All Ranking Netmen Advance as Star's Meet Gets Under — Steadily City Way «$»--—— ___ Third Round Is Gained Macfarland Annexes By Three Rackefers Meet by Scoring As 31 Progress In Last Event Field to Narrow to 16 Beats Eliot Two Points; Today; Doubles Play Adams of Runners-up Scheduled to Start Only Double Victor By BILL DISMER. Jr. Relentless pressure, exemplified Landing a tie for third place In by all but one of 31 entrants who the high Jump, final event of the won their first and second round program, Macfarland nosed out matches in straight sets, marked Eliot by a slender 2-point margin the opening of The Star’s fifth for the junior high school track annual City of Washington tennis championship in the annual city- Eliot tournament at Edgemoor Club yes- wide meet yesterday. picked •roa.v as favorites advanced with- up points for second and fourth out a break in their ranks. places but couldn't overtake its old Maurice Cowan, one of the Dis- rival. The final trict's ranking .iunior players, was point standings were the lone victim to extend his con- as follows: Macfarland, 67 9-10; queror to three sets, taking the, Eliot. 659-10; Paul. 50'2; Taft, 43; second off Eddie Becker before Powell, 38'i; Alice Deal. 28; Stuart, bowing, 7—5, 1—6, 6—4. 8; Hine, 6)4; Anacostia, 4; Gor- don, 3. Two seeded stars and one of the Although the meet developed into most dangerous unseeded contest- a private duel between the new ants—C. Alphonso Smith, Frank champion and Eliot at the halfway Shore and Dick Murphy—won two mark, it was crammed with excit- matches to set the by advanc- pace ing events from start to finish. to the third round. a ing Murphy, Lone double winner of the after- exhibiting much of the southpaw, noon was H. Adams of Eliot, who form which enabled him to cap- captured the unlimited 100-yard ture the fanved Longwood Bowl dash and topped off his performance In 1933, stopped Georgetown Uni- with a record-breaking 20-foot leap Meyer Gelfand, 6—2, 6—2, versity's in the broad.jump after turning back George Stoner, Adams’ feat shattered the 10-year- 6—2, 6—1. old record of 19 feet 7 inches. Johnsen Given Battle. Summaries: cham- Smith, the national boys’ K5-Pnund Class. pion 16 years ago, knocked off C. 50-yard dash—Won bv L Dever« (Paul': second. Richetelain (Paul'; third W. R. before elim- Train. 6—0. 6—2, Murphv (Stuart': fourth. F Way (Mac- inating Tom Wadden, Washington farland': fifth. D. Gonella (Stuart). Time. (Ps second^. boys’ champion of 1937. by a 6—0, 22o-yard delay—Won by Macfarland: 6—4 score. Shore, another former second. Paul; third. Tafi fourth. Anacostia*. fifth Powell Time. 20 seconds Junior champion of the District, High jump—Won by Del Bella (Mac- Frank Martin, 6—2. 6—2, farland): second. J Hunton (Taft i: third. whipped J Daniels
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