Arizona republican., 1915-08-30
NEW ERA IN
 TENNIS WILL
 START TODAY
Maurice Mclaughlin Has Chance to Secure Pelma- nently Championship Tro- phy in National Tennis Open Singles.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHl

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-Far more than ordinary interest is attached to the playing of the thirty fifth annual championship tournament Of the United States National Lawn Tennis Associa tion. which begins at the courts of the West Side Tennis club at Forest Hills, l.. l., tomorrow. Two features stand out in connection with the tournament which give it unusual importance. One is the fact that il iS the first time since the organization of the National Associa- tiou in 1881 that the championships have been decided on courts other than those of the Casino at Newport, R. I. Another is that the play which begins tomorrow morning will give Maurice l.. Mclaughlin an oppOr- ,unity to secure permanent possess sion of the championship singles bowl uTon which he has already se- cured tsrc legs.
 This trophy. the eighth of it's kind, l. 3 massive silver urn given out right to the player who wins the United states singles championship three times. not necessarily in sue ,ession. The present prize Nas put Up in 1911 and was won that year by W. A Larned Mclaughlin gained two legs on il by winning at Newport in 1912 and 1913. R. Nor ris Williams by his sensational de- feat of the California star last sea son prevented Mclaughlin from cap turing the bowl for the third and final time If the Pacific coast rac- quet wizard can win through the tournament this week he will be l,-e- ..r1 - tennis trophies. the most important prize th1t can be won by an Ameri- can player.
 Seven of these championship bowls have been won outright since the first national title was played in lSSl. k n. Sears. who captured the premier court honors of tho country from INSI to 1887 without a break holds the first two offered by the association C. <. Campbell won the third hur only after R. D. Sears had one and H. w. SIocum two legs on the trophy. The fourth bowl was taken out of competition Dy R. h. Wrenn. the present president of the association. by his victories at New bort in 1S93- 94-96 after F H. Ho- vCy had prevented a straight win by capturing the title in 1895. The fifth bowl went to M. D. Whitman in successive years after Wrenn had won the first leg on it in 1897.
 w. 4. Larned won the sixth anG seventh bowls. thus sharing with Sears the honor of winning two Of these trophies outright His first prize came after the hardest struggle in the history of these bowls. as four other players had secured one leg each on the urn during the seven years it was in competition. Larned won it iu 1901 and 1902; IT. L. Do- herty. the English champion. in 1903: IT. Ward the next season: B. C. Wright in 1905 and w. J. Clothier in 1906. IL was not until 1907 that I.arned won the necessary third leg to give him permanent possession of tho prize. The second trophy fell to Larned much easier. for he won it in three years of play. 19OS-9- 10. Larned started after his third cup by winning in 1911 but the famous veteran vas forced to give way be- fore youth in the form of NcLough- > lin and now the latter has the op- portunity to take the eighth bowl cut of play by winning his third national championship in the pres cnt tournament