Evening star., 1938-05-30
SIXTEEN REMAIN
IN SINGLES PLAY
1t. Sherburne, Sparkling
Dark Horse, Opposing
Tartar in TarpIey.
Ry BILL DISMER, Jr.

BY BILL DISMER, Jr.
Progressing with near magical speed,
The Stars tennis tournament was to
reach the semi-final stage in doubles
and quarter-final round in singles
late this afternoon after another full
day Of competition at the Edgemoor
Club.
With matches scheduled from 10
o'clock this morning until S this eve
ming. only Is competitors for The
Star Cup and four doubles teams were
due to remain in the running.
Thus, as the majority Of contestants
return to work tomorrow after the
week end holiday. only scattered
matches will remain on this week S
schedule. which can be disposed of
with no more than two matches dur
Ing the late hours of any one after
noon.
Providing 1t Tom Sherburne
passed this mornings test in his
match with Mel Tarpley the tourney
was not to be left without its dark
horse" But while the lieutenant now
tiOllSu az Vic INiIlS wal NOllCEC
. may be stranger to local net ranks,
he is not without net prestige-espe-
cially to those up on their Army
tennis.
Captained Army Team.
Sherburne was captain of the ten
mis- team at West Point in 1928 and
In et1rnaoHinp f,lovod ty, Mo h
ington annually with the Army Leech
Cup team. He was stationed in the
Philippines for three years, where
tennis was not the game it is in this
country. but he returned to the United
States last August and was assigned
to the college on the banks of the
Potomac.
Tall. rugged and flashing one of the
few Western forehands seen around
here, the lieutenant had eliminated
two Of Tarpleys better known pub
lie parks colleagues before engaging
the runner-up to last years munic-
ipal crown this morning Yester-
days 6-3. 6-4 conquest of Maurice
Goubeau was even more impressive
than his elimination of the Journeys S
first seeded favorite to fall on Satur-
day.
II he got by Tarpley. in all proba-
bility he would be called upon to
face Hugh Lynch. the ranking con-
tender for The Star Cup, tomorrow
All of today's eight singles matches
were unusually attractive, with the
feature bringing together those old
Leech Cup rivals Of Army and Navy.
Its. Stan Robinson and Bill Howard.
But that was not to imply that the
Jimmy Farrin-Ricky Willis. Frank
Shore Austin Rice, David johnson
Ray Sherry. Hugh Lynch-Pat Deck.
Allie Ritzenberg- Bill Buchanan and
Ray Stocklinski-Ralph Adair matches
were anything but interesting.
Army-Navy Clash Looms.
If seedlings run true to form, sub
sequent matches should result in
another ArmyNavy meeting of Leech
Cup stars, with second-seeded Farrin
meeting sixth-seeded Robinson, third
seeded Shore meeting eighth-seeded
johnson, f1rst-seeded Lynch meeting
the unranked Sherburne and fourth
seeded Ritzenberg meeting fifth-seeded
Stocklinski
Two Of the Journeys surviving 10
doubles teams were to double up
today in order to bring the team COM
petition into the next-to-last bracket.
Dooly Mitchell and Ralph McElvenny
the seeded No l pair. were to face
Adair and Tony Latona early this
afternoon, with the winners meeting
Childs and Gordon. In the upper
bracket Don CARRIER and Hugh Trigg
were to meet Bill Buchanan and
Frank Shore for the privilege OF
facing David johnson and Hugh
Lynch in the quarters.
The other two matches, both quarter
finals, found Farrin and Howard
squaring of against Baker and Pope
and Coubeau and Tarpley meeting
Heacock and Judd.
Despite constant threats and pre-
6ictions of rain, 18 singles and
doubles matches were run off before a
thorough rain drenched the courts late
yesterday afternoon.
High lights of the Sabbaths day.
long play found Tom Walden. last
years Star boys champion and the
youngest entrant in the senior tourney,
extending Hugh Trigg, the tourna-
ment's oldest contestant, to three sets
before bowling. Ga. 2-6, 6-4. How
grimly Walden held on is revealed
by the fact that Trigg had three match
points before he was able to tuck the
verdict away.
Robinson Wins Tough One.
Even surprising that. however, was
the fight between 1t. Robinson and
CARRIER, in which the former had nine
match points before he was able to win
In the eighteenth game of the second
set. The scores were 6-3, 10-8
CARRIER STAYED off two match points
with the count against him at 5--4
and six more with Robinson leading
at IS.
Bill Howard dropped the first set at
love before whipping Charley Heacock
0-6, So, 6-2; Shore was carried
the limit by Bob Bradley before win
ming, 60. 2-6. 6-4; and Ritzenbere
came from behind to nip the previ-
ously-extended Trigg in great match
2-6. 81, 6-3. Incidentally, Trigg
had four match points on Allie in that
second set when he had 40-l5 lead
In what might have been the deciding
game.
PAIRINGs FOR TODAY.
Singles.
10 o'clock-Adair VS.. Stocklinski. Rit-
xenbere vs.. Buchanan. II o'clock-Rob-
inson VS.. Howard. Shore VS.. Rice. Lynch VS..
Deck. Sherburne VS.. Tarpley 12 o'clock
johnson VS.. Ray Sherry. 3 o'clock-Far-
rim VS.. Willis.
Doubles.
o'clock--Garber and Trigg VS.. Hu-
ehanan and Shore. Goubeau and Tarpley
vs.. Heacock and Judd. : o'clock--Mitchell
5 o.clock-Johnsen and Lynch vs.; winner
CARRIER and Trigg- Buchanan and Shore
match Childs and Gordon VS.. winner
Mitchell- McElvenny and LatOna -Adair
match. o'clock--Farrin and Howard VS..
Fradley and Treuthart.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
Singles.