The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
ENG[AND'S TEAM
WEAK At TENNIS
Many Players There Faster
Than Parke, Dixon and
CraWley.
HARMED EASILY CHAMPION
COMING INTERNATIONAL PLAY
EXcITES MUCH INTEREST.


outcome of the international matchez
at Germantown. England is sendin,
team that is far from the best in THAI
country, while the United States SENDS
its championship doubles players, and
Larned and Clothier. In the event OF
an American victory none Of these
players will so to Australia, McLOugh-
lin and Long. the Pacific coast players,
have been selected for that provisional
honor.
The visiting Britishers may be sur
Iprised to learn, if they have not learned
II already, that the top players in this
country have declined TO take the jour
.ney if the issue is a successful one IJr
this country at the forthcoming
matches. The executive committee Of
the national association nave made a
fine selection in Mclaughlin and Long,
and the honor OF the Pacific coast play
ers is a most deserved one. It's a
healthy thing for lawn tennis, too Nc
LOughlin and Long will make a more
crediJable showing than did MCLCugh-
lin and James, for the last named is
not the great players that Long is.
lMcLOughlin and Long have played q
lot together, and there IS not a great
deal to choose between them in point
of quality of tennis. There is no doubt
that Long and Mclaughlin would have
put the national doubles championship
team harder TO it at Newport than did
Mclaughlin and James, but these two
players won the Pacific coast title, and
it would have been an unspOrtsmanlike
act TO have substituted Long for James
at Chicago.
OF the national singles championship
st was undoubtedly one of the most
successful meetings in the thirty years
of championship. LaTned. the old
master" is without the slightest doubt
the first player in the land. Those who
predicted defeat for him this year on
account Of injuries and lack of prac-
tice sound his praises the highest after
having seen his work in the challenge
match.
A Dashing Game.
Larned plays a dashing, brilliant
game with a minimum of effort There
were many who believed that he
couldn't last through five sets against
a player like ClOJhier, but twice this
year, once at LOngw0od and last week
at Newport, he did the thing many
thought he couldn't do, and with the
tall. powerful CIOUhier for an OppO-
nent. In the national CIOthier came
through the final without being called
upon TO play a single hve-set match.
He was only required to play five
matches to win the all-cOmers, there
he began in the second round. Nc
LoughIn was obliged to play every
match two of which went to five sets,
one against Long and the other
against the haTd-hittins Palmer.
Some criticism was directed against
the officials by those who did not have
a right understanding of the details,
and they were unimpoFtant in any case.
J. c. Parke, c. p Dixon and ". G.
Crawley, whom the English Lawn Ten
mis- association has selected to repre-
sent Great Britain in the preliminary
Davis cup matches at Philadelphia,
next month, are due to arrive in New
York the middle of this week. They
will at once begin practice on some of
the courts around New York for the
preliminary matches in Philadelphia
next week Friday and Saturday and
the following Monday
Unknown Quantities.
On past performances-the only
thing upon which the men can be
Judged with the possible exception Of
.Parke, who was q member Of last
years team playing at LOngwOOd-the
players who will represent Great Brit
ain in the struggle for the Australian
trip, are hardly representative Of the
best in tennis on the British Isles. That
the American players VIII be successful
originally named represent this coun-
try, or some lesser lights certain TO
make the trip are chosen, is all but
a foregone conclusion. Neither Parke,
Dixon nor Crawley compares, either in
singles or doubles with any one of q
dozen English players who might be
named. Why the English L. T. A.
made the selection il did is beyond
comprehension upon this side, unless
possibly not one of the really star
players Of England felt he could make
the trip. But that seems almost in
credible.
Perhaps the most conspicuous man in
English tennis today is A. W. Gore,
who recently won the an-comers tour
nament, carrying with It the British
singles title, by defeating NJ j. @.
Richie in the challenge round. Gore
was the champion last year as well.
and away back in 1901 90 the title
for a year between he-Carms when r.
F and H. /. DOherty respectively We're
the singles title-holders. Gore, by the
way, represents the old school Of Eng
lish players, having just turned Al.
With ROper-Barrett, Gore also won the
championship doubles in the final round
of the tournament. Ritchie and Wild
ing last years title holders, not play
ing in the challenge round, the latter
now being out of the game
Roper Barrett was the favOrite to
win the finals at Wimbledon thisSyear,
but in the crucial final match was de-
feated by Richie, 60, 6-3, 4-6 and
Ga. Richie, who will be remembered
as having played at LOngwood with
Parke in the Davis cup preIiminaries of
last year. put up a hard fight against
Gore in the challenge round, by the
way. but went down to defeat in a five
set match. 6-8. 1-6, 6-9, 60, GO,
Ritchie's old tendency to weaken tow
ard the finish being evident Richie
has been playing superb tennis all the
year abroad, both in the winter tourna-
Inents on the Riviera and later in Eng
land and Scotland. English critics de-
clare Richie has played better tennis
this year than ever, and those who saw
Richie at LongwOOd regarded him as
superior TO Parke
Doherty's Still.
Aside from Gore, Roper-Barrett and
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