Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Close Matches Today
Due in Mid-AtIantic
After Routine Start
By Cospor Names
Stor Stoff ceyTsspondsnt

By CospoF Names
Stor Stoff Correspondent
BALTIMORE, July %. - The
Middle Atlantic Grass Court ten
mis- championships enter the in
teresting stage today with sew
eral close matches scheduled at
the Baltimore Country Club this
afternoon.
The star-studded field, headed
by Gardner Mulloy, f1rst-ranking
American, and Mervyn Rose of
Australia. top seeded foreign
player, went through a routine !
opening day yesterday.
The only seeded player to fall |
by the wayside was Rafael
Ortego Of Mexico, rated fourth
in the foreign seedlings. The Mex
lean Davis Cup player was beat
EN- in straight sets, Ga, Ga,
by Robin Wilmer, former Uni
versity Of California star at Los
Angeles. Wilmer, who beat Hal
Burrows this year at Little Rock,
Ark. had too powerful service
and net game for Ortega.
Top Matches Today.
Top matches today will be
Grant Golden of Chicago, seeded
No. z. against Fred HagiSt of |
San Francisco; Burrows of Char
lottesville, Va, against Sid
Schwartz of New York. and Cliff
Mayne of San Francisco VS..
Clyde WilderSpin of the Austria
Ian Davis Cup team.
In yesterdays best match Bur-
rows beat KoSei Kamo of Japan.
Burrows won the first set easily,
60. In the second the Virgin
ian went ahead to TO, 1870,
on his own service. He followed
his delivery to the net for the
match point, but was passed
Clearly down the line by the
Japanese star.
Kamo seemed to take heart |
from that shot, for his ground
strokes now took on more speed
and he rushed the net to sweep
through the next two games to
win. 81.
japanese Puts Up Battle.
Burrows went ahead, a., in
the third set, but the steady
Japanese fought bitterly for
every point. The Virginia star
also proved to be something of
a battler, for he saved two games
on his service when down, O-4O.
The most exciting game, and
best played of the contest, was
the last one, with the sun down
and the shadows making the ball |
hard to see. Kamo, by dint of |
two Burrows double faults and
a winning drive, reached 0-40.
However, Burrows brought the
game back to deuce. After
reaching add several times, but |
failing to get the winning point,
Burrows finally took the two
points on passing shot and a
forced error to win, 60.
None of the other seeded stars
exerted himself yesterday.
Mulloy dropped six games in
his contest with Lawrence Bar
clay of Canada, Rose lost three
games to Bob Bortner of Rich
mond, Va, and Noel Brown Of |
Los Angeles, seeded No. 4, pol |
ished OF Jiro Yamagishi, one
time Japanese Davis Cup star,
g., GO. Tony Trabert of |
Cincinnati, seeded No. 2, drew
a bye and makes his first appear
ance today.
Washington area players Jared
we'll in their opening matches.
Fred Kovaleski, seeded No. 8,
did not have much trouble with
Dever Hobbs of Providence, R. l.,
winning. GO, 81. Kovaleski
faces Don Flye of Tacoma,
Wash, today.
Welsh in Good Form.
Barney Welsh of Rockville,
Md, perennial Washington stand
out, was in exceptionally good
form against the Mexican Davis
Cupper, Joaquin Reyes. Welsh
led all the way in the first set
on service. He broke through
Reyes in the seventh game for
a 5-3 lead and then took his
own delivery to wind up the set,
6I3.
In the second set, Barney
missed some drives as Reeves
gained a A lead. At this point,
Welsh got his deep forehand
under control and, combining it
with smashing first serves, won
four games in row for the set
and match.
Ted Rogers, former National
Junior champion, was pressed to
81 in his f1rSt-round encounter
with Hugh Sweeney of Los
Angeles, but took the next set
without the loss of a game.
Rogers meets Jacques Grigry of
Los Angeles today.