Evening star., 1908-01-19
TENNIS CHAMPIONS
AND HOW THEY STAND
w. A. Larned, National Sin.
giles Topnotcher, Shares
Honors of First Class
With BeaIs c. Wright.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

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NEW YORK. January 1s.-The rankings
of the lawn tennis players of the country
for the season of 1907 were made public
today. In singles the names of iifty-nlne
mon appear, rather larger number than
heretofore In addition TO these men there
are sixteen others named as not having
played enough TO entitle them TO rating.
Among these sixteen are some of the most
prominent players i'll the country, notably
William j. Clothier. the champion of 1905.
Clothier took part in only a few tourlla-
nients in the season and did not do very
well. It was not expected generally, how
ever that he would fail to be ranked, be-
cause the ranking committee last year put
Beals G. Wright in although his chief
performance, like that of Clothier at New
port, was being beaten in the challenge
round of the championship.
William A. Larned. national champion
singles player, is in tho first class. but he
shares the honor with Beals {. Wright.
Ordinarily the champion is scheduled III
II class by himself. Karl III. Behr, whose
performances abroad were of better quail
ity than his work in the few tournaments
in which he appeared here, is put in third
place just above Raymond ID. Lite, an
excellent player of steady merit. Behr
and Little are in the scratch class.
Fred Colston in Third.
The third pair, i'll class ,, are Robert
Leroy and Clarence Hobart. Hobart played
good tennis throughout the season in sew
eral tournaments. while Leroy perhaps
was better at the game than ever he has
been before. The others Of the first ten.
in order, are: T.. i. Larned, Il brother
uf the champion, r. G. Seaver, the Massa-
chusettsN champion; Irving G. Wright, d
brother of Il. c. Wright, and Frederick
t. Colston, who used to be at Yale, and
who played a couple of extraordinarily
good matches in the course of the sea-
son.
Frederick G. Anderson the Kings coun
ty player who did not compete a great
deal, is ranked fifteenth. He was in the
first ten last year and the year before. r.
III. Palmer of Ridgewood VINO beat Behr
at Newport and otherwise played surpris-
inGly in two other tournaments, is ranked
twentieth. G.. =. Gardner. jr., the inter-
Collegiate champion, ranked thirty.tirst,
considerably below Wallace r. Johnson,
Inc lntPTScnOidStlc tIIiIplpny MHO tIu IL
number of other good performances IN the
season. Johnson is ranked eighteenth.
Ii is easy to see from the rankings as
signed that the committee had one OF the
hardest tasks that it has attempted. 1ne
pla yerS almost without exception con-
stantly reversed their form, and most of
the big men played SO little tnat 1t was
hard to assign to them anything ike ade-
quate places. In the main, ii Is expected
that there will be satisfaction with their
Tho cnr1npttfpe charge OF the
ratings was A. l.. Hoskins. Philadelphia,
chairman, and Thomas G. Irask and Ed
gar w. Leonard, New York
Larned Old Honor Man.
William A. Larned, the champion and
ranking player, has figured in the first
ten every year since 1892, except in 1888.
when he was in the Rough Riders in the
Spanish-American war. This is thus the
fifteenth time that he has been in the
honor roll In his first year QSJ2) Larned
was sixth; the next year fiftn, and since
then ne never has been worse than third.
He has been four times the ranking
player; five times second and four times
third. His, therefore, IS remarkable
record.
1t is sufficiently remarkable. tCo. that
in the list Is anot rer-piayer even
oide. at the game than Larned That
is Clan ence Hobart. His name first ap-
pears IN IHe TdHhiHS zen III IS'o, "lie4
lie was sixth. The year following Hobart
was second. Hobart ranked fourth III
1872, second in 1885, sixth in 1884 and
seventh in lSJJ. 1t was not until 1901
that his name appeared again. He Was
firth that year and ninth the next His
ranking does not appear in the first ten
until l.oo, when he was sixth. He was
not in the first ten last year. His record
although longer, has not been as con-
sistent or excellent as Larned $.
Changes in First Ten.
From the first ten of last year there
are several changes. Clothier, /; Alex
ander, 4; Hackett. I, and Dewhurst. >;
last year. are not ranked this year.
I.arned, the champion. was rated second
last year. Beals Wright. now second
was third in 1905. Behr has improved
from fifth to third, and Little from sixth
TO fourth. Robert Leroy and Hobart ,are
newcomers in the first ten. Leroy was
eleventh in the last rating: he is
fifth. T. p. Larned, now seventh, was
not playing last year. r. c. Sewer, now
eighth, was eighteenth last year. Irving
Wright came up one notch, from tenth
to ninth. +. G.. Coiston, the last of this
years ranking ten, was twelfth last sea-
son.
In doubles. Alexander and Hackett. as
the national champions. are first Larned
and Clothier are second and Little and
Hackett third. The ratings. as officially
announced are as follows:
The Several Glasses.
Singles.-Ciass l. owe 2-6 of ID. William A.
Larned = Beals G. Wright.
Class 3 scratch-3. Karl Ii. Behr: A. Raymond
D. Little.
Class 3, receive I-G of 15-5. Robert Leroy: u,
Clarence Hobart.
Glass l. receive &c of 1J-7. Edwin F. Larned
& X. &. Seaver: {? Irving G. Wright: 10. Fred
erick {. Colston: H. Henry l.. Mollenhauer.
Glass = receive SO OF l5-l2. Theodore Il.
Pell: H. J. ID. T.. Jones; IA. Herbert L.. West
fall; l5 Frederick G.. Anderson: Ii. Nath3nel
w Niles: IL. ]. X. Carpenter. il; Is. W. +.
johnson; 10 Nat Emerson.
Glass G. receive 4-6 of 15-2o, Richard ii.
Palmer: 81 G. ii. Nettleton: - y. l.. Halo
we'll; % wylie C.. Grant: "a. Carr Neei -
l. H. Waidner: II. c. +. Watson.
Glass 4 receive SO of l5-2T. Charles VI. Bull
jr.; 2S George +. Touchard; -, r. T. Gross
80 William II. Cragn. jr.; 81. e. +. Gardner
jr.: 50. Calhoun Cragin.
Glass g. receive 15-33. :. Leroy Russ: 81. Nat
Thornton: 80. Henry Torrance, jr.; 81. Dr. Kari
Little.
Class 9. receive Y of so-S7, II. W Guernsey
3s W Mclaughlin: 30. NJ Long: 40. Geofgs
jayne: II. +. Il. Hawh ~ J. A. L. Colston: I3
C. l.. Wyeih: ~. Dean Mathey: A. IL Bates
&C. A. :. Dabney. Jr.: A. Il. :. Lowering: is
IL. y. Montgomery: 80. ii. Mex Glazehroos
~ Frederick Turnsn. 81. &. G. Pell; 52 VI. A.
Chase; 53, l.. III. Fitch: ~ H. c. Appel. 81
j. A. Ross; 56 X. L. James: 81 ii. b. Register
IS T. \. Jayne. 80. G.. G. Plympton-