Evening star., 1941-06-10
Leavens, Martin
Tennis Match
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Tops List Tomorrow;
Hot Stage Reached
In Stor Tourney
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

Notwithstanding lack of weather
forecasts to that effect, local tennis
officials expect a prolonged heat
wave to hit The Stars tournament
at Edgemoor Club no later than
tomorrow afternoon.
A taste of what is to come was to
be afforded today when singles
matches between Hugh Lynch and
Tom Mangan and Dick Murphy and
Herb Shenkin remove the last bits
of comparative GOODNESS from the
Journeys early air. But the heat
will be on in earnest tomorrow
when seeded player meets seeded
player for the first time. Unless
Mangan or Shenkin upset the dope
today, therell be only one unseeded
player in the round Of eight.
Because of the unusual attractive
ness of the four quarter-flnal singles
pairings, Acting Referee Mariana
Erana has decided to divide the
quartet of duels between tomorrow
and Thursday, playing two each
day. Tomorrow's top match will be
between the two Dons-Martln OF
Georgetown University, the lone un-
ranked survivor. and Leavens, the
guy who's creating all the talk.
They are scheduled to take the
court at o'clock.
One hour later, Defending Cham
pion Barney Welsh moves into &C
ton against Ralph Buddy Adalr
with the odds strongly against an
upset. Adair was at his best yes
terday in subduing an exceptionally
promising youngster, Eddie Miller
of the University of Maryland, but
Welsh-despite his claim of 20 extra
pounds on his once spare francis
thought to be too fast for the
piano-legged Adair.
Thursdays pairings will not be
certain, of course, until after todays
competition. but if dope runs true to
form, it will be Lynch against third
seeded David johnson and Murphy
against eighth ranked Charley
Charming
Charming overcame his first Sc
rious threat yesterday. and Bill
Breese still is an obstacle for any of
EN-, by outlasting Ham Fishs
nephew in a long, three-set match,
3-6. 6-3. 6-1. while johnson elm
mated Ricky Willis and his new
service, 81, Ga. Of the two,
Channing's showing was the more
impressive, for the former junior
star. starting slowly, grew stronger
as the match progressed and was
hitting as strongly as he did as Vir-
ginia' No. l player couple of years
ago. Channing's victory was relief
to the committee, which had seeded
him eighth despite the fact that he
currently is unranked in the District
only to have Breese. who holds the
No. local rating, show up as post
entry.
An amusing sidelight on the
Breese-Channing meeting was the
fact that Breese, who nearly always
sports extra Long khaki shorts,
showed up in all white, while Chan
ming, who rarely has been seen in
anything but white, was wearing
khaki
Murphy had little more than
workout in squelching Bob Burgess,
81. 81. and if he beats Shenkin
today, will set the stage for one Of
those David Goliath meetings on
Thursday. Dick probably doesn't tip
the scales over 130, while Channing's
added poundage has sent him way
over the 200 mark.
Miller, with a more than fair all
around game, took the first set from
Adair, 6-3, but erratic streaks cost
him the next two. 81, 60. Adair
rarely looked better than he did in
those last two sets and the match,
played on Edgemoors No. l court,
drew continual applause from the
gallery.
None of the four seeded doubles
teams-Welch and Lynch, Leavens
and johnson, Murphy and Mangan
or Adair and Underwood-were ex-
pected to have much trouble reach
ing the quarter finals today. Fire
works, though. loom in the next
round with Welsh and Lynch slated
to meet Breese and Ed Mather and
Adair and Underwood favored to
meet Charming and Willis.
Doyle Royal paired with his Mary
land teammate, Miller, to reach the
quarters Sunday, but their next op-
position will be from Leavens and
johnson, not a pleasant prospect
for any team.