Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-14
amore Women and Girls Miss Grand Slam Tennis by One Crown
Senior Doubles Title,
All Left for Hosts,
On Tap Today
Charlotte Decker Bows
To Anne Harrison in
Sensational Bottle
By BILL DISMER, Jr.

BY BILL DISMER, Jr.
Justifying predictions made OF
. them all week, Baltomoreans scored
near clean sweep of District
women's and girls open tennis
championships at Columbia Country
Club yesterday as they bagged both
singles titles and the girls doubles
crown and left only the women's
doubles and consolation honors to
local standard bearers.
The major title went to 20-year-
old Anne Harrison who, by defeat
ing Charlotte Decker after a sur
prisingly stiff fight, became the first
outsider to win the women's singles
championship in six years. Sim
gularly, it was another Baltimorean,
Reba Kirson, who won then, in 1884.
Miss Harrison prevailed in straight
sets, 81, 8-6, but only after Miss
Decker rallied from 0-3 deficit
in the second to turn what doomed
as rout into a ding-dong battle
and only after gamely fighting of
q match point four games before
the final.
How the Honors Went.
Other titular developments were:
l. Isabel Harvey of Baltimore de-
feated Lucia Lhamon of Annapolis
for the girls singles crown, Ga,
60.
2. Miss Harvey paired with Helen
Harrison, also of Baltimore, to
defeat the Annapolis team of Miss
Lhamon and Lucy Tyler, 60, Is,
10-8, in the longest match OF the
day for the girls doubles title.
incidentally, the same teams met in
the final of Baltimore tournament
. last week, Miss Harvey and Miss
Harrison winning then, also.
3. Dorette Miller whipped Elinor
Finckel in an Washington final
for consolation singles honors, 6-3,
63.
4. Miss Finckel and Frances
Rowan and Willie O'Steen Herbert
and Mango Lee set the stage for
another all-local final this morning
when they defeated Miss Decker
and Marion Cunningham and
Cynthia Olmstead and Margaret
Graham, respectively, in the women's
doubles semifinals. The winners
will clash at II o'clock. Mrs. Her.
bert and Miss Lee won in straight
sets, 6-3, 60, but the Finckel-
Rowan combination had to wage an
uphill fight to subdue Mrs. Cunning
ham and Miss Decker, So, 6-3,
CO.
Miss Decker Suddenly Tough.
Washingtons last hopes for at
least place in the girls doubles
final went -glimmering when Betty
Jacob and Anne Cullen were de-
feated by the eventual champions,
60, IS, and Ruth johnson and |
Shirley Combs were eliminated by
the Misses Tyler and Lhamon,
6-1, Ga
The girls consolation final, an
other all-Washington affair between
Miss Cullen and Mary Brookings,
was postponed until Tuesday.
For about half an hour early in
the afternoon it looked as If Miss
Harrison, unseeded because she was
out of tournament competition last
year, was to beat Miss Decker,
Washington's last singles survivor
and fourth-ranking netwoman, in
record time. Miss Harrison had
raced through the first set with
the loss OF only II points and had
lost only three points in the first
three games of the second before
Miss Decker found her game.
At that point, cracking Miss Har-
rison's service for the first time, the
local pride won three deuced games
In a row. After that games alter
mated until the count stood at 6-6,
but only once-at 65-was Miss
Decker ahead. Once, at 5-4 and
1870, Miss Harrison had match
point, but the Capital representative
inserted a drop-shot placement to
deuce the game and won with a
volley placement and by forcing an
tout" from the Baltimorean to tie
the score at SIS.
Charlotte Fights to Last.
With the count tied two games
later, the Oriole bettered Miss
Decker in drop-shot exchange to
forge ahead and then took her
service, with the loss of only point,
Tor the match. At that, the loser
came through with two remarkable
"gets" during the last match point,
but couldn't place her racket IN po-
sition quick enough to meet one
of Miss Harrison's forehand drives.
Stroke analysis gave Miss Harri-
son a slight edge in placements, 13
to II. The winners service was
broken four times in II, while Miss
Decker won only four of her IL.
The point score:
First Set.
Ferris. .rFEtson servins &c 81 81 10y
ssSylns FL FL sss 81 81 81 81 2 2445ds
Miss Lhamon got the jump on
Miss Harvey in their match for the
girls crown, winning the first three
games, but after she had upped her
lead to AZ, Miss Harvey ran of four
games in row for first blood. Miss
Lhamon also took the first game OF
the second set, but her opponent,
stroking like one far more expert
enced, won six of the next seven
games to win a silver goblet pre-
scented by Mrs. Harrison Ford, CO.
director Of the tournament. Both
girls played excellent tennis and
gave promise of developing into real
senior stars.
Their point score:
First Set.
Harvey serving Ill 541 444 -29-6
f,hamon - 444 1874 OLE 1-25-4
Second Set.
f hssvey sefv"1 So al 52-SS-2