Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1935, Page 14

A—14 THY. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JULY SPORTS Welsh, McElvenny Rule D. C. Tennis in Singles, Doubles After Great Battles BARNEY RETAINS BOTH HIS TITLES Breese, Markey, Mitchell Are Victims in Wild Court Sessions. BY BILL DISMER, JR. OU all know by now, probably, | exactly what happened yes terday at the Columbia Coun- try Club's courts. Tennis en- thusiasts of the city are having their first. day’s talk of two matches that | will be talked about for days, weeks | or maybe months. Just in case you neither have seen, read nor heard about them. let me tell vou briefly that Barney Welsh | retained his District singles title by defeating Bill Breese in straight sets, 6—2, 6—2, 6—3. and three Rours later the Rockville Rambler was found on the championship doubles team for the second consecutive vear, having co-operated with Ralph McElvenny to | defeat Dooly Mitchell and Tom Mar- | key in a stirring. ever-changing tide | of competition, 7—5, 2—6, 6—3, 2—6‘ and 6—4. | Fifteen minutes before the singles | match was scheduled to start, three rows of chairs extending the width of the two main courts at Columbia were occupied. Behind these stood | hundreds of spectators and those ar- riving “on time” as far as the actual starting hour was concerned, were forced to use the small embankment to the left of the vacant court border- ing the sgene of the main attractions Breese Nervous at Start. | ILL BREESE, wearing the maroon blazer of Harvard and, for the gecond time since he started to appear locally, clothed in white ducks, ap- peared on the court first. A buzz of soft-spoken questions sweep the crowd, all asking whether this surprising, extremely youthful- appearing wearer of the crimson can continue his dope - upsetting play against the best the section has to offer. And then Barney Welsh appears, strolling with all the poise and assur- ance of the true champion. born of fuccessful competition on the courts, and there looms a negative answer to the question the crowd has just asked dtself. The answer seems to be emphasized during the first game of the match, which, with Welsh serving, ends in a love score, with Breese apparently nervous over the big test. unable to come close to scoring on Barney. He carries the next game to deuce. however, and it is a forerunner of five games he manages to win, four of which were decided only after Welsh had scored 40 points. But the crowd. ever with the under- dog. applauds wildly as Breese con- tinues to make sensational returns, nis spectacular play overshadowing, in general, the steady. methodical play of the champion, who plods along in sure, certain fashion after his second major championship this month. Soon Breese has the champ all but climbing the wire backstop chasing blasting smashes that land on th» baseline and which he must go far in the air to reach. Breese Becomes Erratic. UT Breese begins to err all foo frequently and more and more his returns of Welsh's drives land £mack in the net. He begins to show the effect of three telling matches ia the previous davs and the combined opposition of Markey, Mitchell and McCue have taken something from his &tamina. The crowd begins to realize mid- way in the second set, after Welsh has tied the score at 2-2 and begins 8 run of five straight games, that there will be no new champion. That is, all of the crowd but Representa- tive Hamilton Fish, who is squatted on the ground directly behind the backstop watching his young nephew make his bid for fame. Almost an hour after the start comes the finish. Welsh is leading. B-2, when Breese, on his last service of the day again goes to deuce to cap- ture his last game. The last game is dramatic and indicative of the cour- age of this son of Harvard as he forces Welsh three times to deuce before twice driving into the net for the last two fatal