Evening star., 1941-06-20
Seeded Stewart, Lee
0usted by Gaines,
kershenbaum
Wide-OPen Fight Looms
In Boys Play; Girls
Fuvorites Triumph
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

Semif1nal rounds of both the girls
and boys tournaments and quarter
final pairings of the juniors were due
to be reached today as The Stars
City of Washington tennis cham
pionships reached the near-crucial
stages in all three events.
Progress was running true to form
in only one division, the girls, at
Friends School. There, the four
seeded entrants-Margot Parsons,
Jean Echols, Ann Powell and Julie
Fisk-Were favored to be the semi
fnalists, although stocky little Ruth
johnson might give Miss Powell
battle.
At Columbia Country Club, how
ever. the juniors already were lack
Ing two of the eight seeded stars who
began play yesterday while the boys
class was thrown into a Wide-open
fight by a forced reshuff1ing of the
seedlings.
Last-minute discovery that the
defending boy champion, Sam Doyle,
and second seeded Leon Forman no
longer were eligible for boy competi-
tion sent both into the Junior class
and left the younger group without
two of its four seeded contestants.
Boys List Record for Size.
Delos CCotton) Smith and Jerry
schWeitZer thereupOn became the
only remaining seeded entrants, but
pre-tournament drawings were to
send them against each other in a
uuarter-fnal match today. Many OBJ
servers believe that the winner of
this encounter will bag the cham
pionShip. The only other probable
threat is David Sterling, now at the
top of the lower half Of the draw,
who won two matches yesterday with
the loss of only four games.
Quantity was not lacking, how
ever. A flood of post entries swelled
the boys starting field to 81 con-
testants, a record high for competi-
tors Is years old or younger.
Fourth-seed Sterling Lee and
seventh-rated Keith Stewart were
the two ranked juniors beaten yes
terday, the former by Bob KerShen-
baum and the latter by Billy Gaines
Kershenbaum was extended to three
sets to whip his red-headed op-
ponent, but Gaines made quick work
of Stewart, 60, GO.
Bensinger Rushes Play.
Because he wants to go to Rich
mond late today to participate in
the annual Hotchkiss Cup matches,
defending Junior Champion Bobby
Bensinger was to attempt to win
two contests in order to reach the
semifnal round. He was to take on
Bob Shortlev in a thirdround
match early this morning and then,
if successful, meet the winner OF
the Bob Miller-Jerry SchWeitzer en-
counter. All Of the four involved
agreed to double up.
One other was due to play twice
to narrow the starting field Of Al
to quarter-f proportions. He
was to be the winner of the match
between Billy Ke"r and Ed Erwin,
who was to take on the promising
Gaines in q second encounter.
Today'S other pairingS sent
Kershenbaum against Bill Helfrlch,
the strongly supported entrant from
Woodrow Wilson High; second
seeded Ben Fisher against young
Bud Dawson, son of Columbia's
tennis chairman, who went all out
TO win two three-Set matches yes
terday; Bob Hall of AleXandria's
C. w. High School against Maurice
Gowan, looking better than ever
after year at Choate School;
third seeded John Waits against
Alvin Dulcan and eighth-seeded
Griff Holland against David Smith
Doubles Start Today.
Girls pairings today sent Defend
ing Champion Margot Parsons
against Amy Weston, Second-seeded
Jean Echols against Barbara Mes
bitt, third seeded Ann Powell
against Ruth johnson and fourth
seeded Julie FiSke against Margery
Snowden. If seedlings prevail, Misses
Parsons and Powell will meet in the
semifnals of one half and Misses
Echols and Fiske in the other.
Doubles for all three classes also
were to begin today. Seeded among
the juniors were the BenSinger-
Hall and Cowan-Helfrich teams.
while Billy Bernard and Cotton
Smith and Jimmy Everett and Britt
Schweitzer were the rated boy
cuos. Defending Champions Ruth
johnson and Margery SnoWden
were the No. seeded girls combi-
nation, with Julie Fiske and Margot