Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1935, Page 11

s PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1935. SPORTS. A—11 British Wightman Cup Team Primed for Terrific Tea Party at Forest Hills Him in Davis Cup Play. BY JOHN LARDNER. N British gentlewomen will be| submitted for our approval at the annual Wightman Cup matches. There is no patriotism or interna-| love it, and we love the girls. The girls give the spectators some- crowd in the world for expert and in-/ timate knowledge of the players. You Phyllis had a splitting headache last | night—that dear Betty is practically | dear Kitty has taken on 2'4 pounds since Her marriage —that darling Tennis Association seized her expense account and killed that item of 10- dolls in our time, some beautiful, some tough and some just British. There grim and powerful—Betty Nuthall, the girl with zing, whom the ball boys | bonny blue ribbon in her hair— Ermyntrude Harvey and Gwendolyn gallery adored without discrimination because they were out there perspiring | | Sid Wood Declares He Asked Captain Not to Use EW YORK, August 12.—An- other select batch of young| Forest Hills this week when the tennis | teams of America and England meet in tional honor involved in this affair. It's just a terrific tea party. The girls thing to talk about. A tennis throng | at Forest Hills beats every other| can't sit a minute in that historic | horseshoe without learning that poor dithering because of a bad restring | Jjob on her favorite racket—that dear, Paula, known to her chums as Snaffles, got a rotten bad break when the and-6 for hairnets. We've seen a lot of British tennis was Kitty McKane, smooth, handsome and efficient—Mrs. Phoebe Watson, loved to chase for—beautiful Eileen Bennett, with her trim ankles and the Sterry, the girls with the empire names—and a dozen others whom the for England, honor and the usual ration of iced tea. A Fresh and Pleasant Cargo. ‘VELL. here is the new cargo of buy British—six (count 'em)—beau- tiful girls. At least, one of them is fairly beautiful and the rest of the | Jacobs and Emmanuel Faber in five * | | | Lmar | LAYING his semi-final match in the Federal Employes ‘Tournament today, Ed Mather will be seeking a shot at an- other of the city’s ranking stars, Tony Latona, for the championship tomorrow. Ralph McElvenny's con- queror meets Henry Niemeyer at 5§ o'clock, the winner to meet Latona, who eliminated Deane Judd, 6—4,, 6—2, yesterday. McElvenny, however, was not de- prived of a shot at a championship through his defeat by Mather. He and Latona are playing for the doubles crown at 5 o'clock, meeting Judd and Natie Ritzenberg. Latona was half of the championship doubles team last year, winning with Frank Shore. Five men seeking their first cham- pionship are in the third round of the Embassy tournament, Gene Owens, Don Garber, Charley Chan- ning, Strand Johnsen and Hugh Brad- ley being ones furthest advanced. Another entry list was cut in half yesterday on the Monument courts as the chiselers continued play. The first four seeded players—Austin Rice, Carl Spriggs, Dave Legum and Robert Burns—advanced, with only Spriggs being carried to three sets. Frank Shore, Washington's No. 8 ranking netman, won the Washington County open singles championship at Hagerstown yesterday, defeating Nor- folk's ace, Howell Taylor, in four sets, 6—1, 6—4, 6—8, 6—0. Shore was not so fortunate in the doubles play, he and Ricky Willis losing to the Baltimore team of Billy sets, 6—3, 8—6, 5—7, 7—9, 6—3. Mary Cootes and Bobsey Turney won their unfinished match for the doubles championship of the Wom- en’s Tennis League out at Columbia vesterday. They played only three games to triumph. Tied, 5—5, in their match with Sara Moore and Dorette Miller when darkness halted play Saturday, Mary and Bobsey dropped the eleventh game, but rallied to take the next two and the bacon. Capt. S. K. Robinson and Ray Stocklinski were all that kept the Army-Navy team from a shutout at HE “hang-over” from last week | I is terrific. Whenever two tournaments are run concurrently there is trouble enough, but when the week end is made weaker by the start of two additional tourneys on a PFriday or Saturday, woe is the conscious ob- server who unconsciously fails to men- tion all of the “championships” in the same breath. Naturally, that is impossible as it would require a superbeing to think of four at the same instant, much less talk or write about them all at once. And so, we hope that the Messers. Arturo Tomelden and F. Dan Sutten- fleld, masters of ceremonies of the | Federal employes and embassy tour- neys, respectively, and the good ladies, Mrs. Florence Black and Mrs. Bobsey Turney, who controlled and are con- trolling the women’s league and chiselers’ affairs, will recognize our plight and pardon us accordingly if their