Evening star., 1940-02-04
Nation S No. 2Woman
Badminton Player
Is Eliminated
Defect Of Helen Gibson
By Patsy Donovon
Features D. c. PIoy

SutuISS -. ~ iuy
Minus the country's second ma.
tionally ranked woman player who
was eliminated early in the day,
Representatives of New York, Bos-
ton, Baltimore and Cleveland occu-
pied the four final-round spots Of
the District Open Badminton sim
giles tournament last night at the
and of a full day of racketing
at Kensington's National Guard
Armory.
The elimination of Helen Gibson
Of New York, rated just below
National Champion Mary White
more, by 17-year-old Patsy Dono-
van of Cleveland was the big upset
of the day. Miss Donovan, how
ever, was eliminated in the subse.
quent round by Elinor Behr of Bal.
timore, who will meet Miss White.
more for the women's crown today.
Quigley, Stephens Impressive.
Seedlings ran true to form in the
mems division with Ken Quigley
of Cleveland, third on the national
list, advancing impressively to the
final round along with Clint Steph-
ems of New York, seeded second.
Neither lost game all day. Simi.
larly, seedlings prevailed in doubles,
with the first four favored teams
IN mems, women's and mixed play
entering the semifinal round which
Will be played off this morning.
Kay Baker, Washington's last
hope in the singles, made a valiant
e1ort to reach the finals after pro-
viding unexpected thrills by con-
quering Wilma Markt of New York,
the countrys sixth nationally rank
Ing player, in the quarter finals, but
Miss Whittemore proved too much
for her, winning by 11-3, 11-2. Mrs.
Baker was unseeded, while Miss
Markt had been seeded fourth.
The semi-final doubles matches will
be played off starting at II o'clock
this morning with the titular sin
giles matches scheduled to start at 2.
Tournament Manager Bill Shreve
announced that afternoon matches
would be run off in the following
order: Women's singles, mems sim
giles, women's doubles, mems dou-
bles and mixed doubles.
Yesterdays matches:
Mems Singles.
Quarterfinal round-Ken Quisley (Cleye.
lanQD defeated Juliqn iNau
defeated george Joe HsaIs shfd' cNsW cNMm99sG9 9eqH
defeated Endsley Fairmsn 'tf (Philsdelphi.5, 53an
Russ Grant G1 F5ssnish SSRssns Ssi 7oit
s0sas, Seminal 9s round nd eas,sy ssstsst.a
Vansc0' 18-Si Women, 1.M16 s,r,,.,
ssoston1 defeated May Hasan Mni''eRSTs new
HSTs %ashn@sfonj @ defeat defeated % wilms Kay nsFs. asfs.
,Rg..Ii,,iimnaSsTEss}' defeated Lcuiss elass!n
van Cleveland! defeated Heien tas' oSson Ssoi
B.ssa ssni1a r0pPd % Yaii'snsss Sshr de.s dss boae:
''a, Second % ,o.ss.12s NM; Doubles s:,-,. a., ,,u,
yassS yaHsso sSs sSsW Y0Tf ds5eatss Wt!lsTd
revs Ra,bns;Sa1 a John o!;es4eS Eexs5ds n aRd B
dsaut saa }hhsSa e}in Stephens EN- and Gsnn
snydsr Sds SfTt ssrsf.d susi oFi9 aPa
tom, defeated J. R. Rose, and e K, Van
Burgess and Jack Laimbeer New York; de.
feated Naylor and Krautblater Baltimore.
Maner Hs5y asfsstt dsssso and Mae vivian Wb
| comb and Lewis Mackall (Washinztonl,
l5 1}9 Gould Morrison and Frank
11o '0n 15-s Ken eTigley snRRrs4 and Harry
Conlan (Cleveand)- defeated Harrison
Montell and Ted Knowles 'saitimore''
ouartsInnal reund-HsEris-yansco de.
tsated EsSaTds-shrsye sSisids
| 15-5, l5-3: Burgess -Laimbeer defeated
Hackett-Waner.. 1913, 15-4: Quieley-
Conlan defeated Morrison-Roberts. 15-6.
Women's Doubles.
| Second round-Wanda Bergman and
tine Edgar and Aioise Baker rt1SSsT New York5.
Pa ana MarRaTes meashsh sfssed sW 2s ToF
{: l. Nichols tcieyslandj defeated Ger
New York; defeated Mrs r. Joyner and
Virgins White aBaltmors1 bd11H 15m 15mS
|
lngton) defeated Fairfax Brooke and Ruth
zinkham tBaltimore). 15-3 15-6:
Augusta Alling and Betty Morse New
Hayen) defeated Marsaret Graham and
Polly Thompson Washington: l5-2,
| 15-0; Mary Whittemore and Elinore
| Behr New York-Baltimorel defeated
Louise Gladwin and Florence Ebling New
| York; Isl. 15-7.
ouarterhnal round-Bersman- Gibson de-
feated Cromwell-Platt: 15-5. 15-3: Dom
oyan.Nichols defeated Ryan-Rysn. IT..
Zinkham, 15-6, 1873: Whittemore -Behr
| defeated Allina-Morse. 15-2. 1918,
| 15-10.
| Mixed Doubles.
First round-Platt and Knowles de-
| feated Corballis and Faulkner, BY default;
Schroeder and Conlan defeated Joyner
| and Purinton- lib: 1s-17. 15-9;
| Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Potter Baltimore de-
feated Ford and Van Wrinkle. 15-S.
s-15. 1s-14 White and Shields de-
| feated Pierce and Snyder, 15-5. 15-10:
| Nichols and Quisley defeated Edgar and
| Mackall. 15-0, 15A3.