The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-16
TENNIS MATCH OF SCHOOL
FORT COURTS MAY DEVELOP
Each School Hos
Two. Players Fresh
From Gulfstredra
Championship PldY

Championship PldY
The Convent and High
School varsities are sharp
ening their strokes for the
last Harvey Cup match Of
the school year on Satur-
day at Fort Taylor.
Each school has two play
ers fresh from the topflight
tennis of the Gulfstream
Championships at Delray
Beach. They are High
Schools Dolores Villats
and Diana Fernandez and
Converts Marie RendueleS
and Barbara Twiehaus.
The Harvey Cup came into
being last October with the bless
ing of principals, Sister Delphine
Marie and E. 0. Schweitzer and
has blossomed into the foremost
girls sports event on the Island.
Trophy sponsor Wilhelmina Har-
vey said to-day;
Our Cup play has taken at
least one big step toward provid-
ing. organized sport for our girls.
Before the next school year rolls
around the City's three courts and
the County's three courts should
be completed, which will assure
an even more outstanding series
of matches in the year to come.
The girls of both varsities have,
throughout, shown a degree of
comradeship and craftsmanship
that reflect high credit upon both
schools. To coaches Bernice Nc
Allister and Van and to Ralph
Hartenstine go the grateful thanks
of all parents concerned"
Harvey Cup play marks the re-
turn of organized girls sport to
both the High School and the
Convent. Not since 1916 has girls
team in any sport represented
either school and then it was not
on anything like this years scale.
Following up the Harvey Cup
lead, the High School this year
has played six girls matches with
Miami schools, three of which
have been in Key West, and an
application for entry into the
south Florida High School League
has been submitted.
One High School ace, 1850 City
Champion Carol Caruthers, will
be playing her last match. On the
other hand lettermen June Yates,
Dolores Villate, Vita Barrosa,
Diana Fernandez, Terry Ann
Parish, Alice Villa and Fay Curry
all be back next year.
Three Convent mainstays, Betty
Fairfield, Judy Trevor, and Gay
Lou Barrosa graduate in June and
make their farewell appearance
Saturday. The Converts star tri-
umvirate of Captain Eleanor Cato,
Marie RendueleS, and Barbara
Twiehaus are merely approaching
their fifteenth birthdays and have
three, four, and three more years
respectively. On the Convent
squad Saturday will be Lourdes
Gonzalez and Rose Yates.
Miss Gonzalez made her bow
into match tennis in last months
Cup engagement and proved her
self genuine find" by running
Terry Ann Parish to GA, 6-3. She
and Miss Yates will play in the
final doubles match Saturday il
the issue is already decided. These
two along with 10 Ann Thinner
man, Marietta de Pasquale, and
ACOlll- UNVEILS w HI
this summer sby the triumvirate
for places on next seasons var
sity, Best news of all for Convent
fans IS the fact that Norma .Avila
Eone Of the most outstanding
young players yet to appear in
local tennis, will be ready for ac-
ton by September. She was fore
ed to the Sidelines by protracteo
illness after winning her opening
Cup encounter last October. Nor.
ma has unusual speed of foot anc
magic coordination. Her absence
from the battle array probably
cost the Convent this years vic.
tory, since they lost four matche:
by ga scores.
1t is hoped that the success ot
organized girls tennis may bt
emulated next year in the foul
elementary schools by the estab
lishment of a boys School Tenni.