Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1929, Page 73

3 ist Events for May 30 MAY 26, 1929—PART THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. - U. S. Davis Cup Team Eliminates Japanese : Golf Clubs L VAN RYN’S WIN OVER ABE - CLINCHES TIE FOR YANKS | | | Young Netman Comes Back to Triumph Over Vet ; eran in 4-Set Match—Hennessey Defeats Ohta. \ . } : ; j- o s . 7 g a E N # £ | Americans Play Cubans This Week. ; : S M e | A viously beaten by Yoshito Ohta, defeated Tamio Abe cf Japan, | in a four-set match in which he always held the upper hand. Van Ryn's victory, by the score of 6—2, 4—6, 6—3, 62, clinched the competition with the Japanese team, the count standing 3 to 1 at its | close. With the tie settled in favor of the Yankees, John Hennessy added | YANKEE RACKETERS ADVANCE IN ZONE PLAY OF DAVIS CUP COMPETITION “OPENINGS” ARE CARDED FOR A PAIR OF COURSES Beaver Dam and Harper to Present New Layouts to Their Members—Mid-Atlantic Tourney to Be Staged Next Week. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. N impressive schedule cf golf events is carded for the golf clubs about Washington ncxt Thursday—Memorial day. Marked by the formal opening of two new golf courses at two of the newest clubs, the day will find literally hundreds of golfers playing | at all the golf layouts about Washington and the public courses will ‘Hdraxv l_l-liel"rhthcusqnds of goilir gevotegs. For the first week since late another victory to the Amcrican total by sweeping through Ohta.| ‘b’écaggz Me(;n%?i’r:ln%aycel’illsnn; n%‘x‘x}:slé:;logn&;au;}r;fifier:fltgcfl);dfficyl Van Ryn's conquerer, in straight sets. Never really extended, the | : = & > o ¢ | tournament schedule.” But the high spot of the season in the mid- Indianapolis youth t_nok the match, 6—2, 62, 6—3. A : ey | b ¥ ¥ i i 4 | Atlantic sector will come next week when Harry G. Pitt of Manor The largest crowd of the three days of cup piay at Chevy Chase # < a ~ | will defend his Middle Atlantic_Golf Association championship over Club saw yesterday afternoon’s final single matches, which were | the Roland Park course of the Baltimore Country Club. played under ideal conditions. Fully 2.500 were in the stands, in- | ! ] All the clubs, with one cxception, have events scheduled for next cluding many notables in social and official life. i . 5 - 3 lThursdny. while at Beaver Dam and the Harper Country Club, new MERICA won its way into the Davis Cup finals in the American zone yesterday afiernoon when young John Van Ryn, pre- As a result of its victcry over | Ohta's weak backhand which the Jap-| golf courses are to be thrown open to the members of these two the Japanese, the Americans have ;l;;‘s: 5{0;;%?}, l‘\;";u‘cg::td:‘r‘:l”:ec;;: ‘growhtxlg olf organizations. At Beaver Dam the members will find but one more match in this zone, | test. The Indianapolis youth enjoyed & | a{_’af{l‘m“;o{_ ":W lfl'ne-hOle {Jflyfl\lt which has been in course of prep- that with Cuba, to be played this |large margin of superiority and. al- I (Dearly a year, by S. G. Loexer, the course manager, and week at Detroit. In this en- | though it was evident most of the time, | his greens force. The new layout is more than 3,400 yards in length | and, from a glance over it without hitting the ball, appears to be rhi i Ohta fought a grimly colorful, though 'rl'g:‘ul}lsedra»v,“h{fi? will begin on | s Skiading drives came | one of the best about Washington. It will be played as the second | losing bat(le. | : . T Fin \ . a5, 5 . 5 - e m”gng,iefgml?talle: | across the net with considerably more | . 5 W s 3 1 3 S | 9 holes of the regular 18 at Beaver Dam. I y | Speed than his unorthodox grip would ) A | The new 18-hole course of the Har- six Washington pros who will attempt wianing. indicate possible and he battled valiant- | per Country Club will be thrown open | to surmount the qualification barrier e ZPe Van Ryn-Abe match was_ the | Jv'with the tide constantly going against | to the large membership of the club for | in the tests at the Hermitage Club ot . Vesterday 3 | |the first time on Thursday. _The [ Richmond on the v and it was evident from the beginning | *"In the opening match, Abe could not | course, which was laid out !’:’y Peter | places are open sg?etd}:o‘;e”vlr’}l:%e’v‘:;fi that the former Princeton star was out to atone for his earlier défeat at Ohta’s hands. Van Ryn's Play Dashing. | The duel, which matched Van Ryn's speed and daring against Abe's sound but relatively paceless back court game. was the more interesting of the final singles matches not alone in the fact that it was decisive; quality of the tennis played. ‘was better thin the veteran Japanese team and he knew it and played with a dash and resourcefuln that was not to be denied. . In the other match, Ohta’s flat drives | which gave Van Ryn so much trouble when their unfinished match of the day before was completed Friday were never annoying to Hennessey, who was content to trade drives with the Japa- nese star until he could trap him out of position or force him into errors. Hennessey was particularly deadly over- head and a majority of his placements were scored off Ohta's lobs which lacked depth throughout the encounter. Abe, on the other hand, used a mix- ture of lobs and deep drives with par- ticularly good effect in the second set which he won from Van Ryn. Hennessey took full advantage of but also in the | Van Ryn | of the | sustain his accuracy against Van Ryn's speed. His best tactics, which he used | | to greatest advantage in the second set. | were a repetition of those which Ohta had employed —na<ely, lobbing Johnny's weak overhes Abe yester- day was getting plenty of depth on these shots and Van Ryn's was driving most of them over the baseline. The Point Scores. van van s Abe . 3 4 1 van Hennessy onta Hennessy oOnta .. Hennessy Ohta STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE ILLER B. STEVINSON sto] s friendly argument at Jumbia the other day in con- vincing fashion. W. C. Evans and several other golfers were sitting around a table in the sun parlor discussing long hitting amateur golfers. The names of Jesse Guilford, Jess Sweetser, Rolahd MacKenzie, Henry Davis and others were brought into the discussion, Just as Stevinson entered the room Evans remarked that Jones i a good, fair hitter, a man who al- ways keeps the ball down the course, but isn't a tremendous hitter by any means. Now Stevinson has played several T O hamapionis not shors District amateur cl not sho “Chick,” he said, Fred McLeod declares that round of 61 made by Aubrey Boomer last week in the championship at St. Cloud, is the finest round of golf ever recorded in any championship competetion. “I remember Hagen's 62 at Belleair,” Mc- Leod sald. “But that was a much shorter course than that at St. Cloud. And Harry Cooper’s 60 was not in com- petition, and Duncan's 57 was made on a little course in the Alps. But| for sheer, downright merit, T never | have heard of such a round as that of Boomer, and I don’t think any man | ever has played such a round of golf | before.” tition. Members of the Town and Country Club are to play again in a medal play handicap tourney. ‘Walter W. Cunningham of Burning ‘Tree and Al Treder of Manor are to play in & four-ball match at Burning Tree tomorrow against Brick Wood of ‘Washington and Mel Shorey of East Po- tomac Park. Harry G. Pitt of Manor had an odd one happen to him on the fourth hole at Indian Spring last Thursday. He hit & long tee shot up the middle of the fairway and struck his second shot on the . As the ball.left his club it gave out a_queer buzzing sound. On the green he discovered that it had been run over by a lawn mower and part_of its cover cut off. He replaced the ball, with the consent of his oppo- nent, without penalty, as provided for in the rules. SENIORS’ GOLF BODY REVISES HANDICAPS A revised handicap list for the mem- bers of the Senlors’ Golf Association of the Chevy Chase Club, to be effective on and after May 30, when competition Cup will start, has been arranged by ciation. Present handicaps will continue for to| the tournament committee of the asso- | And the little Columbia mentor went off into s Scotch revery, dreaming of the days when it really amounted to something to knock the ball a moderate distance down the fairway, and when there was a definite premium on ac- curacy through the fairway. Freddie | knocks them as far as he ever did, but | the great hitters have gone