St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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ST. ALBANS SCHOOL 77 In the second match of the season, Saint Albans defeated Landon School, SM-35, the last doubles' being stopped because of darkness. Cooper and Chewning again won handily as did R. Myers and Quiggle, but Lee and Doyle both succumbed to their opponents in three sets. Cooper and Chewning won the first doubles, but R. Myers and Quiggle lost the second. Two days later the team gained an easy victory over a weak Saint Andrew's, 7 M-7 The first four members of the team won without the loss of a set, but R.Myers was beaten. Cooper and Chewning won their doubles easily, but Lee and Doyle were pressed to three sets before win- ning. The third doubles was called because of lateness. The School netmen met their first defeat at the hands of Western High School, 5-4. Cooper, Chewning, Lee, and Doyle won easily, but R. Myers and Moses lost. Western won all three doubles by very close scores. The team continued in its slump against Woodberry Forest and lost, 42-2 M. For the first time in the season, the captain and number one man, Cooper, and the number two man, Chewning, lost. Lee and Doyle won, but R. Myers was defeated. Cooper and Chewning won the first doubles in a close three-set match. The second doubles was stopped with one set won by each team because of lateness. Against Georgetown Preparatory School, the Blue netmen for a brief period regained their normal form and gained an easy 6-1 victory. Cooper had little trouble winning the number one singles but Chewning was beaten. Lee, Manger, who was playing his first match, and Doyle won handily. Cooper and Chewning paired to take the first doubles and Lee and Doyle to take the second. In the match with Roosevelt High School of Wfashington the Saint Albans tennis team hit the bottom of their slump and lost, 7-0. Cooper, Chew- ning, Lee, Manger, and Doyle all lost to this year's District of Columbia Champions. Likewise, Cooper and Chewning, and Lee and Doyle, suc- cumbed in the doubles without gaining a set. With a complete reversal of form the Blue netmen blanked the Gilman School team by a score of 9-0. Cooper, Chewning, Lee, Doyle, Quiggle, and Block all won easily, Doyle being the T only one to lose even a set. Cooper

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76 THE 1940 ALBANIAN Seated, l. to r.: Doyle, Chewning. Cooper, Lee, R. Myers, Standing, l. to r.: Stephenson, Mr. Goeltz, Quizgle. Mr. Howison. Tennis REGGII2 COOPER, Crzjntain MR. HOWISON COURTNEY SUNDAY AND DAVID STEPHENSON, Managers MR. GOETZ Cv ITH five of the seven lettermen returning from last year's District of Columbia and Interstate Athletic Conference Championship team which won thirteen matches and lost only one, the tennis team looked forward to a stellar 1940 season. Then Maurice Cowan, last year's num- ber one man, did not return to Saint Albans, forcing every man to move up one bracket and thus greatly weakening the team. Also the services of number ,four man, Manger, were lost for over half the season through sickness, and those of number five man, J. Myers, for the whole season by a back injury. Despite these setbacks the team, led by Captain Cooper, has lost only three matches out of the eight played to date. With a good two weeks' practice behind them, the team started well with an easy S-2 win over McKinley Tech High School of Washington. Cooper, Chewning, Lee, and Doyle, playing in that order, all won their matches with the loss of only one set. R. Myers dropped the fifth singles in a hard-fought three-set match. Cooper and Chewning won the first doubles handily and the second was defaulted to Tech.

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78 THE 1940 ALBANIAN and Chewning, Lee and Doyle, Quiggle and Block paired to win all the doubles against hardly any opposition. The youngest member of the team, Sam Doyle, who played number four until Manger's return, brought further honor to the School by win- ning the boy,s class of the Sidwell Friends School invitation tournament. For the first time in the history of the School the tennis coach, Mr. Howison, was aided in his instruction by a professional, with Mr. Frank Goeltz from the Columbia Country Club in nearby Maryland assisting him both by instructing the younger, inexperienced members of the squad, and by teaching the members of the first team the Hner and strategic points of the game. The School team has greatly benefited from Mr. Goeltz's instruction. With the largest turnout in years, Mr. Howison was forced to abandon his former method of handling the squad. Instead of arranging all the members of the team in a ladder, he put only the first twelve in order, dividing the remaining forty-five into two groups so that those of equal ability might play each other. In the middle of the season, he held a tournament for each division and placed the winners under the first twelve on the squad. The 1941 tennis team will return with only one of its active members lost through graduation-Bill Manger. The prospects for an exceptional year are very good, and if the ill-luck which beset this year,s team does not continue, they bid fair to equal or better the record set by the 1939 championship team. With them go our best wishes for a most successful SCZISOH. McKinley H. S. , won 5 2 Landon ..,,., won SM-3 M St. Andrew's . . . won 7M-IM Western H. S. . . . lost, 5 -4 Woodberry Forest lost, 4M-2 Z Georgetown Prep won 6 1 Roosevelt H. S. . lost, 7 0 Gilman ...... won, 9 0 Episcopal . . lost, lk an St. James .. won 9 0