Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-11

The Buckingham Tennis Club
In Arlington has been reorganized
as q private club. Players buy
a season membership instead of
paying for the courts by the
hour. The club intends to limit
its membership so that courts
always will be available. Buck
ingham has four good clay
courts.
Membership in the revitalized
club includes such well-known
local players as Rod Nichols, a
member Of the Harvard tennis
team last year. Frank Durham,
Frank O'Fiorio, Byron McCand-
less. Don and Donna Floyd and
several former college stars.
Buckingham decided not to en-
ter the Inter-Club League be-
cause its members were reluc-
tant to surrender the courts for
the matches: but the club has
made its courts available to the
Washington Area Tennis Patrons
for the tennis clinic program.
Russ Cooley. head of WATPF's
clinic program. will be in charge.
Dates for the clinic instruction
will be announced later.
Art Freshman is serving as
president of the new Bucking-
ham club. For further informa-
ton. telephone Art at Jackson
8-2791.
Bill Tilden used to call foot
faulting a minor form Of cheat
ing" Deliberate foot-faulting is
just that, but 9 out Of 10 people
who step on the line or jump
while serving do so through care
lessness.
Many players are ignorant of
the fact that touching the line
or jumping while in the act of
serving makes the serve Just as
much Of a fault as hitting the
ball in the net or out Of the
court.
A surprising number of WASH
ington area players foot-fault
with q fair degree OF regu-
larity. The habit is hard to
correct. In local tournaments
foot-faults are rarely called even
on the server who follows his
serve to the net.
This is the worst form Of
foot-faulting. 1t can give the
server a full step advantage in
getting to the net. Under the
new rules the umpire need not
warn players that they are foot
faulting. He is empowered to
call foot-faults Immediately.
Army Navy all but clinched
the Inter-Club League cham
pionship Sunday with its 4-3 VIC
tory over defending champion
Columbia. Don Leavens was the
star Of the day. Coming out Of
semiretirement. Don handed Fred
McNair, second-ranking player
in Washington, resounding de-
feat. 90, go. then went on
to win his doubles match with
Dick Williams over Hugh Lynch
and Charlie Charming. This was
the clincher.
49,
The battle Of the mighty mites
is now history. Playing in the
finals Of the l3-and-under d. C..
Tennis Center championship, To-
year-old Bobby Goeltz beat
Dickie Dell, another l0-year-old,
Us, 81. Both boys played well.
Bobby moved into the net at
every opportunity and Dickie had
trouble in dislodging him. In our
opinion. these two lads are the
most promising youngsters yet
TO appear on the Washington
scene. II nobody bothers their
naturally smooth strokes, they
should 60 places.
Little Dell won the boys (l5
and under doubles title playing
with Hugh Lynch w. Hughie
dominates the boys ranks TO such
an extent that he could prob
ably have won with any Of six
partners, but Dickie held up his
end well.
The Center championships
we're a fine tribute to the work
being done by the Washington
Area Tennis Patrons. The largest
entry lists in the history OF the