past him | ¥ with the lively ball, which he can't hit | G as far as the larger men can. the Petkins plate. ‘The new handicap list follows: Page Hufty missed an expensive putt at Indian Spring the other day, He| was playing in a game with Perry B. Hoover and Brooke V. Beyer, and the | sixteenth hole was played into & strong | ¥ west wind. Varlous bets were made at | 7and 8 to 1 that Hufty would not get | A a birdie 4 on the hole in the prevail- | ing conditions. He hit a good tee shot and a fine iron shot, which left him a pitch of about 110 yards to the pin. At that point Beyer laid 10 to 1 that he would not get his 4 and Hoover took the bet. Hufty then laid a mashie | niblick shot dead in line with the pin | and but 30 inches past. Well, you | know the rest. | Wagenhorst " 7 Brown Miller 8 Gen. Charles H . Rust . 9 Gen. n. Ge Col."C ra | ips Hill Duwight_ Clark Arlon V. Gen. D Judge W. D. Bran Col." Joseph Wheeler . Dr. Whitman Cross Gen. Speaking of low rounds of golf. Fred McLeod said that Tommy Armour in all his years of championship, never has felt anything so keenly as the putt he had on the eighteenth hole at Congressional last year to score his marvelous 63. McLeod sald Tommy described the putt as far more diffi- cult, from the mental standpoint, than .the 12-footer Tommy holed to te for the open champlonship at Oakmont in 1927. That round of 63, it will be remembered, included a 7 on the par 4 fourteenth hole, and probably is the finest round ever played around Wash- ington by any golfer. Personally we never forget the marvelous round of | & MeCain I G 67 made by Miller B. Stevinson to set | s “Minor (11). a new amateur record for the Indian | W. C. Mendenhall (9. "y Spring course. How he started two | Je . over par and then followed with noth- | T ing but pars and birdies for fourteen ¥ichol holes in a row. ry U yloe P Hrldle! Davidson Gen. W. Nicholson Rear Admiral R. H. Jackson G Ao hingto Benjam! i Jo Fulton Lewis . 0°000000 : 3 Pairings for the Thompson Cup were announced by the committee, as follows: Chester Wells (11) vs. C. G. Treat (8): 5 Ve 1.6, in Miller B EEH ompHETE an. ir | Barry “(l6), —— : Ham (1) v Woman golfers of this city are to | Shanks (i2), B S S g =ttt 1} ¥ play in a miniature tournament over the course of the Army, Navy and Ma- rine Club next Tuesday. Effective June 15, green fees at the Manor Club will be raised from $1 a day through the week to $2 a day, while on Saturdays, Sundays and holi- days, the fees will become $4 a day. ‘At the same time the initiation fee is to be rased to $250. Lisut. Col. M. C. Bristol won the first flight in the spring tournament of the | ‘Army Finance Golf Association, con- cluded last week on the course of the Soldiers’ Home. He has been awarded possession of the Gen. Carmichael trophy, and had his name inscribed on the eup, which remains the permanent possession of the association. Members of the Argyle Country Club are completing today the qualifying rounds for the miniature tournament, which will be played at the club on Me- morial day. Bannockburn members are to compete today in an 18-hole medal play tour- ney. A blind bogey tourney is the event offered today for members of the Manor Club. while Indian Spring golfers are to_ play, in.a. two-pall foursome. compe- | Keferstein ( | Hillyer (8), | Lottus (7). u) Rugles (14), v P, Hill 12); Wheeler (10, vs. W. H. Standley (6): Hoover (11),'ve. F. M. Savage (20) | Clark 123, ve M. Wright (14); | Fratley (9). vs. M. M. Tasior (6); H. D Crampton (11), vs. Dr. J. H. Bryan (18); A. { v. Cushman (i2),"vs. 'W. G.. Brantley (i3); H. M. Southgate (6), vs. H. L Rust (9) C. L. Maratt (1), va. Benjamin Miller (18): }.v;,;ppn Wheeler (13), vs. Whitman Cross 13). |CUBA DAVIS CUP TEAM SAILS FOR U. S. MATCHES HAVANA, May 25 (4#).