respective tennis “children” do not always occupy the most promi- nent position on these pages. THE situation for a “roving re- porter” today is getting no better rapidly. The women, bless 'em, finished their league championships yesterday, but that still leaves Uncle Sam’s workers who are getting down to the important semi-finals and finals with the embassy and chiselers’ tourna- ments still in the embryonic stages. You tell me how to see them all and T'll tell you how to win 'em all. The man to watch, of course, is Ed Mather, a lawyer for N. R. A, who sprang the greatest surprise of the | year in trimming Ralph McElvenny in the Federal Employes' tournament last Friday. McElvenny, lest you've forgotten, was the man who carried District Champion F. Bernard Welsh, jr., to five sets before losing out in a | marathon match. | JOW along comes Mr. Mather, who learned his tennis at the Univer- sity of Texas, practiced at Wimbledon, and springs a genuine surprise in the District of Columbia. He's in the semi-finals today and the champion- ship of Government employes might | be his beginning of a rise to local | fame. But out at 2435 Massachusetts ave- ANOTHER GOLIATH Little Atlantan Conquers By the Associated Press. of tennis, has added another The diminutive Atlanta player ad- husky movie ac- the country, to singles cham- for five long sets. half, with Grant set to tumble his e Gt A capacity crowd braved threaten- Shields to Win Grass EW YORK, August 12.—Bryan N Goliath to his long list of ministered a startling defeat yester- tor and third win the eastern plonship. more than two having enough opponeat, 3—6, ing weather to see the battle. They FELLED BY GRANT Court Crown. M. (Bitsy) Grant, the David conquests. day to Frank Shields of New York, ranking player in grass court They battled hours and a left in the last 6—3, 6—4, 7—9, 6—4. saw Shields start off as if he were with speed and power. They saw Grant send back the favorite’s drives with uncanny ac- curacy into the back corners where Shields was hard put to retrieve them, Shields Worn Down. found that charging the net would be disastrous. A break in Grant's service in the second game gave Shields the start that led to his winning the first set. Grant came back, however, to break Shields’ service in the next set to re- verse the score and then went on to take the third set despite the fact he experienced trouble with his service. Grant was just two points away from victory on two occasions in the fourth set, but Shields finally broke through for a victory, aided by a net cord shot. It was & case of a more agile Grant taking advantage of the tiring big fellow in the last set. The Davis Cup doubles combina- tion of Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn won the doubles championship in a drawn out match with Wilmer Hines of Columbia, 8. C., and Henry M. Culley of Santa Barbara, Calif. The score was 6—1, 6—8, 14—I12, 3—6, 6—3. NO JUSTICE HERE ST. LOUIS, August 12 (#)—Tt probably could happen only in soft ball, but imagine allowing one hit and striking out 37 batters in two games and losing both of them. Coon Rosen of the Chicago All- Stars, pitching in inter-city games with two St. Louis teams, recorded that for the books. In the first game he allowed no hits and struck out 17 batters, but a walk, a wild pitch, a stolen base and an error beat him, 1 to 0. In the second game he fanned 20 and allowed one hit, but lost, 2 to 0. The lone hit was a home run with a man on who had going to smother his tiny opponent | ¥alked. TOPS CHARLEVOIX TENNIS. CHARLEVOIX, Mich, August 12 (#).—Robert Bryan of St. Louis cap- tured the Charlevoix open tennis tournament yesterday by defeat Cag 'HE contest was fought mainly from | Anderson, former Detroit high school the back court, Shields having v\ star, 6—4, 6—3. BY BILL DISMER. HE'D always played against men, she'd rather play against men and she saw no reason why she shouldn’t enter a men’'s tour- nament—but 1illness stepped in and forced out a girl that a half-dozen men might have had trouble in elim- inating from the Embassy tournament now in progress. SBuch was the unhappy fate of Judith Fishburn, former District play- ground teacher who last Thursday signed simply “J. Fishburn” to the entry list on the bulletin board at the Embassy courts and then waited around for the surprising ejaculations she knew would come when they found out a girl had entered this strictly men’s tournament. When they did learn that the “J.” stood for “Judith” and realized that she was the young girl who had been playing on the Massachusetts avenue courts all season, the sponsor of the tournament, F. Dan Suttenfield, and his advisors had not the heart to remove it. But that wasn't the case with “Mr. Condition,” and by Satur- day Judy knew she was in no shape | to go through with her first-round match, so she defaulted. ‘The not-so-strange fact (when you get to know her) about Miss Fish- burn’s recent tennis activities is that rarely is she found playing except against men. In fact, there's more| than one male frequenter of the Em- | games I've ever seen a woman possess,” bassy courts that Judy can trim regu- | said the young meet maestro with no larly. What's more, she doesn’t play | glint of publicity in his eye as he spoke against women if she can help it.