points. As the pair walk off the court Lou Doyle, president of the Washington 1. T. A. and ever-present and capable referee of the tournament, declares, without qualifications, that “Breese is undoubtedly the second best player in the tournament.” The doubles match, still to come. eppears but an anti-climax, but the cosmopolitan gathering soon realizes that “it ain't seen nothin’ yet.” After 20 minutes, during which Barney Welsh relaxes under a cool- | ing shower and goes into conference with his partner, McElvenny, who proved the captain and strategist of | the victorious combination, they come | onto the court with Mitchell and | Markey, who lead the fans to expect | great, things, They did not disappoint. Markey | time and again had the fans jumping | from their chairs, acclaiming the gheer brilliance of his play. Dooly Off Form. HE crowd soon senses that Dooly, unfortunately. is sadly off his game and sympathizes. Volleys, so long and furious that it seems as if the four must drop upon the completion of the point, leave the crowd as limp as the contestants, volleys in which the ball hits the ground not once in as many as half a dozen exchanges. Markey whaling away with all his might at balls which cause McElvenny to duck and jump out of the way with all the haste of a farmer in the middle of Broadway for the first time. Unknown to many, Welsh finds himself on the losing side of a set for the first time in his last two years of | competition in this tournament, when Mitchell and Markey rally to win the second setto, deadlocking the match. The eventual winners quickly re- cover to take the third set and then, in order to avold the sight of four players collapsing right then and there on the court, a 10-minute halt 1s called. Greatly refreshed, Mitchell and Markey deadlock the maich by win- ning the fourth set with the loss of only two games. And then. starting from scratch for the last time, with everything de- pending on the fifth set, the rivals| battle on even terms for eight games. | Only once in the fist eight games dnes more than one game separate them, W2izh and McElvenny grabbing 4 | mav be played on July 4. | set match, the epoch-making struggle | * Barney Welsh (left) and Ralph McElvenny, who have reasserted their supremacy in tennis hereabout by capturing top honors in the District of Columbia championship finals yesterday at Columbia Country Club. Welsh annexed the singles title by Breese, and, paired with McElvenny, downed Bud Marky and Dooly Mitchell for the doubles crown in a grueling Monarchs UNSEEDED, BUDGE 1S TENNIS MAGNET Gangling Yank Helps Pack ’Em In as World Stars Play at Wimbledon. By the Associated Press. ONDON, July 1.—England's big league tennis ns, some of | them having waited in line out- | side all night, today sifted through the gates of Wimbledon to watch the world’s top-ranking stars swap shots in the all-England cham- pionships. Chief among the stars they came | to see was a tall, gangling fellow with | laming hair from California, Donald Budge, unseeded but not unsung. The center court held such stars as Fred Perry and H. W. (Bunny) Austin of England, Baron Gottfried | von Cramm of Germany, Jack Craw- | ford of Australia and Sidney Wood of New York, but it was the fortunes | of Budge with which most of the | crowd was chiefly concerned. Budge Wins Favor. UDGE'S backhand stroking and | power, his youth and zest, have | | carried him into the hearts of the | gallery. He faced an English favorite | and master shotmaker, Austin, and the duel was expected to be one oxl winning in straight sets from Bill five-setter. ~—Star Staff Photos. | the high lights of the tournament. | Perry was favored to top Roderich | Menzel of Czechoslovakia and Ven | BY BILL DISMER, JR. " EFORE turning this column over to the ladies for the next three days in complete cover- age of the annual District of Columbia woman's tournament which took up at Columbia Country Club where the men's tourney left off yes-| terday, may we say just a few words | | about the members of our own sex who are competing out of town this week. | If he was able to drive after five hours of exhaustive play yesterday.