—Cuba’s Davis Cup tennis team, consisting of Gustavo Vollmer, singles champlon; Cuco Up- mann and Ricardo Morales, sailed to- day for Key West en route to De- | troit, where they will meet the United | States aggregation in the American zone final, May 30, 31 and June 1. Cuba, recent victor over Mexico, is handicapped by the absence of Dr. Vi- cente Banet, former singles champion, who was forced to remain here because of his medical practice. Upmann and Morales probably will ply the doubles and one of them will be chosen to share the singles burden with CILERCE R < W =) o2 M B TLDEN AND UNTER BEATEN BY FRENCH Americans Lose in Semi- Final Round of Play in Pairs Tourney. BY THOMAS T. TOPPING, Associated Press Sports Writer. PARIS, May 25—America’s old sol- | diers of the court, Bill Tilden and Frank Hunter, went down in honorable defeat | today in the season's first renewal of | their perennial warfare with the | French. ‘Turning back the Americans in the semi-finals round of the tournament for the men's doubles championship of Prance, Jean Borotra, the volatile bounding Basque, and the cool, ma- chine-like Rene Lacoste, eliminated the last of the forelgn contenders for this particular title and assured an all- French final. Tilden and Hunter Out. Tilden and Hunter were beaten by | scores of 6—3, 6—2, 3—6, 6—3, while in the other semi-final match Henri' Cochet and Jacques Brugnon disposed of the British team of J. C. Gregory and I. G. Collins in straight sets, 6—3, Above, left to right: Yoshiro Ohta, John Hennessey, former Sccretar: 6—4, 6—3. To make up for the downfall of their strongest combination the best the American standard bearers could pro- | | Miss Helen Wills and Hunter over the French team of Mme. Renee Mathieu and Jacques Brugnon of France by scores of 6—2, 6—3, in the quarter-final round of the mixed doubles. In another hollow success at the expense of France Miss Marjorie Mor- { rill, youngest of the American girl invaders, won her first round singles match from Mme. Roger Danet of | France, 6—0, 6—2. | Spanish-Dutch Team Wins. | Sharing the spotlight with the battle | royal between the giants of the French | and American Davis Cup teams was the | final in women’s doubles in which the United States had no part. Playing | the same powerful game that eliminated | the defending champions from England, {nation of Elia de Alvarez and Kea | Bouman downed the Misses Bobble Heine and Ethel Neave of South Africa, 7—5, 6—2, thus capturing the first champlonghip to be decided in | this gala two weeks of tennis. | There is always a crowd on hand | when Tilden and Hunter, near the end of their international careers though { they may be. go into action against the | “Musketeers” and today was no excep- tion. The biggest gallery of the week was on hand as the match began with Borotra serving to Big Bill. BANNOCKBURN GOLF CUP PLAY DRAWS 64 Drawings for the Henry-Williams Cup, made yesterday by the golf com- mittee of the Bannockburn Golf Club, | show a total of 64 contestants paired | for the first round of match play. The inital round will be concluded a week | from today. Bannockburn todav starts regime of regular Summer rules, dis- arding the teeing-up privilege wWhich has been the rule for two years. Pairings for the Henry-Willlams Cup, | | presented several years ago by two play- | | ers on the Washington base ball team, follow: | M. C. Torry (16) ve. H. I Weer (28). Ses Tardins' 00 Ve . K. Vewer (180 -“Johnson' (14)" vs. Otto. Thacker . Shorter (1) v T Welch, " Fiaherty v, Eug + Lee Moffett T W. McGuire, (14) Vs A . L. W, Moore (17) vs. ‘Miles T . R.G. Lamb. (200 vs 3 | Woo .G, ©. Seott A Torrey Crammond “Heath (11) va. Martin Mclnerney Arndt (25) Vs, Ben L. Page (20). 20" 'vs" w."Fred Byrne (12), J. 37 Vi W F. Rhodes (161 ne. g5 W U8 e, Dr. )" ve. Harry D.Wheian (16). t '(h vs. G. D, Stup (14! ¢ (a1 Ve 3. W. Gardner . Kimbell (14) vs. L. L_Stratton : Buredort (12)' vs. 3. eron Reexe' (30) Vs, Joe O'Hura (1), er' 9) "V, Pyke Johnson (22) vs. C. H. 37C; McKeever (26)'va. J. T. McCarthy (14) Thacker, who is a student at George Washington University, won the tour- nament last year and is entered again this year. Yukiko Tsukuba of Tokio recently won the all-Japan women’s billiard champlonship from more than 100 con- . War Dwight F. Davis, donor of paramount {rophy of the net world; John Van Ryn and Tamio Abe. In the center is a typical acticn snap of Van Ryn, taken yesterday while he was in the process of defeating Abe in the singles match that gave the United for the Morven Thompson Memorial | quce .was an uninspiring victory for | States vietory over the Japancse team and earned for the Americans the right to play Cuba for the honor of meeting the European zone winners, the victors in which will enter the challenge round against the French team, present hold- ers of the unofficial world title. ‘SMITH SETS PACE ON GERMAN LINS ;Shoots 71 and 69 to Lead in First Half of 72-Hole Medal Play. By the Associated Press. BERLIIN, May 24.