Evening star., 1941-06-22
Ex-kansas City Ace
Routs Crack Foes,
Gains Star Semis
Fovorites Reach Finals
In Boys, Girls Groups
In City Tourney
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

Revelation of q genuine threat to
Bobby Bensingers continued DOM
nation of local junior tennis circles
appeared at Columbia Country Club
yesterday when Bob Halls second
elimination of a seeded favorite
in two days overshadowed the reach
ing the finals by boys and girls in
The Stars tournament for Wash
ington youngsters.
While defending champion Margot
Parsons and Julie Fisk earned the
right to meet for the girls title at
Friends School and Britt SchWeitzer
and David Sterling won seminal
boys matches at Columbia, Hall
followed his straight-set victory over
Maurice CoWan on Friday with a
convincing Ga. 60 quarter-f1nal de-
cision over. Ben Fisher, who had
been seeded second.
Disclosing after the match that
he had won the junior champion
ship of Kansas City in 1899 and 40,
Hall - a tall, fast newcomer here
with devastating service and sure
fire volleying game-thus became
an odds-on choice to reach the
final as the toughest opponent that
Bensinger will have had to face
here in three years. Seventeen
wears old. he is the son Of lieuten-
ant in the Air Corps Reserve and
has just graduated from Alexandria's
George Washington High School.
Smith Gets to Semis.
His semif1nal opponent will be
another unseeded entrant, David
Smith, who also defeated a seeded
star for the second time in two
days, whipping Lefty John Waits in
a three-set struggle, Ga, 3-6, 6-2.
If Hall can curb his previous ezra
tic streaks as he did yesterday,
though he figures to beat Smith
when they clash tomorrow morn
ing.
Bill Helfrich was the only other
Junior to reach the semiS, taking
the third set of a strangely-S shifting
match with Billy Gaines in which
each beat the other by love scores
in the first two sets. Helfrich took
the last by a 7-5 score to move into
Bensinger's bracket in the upper
half of the draw.
Bensinger will play his quarter
final match with Bob Miller at 10
this morning, after which he will
pair with Hall against Griff Holland
and Dan Walser in a quarter-f1nal
doubles match.
Schweitzer, the favorite in the
boys class, didn't have much
trouble beating Henry Hales in his
seminal match yesterday, VIM
ming, 6-2, 60. Sterling, the other
boys fnalist, found his task nearly
as easy, licking Sidney Faulk, 6-1,
60.
Boys Team Tilt Torrid.
Sterling reached the title round
In doubles partly at SchweitZer's
expense as he paired with Steve
Shafroth to upset Britt and Jimmy
Everett, who had been seeded
second, IN straight sets, 6-2, Ga.
The boys doubles final nearly be-
came a contest between two un-
seeded teams as top-seeded Billy
Bernard and Cotton Smith we're
given a gruelling battle by Tom
Browning and John Gogarty before
finally winning, 6-2, ST, 81.
Fourth-seeded Julie Fisk pro-
vided the big upset of the girls
tournament when she overpoWered
second La Jeanne Echols,
Ga, 60. 1t was the second straight
year that Miss Echols had lost
out IN the seminal rounds, bow
ing to Miss Parsons, the current
champ, last year. Miss Fisk didn't
surprise many followers of girls
tennis by her win, however, having
looked most impressive in The
Stars women's tournament at
Army Navy Country Club earlier
this month.
Ruth johnson gave all she had
against the favored Miss Parsons,
but the champ had too many guns
and won, 6-3, 6-1.
With all finals-singles and
doubles for juniors, boys and girls
scheduled for Tuesday, the boys
will be completely idle tomorrow
with all their finalists decided.
Three girls doubles matches and
as many junior team contests will
be played off tomorrow as will the
Junior singles semifinals.