Evening star., 1938-06-05
NET YOUNGSTERS
SHRINK BIG FIELD
Nine Hours of Struggling
In Star Journey Leaves
All Fav0rites.
By BILL DIsMER. r.

BY BILL DISMER, Jr.
Boy and junior tennis players OF all
sizes and ages came all kinds of dis
tances and stayed all kinds OF hours
to play in The Star Tournament at
the Edgemoor Club yesterday, and
after a nine-hour stretch the boys had
reached their quarter-finals and the
juniors had been narrowed to a field
Of IS.
Seeded players came through un-
scatched, but the day was not without
its noteworthy incidents.
There was, for instance, the elimin-
alton OF little Reggie Cooper, former
boy champion of Bermuda and for the
last season one of the stars Of the st.
Adams School team. Cooper was put
out in a first-round match by Harry
Brinkerhoff. son of the public parks
professional, who did the Job with the
surprising scores of Go, 60.
Then there was the ousting Of
Jimmy Hardey, young University Of
Maryland freshman. who hadn't lost
match this spring until he was
beaten by Ted Tansey, Western Highs
intraschool champion. in three sets,
1-6. IS, 6-3.
Ranking Players Pressed.
Other results found the second and
fourth ranking juniors forced to three
sets before they could advance to the
second round. Miguel Nunez, ranked
only behind David Johnsen-the
odds-on choice to capture the Junior
championship-lost the first set to
George Van Pope before he won at
2-6, 81, 60. Ken Dalby OF
Westerns championship team also
lost the middle set to Oscar T'horup
Of Wilson, but recovered to prevail
at 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.
The longest match of the day,
which did not end until after two
hours of play had carried it into dusk,
found Bob Thompson of Wilson High
School reversing a former decision of
an interhigh match at the hands of
John Hutchinson of Roosevelt. AL
though Thompson won in straight
sets of 8-6, l0-8, nearly every game
was deuced. and the boys just did
finish before darkness would have
ended the match.
Mickey Hughes of st. Johns didn't
win. but he probably won the dis
tinction of travelling the furthest to
compete in The Star tournament of
any of nearly SO entrants. Hughes,
who lives at Eighteenth and Massa-
chusetts avenue Sc. spent more than
an hour on the street car getting
to Edgemoor-some IS miles from
his home. He was eliminated by one
of the urseeded favorites. Dewitt
Smith, jr.
johnson Is Ineligible.
Because johnson has just completed
his freshman year at George Wash
ington University and hence is ineli-
gible for the interscholastic competi-
ton, all of the Is other juniors in
the round Of 16 continue today the
struggle to gain the right to represent
Washington in the national schoolboy
tournament.
Western, with four representatives
heads the list, but Central has three
of its four starters left; Roosevelt
Eastern and Wilson have two each
and Bethesda Chevy Chase and st
Albans are represented by one apiece
Western, Roosevelt, Wilson and Cen
trail each lost a representative yes
terday.
In the boy competition, a real conner
appeared in little Jack Timothy, IL.
year-old Alice Deal Junior High
School student. who stands barely 4
feet high. He and Jack Hopes, an
other 4-footer, furnished one of the
features of the day before Timothy
won out after an hour-and-a-hal1
battle at Ga, 8-6. He must face
Maurice Cowan, the favorite, today
however.
Eddie Richardson, favored in many
quarters to extend Cowan, impressed
with a straight love-set defeat oi
Charles Norris, while John Lincoln
and Bob Bensinger each dropped only
one game in beating Bob Avancena
and Sterling Lee.
Because of the mems final singles
match this afternoon, 1t was decided
to postpone the start of the doubles
in both juniors and boys competition
until tomorrow. Entries in that COM
petition, therefore, will remain open
until o'clock this evening.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
First round--Jack Timothy defeated
JACK HOPES. "a, s-6: Robert BensingeI
Lincoln iin0 defeated Robert Avaneena, 6@o' '
6-1: Eddie Richardson defeated Charles
Norris. Norris. nssoss smo So; David Smith defeated
Brossard defeated Bill Kerr. 81. 6ws.
T0DAY'S PAIRINGs.
VS.. Lincoln. Brossard VS.. Patrick Sterling
8 ocloekTEiehardson pTs,sI vs. Smith. nit
Miguel fNaRa kSnea defessed rssES dsorEe Van Pope
Cameron Murchison. 81; s-4; Hamilton
Ted Tsnsey
Bennie Miilstein. S-I. 6.4: Henry watts
Richardson defeated Taylor chewnins.
"a. 7.-5; Dewitt, Smith. ir.. defeated
Mickey ae,estsa HUGHES rsva4a Dsyd John
60: David Kay defeated Slater Clarke,
3-6, 6-2. 60; Byron Matthews de-
feated Lawrence Swank 3-6, 6-3. 6-3;
Cooper. 80, 50; Ken Dalby defeated
Oscar Thorup, 6-3. 3-6, 6--3; Robert
Thompson defeated John Hutchinson. S--6,
Harris. "a, 6-3; Grant Wilmer de-
feated Corson Jones, 6-1, 81.
TODAY'S PAIRINGs.
2 o'clock--Johnsen VS., Henry Lambert.
4 clock-NuneZ VS.. Freer. Bonham VS..
Tansey Sokol vs. Watts.
o'clock-Richardson VS.. Smith, Mat
thews VS.. Brinkerhoff.
6 oclock--Wadden VS.. Wilmer palny
vs.. Thompson. Kay VS.. winner. johnson
Lambert match.