Evening star., 1939-07-18
Grant Visits Sunday
To Allow Welsh or
Hunt 10 Be Foe
Seeded Rocketers Clash
Today in Late Stoees
Of Muny Tournament
By BILL DISMER. Jr.

Because Washington tennis fans
have expressed their preference to
see Bitsy Grant play either Gil Hunt
or Barney Welsh, plans for import
ing an outside nationally ranking
racketer have been dropped and the
exhibition postponed until Sunday.
Although the Districts two top
players currently are engaged in out
of-town tournaments, both are
scheduled to end on Saturday. Thus,
even though either or both Hunt
and Welsh be involved in their re-
spective finals. they would have time
enough to reach home for the match
with Grant.
Welshs start in the West Virginia
amateur, in which he is defending
champion, was delayed until today
following failure of many entries to
arrive for the scheduled opening at
White Sulphur yesterday. He Is
seeded No. l ahead OF Deacon Par
sons, the States l8-year-old closed
champion.
Hunt, meanwhile, was in the third
round Of the high-class field at
Longwood as result of first-round
bye and an 8-6, IS decision over
Hendrick Kulick of Salem, Mass.
Such Observation-Disclosures stars as
Gene Mako, Adrian Quist. Jack
Crawford, Johnny Doeg, Elwood
Cooke and the Murphy twins, Chet
and William, were to make their
debuts today.
Battle for Muny Semi finals.
With one seeded player already
eliminated, at least one more was to
fall today as the public parks tour
rament on the Sixteenth and Ken
nedy streets courts prepared to re-
celve its first two semi-fnalists In
the Journeys first meeting of IA
vorites, second-seeded Allie Ritzen-
berg was to face eighth seeded Capt.
Tom Sherburne at o'clock. An hour
later. Pat Deck, who put out fourth
SEEDED Billy Contreras yesterday by
scores Of Ga, IS, was to meet
Billy Turner, the come from behind
er who won the Junior Davis Cup
tournament Winners of these two
matches will be semi-final oppo-
nents.
The lower bracket was slightly
behind, with second-round matches
between f1fth-seeded Joel Baker and
George Herbert and seventh seeded
John Smith and Paul Falconer
holding up the works. Both were to
be played today, with the Smith -Fal-
coner winner meeting Defending
Champion Ray Stocklinski and the
Baker-Herbert survivor facing Hugh
Shelton in the semis.
d. c. Women in M. A. Meet,
Defending Champ Willie O'Steen's
semi-final opponent also was to be
established by the Edith McCulloch-
Joan Bransford encounter.
incidentally, two of the women
competitors are going to have their
hands full for the next couple of
days as Charlotte Decker and Hazel
(Jimmy) Bishopp, quarter and semi
f1nalist in the muny event, are
among four local representatives in
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nament at Baltimore. Miss Bishopp
already is in the semi-f1nals of the
parks event, but Miss Decker has yet
to play Mary Deck in the quarters.
The Washington contingent at
Baltimore is completed by Margo
Lee, who is seeded third; Marian
Pritchard and Barbara Conard. De-
Tending champion and seeded No.
is Edith Clarke. who formerly lived
here and now holds her residence
in Philadelphia. Baltimore players
proved the victims of all of WASH
ington's entries yesterday, Barbara
Levering bowling to Miss Lee, 6-1,
60; Nancy Clark to Miss Decker,
6-1, 6-1; Helen Latrie to Miss
Bishopp, 81, IS; Mrs. William
Passano to Miss Conard, Is, e1,
ard Emily Nassauer to Mrs. Pritch-
ard 6-0 al