The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25
THE LAWN TENNIS RANKINGS.
NOT SATISFACTORY TO PERSONS
INTERESTED.
wright Believed 10 Have Been Favored
InduIy and Behr Not Well enough Up
TO suit Others characteristic Conn
ment on Ratings for Past season.

mittee OF the L, y. y, l., i, A, nave causeu
SOM comment among the lawntennis players.
The general opinion Ia that the committee did
its work with commendable speed. but that
there are several things in the list that might
be changed. For one thing. the fact that
Beals G. Wright Ia scheduled as the third best
player in the country il not easily Compre-
hensible to some players. Wright. it Is true,
was the national champion IN 1895, which gave
him the right TO stan out ct Newport and
10 defend his title He failed in this. being
beaten by William j. C1othier. The only
other tournament In which Wright took part
was the tri-State at Cincinnati. in which he
won. beating Robert lie Roy in the Anal.
How on. the strength OF. these two per-
formances he IL ranked in the third position,
not a great many persons can understand.
Robert lie Roy. who played we'll In three
tournaments last, season. outside or some
closed events. and who won the Intercollegiate
championship. n ranked eleventh. 1t is
assumed that Wright was placed 40 far up
In order to show how thoroughly the execu-.
tive committee believed in his amateur stand
ing. That statement has the backing Of q
member of the executive committee and may
therefore be considered authoritative To
some persons that looks like going too far in
the vindication line.
There IL one unusual feature Of the ranking
this year. Heretofore the champion has
ran ked alone In class l. Last year. for in
stance. Beals Wright was In class l. to
Sd of Is. This time class l Is figured on the
rating formerly accorded class 2. owe 20,
OF Is, and there are Ave men in it. That IL
taken to mean that the play was SO even
this year that the players must be grouped
close together.
The standing Of Karl H. Behr, Jr.. who was
put In nfth place, was not altogether a sur
prise. because it was figured all along that
- aUaU,Nl - - "a Ill ~ NAAA hi.
work did not deserve IL. but that certain strong
influences were declared 70 be exerted in
favor OF other players. The record that
Behr made last year in being the run ner-up
in such tournaments as Southamp ton. Long
wood and Newport, al well as two others, in
Ave successive weeks. it was thought would
be taken into consideration Certainly IL
was declared, II Larned was to be ranked
high. Behr. who beat him in the national
championship. supposed to be the crack
tournament OF the year. should get high
consideration. But the fact that Larned
was second and Behr fifth was incompre-
hensiOle to most.
would rank behind Larned. as the latter had
beaten him rather often in the season. although
Alexander improved toward the end. But
placing Behr behind Alexander was another
thing that most players could not see Justice
in. In fact the general tendency was to
regard Pehr as the player Of the year, outside
of Clothier, and it would have suited and
pleased most persons If Behr had been placed
second. They believed that his showing
al around was so much better than that OF
Wright that he should have ranked above the
former champion at any event.
The. rating Of Frederick O.. Anderson just
behind Harold II. Hackett and Raymond ID.
Little probably did not please the tall Kings
county, man. IL has been considered right
along that that he was able to beat Little Az ian and iS Ser,
piOHship. Behr beat him there. playing him
abroad probably helped his rating.
It did not do the same for .Wylie c; Grant.
who was indicated" by being rated IN the
Is right behind. Anderson and ahead of Rob
ert lie Roy; lie Roy beat several good players,
l TSs %pisb Lit ts@iI " & sh fst sGissat sIi sS%F11 srsia.
position. That just shuts out lie Roy from
mention in the annual list of the ihrst ten.
Frederick c. CoLston. who played with con-
sistent weakness all season, H. put in number
~ place. He is ranked ahead Of !. Pell;
singles. Kreigh Collins is put in fourteenth
position, probably "a much as anything be-
the Davis cup team sailed. II the committee
OF selection had been Eager to- do another
III dication the winner OF the Western and
have been ranked higher. IL certainly u fair
to put Nat Emerson close to Collins. Elmer
son was only just behind him all the last
season.,
Speaking Of Westerners. IL is not quite
apparent TO most lawn tennis followers why
championship and a man who PLAYED fine
and consistent tennis all season. is rated in
twenty-ffth place. II appeals TO most per
men like F. j. sulloway, Henry Mollcnhauer.
&. F. Watson. Jr.. and n. W. Niles. all OF " HON
are ranked before him.
j. ID. f.. Jones, in seventeenth pla ce. has
a good rating. lie did we'll in the ma tiona
championship. X. c. Seaver. champion Of
Mss Is siSntasStb Is pI aSse t HSDT we, Md tTs%t@d to
CT. Watson. Jr.. 20. have certainly no cause
be- much nearer kkreIsh Collins Without hurt.
ing the feelings OF any one interested.
Charles N. Bull. r.. Of the Crescent 4. G..
ranked -. but he should not fairly be put
ahead Of Reuben q. Hunt. whose prowess
wss ou %sn sms% to Sf aesth b i Il hardly ard ., q ny
won the Illinois .championship. to put him
S SfSs beat h t"f bsxxSaTss P n the 9 MiGd l.. s si"fs.;
behind A. stillman. Jr., Wylie Ora nt' as
The other ratings are so low down that they
do not interest the pm bile much. Scant iis-
tice appears to ha We been done Carleton c. Kel-
There o re some men. like II. J.. wHc.tfaIfi, thomas an,
c, Trask, Hugh Tallant, Harry Torrance and
Westiai, for instance. played as much as wy
lie Grant. but he was not ranked.
It In Interesting to note the changes from
last year. Wright. then first, now is third.
Clothier advanced from fourth 10 first. Iarned
was third in 1905. now he In second. Fred
eriok b. Alexander figured fifth: he Is rated
fourth. Karl u. Behr. Jr., jumped from
eleventh to nth. Little once ranked ninth.
but now IL sixth. and Harold II. Hackett. now
seventh, was not ranked at all last season.
Anderson was tenth last year, but he now is
eighth. Dewhurrt advanced from twelfth TO
ninth. Irving Wright was not even mem
toned as among the unra mixed last year. but
| now he liz tenth. Ie Roy the last man In class
8, came up from thirteenth to eleventh. Col
ston Jumped from twenty-nfth to twelfth and
PelI from no. ranking TO thirteenth.
KreiRh Collins was eighth last year, hut he
Ia only fourteenth now. Nat Emerson did not
ha We a singles ranking in 1905. He figures IN ct
in back OF Collins. Wylie Grant, seventeenth
last year, now Is twenty-ninth.
It Ia int or eSting to not ice that this il the
thirteenth year that William A. Iarned has
been ranked in the first ten. Except in 1908.
when he was 2 member Of the Rough Riders
in Cuba, ne has been ranked as a player.
His record is: 1892, 9; 1898. 5; 1904, ?: 1905. 2:
1893, ?: 1897. 2: 1899. :: 1900. ?; 1901. /; 1902, /:
1903, 1: 1904. ;; 1905, ,: 1909. 2.
There are ten teams ranked In the doubles,
the first place going naturally to Ward and
Wright, the national champions. Alexander
and Hackett also are entitled to second place.
and Clothier and Larned to third. After
that opinions diner 30 much that to suggest
anything IL would mean inversion of the
seven other teams. IL does seem as II Dana
and Cross, in tenth position, were fairly