Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-06-29
Victors in Star Meet
Stand 10 Gain Fame
In Doubles Play
Frott, Formon Get Boys
Team Title; Singles
Finals Due Today

Bobby Bensinger. of Takoma Park
asd Tom Walden, University of
North Carolina freshman star, stand
at the head of the class of junior
doubles teams around Washington
and are looking for new fields to
conquer. If they continue to play
together this season and for a few
more years, they show promise Of
becoming one of this sections out
standing doubles combinations.
Playing together for the first time
In The Stars City of Washington
tennis tournament, they showed ex-
cellent teamwork all week and cN-
NAKED their partnership yesterday
by winning the Junior doubles crown
over Ben Fisher and Eli Gottlieb of
Roosevelt High, Ga, rs, s3.
Today partnerships were forgotten
for the moment as they were to
meet at Columbia Country Club for
the Junior singles title.
The boys doubles crown is held
by Peter Frat and Leon Forman,
who had an easier time taking their
championship over Bache Gill and
DeloS (Cotton) Smith, Go, 81.
Today's boys singles title match is
between Sam Doyle, seeded No. 2,
and the unseeded Jack Timothy,
who so far has upset two seeded
players, including top ranking
Fratt.
Junior Battling Is Keen
In spite of their straight-set VIC
tory over Fisher and Gottlieb, Ben
singer and Walden had to battle all
the way to take the junior doubles
and the going was as close through
out as the scoring would indicate.
Five games in the first set went to
deuce, with only seven points sepa-
rating the two teams at the end.
despite two love games won by the
top seeded pair. In the second set,
which went into extra games, the
winners took 9-point advantage.
while their edge in the final set
dropped to only s points.
Occasional faults at crucial mo-
ments. hurt the -Gottlieb
cause as much as the hard shooting
and accurate placements by Ben
singer and Walden. Set points in
the first two sets in fact were de-
clded on double faults by Fishers
service. So hard-fought was the
last part Of the match that only one
game in the second set and none in
the final was love game. zone of
the last set games was deuced five
times and two others were tied
thrice
Frat Leaves D. c. Courts.
traits and Forman's victory over
Gill and Smith for the boys doubles
crown was much easier. After drop
ping the first set at love, Gill and
Smith started to make a battle of 1t
In the second set, sending the first
two games to deuce and winning
the first one. After that they were
completely swamped by Fratt and
Forman, picking up only points
during the rest of the match,
In Fratt, Washington loses one
OF its most promising boy tennis
players as he moved with his fam
lily to Douglaston, Long Island, i'm
after yesterdays match.
He has played tournament tennis
only little over year, but was the
Undertaking boys player here at
the end of last season. Yesterdays
doubles win was his first tourna-
ment victory, but he showed promise
of going places in future events. He
plans to compete in eight or nine
more tournaments during the sum-
mer in the New York area.
His going breaks up the prom
Using doubles team of Frat and For
man This was Forman's first ten
mis- competition and share of VIC
tory his first time out also stamps
him as a potentially outstanding
young tennis player.