The sun., 1908-01-19
LAREBD LEADS TENNIS MEN.
HIS FIFTEENTH APPEARANCE
IN THE RANKING TEN.

Beals Wright second in Ratings for SCasOr
-ClOthbeF, Last Years Champion. MOI
Placed-Behr Third and Little EOuFti
Among the National Racquet Experts
The rankings o the lawn tennis players o
the country for the season OF 1907 we're made
public yesterday. In singles the names ol
hfty-Dinc men appear a larger number than
heretofore. In addition TO these men tht n
re sixteen others named as not having
played enough to entitle them to a rating
Among these sixteen are some OF the mOst
prominent players In the country. notably
/ William !. Clothler, the champion OF 1905
Cloth er TOOK part In only few tournaments
In the sensOn and did not do very well II
was not expected generally. however. that
he would fail to be ranked. because the rank
ing committee last year put Beals G. Wright
in. although his chief performance. like that
OF Clothirr NJ Newport. was being beaten
In the challenge round Of the cham plOnship.
William A. Larned. tho national champion
singles player. Is in the first class. tie shares
the honor with Beals &. Wright. Ordinarily
the champion Is scheduled in a class by him
self. Karl II. Behr. whose performances
abroad were of better quality than his work
in the few tournaments In which he appeared
here, " put in third place, Just above Ray
mOnd ID. Little. an excellent player OF steady
merit. Behr and Little are In the scratch
class.
The third pair. in Class III, are Robert
Leroy and Clarence Hobart. Hobart played
good tennis throughout the season in several
tournaments. while Leroy perhaps was bet
ter at the game than ever he has been before.
The others Of the first ten In order are: T.. y.
Larned, a brother of the champion: r. G.
Scaver, the Massachusetts champion; Irving
&. Wright. a brother OF r. c. Wright. and
HssaNU
and who played couple of extraordinarily
good matches in the course OF the season
Frederick G.. Anderson, the Kings county
player. who did not compete a great deal. Is
ranked fifteenth. lie WAS in the first ten
last year and the year before; X. II: Palmer
OF Ridgewood, who beat Behr at Newport
and otherwise played surprisingly in two
other tournaments. is ranked twentieth
q, P. Gardner, Jr.. the intercollegiate cham
Wallace +. johnson, the interscholastlc
champion. who did a number of other good
performances in the season. johnson Is
IL is easy TO see from the rankings assigned
that the committee had one of the hardest
tasks that II has attempted. The players
almost without exception constantly reversed
their form and most Of the big men played so
tSIe thtn tnas H was narI 10 assign 70 mem any
expected that there will be satisfaction with
Their work. The COMMITTEES in charge Of the
chairman, and Thomas &. Trask and gar W.
Leonard. New York.
William 4. Larned, the champion and rank
ing player, has figured in the first ten every
wear since 1892, except In 1898, when he was In
the Rough Riders in the Spanish American
War. This Is thus the fifteenth time that
he has been on the honor roll. In his irst year,
1892, armed was sixth the next year fifth, and
since then he never has been worse than third.
lie has been four times the ranking player,
i've times second and four times third. His
record therefore is a rema rkable one.
IL IL sufficiently remarkable too that
the list Is another DlaVeF older at
the game than Larned. That In Clarence
Hobart. His name first appears in the rank
ing ten in 1890, when he was sixth, The year
following Hobart was second. Hobart
fanked fourth In 1892. second in 1893, sixth
1901 that his name name appeared again. MI He was was
nth that year and ninth the next. His rank
ing does not again appear in the first ten until
first ten last year. His record. although
longer. has not been as consistent or as eX-
From the first ten of last year there are
several changes. Clothier, 1; Alexander, 4:
Hackett, 7, and Dewhurst, Q. last year, are
pion, was rated second last year. Beais
Wright, now second. was third in 1909. Behr
has has imPr9yed from & ffth & t0 third and Little
Hobart are newcomers In the first ten. lie Roy
was eleventh in the last rating; now he is
playing last year K. COS e seSver. now W eiShtR R
was eighteenth last year. Irving Wright
cGoH the a:t Of This sS%sn 30 ranEns nHSn
ten, was twelfth last season.
in doubles, Alexander and Hackett, as the
ciotRier are second and H'iS and HSckett.
The ratings as officially announced are as
follows:
Class i-owe 20 Of Isl. william A. Larned;
Glass s-ScrStch-5 Karl H. Bshr: Z. Raymond
Glass S-Hecelve i-s of iS--S. Robert Le Roy:
. class Receive 90 of Isl Edwin p IArnsd:
81 &C; Se.yeT & o irving ,vS; C Wright; 10. Frederick
Class Receive 90 OF lS.l:, Theodore r, Pell:
@ 3 3 < ISnss Il m hsssTs l. Wes vs. N. r FTes
Carpenter. Jr: ls, " +; Johnson be IS Ma, Emerson
eI' G. IT. NettIeton' 81 NJ p Halloween q. WIT:
G: Grant: "a. Carr Neel IS. L. H. Waidncr ee C. F.
Class Receive SO Of lS-s7, Charles NJ Bull. Jr.:
"a, George =. TOuchard 20 r. T. Gross: 10, William
3. Ciagln. Jr; 81, G. p. Gardner Jr.; ~. Calhoun
Class s-Recelve I5-S5. s lie Roy Russ: "A. Nat
Thornton; Is. Henry Terrence. Jr: %. DR.. Karl
ClsssO-Recciye one half Of sO-s7. II. W. Guern-
SsynS isy W. m vi TcfSsRP B HsER LSas Ss;oS no. sGrfe
Wyeth: -, Dean Mathey: t5, II. Bates %, y.
Fc@afy PsS9fy T. e. f. Mck s dRzS " 81 T. e M2P
Turnan: 81, Z. G. Pell; 52 NJ. 4. Chase: 50, L. Il.
Efss $ g. RssR:er SsRs s s + 4 sss,; Sfs g e. E. T. J.
w. coheP P' %nf' AieSandsP % % 'fH f. HsSfs; dSn
n. TalIant. T.. q. Dewhursi. c. II. DOy =. Kreigh
Collins, n. ". Dana, r. !. Suloway, {. {. Kelley
r. PIrIhard. 2. W. Leonard. r. Bryan. n. {.
johnson. OTTO HincE. J, o. Ames.
DOUBLES
Class Owe . 6 Of Isl. Alexander and Hackett.
Glass e-Scratch-2, Larned and Cother ,.
Little and Hackett :, BeslsC Wright and Llttle.
g. Gfsnt and westta e. Leonard ' ana dH watson a. os
johnson and johnson.
class & Receive is Q. Necly and Emerson: 10.
Thornton and Grant.
Y. y. 4. &. VETERANS DINE.
Harry q. Buermeycr Elected President OS