Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-30
MURRAY IS NEITHER \
FROM EAST OR WEST
Southpaw Tennis Shark Gan
not Play With Eastern or
Western Teams,
BOTH COULD USE HIM

New York, July 29--Robert Lind
lev MURRAY, national indeer tennis
champion. and one OF the greatest
cxpcneuts OF the racquet sport that
has ever come out OF the far west,
which is saying a great deal, has
come to be sort OF man without q
country, This is no reflection on
Bayouuc. n J., where Murray now
makes bis home, nor Is il derogatorys
TO Palo Alto, the left-hander's maj
tive city, The, TACT is that Murray
now has the experts and close follow
crs. OF the game up in the air about
whether he is an casterncr or a ives.
erncr
II Murray we're only mediocre
tennis player or il his ability, were
not an established feature OF the a
great court game, no one would lose
much sleep over where he hailed iron
or what section he can now call
home As stated in the first para
graph however. Murray is not AL
mediocre player In fact, he is 50
good that both the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts would be glad to claim
him; furthermore, one cannot think
OF any section from Florida to-
Alaska that would not welcome thu
ability to have him represent them
in the big tennis Tits.
But Murray himself is in sad
predicamcnt. Although it looks al
II he will make his permanent resi-
dence in the east, he cannot repre-
sent the east, not having lived here
long enough. The prescribed time
OF residence is two years. Naturally
he cannot represent the Pacific coast
because he does not reside there, so
Murray merely has to sit tight and
watch his friends OF the tennis world
bearing the colors OF one section or
the other to victory or defeat
Even this would not be such mat
ter OF great moment either for Muir
ray or the following Of the game,
but for the fact that there is big
interscctional tournament, the west
VS., the east, coming along very soon.
The matches will be played in this
series at the West Side Tennis club,
Forest Hills, Long Island, on Fri
day, August 4, and Saturday,
August 5.
Is An Outlaw.
This series is what brought the
matter up, and as both sections were
anxious TO enlist the services Of Muir
ray, the question was gone into at
great length, and Murray seems to be
an outlander. Just what the indoor
titleholder thinks of it is hard to say.
There can be little doubt that If he
had his choice he would do his play
ing for the Pacific coast--that is, il
he we're on the Pacific coast team.
Naturally enough, Murray's sym
pathies arc with the Pacific coast
contingent 1t is just as true, how
ever, that It Murray were assigned to
play with the eastern team as regu-
lar dyed-in-the-wool easterner ii
would not be through any symathy
that he would lose match.
Murray will not play in the great
west VS.. east series In the first week
Of next month, but the left handler
will be among some 1000 others who
will turn out to see the matches. In
cidentally, 1t would not take Sher-
lock Holmes to discover what team
Murray will be roofing for. Judging
from the requests for tickets that
have reached Harry Parker's office,
Murray will not be the one lonesome
rooter for the Pacific coast stars
either, for there have been some re-
guests from California and PRACTICAL
ly all Of the native sons in and
around New York got in their bids
for tickets early.