Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-08
Net Pair Must Play
Two Tits in Day
To End Semis
Moorheud- Sturtevunt vs..
Furrin-Howurd Winner
To Toll Overtime
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

The Iron men" stunt in tennis
will be attempted by either Jimmy
Farrin and Bill Howard or Tommy
Moorhead and Charley Sturtevant
tomorrow afternoon as one of the
two pairs is faced with the oppor-
tunity of advancing all the way from
the quarter finals to the final round
in doubles of The Stars City of
Washington tournament at Edge
moor. Club.
Because 1t. Howard was ordered
out of town for a few days, Moorhead
and Sturtevant agreed to postpone
their match with the Navy Leech
Cup team until tomorrow, knowing
full we'll that the winners would be
called upon to double up whenever
the match was played.
Tough Task for Either Team.
Two matches in a single afternoon
at this stage of tournament is bit
taxing in itself. but when it is real
lied that the winners must meet Allie
Ritzenberg and Nathan Askin in
the semi-finals. the task appears
even more formidable.
For Ritzenberg and Askin, Uni
versity of Maryland's Southern Con-
ference doubles champions, demon
strated yesterday that they not only
are a real threat as crack players
but that they have plenty of moxie
to call upon when the outlook is
darkest.
They not only accounted for the
first elimination of favored doubles
team third-seeded Buddy Adair and
Bill Breese, but did so after the score
was 81 against them in the third
set and two match points were
against them.
Terp Team Rallies Twice.
1t was the second time that the
Terps had come from behind, for
they had dropped the first set at Ga
before evening the match by a SINH
lar score in the second set. The
third set score was 8-6.
Second-seeded Farrin and Howard
will start their match against Moor
head and Sturtevant at $3.50 o'clock,
with the survivors slated to go
against Askin and Ritzenberg at 4:30.
The other semi-fnal doubles
match tomorrow, scheduled for 4:3O,
will pit Defending Champions Dooly
Mitchell and Ralph McElvenny
against David johnson and Hugh
Lynch. Both had their troubles yes
terday, the first-Seeded team being
carried to three sets by Ed Mather
and Dick Murphy before winning.
81. 2-6, 6-3, and johnson and
Lynch losing the longest set of the
tournament to date before nipping
Frank Shore and Alphonso Smith
by 60, 14-16, IS.
New Junior Champions.
The senior tournament wasn't the
only scene of an extended match.
for little Maurice Cowan and Eddie
Richardson fought off David Kay
and Charley Freer for nearly three
hours before winning the junior
doubles championship at Columbia.
Cowan and Richardson won in
straight sets, but the 6-3, 12-1O,
6-3 scores are only partially in
dicative of the struggle waged by
the losers.
Kay and Freer. however, will rep
resent Washington in the national
interscholastic tournament as rules
specify the teammates must repre-
sent the same school, Kay and
Freer were Roosevelt's No. team
this season, but Cowan went to St.
Adams and Richardson to Anacostia.
At times, the two teams played
with all the skill and poise of far
more experienced tandems. although
their youth wouldn't permit them to
maintain the fast pace at which
they started CoWan and Richard
son both volleyed we'll for many of
their points.