The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-13

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Wsrisrnrrs ~ hard to ~sy Judging from
The gay tha' Ne,ander vent thr",sh
Ns,dnrr In his two -s'ts ~ tfse s.,ii htt'l az
; chicago. tleSsnd~r might cell have hrcn
the Western champion Hts default after
winning tvo -e's ended the, waiter Np-
pareutiv NlsNander I'D not want Wv have 10
Iiefepd tho title. 40 his subsequently, an
porncei withdrawal FROM tennis rs"m- To
indiCate.
What tho committee will DO With Behr II
another hi9 question. He showed No
poorly IN bic tournaments here at'"r hi-
return FROM England. hetng hesten Nv
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Richard "a. Palmer at Newport. Palmer,
| bv the way. IL likely Ia he rated well up on
| the h.-ie ~ his play at Newport. hdge-
wood and Cincinnati. His defeat OF benr
was Classed by many ~ n luke. nut bNhr -
the last person IN the world Ia take sd-
vantage 81 such a thing. According. To
/ reliable report. after some persons hnd
| called the victory ~ Palmer a fiulte. Behr
wrote the Ridgewood ma a letter Va say
| that he was In his best condition and
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eardless Of what commentators m ght say.
Whatever the fact may be. u was an IN
| tensely s~por'snaniike action.
.eens then tina on the basls az tho facts
we'll he something lk e the following i.srned,
Hobart. Wright, LeRoy, Little. clothier'
| Emerson. HACK EFT, Mollenhauer. Palmer,
| There are PLAYERS who will be rank Ell close 70
these. such az Weetfsll, Anderson, r.. p.
Iarned. w. b Cragin. Jr.. Wallace J.. John
son. the in~terscholastic champion who de
feated Hsckett in Chicago; y. W. Niles.
Semp Russ. G. L. Wycth and others already
mentioned with no attempt at placing them
in any significant order. -,
II is understood that the committee will
attempt 10 rank the women's singles players
too. This will raise a nica question as 10
Miss Sutton. who while undoubtedly the
hes, American player will have to foliow
Miss Sears. the winner in the Philadelphia
tournament. il she is ranked at all. Miss
Marie Wagner and Mrs. W. II. Pouch also
are yerv prominent women players.
In the mems doubles Hackett and Alex
ander of course are the raj ing players as
| champions. Clothier and barned appar-
emily are next. and then it il IA question
whether Grant and W~estfall, the runners
I'D at Longwood. are superior 10 Grant ana
Thornton, the Southern champions. And
then again Hackett and Little. who beat
Grant and Westfall at Orange, n Colston
and Terrence, who won from them at South
ampton. also have claims to being ranked.
Curiously enough. Larned and Hobart,
the leading players. are two OF the Oldest
ut the game. As for the matter OF ages. u
is understood that Larned is about 30 years
old and Hobart in the close neighborhood
of az. Hobart never has been national
champion: Larned has been titleholder
three times. in 1901. 1902 and 1907. Hobart
won the all corners once only, in 1891. and
afterward was beaten by Ollie Campbell,
Larned won the all Corners twice. in 1800
and 1901. Hobart was the runner-up in
the all corners in zoos when Beals Wright
defeated him. Larned has been often a
runner-up, in 1892. 1894. 1895 and 1895.
Hobart with F. II. Hovey won the ma
tional doubles in 1893 and 1894. He and
Hovey won the all corners in 1893, the first
year they were champions. meeting o.. >
the title thereafter. IL was almost twenty
years ago that Hobart's name first aP-
peared in any important. tournament. In
1883 he and Z. p. MacMullen were runners
/ uD In the all Corners OOuDles 10 tne tOlufn-
bia PLAYERS and Their intercollegiate cham
pions, o. S. Campbell and v. G. Hall. In
1893 Hobart and Hovey were %runners-np
to the C~hicagoans. Carr Il. Neel and 5. Ii.
Neel. Hail and Hobart won the Eastern
doubles in 1890; Hobart and Hovey in 1898.
\ This year was the first that Larned ever
has shone in doubles. as he and Clothier
won the Eastern at Longwood.
Hobart was ranked in 1890 for the first
time. That year he was fifth. In 1891
he was second and in 1892 fourth. The
last named year was Larned's first ap-
pearance in the ranking. He was sixth.
Il was the year Larned az a Cornell student
won the intercollegiate championship. In
| 1883 Hobart again wa second and Larned
fifth. In 1894 Larned was second and
Hobart sixth. The year following Hobart
was seventh, Larned still being second.
In 1896 Hobart wal unranked, while Larned
held second place. Hobart did not appear
in the first ten until 1901. Larned was
second in 1897. He went to the Spanish
war in 1898 and was not on the list. In
1880 he was third, in 1900 third and in 1901
for the first time. first. Hobart was fifth in
| 1901.