Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-06-09 | Page 23 | Darkness Halts Tennis Tourney

Darkness Halts Tennis Tourney KANSAS CITY, Mo, June (UP) Hal Surface, Kansas City, and Ed Alloo, Berkeley, CaL, were to take up today where they left off yesterday yes-terday In their quarterfinal match of the Heart of America tennis tournament provided rain doesn't postpone the play. The seeded neliiisn played fur three hours yeaterday, and whan darkness halted the match the count in the third set was S-8. Alloo won the first set, e-i, and Surface the second. 13-1 L They were to resume the match this afternoon, but rain-threatening rain-threatening clouds hung over the courts. In ths other quarterfinal match yesterday, Wayne Sabin, Portland. Ore, disposed of Ed Pearson, Kansas Kan-sas City. 6-0, 6-1, 10-8. Sabin was seeded second and Pearson was seeded eighth. Frankie Parker, Milwaukee, will meet W. F. (Junior) Coen, Kansas City, and Gene Mako, Los Angeles, seeded first, will play John Sho-strom, Sho-strom, Chicago, No. T player, in other quarterfinal matches. Gloria Thompson, pretty, blond 15-year-old sensation of the wo- men's play, entered the semifinals with her victory over Mrs. W. F. Coen Jr, Kansas City, 6-3. 6-2. Should her mother, Mrs. Bert Thompson, also of St Louis, win her match today against Mary Grogan, mother and daughter would meet tomorrow for the right to enter the women's finals.