The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-16
NET DEFENDING
CHAMPIONS FOR
Tennis TITLE
MONDAY

Peter Naela and Coach Nam
,rolIe1 'ver tournament
favOl.ites James McAllister
and Joe Watson oil. 6-2
last nightat Bayview i'm am
amazing display of coOrdin-
ated powe. They meet de-
Tending champions Jack
Sellers AMI Ralph Harlem
slime Monday night at eight
in Bayview or the title.
In ihr Oher Semi-final
ancounirr, Hartenstine and
Sellers turned back Ignac-
10 CariOnell and Col. Penn
Edgar b-2, 6-3.
The cDwd last night had scarce
ly finished seating themselves be
fore P.ter and the Coach had
swept % a 40 lead. They were
charging the net in unison and rak
ing the Commanders shoetopS
with unnswerable voneys. Wat
son and McAllister were ham
stringing themselves by playing
neither al the way up nor all the
way back, and a steady stream of
miScues. halt provoked by their
opponents ferocity and the other
half une1plainable. flowed from
their racIets. In the fifth game on
Varela's serve, Peter and the
Coach cdlided on the dead run in
mid-cour in pursuit Of q McAllis
ter forefand and Varela fell face
down os the concrete with his
racket arm under him Shaken and
dazed h. dropped his delivery for
Al but the opposition failed to
leap irtO the breach here with
their CWn counter-drive. Watson,
on scrye, spun two easy smashes
over the base line and Van trap
ped NcAlliSjer IN no mans land
just behind the service line with
dipping sh0eString drives to make
il 81 Vans powerful volleyS broke
two strings in his racket on ser
vice but he ignored the matter IN
rounding out the first SET at 81
with two aces
McAliister's delivery opened the
second set and Watson continued
10 miss fire on his volleYs while
ne completed the service break
by feeding second serves 10 Var
elias iefhai forehand. Peter kill
ed two Of them outright with
corsscoUrt placements that re-
sounded all the way 10 MartIs
statue. On VareIa's service. Wat
son, on his game point, smashed
another easy kill beyond the base
line and il was 10 for Varela-
Van.
Watson served hard and we'll IN
the third game and would have
carried il easily if he had not flub-
bed two simple mid-court kills.
Both he and McAllister appeared
10 have difficulty with their timing
under the lights. Van won al love
for 40. and it was so when Meal
lister charged the net behind his
delivery and was met with a hail
of Varela forehandS. The Com
manderS fought back now and
broke Peters serve, and carried
their own (Watson's for the first
time in the match 10 reach 2-5. On
Vans service in the eighth and
final game, MsAilistcr and Watson
for the time almost turned the tide.
They stayed in the back court and
threw up 4 furry Of perfect tObs
that gave then four game points
Both Van and Narela showed signs
OF Weakng. Their games soitened,
their strokes frightened, and the
crowd ScuSCd the possibility of the
impossible. lie . Is win for the
Commanders after being down 0-5.
However it was not 70 be Van got
in lucky yolley that caromed off
the wood onto the alley line and his
serve served him nuhiy with two
outright aces The commanders
fought eff three match points and
ON the fourth. q Narela smash
bounded off the top of the net and
spun into the baScIi0o for game
and match.
In the other semi final Jack Sci
lers Iobhcd with conSlmmate skill
while the old fox. Hartensjlne.
sncaked in on Penn Edgar'S too
soft second ban and chopped il
cr0SScourt for repeated winners.
The earlier return robbed the
Colonel of two steps poSitioning
time IN his race for the net and
these undercut balls caught him
midway between his Shoelaces and
his knees. In the second ser it was
different matter Carboncil and
Edgar carried the issue TO 3-5 as
Sellers faded and, had Ygnacio
produced his best game at this
moment he and the Colonel would
have carried the second set Edgar
was producing really fire tennis
as he and Ygnacio broke Ralph s
Wanted spin service, but Carlo
nell failed to rise 20 the issue and
the champions recovered their