Evening star., 1948-07-23
Mid-Ahantic Tennis
Tourney Is Delayed
Until August Il
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By Bill Shreye

Opening of Middle Atlantic ten
mis- championships scheduled to
open at Columbia Country Club on
July 81 has been switched to August
81. The change was made to avoid
conflict with the Leech Cup matches
Jul, 30-31, and also to have the
event at a time when top junior
and boy players could compete. The
National junior boys tournament
will be played August 2.
The Middle Atlantics will be the
last important tournament of the
season and is the only one left which
will be open to all players. The
Federal Employees Championships
under the sponsorship of the. D. C..
Recreation Department will open on
the Rock Creek courts on August a.
This is a resumption of tourna-
ment that has not been held since
1914.
The strongest field in the history
of this event will be eligible with
Capt. Robin Hippensteil, winner of
the recent District championships
and Jim Thackara, winner of the
Evening Stars City of Washington
tournament heading the list. Push
ing this top pair could be Don Leav-
ems, John Curtiss, Capt. Art Dreyer,
Bill Clifford. Grady Frank, 1t. K. K.
Jones, Col. N. E. Powell, and Frank
Dunham.
With juniors Gil Bogley, Gerry
Thomas, Ed Wesley and Jack Yates
and boys Ted Rogers, Tim Coss and
Tom Bradford, Washington will
have the strongest and largest con-
tingent it ever has had to represent
it in the two top junior-boy tourna-
ments of the season. The first is
the Western, beginning next Mon
day at Notre Dame University, and
the following week. starting August
2, the national championships at
Kalamazoo Mich) College.
All four of our Juniors competed
in the nationals last year, as did
Rogers. 1t will be the first trip
west for Coss and Bradford. With
Buddy Behrens, last years winner,
past the age limit, Dick Mouledous
of New Orleans and Tulane u,
the l947 runner-up. will be the likely
pre-tournament favorite in the
junior class. Gil Bogley could be
the fellow to step in and take it all.
Gil lost in the third round last
year to Jerry De Wits of California.
In the national interscholastics at
Charlottesville early this month
Bogley defeated Tony Trabert in
the final. This same Trabert had
put out George Gentry of La Jolia,
Calf, in the semifinals. Gentry
ranks fourth, Trabert sixth, and
Bogley is in at the tenth spot IN
last seasons national Junior ratings.
Gerry Thomas ran into Behrens in
the second round last season. With
better luck in the draw he will go
a lot further this year. Jack Yates
went into the third round last
year before losing to Runner-up
OlCh MOulcQOQS.
In the way Of preparation for
the Western campaign ahead Bogley
took the Eastern Junior title while
Ed Wesley won the Pennsylvania
State junior crown and Ted Rogers
the boys top honors.
The Navy Department team
clinched flrst-half honors in the
Government Tennis League with a
clean sweep of its five matches
with Patent Office. The latter holds
second place but still can be edged
out of it by Justice, in the third
spot, and Army. in fourth. Both the
third and fourth-place teams have
postponed matches to play which
can decidedly alter the first-half
standings for second place.
The Public Parks league opens
play tomorrow with Arlington play
ing Rock Creek on the latter's
courts; Alexandria travels to Tur-
key Thicket to play that team;
while Fairlawn plays host to Pierce
Mill.