Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-08-06
SPORTS
N APPRECIATION OF
| MAURICE MLOUGHL|N
..,.,bipg About Young Man Who Won
Crch High Honors for United
States in England.
By G. P. Dixon

Barely 20, Maurice E. McLoughlin'
4. American champion, who continues
1 .barm Wimbledon crowds daily with
A. terrific service and dazzling strokes
rnouestionably a wonderfully fine
aver for his age, and in many re-
ssets unique. By his calm and nat
Imaanor in court Mclaughlin quickly
s,eoueed himself in popular favor,
M he has already been alluded to as
II pet of Wimbledon.
IWbo will ever forget his first ap-
sarance in the center court on initial
II when he was opposed to the ablest
bperal we have at the game, H. B.
srrett, 1t was admittedly an ordeal
Om which even the stanchest and most
iasOned player might well have
6pched, but the young Californian
4 was every whit as cool and self-pOs-
ssed as H. R. B. himself. Only hav-
. \ landed on these shores couple Of
Tvs previously and being entirely new
4 the conditions at Wimbledon, it was
Srdy expected he would appear at
i very best, but the mistakes he did
hke were due more to this fact than
any breakdown of nerves or center
hrtitis.
'I lay stress on this point, as it is re-
Arkable how well he bore himself
ben one remembers how many great
byers (his own country included)
I've signally failed to do themselves
lll Justice at Wimbledon. McLough-
i will certainly leave behind him
thing but pleasant impressions and
collections,
And what fine temperament he has!
'bthing seems to ruffle him. Serious
"a concentrated as he clearly shows
lnself to be when playing the game,
'ere is with it all a pleasant and re-
sned determination to take the good
ld the bad luck which happens to
Nc his way in the spirit in which it
lpuld be taken.
first came across Mclaughlin in
p9, when, though only 10, he was
pked upon as likely to become a
'pthy successor to w. A. Larned and
\ Der famous Americans. He did not
~ against us in the Davis cup that
pc but Parke, Cecil Crawley and 1
IBOyed several practice sets with him,
we frequently had the pleasure of
Stching him play.
he was perhaps even more brilliant
4 en than now. At that time he chief
r used the reverse American service;
was later he adopted the ordinary
sPercan service for good. l well re-
gmber him playing in a practice dou-
at Philadelphia, partnered by
8ng Melville Long, against Larned
Bob Wrenn, and he won four clean
~ (as the Yankees say) off his re-
~ service, neither Larned nor
qenn touching one of them. Larned,
in position as striker.out, casually
leW his racket over his left shoulder,
ier' with a broad grin, admiring the
~ fly up off Mclaughlin s deliv-
" on the side line, and seeing the
disappear into the stands.
ueIoughlin went out for absolute
lneFS then, but while retaining much
Dis former brilliancy, he has now
ed three or four years of first
NJ : experience and has set a curb on
0' unnatural propensity to go out
n much for his strokes. His better
SOunder Judgment has no doubt
peu MIN considerably to gain the
porous successes he has achieved
q and which eliminated in his an
png the American championship this
out of field of over 100. l and
'nuf Lowe both met him in the Da.
Guy contest at the West Side Club,
York, in September, 1911, and, as
"Dg IN what respect we held him,
Vniy necessary to state we both
'iuefed our chances against Larned
'Ae brighter As it turned out,