The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-12-06

At 300 pm. second seeded TONY
Dopp battles third seeded John
ny Sellers. This, in short, is the
story of the 1851 Key West Bows
Tennis Championships thus far.
These are the four boys who
meet in today's semi-finals to de
eide who will meet in FRIDAYS
Championship Finals.
The tournament has so far
completely followed the seedlings
as the first eight seeded players
all reached the quarter-finals
and the first four seeded all
reached the semi-finals.
On Friday. j. j. Trevor will be
on hand to congratulate the
winner and present the champion
the trophy which Mr., Trevor
donated to the l4-year- old group.
Also to be presented at the
same time will be brand new
Squire tennis racket donated by
Bob Smiths Sport Shop and a
beautiful take-home trophy dom
ated by Mr.. Carbonell and
dozen new tennis balls donated
by Bob's Sport Shop.
In the first match tonight.
Robert Pisrrot will be an over.
whelming favorite to overcome
the efforts of young HopeY.
who is considered by many to
be the best prospect to devel-
op in Key West thus far. An.
thonY however has been play.
ing only about a couple months
and il will take player with
lot more experience and
coaching TO overcome player
Of the caliber of the first seed
ed piarrot. no matter what his
natural ability.
The second match is pretty
much a toss-up. Tony who play
ed number four on the High
School varsity last year would
normally have been the favorite,
but circumstances have come up
which definitely take him out of
this role He has just completed
his year of varsity football which
has frightened him up consider
ably and made his play erratic.
Johnny Sellers in the meantime
has won a cup in doubles in Co
raj Gables with Parrot as his
partner and is playing by far the
best tennis of his career
In what was the oesi match
of the quarter final round. An
thonY HopeY defeated fifth
seeded Johnny Roberts So. s.
J 4. This match was complete
with steady play and fine raj
lies and net game. and all the
shots of the game were put to
fine use. And il also showed a
lot of intestinal fortitude by
young Anthony. Behind Al in
the second set he rallied mag
nificently to sweep Johnny off
his feet in five straight games.
Johnny Sellers, after falling
behind 81 in the opening set,
put on the pressure and Earl
Weech cracked and Johnny ran
through II straight games to take
the match 6-3, 60.
Tony Dopp was SO erratic that
he almost threw his match to
Everett Atwell Behind So in the
second set he finally settled
down enough to take the set.
Everett showed good forehand.
running ability and good tenn
permanent but no signs of back
hand were evident. If he gets a
little coaching and concentrates
on developing a backhand he
will be a formidable opponent
for any of the first seeded play
ers.
The most spectacular and clos.
est match of the tournament thus
tar was second round affair be.
tween sixth seeded Earl Weech
and l., T. Curry, who has had
more experience than Earl in
match play. The final score found
Weech winning by the count Of
Ga, 2-6, Ga The first set saw
Earl blasting his powerful and
beautiful topspin forehand deep
into his opponents territory for
4 winners.
4 In the second set Weech slack
ened his pace just a little bit
and l.. T. picked his game up a
4 flash, making beautiful placements,
4 passing his opponent many times
4 at the net and winning the set by
a wide margin. The third set
found both players at the top of
& their game and the match was
as even as could be possible Earl
managed to get a So lead but
4 l.. 7. held service with some
pretty shots to make it So. Then
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