Evening star., 1947-07-27
Beaten Team Is Able
To Win Only One Set
As Rivalry Resumes
By George Huber

The Army went out In big way
to win the Leech Cup-and did.
There had been hints in the past
that maybe the Army at times
hadn't taken too seriously this COM
petition for the gigantic silver
trophy that's emblematic of Army
Navy tennis supremacy, but this
year was different.
The Army took 1t seriously this
time, gathered more than half a
hundred of its best players from all
over the world and put them in a
tournament a week ago to pare
them down to a team that could
beat Navy.
just how well this plan worked
was shown yesterday on the green
clay courts Of the Army Navy Coun-
try Club. BY the way, very good
Army team swept the Navy prac-
tically off the field. Navy managed
to take only one set as the Army
won 10.
Two Previous Shu.outs.
There have been two other blanks
in the history of 13 Leech Cup
matches-one scored by Army the
first time the cup was put In COM
petition and the other going to
Navy the third time. The Navy had
string of nine straight wins until
the Army blasted through in 1889,
last time the cup was competed for.
Only set won by Navy in yester-
days competition came in the last
doubles match. 1t. Comdr. Jack
Behr, the Navy's top player who
came in from Kwajalein for this
tourney, and 1t. Comdr. Y. G. Hol-
brook, in from Saipan, beat the
Army's Maj. Thomas Bonner and
1t. Robert Boyer, IS, to open the
match. Bonner and Boyer-the lat
ter the Military District of Wash
ington champ-took control after
that, winning the last two sets,
60, 6-3. Boyer particularly had
big part in that victory. He was
steady as a rock and just couldn't
be forced into an error.
The Navy players were better than
the scores against them would indi-
cate yesterday, but it was obvious
from the start that Army was going
to keep the big silver cup. The
matches opened with a sizzler be-
tween 1t. David Freeman. Army
champ from California who's sta
toned in the Canal Zone, and
Comdr. Behr. Freeman, with his
wide variety of shots. drops and
spins, took the first set, 50. His
change of pace particularly was
hard for Comdr Behr to figure out,
but this he did in the second set
and had Freeman running before
the Army man swept his match
with a Is second-set triumph.
Malloy Beats Elston.
Another hot one was between T/5
Tom Malloy of the Army and 1t,
] Elston Wyatt of Navy. Malloy is
a straight-away power hitter who
is at his best when he's against
another of the same type. 1t. Wyatt
played that style, and their match
was a test between two cannon
ballers. 1t Wyatt would ram the
ball right at Malloy, and Malloy
would ram it right back at him
The younger Malloy won, 81, 6-2
for the most one-sided score of the
tourney.
Capt. Charles Hippensteil, runner
up for the Army title, had lot of
trouble from the Navy's Chief Yeo-
man E. J. Serues, particularly in the
first set. before winning, IS, 60.
Pfc. Hugh Stewart, youngest player
in the matches, topped Capt. j. NJ
Farrin. a Washingtonian who's we'll
known in the Middle Atlantic tennis
circles, 6-4, 6-3, to complete the
Army's sweep Of the singles.
1t. Freeman and Capt. Hippen-
steil combined to start the Army off
to their doubles win by defeating
1t Wyatt and Chief Serues. 81
6-4, following which Stewart and
Malloy topped Farrin and Capt. w
E.. Howard, 6-l, 6H