Evening star., 1941-06-09
Plays Martin, Hilltop
Ace, Wednesday in
Week S Big Tilt
Both Established Major
Regulations Before
Coming to CopitoI
By BILL DISMER, Jr,

washington nadnt heard a lot
about him up until a fortnight ago,
but the personable blond who Is
Lending spice as well as novelty to
The Stars tournament at Edgemoor
Club has quite tennis background.
Twenty-four years old and with
the build of a blocking halfback,
Don Leavens was Joe Hunts doubles
partner at Southern California the
year before the fourth nationally
ranking netman enrolled at the
Naval Academy. Leavens and Hunt
cleaned up everything on the Pacific
Coast in 1888
Six years prior, Leavens was the
national boy champion and when
he moved up to the junior division
In "a was runnerup to Washington Is
own Gil Hunt in the national junior
indoor tournament. After being
graduated at Southern Cal, Leavens
took postgraduate work at Wis
consin. earning the Phi. D. which
enabled him to obtain the Job he
now holds in the Department of
Agriculture.
Scores Decisive Victories.
To say that the bespectacled
southpaw has justified his pre-
tourney rave notices is expressing 1t
mildly. Leavens started with a
straight love-set defeat of Hershel
Harris and followed up with a 6-1,
6-1 rout of an improved Tom
Walden yesterday and then, with
five minutes rest. climaxed his Sab
baths activity with an unprecedent-
ed 60, 60 trouncing of the veteran
Austin Rice. unprecedented because
Rice invariably gives the best of 'em
a long battle, often forcing guys
like Welsh, Lynch, Johnson and the
like to extended deuce sets.
Leavens looks the part of a major
Lacquer on the courts, all right. He
has a booming forehand, nearly as
strong backhand and a deadly
volley, though he insists he'd rather
trade blows from the baseline. In,
addition, he covers ground like a
scared hare and rarely is caught out
OF position. We didn't see it, but
we can believe that his straight-set
conquest of Welsh was no f1uke, ex-
hibition or not.
And because his next foe also has
developed into one of the unsung
threats of the tournament, his
match Wednesday with Don Mar
tin may prove one of the best of
the week Martin locally is known
as Georgetown University's No.
player, but-like Leavens-the Hoya
junior has reputation back in his
old stamping grounds A native of
Newport, r. l., Martin was the in
terscholastic champion of that
State the year before he entered
the Hilltop and in 1886 was ranked
as the second best Junior player of
New England. Currently, he is No.
6 on the New England mems list.
Martin Forced to Toll.
Martin didn't have quite as easy
q time as Leavens over the week end.
but he did account for the first
elimination Of seeded player yes
terday when he toppled sixth- seeded
Frank Shore, IS, 6-3.
Thus, the Leavens-Martin match
promises to be the feature of We'd
nesday's quarter-f1nal round, other
wise to be contested among old ia
miliar figures. With one exception,
five singles matches today were to
set the stage for the quarter-f final
engagements, while tomorrow will
be given over exclusively to doubles.
Fourth-seeded Dick Murphy still
has a second-round match with
Bob Burgess, which he was to play
today, the winner to meet Herb
shenkin tomorrow, but otherwise
today's clashes were all third
round affairs. Probably the hard
est-fought was to be that between
sighth-seeded Charley Charming
and unseeded Bill Breese, the latter
husky, ranked sixth in the District,
turning in his entry too late to be
seeded. Three other interesting
matches sent third-rated David
johnson against Ricky Willis, fifth
seeded Hugh Lynch against Tom
Mangan and seventh-seeded Buddy
Adair against University of Mary
lands highly-touted Eddie Miller.
Winner to Meet Champ.
The Adair- Miller winner will be
paired with the defending cham
pion Welsh, who entered the quar-
ters with a 81, 81 win over De
Witt Smith yesterday, while the
survivors of the Johnsen-Willis and
Lynch -Mangan matches will be
paired in the lower bracket of the
bottom half.
All doubles teams should reach
the quarter final stage tomorrow.
Welsh and Lynch were seeded No. l,
Ieavens and johnson No. 2, Adair
and Bob Underwood No. 8 and
Murphy and Mangan No. 4. A total
of 20 teams were in the draw when
play started yesterday.
Because they drew first-round
byes, Charming and Willis, Doyle
and Miller and Rice and Dave Hop
pock entered the quarters by WIN
ming yesterday, none of them over
especially stiff opposition.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
First Round-dsofss Herbert defeated
Strand johnson; 81: e. Ei Gottlieb
Ssaestsa Wadden defeated t Hugh Triss, 50, 60s:
Second Round Barney Welsh defeated
George Herbert by default; Dewitt Smith
defeated Jim Heiskell. 7-5, 81, e.:
Ralph -Adair defeated Bob Williamson,
waits, Go, 60; Herb Shenkin de-
seated Eli Gottlieb, 6-2. 81, Charlie
channiaF defeated eat Igor S.,ssIsd Gsssinid 3 bovs
ROYAL, s-2. So: Don Leavens defeated
defeated Bill Godfrey. IS, 6I.: Frank
Shore defeated John Morris, IS. g.:
Don Martin defeated Bob Chichester;
60, 60: David johnson defeated SID
Poretsky, 6-1, 60; Ricky Willis de
fested Bill Helfrich, 60, 6-3; Hugh
Lynch defeated Paul Fslconer, So, s.;
Ton. Mangan defeated John Hutchinson
Third Round-welsh defeated Smith,
50; Martin defeated Shore, IS, e-3.
First Round - Cooper -Chew ewnins de-
feated Edwards -Fontanini. Sd, 60
smith-wadden defeated Trise- Willinghann;
So, 20: williamson-Hssrsess defeated
second Round-Rice- -Hoppock defeated
defeated Kolhas- Hackney, s. s1s;
Royal-Miller defeated Bledsoe-srlcnetto,
t3. 81.
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