—Playing with the even brilliance that crowned him cham- pion of France, Horton Smith, 21-year- | old American professional from Joplin, Mo., blazed the way today in the first | half of the 72-hole medal play for the | German open title, | Smith, who celebrated reaching his | majority by sweeping French champlonship last week, put together two rounds of 71 and 69 to | day for a total of 140 to lead Percy Alliss, English professional at a Berlin club, by one stroke. Alliss, playing steadily and representing Germany's sole threat against the American and British invaders carded a 70 and 71 | for 141 Once Alliss turned in his score, the remainder of the touring American pro- | fessional squad, with some British help, took over the challenging positions for the 36 holes to be played tomorrow. Aubrey Boomer, British professional, | shot 73 and 70 for 143, with the color- | ful Walter Hagen and Johnny Farrell, | British and American open champions, respectively, tied for fourth place with totals of 144. Both shot a pair of 72s. | Ed Dudley, another American, had a pair of 73s for 146. Joe Turnesa | virtually shot himself out of the run- | ning with 74—79—153, and Cyril | Tolley, British amateur, was a little better with 75—77—142, Hagen, captain of the American team, ved around with Smith and the pair through the | | Jackson, greenkeeper at Congressional, has come along in fine shape and is ready for the opening, according to A. | L. Houghton, the club professional. | Winter rules will be played for a time until the fairways have been consider= ably improved. All the clubs except Columbia, have announced their golf schedules for Memorial day, and Columbia undoubt- |edly will have an event ready for the | members by Thursday. The complete | golf schedule for Memorial day follows: | Argyle—Miniature tournament, for ‘:'hlch the members are qualifying to- | day. Town and Country Club—Match play against par, 18 holes. Chevy Chase Club—Eighteen-hole match play against par event for the Victor Kauffmann Memorial day trophy. Beginning of competiiton by members of the Seniors’ Golf Association for the Morven Memorial trophy. Bannockburn Golf Club—Sweepstakes tournament. Manor—Flag tournament for men and women, the latter event to be at 9 holes. Thompson | nament for men. Driving contests for | men and women at 4 o'clock. Beaver Dam—Competition for the President’s Cup. Driving contest, and approaching and putting competitions | for women and men. Congresisonal Country Club—Eight- | een-hole handicap medal play tourna- | ment. | | ._The final rounds of the Indian Spring tournament almost came to grief last Friday because of a swarm of bees. While Page Hufty, Leroy Sasscer, Charles W. Cole, jr.,, and Harry G. Pitt were warming up on the first tee, without any warning, an enormous swarm of bees rose from the rough | near the first tee and flew straight | across the tee in line with the players. And what confusion they caused. | J. Monro Hunter, the big Indian Spring | pro, ran like a deer to get out of | the way of the bees, whose buzzing | sounded like that of an airplane | “prop.” Hufty and Pitt dropped to | the ground and the others all went away from there in short order. Later in the day they came back, just before Hufty and Pitt were ready to tee off in the final round, and again the ducking process was gone through. They finally settled down in the high Er‘u.s and nothing more was heard of em. Capt. Sidney H. Buttz of the Indian Spring golf team is to lead a team of 12 players from his club into action against a team of players from Beaver | Dam at Beaver Dam this afternoon. | The Ilatttr club gave Indian Spring lwnm members the privilege of the | Beaver Dam course. for practice last week. Argyle also extended to mem- 1 bers of the Indian Spring Club the courtesy of the Argyle course while the | tournament. was in progress. | _Twelve places are open to the five