The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-05
New system Necrsaary.


Letters of this kind were mailed ~
upv ard of l,loo PLAYERS. bur according
10 the report the result vas disappoln;-
ing; in fact. even more So tnrn fl 1914.
when lao singles and 80 doubles blank
w"r" returned. This .cHr II" committee
has heard from only - ;iL, tie IN sin
giles and e. I" doIhl"s. ~ the 81 sin
giles blanks returned only - w-rn from
players who have received 20 ranking
for 1915.
The comnitte" ho.ds ;ht- these facts
alon" ar" sufficient 20 prov" that any
system which relic on players to make
returns - i~nadcqul'~.
That l. IN" main reason why til"
r"inmitte. asks fnr - new rul. putting
Inc" burden 81 supplying tn. data nu
III" club holding tn. event. The reason
Tor asking that a penalty -, placed oi.
~" orgaui2a'iOuS which fan to send
III" data Is that last year If the ~
fixtures or th" calendar returns IRON
only fort! -ur" wcr, sem To- T.. -. Tprr.y.
secretary Of tho national association,
TINS IN spit" uf III" requirement Of tn"
national association imposed on al or
PLANTATIONS holding sanctioned events
to send complete. results to IA. secretary.
Tn" report shows that $50 men com
Ieted in tournaments sanctioned by ,he
national association last season. ~
'A'F's ~s'"' A''N part III OILY Owe lt'lT-
n%ainent, 80" IN My two and 80 ~
three or more. II will hc seen thar only
about = per cent Of the players sent
in the data ON their work.
Mclaughlin u Bundy Displaced.
McI.oughlin and Bundy. after holding
hrst place among the doubles cams FOR
three years, were pressed back INTO sec
ond place by another California pair,
Johnston and Griffin, Thu. new national
champions won every time they starte,
aud never left any doubt AZ to how they
would NJ rated. McI.oughlin and Rundy.
although they played together only IN
IN" challenge round of Tho rational
championship. were tn" defenders in
that event and gained second place ipso
fa"to. The winners of the Western
championship and runners up IN the
intersectional doubles, George VI. Church
and Dean Mathey. were placed third.
while the Eastern champions. Williams
and Washburn, went to fourth place.
The ratings:
THE FIST TEN.
l-Wt!ialn NJ. Johnston and g !. GRIFFIN.
2--N. T.. Mclaughlin md r. g. BunIv.
2-ticorg" NJ. Church ana Dean Ma,lc-.
tx y Williams II Iul ". II,
s-w. 7. uayes and II. ". purhicF
81; G. Wright ANA ". I. johnson.
IT T. Pei and y. ;. Prentice,
I'll. II. Hackett ana W, VI. Ha..
81. g. Bsggs and =, IL. Nosne
I0--E. T.. Larned and L. 9. lnmsu.
The teams IN this class are alpha
hetlcaliy arranged. their playing ability
being about equal,
CLASS Gi.2o).
l., Beekman and l.. y, Niahan, &. NJ.
Bull Jr. and q. + Watson, IL, IA =
hyford AND A.. Squa'r p NJ. Grant. aai
\lt Thornton. NJ q clifford. aut NJ q
Weber. {. i; Ions. and r Ho"r,, v !.
Jr,, and G., A. Major, II. \. ~Throcknorton
and l.. Durham.
There was never any doubt that Miss
Molla Bjurstedt. the great Norwegian
player. would get premier honors among
the players Of The fair sex. Miss Blur
stedt was the winner Of all the national
championships, indoor and outdoor, on
both grass and clay. and she won the
tournaments dccisiVeiy.
The ranking OF Miss Bjurstcdt at the
head OF the women players of the couu-
try marks the hrst time IN the history
Of lawn tennis I'm America that a for
eigner has been ranked M. J.. As IA
matter OF fact there was only one Other
occasion when n foreigner might have
been placed al the top ana that was IN
1908, when II. l.. Doherty, tho wonderful
British player, came over here aud won
the American championship William
A.. Larned. however, headed the Ameri-
can list that year,
In contrast to Larned being placed
first that year Instead Of Doherty was
the rating OF Mclaughlin first In the
british list I'm 1914 and this In view of
the fact that Mclaughlin did NOT play
In England, but defeated the British
champion, Norman Il. Hrookcs, and the