| Barney Welsh will have been found somewhere on the road between here | and Providence. R. I, as he left last night to compete in the Rhode Island State championship starting there to- day. | He will not be lacking friends, how- | ever, as Frank Shore of North Cam-" lina University’s team, left yesterday morning for the same destination. | A little later in the week some of Washington's younger players are leaving for Frederick, Md.. for the start of the Catoctin Country Club tournament on July 4. Harry March, Charley Channing, the two Ritzen- bergs and David Johnsen are the youngsters who hope to add more | luster to their rapidly growing fame and may be joined by others before the week is out. 1N ONE respect, it's a lot more fun and certainly more competitive for the girls in their tournaments than in the men's for they have a con- solation tourney, where the losers! meet. In other words, an initial loss | does not mean total elimination as | it does in thé men’s competitions. I It would have seemed hardly just.| Connie Thompson, | vou see, if Mrs. industrious chairman and hard-work- ing arranger of the tournment, wouldn't have been able to play after losing to stellar Sara Moore in the first round Saturday. So they gave | her another chance in the consola- tions vesterday and she responded by trimming Alice Stern. 7—5.'6—2. But that wasn't exactly the feature of yesterday's piay. for when a seeded player gets eliminated in the second round, that's news. And that is what | happened yesterday when Bobsy Tur- | ner turned on her best to upset the more favored Anna Dayett in straight sets, 6—3, 7—5. Bobsy doesn’t play today, as only two singles matches are scheduled, but when she does play again you'd better keep your eye on | | her for she's a determined young miss and likely to go places. | ARA MOORE, new City of Washing- | ton champion, and Frances Bas- sett had the hardest fights to stay in the tourney vesterday, Miss Moore | being carried to three sets before | emerging victorious over Grace Parker. | 7—9, 6—3. 8—6. while Mrs. Bassett was extended the limit to defeat | Luisa Bloede, 3—6. 6—3, 6—3. Most of the action scheduled for today involves the doubles teams formed yesterday of which, however, there are only eight. Officials of the tournament hope to speed up the play so that the finals X Today's pairings: Singles (Consolation). 3 pm—Betsy Rown vs. Virginia| Rodgers: Victoria Eynon vs. Frances Hollender. Doubles. 5 p.m.—Miller-Moore vs. Hagner- Davis; Craven-Kronman vs. Strayer- Rowan; Cootes-Turney vs, Stern- Bergstorm; Carter-Rodgers vs. Bas- sett-Ryan. Results yesterday: First round—Anna Dayett defeated Frances Carter, 6—2, 6—3. Second round—Bobsy Turney de- feated Anna Dayett, 6—3, 7—5: Sara Moore defeated Grace Parker, 7—9. | 6—3. 8—6: Clara Tabler defeated Marjery Fleischman, 6—1, 3—2 (Miss a 3-1 lead. Their foes rally, how- ever, not only to tie the score, but to forge ahead at 4-3. But it is the last supreme effort—of the losers. | Markey no longer can stand the | pace. The burden of carrying the | fight has been too much for him, and | he begins to show the effect. Errors | creep into his play as they have pre- | vailed in that of his partner, and Barney and Mac, quick to sense the | turning point, seize a crucial lead at 5-4. Then, realizing the end is near, they smash through Mitchell's service without tke loss of a point to end the | and the agonizing moments for the | supporters of both teams. 1935 PONTIACS BIG DISCOUNT ‘These cars were used only during the SHRINE CONVEN~ TION as official cars. 