The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22
HARMED LEADS
TENNIS PLAYERS
NATIONAL NET CHAMPION OF
AMERICA PLACED m CLASS
BY HIMSELF.
RANKINGS ARE MADE PUBLIC
Standing of Experts According to Ma
tionaI Association-Wright and Al
exander Placed on Scratch, with
CIothier and Little Next-SeveraI
Prominent Players Not Ranked.

William A. Larned, four times hold
er of the national lawn tennis cham
pionship of America, leads the ranking
list of players announced by the Uni
ted States National Lawn Tennis as
ISOLATION for the season of 1908. Based
On the performances of last summer
the champion is placed in class by
himself, with handicap of 2-6 of Is.
Larned is followed by class 2 con-
tanning the scratch players, only two
in number, Beals G. Wright and F. B.
Alexander, the internationalists, who
have not yet returned from their vain
quest in Australia for the Davis cup.
First place in this class, thus making
him second on the whole list only to
the champion, Larned, is given to
Wright, who in winning both his single
matches in the Davis cup contest in
the antipodes placed to his credit the
defeat of the Australian, Brooks, the
former holder of the all-England cham
pionship. Alexander is third.
Class (1-6 of 15) contains w. ].
Clothier, No. 4, and Raymond D. Little,
the former international captain, No.
5. Little was No. on last years rank
ing list Other rankings follow:
Emerson, N. w. Miles, w. f. Johnson, r.
H. Palmer
Glass (3-6 of 15)-H. Mollenhauer, T.
r. Pell. G. F. Touchard, E. B. Dewhurst.
l. C. Wright, H. L. Westfall, ]. D. E.
Jones.
Glass (4-6 of 10--C. M. Bull Jr.. F. G.
Anderson, c. B. Doyle, F. r. Sulloway.
liant.
Glass (5-6 of 15)-Nat Thornton, F. c.
InInan,, Calhoun Cragin. c. s. Peters.
Dean Mathey, A. S. Dabney Jr., II. M.
Tilden, c. F. Watson Jr. ~.
Glass Q5)-H. j. Kendall P. B. Hawk.
N. c. Stevens, G. H. Nettleton, o. II.
Hinck, Henry Torrance Jr., ]. A. c. Coils
ton, j. r. Carpenter Jr. g.
Class Q5D-L. M. Burt, E. T. Gross,
w. T. Hanies, w. D. Jones, N. H. Bun
dick, G. M. Church. l.. D. Woodbury., w.
M. Hall, j. A. Jones, Paul Gardner, r. A.
Holden Jr., K. F. Little, H. c. Martin, E.
II. Whitney, T. N. Jayne, A. L. Hoskins.
Fl. L. James, F. w. Cole, G. o. Wadner.
H. E. Doyle, C. c. Plimpton.
Glass 10 Q5.2)-C. H. Farber, w. Rosen-
baum, Alexander Amend, ]. F. Condor.
Wythe, w. v. Bennett, Ewing Taylor.
Alexander Thayer, H. d. Montgomery A.
l.. Sweetser T. B. Plimpton, B. M. Phil
lips, Spencer Gordon, +. M. Watrous.
Hajime Kawaski, L. H. Fitch, G. w.
Pike.
Glass II Q5.3)-H. c. Bridgers. L. H.
Roper, M. S. Charlock, r. d. Richey, A.
Bassford Jr, N. G. Johnson.
A list of 81 players who were not
ranked because of insufficient data,
also was given out by the committee.
The notable names in it are: Karl H.
Behr, former internationalist; Wylie
c. Grant, often figuring In the indoor
doubles and singles championships;
Clarence Hobart, E. P. Larned, bro
Their of the present champion in sim
giles, and Harold H. Hackett, who holds
the national championship in doubles
with F. B. Alexander.
AS in the singles, so in the doubles,
the present championship holders are
in class by themselves-theyo owe &c
of 15. They are. f. B. Alexander and
Harold H. Hackett.
They are followed by four scratch
teams in the order as named: Beals G..
Wright and Raymond D. Little, w. A.
Larned and G. L. Wrenn, Jr., Holcomb
Ward and Raymond D. Little, and
Robert d. Wrenn and w. A. Larned.
The western pair, Emerson and Valid
ner, are sixth, and Clothier and E. W..
Leonard and Rex Fincke and c.. F..
Watson, Jr., are seventh and eighth.
respectively, these three teams form
ing class 3 (26 Of 15).
w. F. Johnson and H. J. Kendall are
ninth, /. c. Wright and H. Torrance,
Jr., tenth; Theodore Roosevelt Pell
and B. S. Prentice eleventh; B. H. Pal
mer and G. F. Richard twelfth; C. B.
Doyle and H. E. Doyle, thirteenth; H.
G. Whitehead and ]. H. Winston, four
teenth, and H. M. Tilden and Alexan.
der Thayer, fifteenth.
The ranking committee was COM
posed of DR.. P. B. Hawk, chairman,
and E. F. Torrey and c. F. Watson, Jr