The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-08-15
Defects McAllister
To Enter Semi S:
Hdrtenstine
Downs Gillium'

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The curtain goes up to-
day at County Beach on the
Semi-finais of the Mems
Tennis Championships with
Peter Varela, Commander
i. w. COrdry, Commander
Joe Watson, and defending
champion Ralph Harten.
slime the stars of the show.
Former champion Peter
Narela was by all odds the
hero of the quarter.finals
and wrote another page of
achievement on his come.
back trail. Yesterday. be.
fore am Overlooking gallery
he turned back Command.
er j. A. McAllister by the
surprising ease of oil. 6-2.
The cars were still trying to
PARK IN spots with a view when
the Commander fired the open
ing serve at five o'clock. The
wind was looming briskly from
the ocean to add impetus to his
strokes and he carried service
from 30-all. They changed courts
and Peter held serve with equal
CELEBRITY with the wind. He then
went right to work on McAllis-
tiers second ball and did much
as he wished with it to break
through to 2-l AS they changed
courts almost no one in the crowd
was predicting other than a long
hard match. 1t never materializ-
ed. Varela interspersed deep
forehands with forehand drop
shot that behaved perfectly and
landed repeatedly within six in
ches of the net He raked the OPP
posite baseline with that famed
forehand drive and attacked the
net behind every shot of his op~
ponent that failed to clear MD
court. And when McAllister at,
tackled he retrieved with SLOW
deep balls that allowed time to
reposition. AT the same time the
Commander was falling com
pletely To find touch, His usual
response TO the first forcing
blow was ball into the alley.
Set to Varela at 6-l.e
McAllister started the second
set with sails flying. He looks
Peters serve at love and carried
his own with two straight aces
and a whirling forehand past
Varela at the net. There was no
indication at this moment that
30 was as far as the Navy ace
would progress. Seconds later
Peter held serve with two fine
deep volleys and followed with
a break-t through for % as the
Commander showed repeated in1
ability TO settle down into real
steadiness. From here on matters
moved swiftly in Peters favor
McAllister this day never re
vealed the ability to exchange
drives from deep court that he
usually shows Peter raced TO &
2, s5r2.. and match at o. without.
looking back. Dopsters are call
ing his match with Watson a
complete toSs-up with both men
thoroughly experienced and con-
fident of victory. The outcome
may hinge on Stamina.
Kermit Roberts. after a week
OF good tennis, finally had a poor
day against the classic strokes of
Commander Joe Watson and
went down 60, 60 in no time
at all. As was true with McAllis~
Ter. he never settled into his
hest game. Watson's drum fire
into his baseline didn't help him
any. Kermit's path to the quart
er-finals makes better reading
than his Quarter-final perform
ance. 1t includes 60 6-l over
Burnett, 6-l, Ga over Paul Es-
6uinaldo, and SIS, l-6. SO over
Captain Payson.
Commander Cordry continued
lis tournament sweep undated
a he trimmed Carl IllSley o.,
80 without taking a second
meath. Trailing "a in the sec
nd chukker, Illsley fought to
anne point on Cordry's service
sna extended the rally on the
raj point to an amazing total
a28 halls over the net, but the
fp,nfnander held too many guns
"a snuffed out the flair-up
II. o. r. Gillian reached the
a,arter finals with fine 40, =
6-s conquest of doubles cham
III, Jack Sellers and much was
INJECTED of him against the
$anaoion. None OF the eXpecta-
ms bore fruit Hartenstine had
.eseiy to place the bail IN play
al Gillian would promptly
ssrk out beyond the concrete.
.1senstine's deadly tWo-wsy
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