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Major Leaders | by the Fairfax Station nine. | Manager Robertson at Fairfax 75. METRO BOYS TRAVEL. By the Associated Press. American League. Batting—Johnson, Athletics, Vosmik, Indians, .351. 364; | Metropolitan Police Boys' Club will Runs—Gehringer, Tigers, 56; John- | travel to Indianhead on July 4 to son, Athletics, 55. | play & double-header. Runs batted in—Greenberg, Tigers, | 89; Johnson, Athletics, 66. Hits—Gehringer, Tigers, mik, Indians, 93 Doubles—Greenberg, Vosmik, Indians, 21. Triples—Stone, Senators, 11; Cro- tern. Rock Island, 7-3; Keokuk, 5-7. St. Joseph, 4-12: Council Bluffs 3-4. Sioux City. 7: Des Moines, 3. Cedar Rapids, 6; Davenport, 5. New York-Pennsylvania. Reading, 10-0; Harrisburg, 0-14. Binghamton, 5-7; Elmira, 3-2. ‘Williamsport, 9-1; Hazleton, 3-3. Scranton, 4; Wilkes-Barre, 3. Piedmont. Portsmouth, 4; Wilmington, 2. Asheville, 15; Norfolk, 6. Richmond, 8; Charlotte, 6. 96; Vos- Tigers, 22: | Home runs—Greenberg, Tigers, 23; Johnson, Athletics, 17. Stolen bases—Almada, Red Sox, 13; Werber, Red Sox, 12. Pitching—Tamulis, Harder, Indians, 12-4. National League. Batting—Vaughan, Pirates, Medwick, Cardinals, .369. Runs—Martin and Medwick, Car- dinals, 54. Runs batted in—J. Collins, dinals, 69: Berger, Braves, 66. Hits—Medwick, Cards, 101; Waner, Pirates, 96. Doubles—Medwick, Cards, 22: Ga- Yanks, 7-11; 394; Sports Mirror Car- L. | By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Leland Hamman defeated Johnny Goodman, 3 and 2, lan, Cubs, and Martin, Cards, 20. to win, trans-Mississippi golf title. Triples—Suhr, Birates, 8; Boyle,| Dizzy Dean pitched Cardinals to 18- Dodgers: Goodman, Reds, and Galan | Inning triumph over Cincinnati. and Cavarreta, Cubs, 7. Three years ago—Helen Wills Moody Home runs—J. Collins, Cards, 17; ! won Wimbledon tennis title, beating Ott, Giants, and Berger, Braves, 16. | Helen Jacobs, 6—3, 6—1. Stolen bases—Martin, Cards, Five years ago—Eddie Tolan defeat- Moore, Cards, 7 ed George Simpson and Percy Wil- Pitching—Parmelee, Giants, liams at Vancouver, running 100 Schumacher, Giants, 10-2. ! meters in 10.2 seconds. 8-1; 1 WELDED ¢*1 Taken OF and Put On, §0c Other Metals Welded Radiators Repaired WELDIT, Inc. 516 1st St. NW.,Bet E& F ME. 2416 9; Fort Hunt Rang- | &t Mary's Ceitics. .- Malestic Radio. 0. | 1 Fredericksburs | 16-18: Beltsville ©. C. | 11: Northeast Boys' Club. 6. | A double-header for July 4 is sought | Call | Midget and junior diamonders of the | COAST'S TENNIS HOLD IS BROKEN Two-Year Domination Ends | as Hess of Rice Wins College Crown. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, July 1.—The national intercollegiate singles tennis title, California property for the last two years, went to Texas today in possession of Wilbur Hess of Rice Institute. Hess, seeded first and the favorite from the start, completed his conquest yesterday at the expense of Leonard Patterson, tall, game youngster from California Tech, on the clay courts at Northwestern University, 6—1, 7—9. 6—3, 6—3. His triumph, achieved after week of play, broke the two- year California domination manned by Jack Tidball of the University of | California at Los Angeles, in 1933, and Gene Mako of Scuthern Califor- nia last year. Coast Wins Doubles. CALIPORN]A‘ however, retained part of the honors wher Paul New- | ton and Richard Bennett defeated | Ernest Sutter and Kendall Cram of Tulane, 6—4, 7—5, 6—4, to succeed to the doubl titie won last year by Mako and ¥hil Castlin, | The new champion, from the State which produced Wilmer Allison and | Berkeley Bell, previous winners of the title, found Patterson a tough foe for two sets, but in the last two, A last Minute EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION!! after the Californian tired, used his strong forehand to run out the match. | Patterson, fatigured by his victori- ous five-set battle with Russell Ball of Northwestern University, in the semi-finals Saturday, needed the first sei to get warmed up, and hil his peak, briefly in ihe second. He won the second on greal play at the net, but the effort left him easy prey for the clever Texan in the last two sets. MR o Pacific Coast. Portland, §-5; Los Angeles, 3-4. Sacramento, 18-11; Missions, 8-1. Oakland, 5-6; Hollywood, 3-7. San Francisco, 13; Seattle, 3, Texas. ‘Tulsa, 11-2; Fort Worth, 10-1. Oklahoma City, 9-13; Dallas, 6-4, Beaumont, 7; Galveston, 6. Houston, 5-3; San Antonio, 3-1. English Bird Dog Is Clever Caddy ELLINGTON, Kans. (#).