. johnson has a far
better all-around game than the man
who copped The Star tournament last
month, but lack of confidence cost the
junior his place in the competition.
Had he won, there Is little doubt he
would have beaten Robinson or Adair
in the quarter finals.
Following well-planned strategy,
johnson consistently hit deep to
Lynchs backhand, which seems to be
getting no better fast. Lynch, how
ever, countered with a deep-driving
attack which kept johnson away from
the net and which, because Of the
latter's singular proneness to err on
the exchanges, had its effect. Ordi-
narily johnson can stand on the base
line and swat it out with the best of
them, but pressure told on the lad,
who still has another year in his
teens, and Lynch was in the quarter
finals.
The only match which could be
termed an upset yesterday was Bakers
three-set defeat of Frank Shore.
Shore, quarter -fnalist in The Star
tourney, was beaten, 60, 3-6, rs,
the public parks player thereby gaining
the unenviable right to meet Welsh.
Spotlight on Doubles.
And so, with new names among the
singles contenders so scarce, the spot
light today shifted to the doubles
competition, in which the presence of
two new combinations and one pair
which is playing together for the Sec
ond time promised to relieve the
monotony.
The new teams are those of Tom
Mangan and Ralph McElvenny and
Adair and Breese. Incidentally, the
latter will have chance to justify the
resentment they are said to feel be-
cause they weren't seeded when they
meet with Mangan and McElvenny in
the quarter finals. Each team appar-
emily has clear path to the quarter.
The other recently formed team Of
Hugh Lynch and David johnson
should beat Pat Deck and Hugh Trigg
today and thereby enter the semi
finals. There seems nothing to pre-
vent the second-seeded team Of Far
rim and Howard reaching the semis In
the same bracket with Lynch and
johnson.
Welsh and Mitchell, the top-seeded
defending champions, apparently have
clear sailing to the semis in the half
of the draw with the Mangan-McEl-
venny and Adair-Breese teams. Frank
Shore and Bill Buchanan appear the
only pair likely to extend the champs.
ToDAY's PAIRINGs.
Singles.
5 o'clock-Barney. Welsh VS.. Joel Baker.
Oooly Mitchell VS.. Ed Waymack.
$50 o'clock-Bill Breese VS.. Don Gar
ber, Tony Latona VS.. Bill Howard, Stan
Robinson VS.. Buddy Adair.
Doubles.
B o'clock-Tom Mangan and Ralph
McElvenny vs. A.. o: White and e. Nun.
Dewsnup, Hugh Lynch and David johnson
vs. Hugh Trigg and Pat Deck.
$50 o'clock-Burwell and Hohecker vs..
John and Kiker.
o'clock-Dawson and Hohenstein vs.
Barnes and Waymack, Farrin and Howard
VS.. winner. Byerly-Walck. Anderson-Dew-
snup match.