Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-30
PASADENA RACKET
EVENT PROMISING
Many Local Stars Are Entered.
National Ranking Com
mittee Hard at Work

winter season will open tomorrow
morning on the new courts of the
Hotel Maryland, Pasadena. The sin
giles events only will be open to all |
comers, the afternoon play being de-
voted to the invitation doubles and |
special exhibition matches of the indi-
vidual stars. The feature singles
match of the schedule will be the sec
ond meeting of the season between |
Tom Bundy and Maurice Mclaughlin,
the northern crack. The Golden Gate |
racket wonder had a rather easy vic
tory over his rival in the Hollywood |
tourney last week, but as the record |
of their matches in the past predict |
the win will as like as not go the other |
way Saturday.
Tomorrow morning at o'clock the |
! open singles will start and entries of all |
the leading tennis stars have been re-
! ceived. Win Mace, Southern Califor- |
MIA champion and holder of the Pasa-
| dena championship, will be there, as |
! will also Tom Bundy, runner-up for |
the national championship; Maurice |
! Mclaughlin, conqueror Of Beals Wright |
at Longwood; Sinsabaugh, Wayne, |
| Duncan, Braly and a host of other |
champions and ex-title holders. The |
class of the tennis talent promises some |
great exhibitions, and most of the |
local fandom are preparing to attend. |
RANKING COMMITTEE BUSY
| Speaking to obtain the fullest lawn |
tennis information possible upon which |
| to establish the national ranking list |
! for the season of 1910, the committee /
recently issued blanks to the players. |
AS one of the officials stated: "The |
sport is now to be systematized in all |
of its branches" In its comprehensive |
scope, the document issued is the work |
of the committee, Edwin F. Torrey, |
| ir., chairman, of Clinton, N. Y; Miles |
! S. Charlock, secretary, Of the Crescent |
Athletic club, and Henry Terrence, 1r., |
of the Englewood Field club. There |
| is much more important and far-reach- |
ing action contained in the obvious
request for the players record in tour
nament and championship than the |
tabulated form reveals. The buff |
colored sheet of paper is nothing short |
of the herald of the new era in Ameri-
can lawn tents of which the first signs |
were discernible during the playing of |
the national championship tournament
on the courts of the Newport casino |
! last August.
1t is a notable fact that the plan just |
| launched and put into operation was |
freely discussed by officials during the |
deciding of the national title, and that
it bears the approval of DR.. James |
Dwight president Of the United States |
Lawn Tennis association, and nearly |
all of the executive committee, which |
includes William A. Larned, Palmer !
E. Presbrey, DR.. Philip B. Hawk,
Ralph Holterhoff, L. D. Scott, William
J. Clothier, Edwin F. Torrey, jr.I Ray
mond D. Little and Louis Henry
Waidner.
NO MORE GUESS WORK
at is evident that the days Of hap
hazard lawn tennis affairs are over"
remarked an official yesterday, "and
the players and clubs that fail to take
| an accounting of the new order OF
things are likely to have a rude
awakening before long. 1t is my opin-
ion that players who wish to receive
an adequate rating at the hands OF the
| committee will do we'll to fill out these
tables and return them at once. Such
circulars as have been issued in the
past have been sporadic efforts. This
one from its makeup, means that the
ranking committee is to be established
hereafter as a department of record
for the sport"
Speaking Of the new effort that was
in process of formulation to overcome
the difficulties that had beset lawn
tennis, Secretary Charlock said that
the work Of the ranking committee
was but the opening wedge of a care
fully thought out plan which is 10
touch upon every phase Of lawn tennis
In a way a campaign of education for
the thoughtless followers of the sport
and with a goal of results which Will
do away with the acrimonious criti-
cism of the past.
The document sent out to the play
ers is ruled to contain RECORDS or nIty-
seven open tournament and champion
ship matches. Three main division
heads had the tabulation: "Tourna-
ment Matches Played by Me" Scores
Of MY Matches" The subdivisions
, are: Date and Where Held Name
, of Opponent" "Won and Lost and
my Score Written First" The sheet
is arranged to be filed in a binder ac-
cording to name, number and division.
Thus. in addition to furnishing data
for proper ranking, it will Furthermore
establish a permanent record of the
players performance of each season,
the names, addresses, clubs, tourna-
ments and all other important details
that for thirty years have been lost
to American lawn tennis annals in
complete form. With such a wealth of
data as it is planned to gather and
file in permanent form in the archives
of the national association not only
will complete history of each players
individual work be at hand, but
comprehensive view of American lawn
tennis will be presented in the future.
BETTER CONDITIONS WANTED
The impetus in favor of better con-
ings, over which annual wrangles were
held and which led to the controversy
between Clarence Hobart and 4. l..
FIoskins, was shown with the appoint
ment of DR.. Philip B. Hawk as chair
man Of the ranking committee several
years ago.
The establishment of the present
plan is in a large measure attributable
to the foundation upon which Dr.
Hawk built, which resulted in his cleo
tion to the national executive COM
mittee at the annual meeting a year
ago. It is evident that the most care
full rating of the players that has ever
been issued in this country is to be
promulgated before the first of the
coming year.
Careless players, who in the past
have felt that the occasional commun-
ications from the committees meant
nothing and that the requests were
TO be thrown into waste paper baskets
will find themselves mistaken from
this time forth. 1t might be said, as
a word Of advice here, that the player
who wishes q ranking had best exert
himself and let the committee hear
from him, otherwise he may find him
self disappointed and awaken to
realization that the United States
Lawn Tennis association has started
ont to do things. That such Is the
case is made only too obvious from
the wording of the last paragraph OF
the official letter sent out with the
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