|of his tournament's unusual entrant. She says they chop too much to suit| *“This may sound absurd, but she her. | could go out there now and almost Judy hits with style and force and | give Sara Moore or Mary Cootes a plays an all-round man’s game. And | battle. I say ‘almost’ for this reason take it from Suttenfield, she could be If Judy would practice hard, take good enough to win the women's | the game seriously and concentrate on championship of the city—if she took | winning the District women's cham- herself and her game seriously. | pionship, then I sincerely believe she “Judy has one of the best all-round | could. From what I've seen of Miss JUDITH FISHBURN. Girl Who Plays Mostly Against Men Forced By Illness From Males’ Tennis Tournament Moore and Miss Cootes, Judy could beat ’em both if she'd go in training for such a match.” This is Judy's second year away from the District playgrounds, where she gained an enviable reputation in popularity and efficiency during her three years as an instructor. She now is a secretary in the F. E. R. A., where her outdoor activities are more re- stricted. She is a George Washing- ton University graduate of 1933 and played on Colonial tennis teams. Before she received her diploma, she majored in English and psychology. Perhaps something she learned in the latter course influences her against playing women opponents. It may be bad psychology to win too often. Which she probably would do—if she confined her opposition to members of her own sex. NEGRO ATHLETES INVADE New York Sending Team Here for Playgrounds Meet. Being brought trom New York City especially for the meet, 11 athletes {ox the Mercury A. C. of that city wil} | feature the annual city track and field championships of the colored play- grounds to be held next Friday at James Walker Stadium. The New Yorkers have won the Manhattan Athletic League championship for the past three years Their local opposition will be de- rived from the Bison Athletic Club, whose members are mostly former Howard University athletes. Le Roy Scurry, former Howard track captain end a 100-yard dash man; George Cheney, Berry Williams, James Har rod and Edgar Lee will compete for the Bisons. The last-named is s champion marathon runner of Vir- ginia Union University. = HOT-WEATHER SPECIALS! kA | the hands of the Baltimore netmen | nue you can get a glimpse of some shipment is fresh, pleasant and|yesierday, who took a 6—3 decision | of those regular patrons of public sportin’ enough to do credit to the old country. Look it over: Dorothy Rand, the plain, earnest Sunday school teacher, plays better tennis than any other young lady in England at this writing. For Dorothy more than for the others, this visit is etrictly business. She has a chance to carry the team to victory with Mrs. Moody out of the way. She's not even going to stay over for the na- tional tea-and-tennis festival later in the month. Phyllis Mudford, the veteran and the married lady of the party, is a chunky, smiling, determined little woman. She began her Wightman Cup service in 1930 as the baby of the team, defeating Sarah Palfrey in straight sets Kay Stammers, who slapped down Mrs. Moody in a minor tournament in England this year, is the squad Leauty and a highly competent tennis player as well, probably next best to Miss Round. : Freda James is slender and fair- haired and a favorite with the Wim- at the Arlington site. Robinson and Stocklinski won their singles matches and then teamed together to take a doubles enccunter. | courts who've never been good enough | to win a championship—up until now, | when they're staging a wide open bat- tle for an 8-inch cup provided by Mr. And up until Friday when the veteran Dorette Miller carried her to 23 games before losing, Sara Moore had been given her stiffest battle by pretty little Frances Cater who forced the second set to 7—5 oefore bowing. Ralph Ellis, bespectacled Yale net- man, who played here ir the District of Columbia tournament, is abroad with the collegiate team which is touring Europe. Say, the names of the three tourna- ments being played today—"chiseler, federal and embassy’—they aren't | by any chance the steps in the rise |of a modern young man? Or are | they? Suttenfield who had pity on the per- ennial “also rans.” Of course, if you're a chiseler, you | already will be entered in Bobsey's tournament down at the Monument courts, but if you just want to watch, | it won’t cost you one red cent to “chisel” in on the proceedings. | 'HE girls can “take it,”” and they also dish it out in their matches | with each other. No less than a dozen | times in two matches out at Rock Creek last week did this observer no- tice a receiver call balls “good” that were outside of the base line by six | inches. 