Evening star., 1940-06-11
Eight Crack Netmen
Paired for Torrid
Third Heat Play
johnson, 1889 Champion;
Seventh Seeded Aduir
Beaten OFF Early
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

Beaten OFF EorIy
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.
Four more favorites in The Stars
City Of Washington tennis tourna-
ment were destined to follow De-
Tending Champion David johnson
and seventh-seeded Buddy Adair
into oblivion today as a quartet of
third-round matches sent eight out
standing players against each other
at Edgemoor.
In each, a seeded entrant was
paired against an unseeded one, but,
as in the case Of the victories Of
unrated Dick Murphy and Bill Breese
yesterday, the pre-tournament rat
ings may be due for severe shocks.
Breese and Murphy, incidentally,
will meet at Sis tomorrow in one Of
the outstanding matches OF the
quarter-fi final round.
Undoubtedly, todays headliner
was to be that between fifth-seeded
Jimmy Farrin and unseeded Yelver-
ton (BilD Garnett, whose play under
pressure has been awaited eagerly
since competition began Saturday.
Garnett dropped only three games
in his first two matches, but his op-
position has been of Junior caliber.
Farrin, doubling up on his first tour
ney appearance yesterday, was ex-
tended three sets by Morton Shapiro
of Rockville after trimming Merle
Lyon in straight sets.
Tough Tussling Ahead.
Other matches this afternoon sent
fourth-seeded Alphonso Smith
against young Billy Turner, sixth
seeded Ray Stocklinski against a
real dark horse, Ramey Donovan,
and eighth seeded Frank Shore
against the old Rhodes scholar and
Wimbledon veteran, Ed Mather.
The winner of the Farrin- Garnett
match is due to meet Hugh Lynch.
the Shore -Mather survivor will play
Barney Welsh. while the Smith
Turner and Stocklinski Donovan
matches are paired in the lower
bracket of the bottom half of the
draw.
Farrin and his doubles partner,
Bill Howard, also were slated to
make their debut in team COMPETE
ton today against Jim Coxetter and
his partner, who was yet to be
named this morning. The victors
will find themselves in the quarter
finals where they will play Frank
Shore and Larry Egbort. No other
doubles matches are scheduled until
Thursday when three quarterflnals
are billed. Defending Champions
Lynch and johnson became the
first doubles semifinalists yesterday
when they repelled the youthful
threats of Maurice CoWan and Tom
Walden, who had beaten Adair and
Garnett on Sunday.
Continuing the brand of play
which had led many of his Edge
moor clubmates to predict he would
be dangerous, Murphy occasioned
no great surprise in eliminating
johnson yesterday. The old Har-
ward grads southpaw shots were
thinning over with consistency
which kept johnson on the run and
after losing the first set at 6-3, the
champions game went all to pieces
in the second when he won one less
game. He couldn't do a thing right
and was clubbing the easiest of shots.
Murphy. on the other hand, played
well-nigh errorless tennis.
Breese, adopting bombing tactics
from the start, just about blasted
Adair from the court in first set at
love and theu eased up to permit
Buddy three games in the second.
Adair wasn't playing bad tennis. but
Breese's game was little short of his
best.
Although he lost, little Bobby
Bensinger wasn't disgraced by
Welsh in those 6-3, 60 scores.
Bensinger's campaign of drop shot
ting the District champ was we'll
conceived, but the kid didn't have
the experience to cover up his in
tentions and was telegraphing every
drop.
Welsh Upsets Bensinger.
Consequently, Welsh usually was
on his way to the net before Bobby
sent the ball over, and the latter
wasn't quite quick enough to change
his stroke. In the end, Welsh coun-
tered with drop-shot campaign of
his own which might have given
Bobby some pointers.
Lynch didn't have to work quite
so long on Austin Rice as most play
ers who tie up with the smiling, un-
tiring veteran and won by scores of
81, 60. The first set took little
longer than 10 minutes, although
Rice made the second session last
nearly an hour.
Yesterdays results:
First round-Jimmy Farrin defeated
Merle Lyon 6-3. SO.
schsoTo. sseGns Tousairris 1a e s esfs.ted Morton
Third round-Lynch defeated Rice.
e-3. e-2: Breese defeated Adair. SO,
6-3; Welsh defeated Bensinger. 6-3,
60.
Second round-Shore-E -Eebort defeated