Boys, Juniors

Reginald Weir and Gerald Norman Jr. did not play in last week's national junior indoor tennis championship. Their applications were rejected without explanation by U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. That made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People write a protest: "Unfair, unsportsmanlike . . .calculated to degrade the sport . . . spirit of caste and class snobbery. ..." Meanwhile, in a Manhattan armory the best white tennis players between 16 and 18 played for the championship, hitting the ball so that the shots boomed like explosions. Boys under 16 played for the boy's title, tapping their shots back and forth as cautiously as though the ball were a cream-puff and the floor isinglass.

Two seeded players were out of the junior tournament at the end of the first round. In the junior finals, suave, sphinx-faced William Jacobs of Baltimore City College stood deep in the court and angled his placements this way and that past John Richardson of Dartmouth. Keyed up, perspiring, Richardson took two sets himself, once losing only 7 points in five games. Then Jacobs ran out the match: 6-3, 6-2, 2-6, 7-9, 6-3. Over on the boys' court, the cream-puff passed back and forth between Mark Hecht and Bernard Friedman. Hecht returned it oftenest, won match & title: 6-3, 6-2.

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