Evening star., 1953-07-30
Burrows-Richardson
Rose-CIark Matches
Feature al Baltimore
By Cospor Nonnes
Siar Sfeff Correspondent

BALTIMORE, July 80. - Hal
Burrows of Charlottesville, Va,
hopes to strengthen his bid for
a national ranking among the
first 10 this year when he meets
seventh-rated Hamilton Rich
ardSon of Baton Rouge, La. to-
day in the Middle Atlantic Grass
Court Tennis championships at
the Baltimore Country Club.
Burrows and Richardson will
start at 3 pm. The former Uni
versity Of Virginia player, ranked
18th last year, so far has beaten
seven players rated above him
on the tournament circuit this
year. Included were Vic Seixas,
ranked No. 2; Noel Brown, No. 9,
and Tony Vincent. No. 13.
The Burrows-R c h ards o n
match will be followed by an in
ternational test, with Mervyn
Rose, No. Australian star, fac
ing Straight Clark, 12th-ranking
American player, at 5 pm.
Opening play at 2 pm. will
match Tony Trabert of Cincin-
natl against Dan Sullivan of st.
Petersburg, Fla, and Grant
Golden of Chicago against the
japanese star, Atsushi Miyagi.
Doubles to Continue.
Doubles play, which started
yesterday, also will be continued
today with Trabert and SeixaS,
Wimbledon singles champion,
making their first appearance.
They will play Alphonso Smith
of Washington and Eddie Jacobs
of Baltimore. Smith and
Jacobs, two 44-year-old veterans,
Yesterday showed two young
sters, Allen Morris of Atlanta,
Ga, and Leslie Longshore OF
Admission, Ala, how smooth
doubles play can function. The
former won 6-3, g..
Fred Kovaleski of Washing
ton, seeded No. 8 in the tourna-
ment, had a battle on his hands
yesterday to edge 18-year-old
Jack Frost of San Francisco.
Kovaleski can thank his tremen-
dous serve and powerful over
head for his victory, Ga, 81.
He broke through the Cali
fornian in the first set for 80
lead. and then held his own
delivery until the set was ended
In the second chapter Frost
broke Kovaleski's serve in a long,
tense fourth game to go ahead
81. The 1852 national junior
champion then heightened his
lead to So and appeared headed
for victory in the set. But
KovaleSki took advantage OF a
momentary lapse on Frost's part
and pulled even at sail. From
then on each hung on, with the
Washington star finally cracking
his opponents delivery in the
10th game.
Frost Shows Promise.
Young Frost showed great
promise in this match. He has
q strong serve, good volleying
attack and sound ground strokes
A tendency to let down at times,
with a resultant string of errors,
should be corrected with more
experience.
The tenSest match of the tour
nament was won by Bernard
Bartzen of San Angelo, Tex.
ranked 11th last year, and Clyde
Wilderspin of Australia after
more than two hours and 81
games, 8-6, 80. 12-10.
Wilderspin had several chances
to win the third set. He led
s-3, 1870 and then double
faulted. The upsetting point did
not stop him from getting two
more match points in that game,
both of which he lost on forced
errors.
Bartzen, his steady grounds
getting him out of jams that ILL
conceived net ruShes got him
into, then took his serve to reach
sail.
From then until the 18th
game, both men pulled them
selves out of bad positions to win
apparently lost games. At 1880
IN that game. Bartzen got a
lucky break when his drive hit
the net and toppled Imply into
the court for a placement. Will
derspin came back and served
an ace to bring the score to 30-40,
but the Texan took the game
with a passing shot. He won
the decisive game at love from
a acknowledgement but still
fighting Australian.
District Teams Play Well.
Two Washington area teams
played creditable tennis in their
matches yesterday. Fred McNair
and Ted Rogers lost close bat
tie to the formidable japanese
Davis Cup team of Miyagi and
Kosei Kamo, 10, Ga, 6-3.
A winning point at the right
spot might have changed the
final result.
Alex Keiles of Washington and
Bob Bortner of Richmond, Va,
lost to the young West Coast
collegians, Donald Flye and Bill
Quillian, Ga, Ga. Keiles ard
Bortner played sound, aggres~
sive tennis to press the strong
University of Washington team
in their contest.
Gardnar Mulloy and Richard
son, No. 2 seeded team, paced
the favored teams into the Sec
ond round of the doubles.