| Show Grant Evans v a Wins State Tennis Title Grant Evans Utah tennis cap tain added to his honors last Tuesday Tues Tues- day afternoon when he won his second Western Division to tennis championship by downing George P Stoddard B B. B Y U. U number one player in a hard fought singles match The TIle score was 4 G 8 6 Stoddard had won his honors for the day when but a few hours before lefore be le- fore he and his partner Stevens Steven took the thc measure of Utah's doubles team Dan Freed and Marv arv Alter to win the doubles crown The doubles match was most in interesting interesting interesting in- in with the Y team winning five straight games for an almost insurmountable lead By virtue of some well placed drives the UtEs Ules took the next three games and then lost 6 They had hit their stride however and assisted by Aters AIters Alters Alter's Al- Al ter's hard hit left handed service won the next 4 6 and battled the thelast thelast J last set out only to lose it on a service break Score was 6 Evans Evans' net game was his biggest asset and he won point after point paint with well placed volleys Stoddard who comes from New York as does doe Stevens Ste uses a stiffer arm in in handling his raquet than do most o of the local players He lIe found his hiss main weakness in his back hand backhand ha nd and won most of his points bya bf br playing the ball deep Stoddard gained the finals b by beating Dan Freed in straight sets seta as Evans had beat Stevens Geddes Ged- Ged Goddes Geddes des the mainstay lost to to Stoddard in the preliminaries which were held last Saturday Geddes had beat both hot Freed and Stoddard and was picked pick pick- ed to meet Evans in the finals |
