Evening star., 1953-07-29
Young Davis Cuppers
Play in Top Match Of
Mid-Atantic Today
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bA1I1MNJ1EI. July ZS.-Au
international match between two
young Davis Cup stars, Bernard
Bartzen of the United States,
and Clyde Wilderspin of Aus
tralia, will feature the singles
play today in the Middle Atlantic
Grass Court tennis champion
ships at the Baltimore Country
Club. They will meet at $3.50
pm.
Singles matches today will be
confined to the lower half of
the draw, with Gardnar Mulloy,
seeded No. /, opening the play
at 2 pm. against Jacque Grigry.
of Alhambra. Calf.
Action in the Middle Atlantic
doubles championship will oc-
cupy the courts later today. with
Wimbledon Champion Vic Seixas
and Tony Trabert of Cincinnati
as the top-seeded team. SeixaS
and Trabert will not see action
until tomorrow as they drew q
bye in the 30-draw event. The
No. 2 seeded combination, Null
10y and Hamilton Richardson.
will play today.
Other seeded teams are
Straight Clark and Noel Brown,
No. 3, and Grant Golden and
Bartzen, No. 4. Mervyn Rose
and Wilderspin head the foreign
placings with the Japanese play
erS, AtSushi Miyagi and Kosei
Kamo, second.
d. C. Men in Close Matches.
Two Washington players. Fred
KovaleSki and Barney Welsh.
figured in two of the closest
matches of yesterdays play.
Kovaleski was pressed to the
limit to beat Donald Flye, Uni
versity of Washington star,
Ga, 6-8, 6-3: while Welsh
was beaten after two hours play
in the mid-afternoon blazing
sun. 3-6, 81, 11-9, by Dan
Sullivan of st. Petersburg, Fla.
Grigry defeated Ted Rogers
OF Washington with the loss of
only three games, 60, 6-1.
Rogers could do nothing right
and the relentless Grigry went
after every point with dispatch
and consistency.
In one of the early contests
Hal Burrows of Charlottesville,
Va, beat Sid Schwartz of New
York. The first set was closely
fought. with Schwartz having
several opportunities to win it.
But Burrows solid ground
strokes proved the difference,
and he squeaked through, 1913.
Schwartz, who is in the Army
and has played little competitive
tennis this summer, was finished
after that. The second set was
60.
KOvaleSki Wins SIugfest.
Kovaleski and Flye had a real
Suggest, with both men bearing
down on their powerful deliver
les and following them to the
net for decisive volleys. In the
first set, KovaleSki broke through
Flye In the first game and then
held his service to run out the
set at Ga.
Kovaleski had a golden chance
to take the match in straight
sets when he broke Flye for a
6-5 edge in the second set with
his own service coming up. But
at this point Flye hit an amaz-
Ing streak of play and took the
next three games in rapid-fire
order with the loSs~of only one
point. Volleys, drives and pass
ing shots flowed from his racket
to astoniSh Kovaleski and please
the large gallery.
The crucial game came with
Flye serving at 2-all in the third
chapter. He reached his add
and then suddenly made two
double faults to give KovaleSki
add, and then completed the COL
lapse by hitting an easy volley
into the net. From then on
Kovaleski concentrated on hold
ing his own delivery for the set
and match.
Welsh Loses Heartbreaker.
Welsh played as well as he ever
did in the first set of his match
with Sullivan, who hits a dis
concerting two-handed forehand
drive. The Rockville veteran
did not miss a first service in
this set, which he won at 6-3.
The last two sets were exceed
ingly close, and with a break
here or there Welsh might have
taken either one. In the Sec
ond, he had a good opportunity
to break through Sullivan at
Tall, 30-all, but missed two easy
volleys.
Barney hung on grimly in the
last set, leading at rs and |
81. with Sullivan'S delivery
coming up. But the effort was
futile as his younger opponent |
broke through on a fine place.
ment and an error to take the
lead and then held his serve to |
win, 11-9.
A mild upset was registered
when Miyagi beat Gil Shea of |
Los Angeles. 2-6, 6-3, 60.
Shea is well known to Washing
ton fans for his play in the Mid
ole Atlantic Clay Court cham
pionShips at Kenwood Country
Club a few years ago. Miyagi |
gave notice that the new Japa-
nese crop Of Davis Cup players, |
now making the rounds of Amer |
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