Evening star., 1962-04-22

One of those pugnacious
of Bethesda. will help launcl
expanded tennis program g
week from next Sunday.
Dell and Gene Scott, like
Dell a graduate student at the
University of Virginia, will face
each other in a singles exhibit
ton, then collaborate to meet
Fred McNair Tim CoSS in
doubles.
All of this is sort of the
kickoff to an ambitious Con-
greSsional card that includes
a mixed doubles invitational,
May 21-27; the second annual
member-guest, June 1917, and
a windup boys invitational,
July 1920. Bill Greenhalgh.
the tennis chairman, reports
that the eight clay courts have
been reSurfaced for the busy
campaign.
Dell's appearance will be his
first hereabout since being re-
named to the cup team and
his trip to the Bahamas to
work with Pancho Gonzales.
1t was a Kelleher idea to have
Dell, Frank Froehling and Jon
Douglas work a week with
Gonzales to sharpen their
games.
With sweeping changes at
Sixteenth and Kennedy streets,
the most popular tennis spot
in town, play on the public
parks level looks set this sum-
mer-set to hit a new peak.
That's the prediction of Doug
Love. the assistant director of
parks activity for Government
Services, Inc, who points
proudly to the face-lifting job
at the Sixteenth street loca-
ton as the reason why.
Twenty new courts have been
built there to replace II old
ones, a real pardon the pun)
net profit. In place of the clay
courts. there are Is hardtru
and 5 green-coated asphalt
ones. This follows the con-
struction of 16 new courts last
year at East Potomac Park.
The Sixteenth street location
draws the bulk of the public
parks activity since it is CEN
trally located and transporta-
ton facilities are good. The
formal unveiling won't be until
the D. c. Commissioners Ill
vitational, May 1914, but the
new courts will be plenty busy
before then.
Donna Floyd, the Arlington
gal, takes off tomorrow for
three weeks of competition in
Italy after completing the Afri-
can phase of her foreign tour.
Hlghspots so far including win
ing tournaments at Cairo and
Alexandria, plus visits to
Uganda, Tanganyika, Southern
RhodeSia. Kenya, the Sudan
1where the temperatures hit
l00-1O5 degrees, and South
Africa.
While in Southern Rhodesia,
Donna ran into Bob Cage, the
tobacco auctioneer who used to
play his tennis out of Washing
ton and Halifax, Va.
More on that small-world bit
they're doing the twist, too,
in Africa, Donna reports.
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There will be no clear-cut
favorite tomorrow when the an
nual Cherry Blossom tourna-
ment opens here. Host George
Washington and Georgetown,
with some of their best talent
in years, are hoping for a title
breakthrough this year, but In
diana and Notre Dame, the 1855
winner, are traditional toughieS.
Other openings this week
Gust like Broadway are the
23d annual Sidwell Friends
School Invitational on Friday
and the Arlington Invitational
on Saturday. Ron Goldman
and Bobby Goeltz are back to
defend their titles in the for
mer.
Don Floyd and Mrs. Olga
Mahaney, last years winners,
are expected again in the Ar
lington affair which runs
through May 6. The entry fee
($3 for singles) has been re-
duced this year to attract a
larger field. Entries close Tues
DAY at 6 pm. The man to con-
tact is Glen Cooper, the North
ern Virginia Tennis Association
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