Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-08
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Careful Comparison of Inter.
national Records Shows
BrookeS and Wilding
Rank Hin,


should be fairly easy to get a correct
line on the different candidates.
At the beginning Of the season the
following order was very commonly
accepted: Z "a 81 s
No. Norman Brookes Of Austral-
ia. ~
Nos. 2 and "a. r. WiIding Of New
Zealand and Maurice Mclaughlin Of
California, u. s. A., on even terms.
No. al. g. Parke of ireland.
No. 5--R. n. Williams Of Pennsyl-
yania, u. s. A. -
No. GA. II. Colbert Of France.
No. TO. FroItzheim Of Germany.
No. S--M. Decujis OF France.
No. &c. p. Dixon. of England.
During the present year, Brookes
has suffered no defeats and his latest
performances have been fully up to
the standard of his best play in prev
Ious years, and he must remain as
No. /.
Wilding won, during the present
season, the championship on grass, at
Wimbledon, England. and the world 8
championship on hard courts at Par
is.
Up to the present year. these high
sounding titles carried little weight,
and have been looked on largely as
good jokes, but In 1912 an interna-
tIonal federation Of lawn tennis play
ers was formed, which included Amer.
lea, Australia, Great Britain and the
leading continental nations, and this
body established the two Journeys
named as Official annual fixtures.
Wnding, as stated before. won both
titles and also defeated Mclaughlin
in the grass court final match He
has. therefore, clear title to the
second place. His only defeat of the
season was by J. G. Parke In the
North of England Championship
Mclaughlin, the American nation
al champion, has a much better rec
ord than any player outside OF
Brookes and Wilding. He has won
more important Journeys than Parke
and has broken even with him in the
two matches played. 50 far as contests
90, but has clear lead in sets, be
sides having . shade the worst OF
ii in the matter Of conditions
Won IN Straight Sets.
Mclaughlin won from Parke In
three straight sets, and lost to him
only by three sets to two.
Parke. however, proved the
strongest foreign player met by the
American team during the Davis cup
trials and is undoubtedly entitled to
rank ahead OF Williams, the second
best player of America.
This would give him the fourth po-
sition and Williams, who has been
beaten during the present year only
by Mclaughlin and Parke, should be
ranked as No. 5.
So far the list has the same five
players who held the top rank last
year, but below THIS come the changes.
A. II. Colbert, who had good right to
position No 6 last year, has been I'M
able. because of military duties, to-
play much during 1913, and the result
has been considerable falling off in
form. He was badly beaten in the Da-
Wis cup contests, France against Ger
many, and barely managed to retain
a place on the list by reaching the
finals of the worlds hard court
championship, where he was beaten
by Wilding in a good match.
The performances of Froitzheim, the
German champion. entitle him to dis
place Colbert as No. IS, and Decujis al
so is entitled to figure above his CON-
patriot for his performances through
out the season were clearly superior
and have earned him the seventh
place.
Next to Decujis among the active
tournament players of the world the
best showing against first-class men
has been made by two Americans. w.
II. Clothier of Philadelphia and VIII
liam Johnston of San Francisco.
They have given to Mclaughlin and
Williams the shiftiest opposition they
have received during the year, except
when those men were defeated by
FarkS sind Wilding and between them
there d very little to choose. but John,
ston beA lothier in the more i'm.
portant tou ment at Longwood in a
thorough te. five sets, while
Clothier returnS Ne compliment by
winning at South upton, two sets to
enc. Johnston. defeating Clothier at
Longwood, proceeded 20 win the cham.
p1OnSnlp anu at coutldtupJOHE SlOInlel
easily won that event after the Cali.
fornia youngster had been defeated.
In the American ranking 1t would
be fair enough to split the third and
fourth rankings between the two, and
similarly to bracket them for the
eighth and ninth positions among the
10 best players of the world. The
tenth and last place on, the list ought
fairly to go to a III. Colbert of France.
Drop From List. -
Roper Barrett and C. P. Dixon of
England accordingly disappear from
the list of last year. They have done
nothing during the present year to
warrant their inclusion.
Barrett. it is true, played a five-set
match with Mclaughlin. but the cir,
cumstances were such that he ought
to have won 1t hands downsif he were
in the same class or even approached
it.
Dixon forced Williams to 1ve-set
match in the Davis cup, but this was