Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-07
THE TENNIS EXPERTS.
Promising Players Who Are Aft CT Champion Wrenn's Scalp.
MALCOLM CHACE IN GOOD FORM.

His Chance Arc Considered Excellent Ho-
 bart, Stevens, Larned, FoOte, Budlong
 and Other Talented Racket wielders Who
 Seem to Be In the Hunt This Season.
 Although golf is tho truly swell society game of the present day, the old fayorite, lawn tennis, is more popular than ever this year. The season is now well advanc- ed, and many important fixtures have al-- ready been decided, but interest among the devotees of the racket will not reach its flood tide until Aug. 21, when the ex- perts of tho United States will gather at Newport to decide the national champion ships in singles and doubles. The present champion is Robert D. Wrenn of Chicago, who will defend his title at Newport against the winner of the all corners. As large number of young experts are in training for the event and as they are dis playing rare proficiency thus carly in the year. the winner of the all corners of 1894 will be foeman well worthy of the best efforts of Champion Wrenns skillful racket
 According to tho National Tennis asso- ciation, the best 10 players of last season were the following, whQ are named in or der of merit: First, Robert D. Wrenn; second, Clarence Hobart; third, Fred H. Hovey; fourth, Malcolm G. Chace; fifth, w. A. Larned; sixth, E L. Hall; seventh, Richard Stevens; eighth, Arthur E. Foote; ninth, John Rowland; tenth Clarence R. Budlong Nearly all of these exports are very much in the hunt again this season, and it is believed that Chace, Hobart, Larned, Foote and Budlong will display great form in the all corners o. s. Camp bell, who won the championship of the United States in 1890, 1891 and 1899 and who defaulted to Wrenn last year, won the tropical championship for the fourth time at St. Augustine on March 29 of the present year and may make an effort to again capture the national championship He Is hardly playing in old time form, however, for he and E. L. Hall were easily defeated at Tuxedo recently by Malcolm Chace and Dean Miller, and it is not like ly that he will risk defeat and loss of prestige when he has tho glorious record of three championships to retire upon.
 Clarence Hobart, the talented New Yorker who, with F. H. Hovey, won the national doubles championship last year by defeating Campbell and R. P. Hunt ington, is after the singles and doubles again this year. He played wonderful game last season ana WAS Beuefdlly loohcu upon as the probable winner of the cham pionship but he went to pieces at New port and Wrenn captured the coveted honor It was not the first time, however, that Hobart had seen the laurels slip from him when almost within his grasp. He has been a prominent player since 1888, and in 1891 he won the all corners and challenged Champion Campbell, only to meet defeat.
 Fred Hovey is another veteran whose experience has been much like that of Ho- bart. In 1899 he won tho all corners, but went down before Champion Campbell's masterful play. Hovey has practically re- tired, but may be in it again at Newport this year.
 Chace seems to possess as promising form as any of the aspFants who are after Wrenn's championship scalp. He is in- tercollegiate champion and has at one time or another defeated about every promi- nent player now on the courts. Heis play ing great tennis this season and is as steady as the proverbial clock In the re- cent contest for the Tuxedo park Chace and Hobart met in rattling contest. Ho- bart won the silver challenge bowl last year and desired to have his name again engraved upon it. The battle seemed like ly to end in a draw, when Baby Mckee, as the boy wonder from Providence is called, took an unfair advantage of Hobart. Chace deliberately hoodooed his opponent by
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