Evening star., 1940-06-13
Welsh, +, Shore Battle
For Right 10 Face
Smith in Semi
Breese-Murphy Winner
Will Encounter Lynch
In Other Bracket
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

Still boasting three of its first four
seeded players, The Stars City of
Washington tennis tournament
moved into its closing rounds at
Edgemoor Club today with two
quarter-final singles matches setting
the stage for a pair of expectantly
thrilling semifnal battles tomorrow
Matched this afternoon were the
draws two outstanding unseeded en-
trants, Dick Murphy and Bill Breese,
with top-seeded Barney Welsh TAX
Ing on eighth-seed Frank Shore.
The winner of the Breese- Murphy
match will meet second-seeded Hugh
Lynch, straight love-set conqueror
OF Yelverton Garnett, in one of to-
morroW's semiS at o'clock, with
either Welsh or Shore facing fourth
seeded c. Alphonso Smith at the
same time in the other. Smith
reached the semis by repelling
Ramey Donovan yesterday, also in
straight sets.
In addition to the absence of such
pre-tournament singles favorites as
Garnett, David johnson, Ed Mather
and Jimmy Farrin. the draw today
also was minus the names of Welsh
and Dooly Mitchell as a doubles
combination, the eX-local team
champions and second-seeded COM
bination being the victims of the
weeks biggest upset yesterday at
the hands of Breese and Mather.
Welsh, Mitchell Baff1ed.
After they dropped the first set,
As, Welsh and Mitchell apparently
had regained their composure by
taking the second set at love, but the
towering Breese and semibald Math-
er completely confounded the critics
by taking the deciding set at g..
Breese's timely and perfect lobs and
Mather's forcing overheads kept the
one-time champs back on their heels
and they never had a chance.
AS a result, Breese and Mather
will meet Alphonso Smith and
Murphy in the seminal round of
the lower half. with the semifinal
opponents of Lynch and johnson to
be determined today. Third-seeded
Jimmy Farrin and Bill Howard
were to make their first appearance
this afternoon against Jim CoXetter
and partner, with the winner taking
on Frank Shore and Larry Egbort
Immediately afterward. Both dou-
bles semifnals are scheduled for
Saturday.
The Murphy duo trounced
the much younger team of De Witt
Smith and Bobby Bensinger, 60,
6-1, although the kids put up a
good game.
Because Garnett was sadly off
form and Lynch didn't succumb to
his strategy. the match in which
the latter took II straight games
proved one of the biggest disap-
pointments of the tourney. WITTY
few exceptions, Lynch was content
to let Garnett beat himself, which
he did with repeated errors and
double faults.
Garnett's Play Futile.
Garnett's continual pounding of
Lynch'S backhand proved futile, TOO,
as the former Princeton star man
aged to keep the ball in play no
matter how far or long he was
chased.
Not until the fourth game of the
second set did the eventual loser
change his game and commence
mixing his shots, but by that time
Lynch was ready for anything.
1t was a complete reversal of form
for the big boy who only the day
before had trounced ranking
Jimmy Farrin with the loss of only
one game.
The Smith-Donovan encounter
was much more interesting with the
GO, So scores in no way repre-
senting the losing stand made by
Donovan. Smitty's curiously twist
ing forehand and intermittent un-
derhand service confused Donovan
as much as it tickled the spectators
and those same tactics may prove
just a bit tantalizing to Welsh to-
morrow, provided, of course, that the
champ whips Shore today as ex-
pected
Tentative plans call for the semi
finals in both singles and doubles
to be played Saturday and the title
matches on Sunday.