Washington golf professionals who will | Indian Spring Golf Club—Flag tour- | | essay the test at the Torresdale-Fran- ford Club of Torresdale, Pa. The United States Golf Association announced today that entries for the open championship total 967 contest- | ants, as against 1,032 last year. They will qualify in 19 sections, and 34 play- {ers are exempt, while places are being | held for foreign entrants. The associa- tion has not received any entries from British golfers, whether amateurs or professionals, so it appears that the British threat will not be a threat this | year. ‘Those who will go to Pittsburgh from ‘Washington are J. Monro Hunter of In- | dian Spring, Fred McLeod of Columbia, Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase, Alex A. Armour of Congressional and Arthur B. Thorn of Town and Country. To Richmond will go A. L. Hough- ton of Harper, Leo McNerhany of Ken- wood, Mel Shorey of East Potomac Park, Frank Hartig and R. CHff Mc- Kimmie of the Army, Navy and Marine Country Club, and Al Treder of Manor, while Walter W. Cunningham of Burn- |ing Tree intends to essay the qualify- ing test at Torresdaie. Last year, it will be recalled. Hunter, McLeod and Ar- mour qualified at Oakmont and thereby became eligible for the championship played at Chicago. The championship this year will be played at the Winged iFool Club of Mamaroneck, N. Y., be- | ginning June 27. Only 25 players have | entered in the Richmond test, while 102 | have entered at Pittsburgh and 64 at Philadelphia. The New York district has 235 names entered for the trials at St. Alban’s Golf Club. | | The championship tournament of the | Middle Atlantic Golf Association, to be | played next week at the Roland Park | course of the Baltimore Country Club, | is expected to attract a large entry of | Washington players and many entrles |from Norfolk and Richmond. Entries for the tourney close at 2 p.m. Monday, June 3, and must be accompanied by the entry fee of $3. The tourney is the | biggest event of the season about | Washington and Baltimore, and usually | draws the best field of the vear. It will | be played at the Roland Park course in- | stead of the Five Farms course, because | of the greater accessibility of the for- mer layout. The golf committee of the Baltimore Country Club, which will handle the affair under the guidance of the officers of the association, has decided to have six flights of 16 each. There still is doubt as to whether the qualifying round will be at 18 or 36 holes, although it will probably be re- duced to 18 holes, because of the ex- pected large size of the fleld. The team championship of the n, won last year by Manor, will be played in conjunction with the medal round. A week after the Mid-Atlantic event comes the Columbia tourney, the event which always attracts the largest field | to compete each year in any local | tourney. Announcements of the Co- | lumbia event already have been sent | out, and there is no doubt the entry | list will again exceed 300 as it has done | for several years past. | J OHN HENNESSEY and Yoshiro Ohta gave Washington net fans a novel exhibition of back court ducling yesterday in the final match of the Davis Cup series 9| Miss Wills and Edith Cross, as well as 5taged as an exhibition on the Chevy | Chase Club courts after Johnny Van 0| the sensational Spanish-Dutch combi- | Ryn has clinched the zone semi-final | for the Americans by winning over Tamio Abe. | Veteran critics of the game were unanimous in agreeing that Hennessey showed himself a master of court | strategy in adopting the tactics he did | with the Nippon who had created such | 8, sensation Friday in his defeat of Van | Ryn. | Wisely discarding his short game | with its spectacular element and inci- | dentally its invitation for placements to such a hard-hitting opponent as Ohta had shown himself to be, Hen- nessey literally played from baseline to | baseline, matching Ohta's game even to the measure of executing his strokes with one of equal speed and more ac- curacy. Be it said for the Japanese | player however, that it was not so diffi- | cult a matter to maich his speed yes- | terday as it would have been on Friday. A serious attack of “charley horse” in the muscles