The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-22
N. H. LARNED
WINS HONORS
0Idtime Player Still Keeps Up
Record for Fast
Tennis

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-Any attemp
at ranking the lawn tennis players o
/ this country for the season must inev
itably put William A. Larned, tn
| national champion. at the top. Tina
| is an honor to which he is entitled
by force of being the champion and il
selecting him no regard is paid TO tn,
previous tournaments of the season
If il is true in the case of Larned tina
he should be ranked first on result:
OF the Newport tournament, it follows
presumably that all the other player:
of prominence who appeared there
should be listed on the basis of that
tournament alone.
However, that is not in general the
idea Of the ranking committee. COM
posed this season OF A. L. Hoskins
chairman; Edgar w. Leonard and
Thomas c. Trask. They have been at
work with the idea of keeping watch
Of the seasons play Of the various
tennis men, and thus may be expected
to count other tournaments than that
at Newport.
In rating players sometimes curious
questions arise. For instance, those
who know and follow tennis believe
of 1906, will be ranked fairly high. In
fact he may be put in second place
by the committee. There is no real
reason why he should be ranked sec
ond this year. Defeated at Orange by
Little; beaten at Seabright by Little
again: outplayed at Longwood by F.
c. Colston, Cothier withdrew from the
Meadow club tournament and later
was forced to default his champion
ship by an injury to his leg. 1t has
been set forth in C1othier's behalf that
he is a very late beginning in round
ing to form. Even taking that into
consideration and marking his play in
the doubles at the Crescent A. C. d.
rectly before Newport, 1t must be re-
marked that Clothier was not the
champion by a great deal.
Clarence Hobart and Robert LIE Roy
are two of the best players of the year
on the seasons showing. Neither man
played in many tournaments. but in
what they did enter they made a de-
cided showing. The best work done by
LIE Roy was in the national champion
ship, where he achieved the final
bracket He was defeated by Larned
in straight sets, as was not entirely
unexpected.
Hobart's career was brief, but more
Or less triumphant. He played a little
at the Crescent Athletic club before
the departure of the Davis cup players
FOR the other side, with the object, ac-
eording to report, of showing that he
was not inferior TO many Of the
and supposedly better players
IF the day. Hobart displayed at Bay
Ridge a persistent and hard TO beat
Kind of game, but nothing remarka bic.
However, at Longwood and Newport
he did very well indeed. After win
hing the Longwood tournament,
&c defauIted to Larned, as q
'ro:est against the system of hav-
ng the holder stand out. Any ques-
ion that there might have been as TO
which was the better player was part |
Y settled when the two met at New |
port subsequently in the semi-final |
ound. Larned. on his game, had no |
rouble with the older player.
There are many other players whom /
t viii not be easy to place. Taking !
My a few OF them, they are Harold I
/. Hackett, Irving c. Wright, Herbert /
:. Westfall, Henry II. Mollenhauer, T. /
:. Colston, Edgar ". Leonard and the /
Nat Emerson, L. H. Waid-
er and others. The question as TO
That they have done is hard to an
wer.
Hackett is the New York state
hampton again, having defeated
vestfan in the challenge round there.
vestfal1 beat Frederick G. Anderson
I the final round at Travers Island
anderson is another player worthy Of
avorable mention, although he has
OF played this year as wei as in some
Their seasons. Westfall did fairly web
! many Of his tournaments, showing
nat his game has improved consider
DIS- however q player ESi1 44eA4 AAS
e ranked on what he is likely to do
ext season, so that WestfaH viii have
, wait a little for greater honors.
-ving Wright has come of well in
1me minor tournaments and is fair
layer. His victory in the Long IS
,nd championship was his best per-
,rmance.
II seems, then. that on the basis Of
le facts recited a ranking for the
rst ten might well be something like