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AiNew s Cap a consolation match in the women's ‘Helen Jacobs, bearing up bravely, and NEWPORT, R. I, August 12.— | ajmost every game was deuced. be remembered as the forgotten man in today’s first round play in Davis Cup squad. and every year e pespite his ranking, Shields drew | talking frecly. He produced an albl|gye of this season's California net Cap Wear never asked for one. | United States Davis Cup stars, were s | Four members of the “first ten” and blame on my own shoulders.’ with gestures. |list were in the draw, which was ” L could win.' Don Budge, promising young Davis SHIELDS URAWS | the champion a cen, because no en- whisper in amazement at her stam- ina when she’s winning and. feel words, the losing finalist does not pay audibly sorry for her when she’s he»] until he is beaten for the champion- | hind. the doubles players, are formidable | RSNy 8 ! young ladies, tall and strapping. They makes you think of Maureen O'Sulli- | i Top-Seeded Newport Net- | van, and Mary Bouve played one of | the court, but American girls are | made of sterner stuff. | ment last week when it took more ROUHd at ca E 0 than two hours for the latter to win r the Wightman Sino. ACCOMPANymG vg R league. The scores of 6—2, 2—8, 6—3 Cup team to our shores was MisS | gy the Associated Press. are misleading until you learn that close behind the girls was Sidney B. | Top-seeded Prank X. Shields | Wood, talking freely. Mr. Wood will meets some rugged opposition | of this year’s Davis Cup squad. EVEY | the nineteenth annual Newport Casino year there is a forgotten man on the | tennis tournament. is very well advertised. as an opponent Lawrence Nelson of | Mr. Wood, as I say. came home|y,q angeles, one of the most impres- | for the squad captain, Joe Wear,| . ., | though to the best of my knowledge | geventy-six players, including two | “Joe Wear was not to blame,” pro-| noireq for the first round matches. elaimed Mr. Wood. “I'll take the| d 12 others whose 1934 play earned This Mr. Wood proceeded to do,|them places on the national ranking “I asked to be left off the squad,” | g4 without Wilmer Allison, Davis he said. “T told Joe I didn't think I| cyp veteran who won here last year. Now, this tip of Mr. Wood's may | oo “ClSC BN R S o0 have come as a surprise to Cap Wear, | il but it wouldn't have surprised any | Thirty-Eight Matches Listed. ‘. one else. Mr. Wood had good reason | for thinking he wouldn’t win in the Davis Cup matches. He almost never | does. Since Bill Allison is the No. 1 ranking player of this country, and | since he had played in the match with | Germany, there was no sense in re- | moving him for Wood. His absence | would have caused a much louder yell over he:> than did Wood’s. Well, this is no sort of weather for getting mad at tennis players. The English girls have the floor. If any- thing can be done with a floor, they'll do it. (Copyright. 1 y the North News b; American Alliance, Inc.) | per SPAIN, NEW ZEALAND | HELP FILL NET MEET| Entries From Two Countries to Play in National Tennis Tournament. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 12.—Spain and New Zealand will be among the foreign nations represented in the na- tional singles tennis championships which begin at Forest Hills Thursday, August 29. Enrique G. Maier will compete for Spain and Eskell Dundas Andrews for New Zealand. They augment entries Czechoslovakia and England. Maier, & native of Barcelona, has held the singles championship of Spain from 1931 to 1935 and has to his credit Wimbledon victories over Bunny Austin of England and Jack Crawford of Australia. He has been a member of the Spanish Davis Cup team for several years. Andrews is a graduate of Cam- bridge University in England and was the captain of the 1935 New Zealand Davis Cup team. He has played in 8 number of championships at Wimble- don. 'HE others on the favored list, in order ~of their ranking, were Frankie Parker, who bowed to Allison in last year’s Casino final; Bryan “Bitsy” Grant, Gene Mako, California youngster who drew an international assignment this year; Gregory Man- gin, J. Gilbert Hall, Wilmer Hines and Roderick Menzel, Czechoslovak- ian star. Budge was pitted against Edward Soelsner of Newport in the first- round play. Parker faced Bob Bacon of New York and Grant drew Her- bert L, Bowman of New York, who ranks twenty-eighth nationally. 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