of his right arm and left | leg kept him confined to his room at |the club until match time yesterday | afternoon and noticeably lessened the power of his strokes and the remarkable control which had been the features of his play against Van Ryn. Nevertheless, Hennessey showed keen judgment, in his analysis of Ohta’s of- Great 7Display ¢;f i}ac_k Court Play Given by Cup Racketers p | drew an enthusiastic galle The “Haig"” matched Smith's consistent bril- liance from the tees up to the greens, | but his putting was weak. attempt to qualify for the national open championship at the Oakmont Country Club, near Pittsburgh, on June | 10. Only three places are open to the Children under 16 years of age are not permitted to attend any wrestling or boxing shows in Pennsylvania. the poetry of tennis—and classic verse at that. The Princeton flash needs only {o gain experience and with it, more | perfect control, to climb to the top of the ladder. There is scarcely a stroke | that he has not some command of today. TENNIS HEAD PRAISES CONDUCT OF MATCHES America’s foremost tennis leaders | showered praise on the Chevy Chase| | Club and its tennis committee, headed | by Lawrence A. Baker, for the manner in which the Davis Cup match between the United States and Japan was, staged. Said Samuel Collom, president of the United States Lawn Tennis Association: ' “The arrangements wete as perfect as it was humanly possible to make them and for this the Davis Cup com- mittee is grateful to the Chevy Chase Club and particularly to the chairman of its tennis committee, Mr. Baker, | whose management of the affair was | flawless. i “The officiating left nothing to be desired and the setting was one of the prettiest in the history of Davis Cup play on this side of the Atlantic.” Similar expressions were made by Joseph Wear, chairman of the Davis Cup committee; Julian Myrick, for many years president of the U. S. L. T. A, and Fitz-Eugene Dixon, captain of the American team. fensive play, and fed him the balls in such & manner as to keep the wiry Easterner on the defense fully two- thirds of the time, wearing him down with Jong rallies until the inevitable BARE LEGS IN TENNIS ene | net or out was called against him, Tamio Abe, although a loser to Van Ryn, outplaced him, a stroke analysis reveals, and was successful in keeping the American away from the net, where he is at his best. Abe's lobs were un- cannily accurate. Van Ryn's smashing returns were equally spectacular, how- ever, and his ability to cover court and to work his opponent out of position combined to give him the edge on a colorful encounter. refusing (o resort to playing safe, the Nippon won the admiration of the gal- lery for his courage. No matter how hard pressed, he drove consistently for a corner or a line. Less than two dozen balls fell along the center line from his racket in the entire match. From the standpoint of stroke execu- tion, Johnny Van Ryn stands out as the logical successor to Big Bill Tilden, critics have said, and those who watched his performance at Chevy Chase Club need no convincing on this point. Van Ryn could not execute an unorthodox stroke if he tried and it is doubtful if he could make an ungraceful shot. be described as ! ! With his tenaclous side-line attack, | REBUFFED IN BRITAIN By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 25.—The campaign of American and British girls to popular- ize bare-legged play in the women's tennis champlonships this season seems to have met with & rebuff. ‘Woman players in the title events at | ‘Wimbledon will be asked to wear stock- ings, the London Evening News reports | today. Furthermore, an official of the All-English Lawn Tennis Club is quoted | as forecasting an early and authorita- tive statement on the subject that has| agitated Wimbledon players and fans | since Helen Wills and other stars ap- peared bare-legged in matches on the Continent. i The mother of Betty Nuthall, youth- | ful British star, is one who looks with disapproval on undraped legs on the courts. “It may be cool, but I don’t think it attractive,” Mrs. Nuthall announced. “For this reason I think it will die out. No doubt girls who have acquired the habit would fall in with any suggestion