Evening star., 1939-05-26
High, Prep Schools
Send No. | Netmen
After City Title
Eight Of 81 in Contest
Seeded; Three Meets
Open to Winners
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.


Thirty-four of Washington's most
enthusiastic tennis group, the junior,
will open play in The Evening Stars
tournament tomorrow morning at
Columbia Country Club with the
local championship the most attrac-
tive of four separate objectives.
Because 1t is recognized as CEN
ter tournament, the competition will
give contestants the chance to quail
ify for the Middle Atlantic cham
pionships, to be held here next
month; the national junior tourna-
ment at Culver in July and the ma
tional interscholastic tournament
later in the summer
Every public high school and sew
eral private institutions are repre-
sented and continued battling among
members of the different teams is
expected to provide interesting side
lights. Roosevelt, coached by Ruth
Martinez, entered it's entire squad,
while the No. players of Central,
Wilson and Tech also are entered.
Moreover st. Adams, which has
swept everything before it in the
way of local high school competition,
will be represented by its three top
players.
Brisk Battle Looms.
Following junior rankings for the
1888 season, Leonard Sokol, Gen.
trails No. l star and boy champion
of the City of Washington tourna-
ment three years ago, is seeded
No. l, but any of the other seven
seeded entrants are capable of CIV
ing him stiff fight for top honors.
Tom Walden, Wilson'S No. / star,
and like Sokol, a former boy cham
pion of the tourney, is seeded sec
ond, with other seeded entrants as
follows: Byron Mathews, No. g.;
Ham Bonham, No. 4; Bobbie Ben
singer, boy champion last year who
voluntarily is entering the junior
class although still within the boy
age limit, No. 5; Eddie Richardson,
runnerup to Bensinger a year ago,
No. 6; Maurice Cowan, st. Adams
No. l player, No. 7, and Chandler
Brossard, ranking boy player last
year, No. 8.
Through the luck of the draw
Sokol, Cowan, Brossard and
Mathews landed in the upper half,
with Walden, Bonham, Bensinger
and Richardson in the lower. If
seedlings prevail, quarter r-flna!
matches would send Sokol against
Cowan, Brossard against Mathews.
Bonham against Bensinger ana
Richardson against Walden.
Early Start Slated.
First-round matches will get
under way promptly at o'clock to-
morrow morning with play sched-
uled to continue until noon. All
contestants are requested to come
dressed for play as Columbia's s locker
rooms are overcrowded and may not
be used. Contestants also are re-
quested to bring their Junior age
Identification cards with them or, If
they never have been issued one, to
bring birth certificates. Upon pre-
sentation of the latter, age-identifl-
cation cards will be provided free of
charge.
Because the number of entrants
exceeds an even 80 draw by two, two
players will be forced to play two
matches tomorrow in order to keep
up with the field. The winner of the
Byron Mathews-John Lincoln match
will play Jack league, while M.
Madden will meet the survivor of
the Ham Bonham-S. Fratt en-
counter.
All of Columbia's IL courts will be
available and it is planned to COM
plete the first two rounds before
! o'clock.
The pairings:
% o,elock[-Leonard sokoI vs.. David Kerr
Millstein vs. Maurice Cowan Chandler
BroSsard VS.. Everett Harris, Ladd Thurston
vs. r. Mayf1eld, Taylor Chewing vs. Slater
Clarke: Byron Mathews VS.. John Lincoln.
Hamilton Bonham VS.. s. Pratt, Heron
Barley VS.. Ben Fisher. De Witt Armstrong
VS.. Griffin Holland, E. L. Gottlieb VS.. Robert
Bensinger.
10 o'clock-Jack Martin VS.. Eddie Rich
ardson. Bud Edwards VS.. Arthur Ferring-
II o'clock-Jack Teague VS.. winner.
Mathews-Lincoln match
80 o'clock-M, Madden vs. winner.
Sonhsm- -Fratt match; ResEie Cooper VS..
sterIins Lee and Paul Ackerman will not
play their frst-round match until Monday.