Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-10


 authorities on the other side of the briny deep display profound though newborn respect for the skill of our most expert tennis players
 In comparing American and English players Goodbody said before leaving America last fall: II think that perhaps our playcrs-ccrtainly one or two of them -~ro better than those on this side, but although l know we have an idea that :hhcrc is wide difference between tho ten his in the two countries I consider this quite a mistake, ana any of our players who thinks he can come over hero and car " all before him will very soon find that he has quite underrattd the capabilities of the best opponents of the game here"
 This is pcrhapS the faircSt criticism American players have yet rCccivcd from an English authority and Goodbody is an authority, standing as he does high up In the tennis world abroad 6nodboiy's visit last year pointed strongly to number of faults in the play nf the leading American players, and they havc protitcd by the les son He has promised to como again this summer, ard before another season has rolled Ivy. and its tennis battles have be- come part of history, we shall probably have had the chance of again testing tho comparative skill of the players in the two countries
 Goodbody will probably play in the Eng, fish championship in July before he comes to this country, so we should not expect him before the last of July. From the LouGwOod tournament. however, to the championship at Newport he Is expected to play in tho biggest event each week, and a scorr of tho ClrvCrcst players Ameri- ca can produce will he r'ady to do battle with him. BUt it i$ possible they may find more than one furCignCr to oppose them, for our last years visitor promised to urge some of the other English experts to make the trip with him this year and play for the American championship as well as in the last few preliminary tournaments be- fore Newport. Nothing definite has yet been learned of the plans of the forcign- CTS. though the names of J. Pim, the champion of all England, and H. :. Ma honey, Cx-champion of Ireland, have been mentioned aS possible visitors with Good body
 Come ono, como all" however, is the motto of American experts, who will be better pleased tho moro visitors they can entertain, and all are right sure of | hearty welcome to these shores. The Ma tional Lawn Tennis association's rules per init only members of rccognized American clubs to play for the championship, but exceptions arr always made in favor of | furrign visitors, to whom special invita- tions will hc at once extended. The pres | enCc of English experts lends an air of in 1 tcrnatiOnal importance to our champion 1 ship mcCting, and each defcat the Ameri- | can ''CrarkS' ryrcivc at tho hands of q for l ciCnCr tcsicECs them somo much needed | lessons in the sport Those administered l hy (iundIAndv last summer have been the 1 most valuable r,CCivrd in many years
 America k well prrparCd to meet any | f. taDoiS fhi< season of the first ten players of the land, | according t0 the official estimate, every one l vii! br in active competition again this season In fact, thvro will be only ono or two of tho first 70 players in rctirement, | and among thoso a little further down in tho list are many who may develop championship form long before 1895 is | buried and fOrguttCn. Champion Robert Wrrnn. who alone stood between Good
 hudy and QUIT championship last August, wlll t,r ~,S'n this season even moro than last He |, studying at Harvard, but will uut hc fr,r for tennis before the end of
 June, as he Is playing second base for the l Harvard baseball team
 The doughty little champion will be at
 Newport again next August ready to de- frnd his title against all cumcrs while he
 will also play at Chicago for tho cham l piou>hip of the west in July. Tho con stantly inCrhaSing number of invitation l tournaments given each season in this country makes il morC probable that Wrcnn
 will play often before Newport, for prcco-
 dent Is against the champions entering
 many of the ordinary open tournaments.
 We may expect Ia sce Wrcnn this year at
 West Newton Chicago, Long Branch, Mar
 ragansctt Pier and perhaps Longwood be- fore the championship, and this should
 give him enough practice for the supreme test Of the season
 Of the otEcr experts the chances oi ; William A I-arncd of Summit N J.,
 who came so near defeating GoOdbody last ) August at Newport, aro perhaps th(
 brightest this scas0n. Larncd is q mosi
 brilliant though cratic player, and th' best judges agroc that he has wonderful ! tennis capabilities IL Is only a few year. y since he was a second class player, and hi
 rise has been very rapid He Is still young
 younger than most of the other crackA
 In fact-and it Is doubtful If he has yet . rCachcd the zenith of his tennis fame. An l. | other years experience ought to put him
 on the very apex of the heap, if indeed
 he does not get there this summer. He ts = the strongest player among the few who |. might win the championship this season Q by defeating Wrcnn. He expects to play tn almost all of the biggest events this
 season, and as he alrtady holds the middle
 states and the Long Island championships AS well as the LOngwoOd and Seabright l. shalIcnge bowls he will be in almost con
 Ttant competition.
 Frcd Hovey has started in this seasoE > with the same old determination to retire r but few of his friends believe he will live ID to it Hovey is practicing law now il J. Boston, and hc declares that he will gtv'
 up his first love for his second. He saiC ' the same thing last spring, however, ana o vet he played in almost many tOurna
 ments as the year before. The temptation ), of the tennis court Is too strong for him
 and we may expect to sec Hovey in har 3, ness again this year. He has been ranket
 nigh up among the first ten players of tn D. country for many successive years, but h
 invariably fails to reach the highest rank 9 He holds the doubles championship o America with Clarence Hobart, as we'll a :, the Massachusetts state championship, s he will have to keep in good form for thes o events, while at Longwood, West Newto o' and one or two other New England toul
 naments he is always to be found playing ?. Malcolm Chace, Arthur E. Foote an
 John Rowland, three Yale men, Will q "~ ">sn egaip this sPasQn on tAR eoNEn