Arizona republican., 1913-07-21
YOUTH VERSUS EXPERIENCE IN
 TENNIS MATCH
Americans Must Face Sea soncd Racqueteers With Only Their Young Speed To Overcome Advantage of Training

| ican tennis team is fortunate enough | to come through the final round of | the Davis Cup worlds championship
 match now being played at Wimble-
 don, it's members will face England's
 cup defending four on the same | courts during the coming week. As
 was the case when Mclaughlin met 1 Wilding in the English singles titular
 match, it will be a case of youth and l ambition Vs. seasoned maturity and experience. In John C. Parle, c. r. l Dixon, II. Roper Barrett and A. w. l Gore. England has a quartet of play
 CTS who, if not absolutely top-ranllers l in the tennis world, are racquet WieI-
 ders accustomed to both national and ; international play.
 Gore held the English singles title
 in 1901, 1908 and 1909, finally losing | to Wilding. Roper-Barrctt and Dixon
 won the doubles honors in 1912 and l Gore and Roper Barrett in 1909.
 Parke represented England in the cup
 series of 1908. 1909 and 1912; Dixon
 in 1909. 1911 and 1912. Against these
 players the United States has two
 former internationaIists in McLough-
 lin, who played for the cup in 1909
 and 1911, and IIackett, who was an
 American representative in 1908 and l 1908 The lineup will probably find 1 Roper Barrett and Dixon as Eng 1 lands representatives in the doubles, | with Parke, Dixon and possibly l Roper Barrett in the singles. Gore l is likely to be q rescrvist. For the l United States. Maurice F. McL0ugh- 1 lin and E. Norris Williams 2d should 1 play in the singles, with Mclaughlin
 and Captain II. IT. Hackett as part ners in the doubles and Wallace r. Johnson as a reserve.
 During the English championships Mclaughlin defeated Roper Barrett
 4-G. SC, 1-G G-2, SC. which was the only instance where the American and English cup players were brought together by the draw. Parlle is the player most generally feared by the 1 Americans in the singles. Tn the northern championships of England on June he defeated WiIdng. who vanquished McLoughlin month later in a five-set match, co, 7-5, G-S. 2-G i 7-5 This was in line with his great win from Norman F. Brooles in Australia last winter when he Won i SC, 6-3. 3-7, co. Parkc, as well as Dixon and Roper Barrett are veteran | tennis strategists who will pit skill. | stroke and tactics against the Ameri- i cans youth, speed and endurance |
 Value of Training.
 The defeat of Maurice F. McLouCh- | lin by Anthony F. WiIding in the l challenge round of the English single | tennis championship again proves the | value of years of practice and eX- | perience in the court game Judging | from the accounts of the final match | between the young American and the | veteran New Zealandcr. it was the | finished all-around play of Wilding | that gave him the edge over the Cali | fornian in the grueling three sets won i by scores of S-6, 6-3, 1O-S
 Tn the forty-one games that consti- | tuted the match Wilding won twenty | four to McLoughlin's seventeen, giv- | ing him a margin of seven games, | three of which were picked up in the | was, it proved that the player from | the Antipodes held the reserve neces- sary to win at crucial points
 Wonderful tennis player that he is, | Mclaughlin met an opponent who in finish and finesse was his master. i Despite his sizzling and powerful ser vice and smashing, the young Ameri- can found that Wilding was able not only to return his shots but to add to those returns the placement and pace which forced Mclaughlin to a defen- sive attitude. He lacked consistency and failed on the ground shots which the New Zealander constantly fed him as a result of the carefully planned campaign based on Widing's observ ations during McLoughlin's play through the title tournament.
 There is in the defeat both honor and promise of greater excellence however, so far as the American champion is concerned. A youth for Mclaughlin is scarcely out of his teens 9 wonderful tennis career ap- pears to be his future. In 1909 at Sydney he was defeated by Wilding, 3-6, SC, G-2, 6-3.
 Tennis players of the caliber of the Dohertys, Larned, BrOol<es and Wild ing are not the development of a year, and few, if any of them, started with the natural ability and advan- tages possessed by Mclaughlin. The Californian will some day be tennis champion of the world, barring acci- dents, but he will not wear the lau- | reIs until maturity and experience have steadied and rounded out his game.
 The owners of promising field dogs are already shipping puppies to the northwest and Canada for training preparatory to the various field trials scheduled for late autumn and winter months. Several hundred young