—Fitz- maurice, an English setter owned by Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hines of Wellington, makes golf simple for his masters. Not only is he good in the field when birds are being hunted, but he is believed to be one of the few dogs who will “point” a golf ball In a foursome, Fitz lies flat on the ground back of the driver, with his eve intent on the ball. After all have driven off, without fail he finds each ball. Should some of the balls go into the rough or out of bounds, he will find those first. At his master's command Fitz will bring in a ball which has gone out of bounds, but he never touches & ball unless he is told to do so. By the Associated Press, ‘ Home runs yesterday—Ott, Giants, 2: Fox Tigers, 2; Berger, Braves, 1; Medwick, Cardinals, 1; Allen, Phillies, 1; Watkins, Phillies, 1; Vergez, Phil- lies, 1; Chiozza Phillies, 1; T. Cucei- nello, Dodgers, 1; Bonura, White Sox, | 1; Dykes, White Sox, 1; Rolfe, Yan- kees, 1; Hoag, Yankees, 1; Werber, Red Sox, 1; R. Ferrell, Red Sox, 1; Moses, Athletics, 1; West, Browns, 1. The leaders—Greenberg, Tigers, 23; J. Collins, Cardinals, 17; Johnson, Athletics, 17; Berger, Braves, 16; Ott, Giants, 16; League totals—National, 333; Amer- ican, 330. Total, 663. | MIDDIES CUT BOXING | ANNAPOLIS, Md, July 1 A drastically reduced boxing schedule for next Winter has ben announced | at the United States Naval Acadamy. | ‘The Middies will have only four dual meets instead of seven as last year | Navy will open its ring program against Western Maryland College | Pebruary 1, meeting Syracuse Uni- versity, Penn State and Virginia on succeeding Saturdays. The Cavaliers will be met in Charlottesville, Va., and the others here. Seven lacrosse games were sched- uled for mext Spring. Besides an informal practice game with Dart- mouth here March 31, the regular schedule is: April 4 Harvard here; 11, Prince- ton at Princeton; 25, Syracuse here; May 2, Yale here; 9, Maryland here; | 16, Mount Washington Club of Balti- | more here; 30, Army at West Point. »— | Homer Standing [ Records for Week In Major Leagues rHE week's records of games won and lost, runs, hits, errors, op- ponents’ runs and home runs in the two majo- base ball circuits follow: American League, Detroit Cleveland New York Philadelphia Boston ... Washington Chicago .. St. Louis . Cincinnati ... New York ... Chicago .. Pittsburgh St. Louis Boston Brooklyn .. Get Double View Of Helen Moody I ONDON (#; —Helen Wills Moody “ is on view to Londoners all day in a picture gallery here as well as on the courts The famous Tate Gallery Is showing a larger-than-life-size por- trait of the tennis star by the Mex- ijcan Diego Rivbra, while Mrs Moody is driving herself back to top-flight rank in English tour- naments I is the largest portrait seen in London for some time. From the neck to the top of the head it measures about five feet Viscount Hastings, who worked with the artist in America, lent | the portrait to the Tate.’ With EVERY U. S. ROYAL, U. S. PEERLESS and U. S. SUPER STALWART TIRE! GIGANTIC PURCHASE OF FACTORY SURPLUS A short, sweet story. A delayed tire season! . with a cash offer and made the most astonishing buy in tire history! but the huge stocks of tires are here to prov SENSATIONA Manufacturer overloaded with stocks! We still believe we must be dreaming, e it and go on sale tomorrow morning! L JULY 4th SALE! 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