New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-04
Will the Tennis Players
Never Get Enough of IT.?

of the worlds tennis players. For the
list few years Little Do has played
golf almost exclusively. lie has I'M
proved greatly since his brothers death
10 such a marked extent that he was
one of the fayorites in the last BRUSH
amateur championship.
Norman f. Brookes, another at one
time recognized as the boss OF All
racket wielders, is also an expert at me
slower game. When he was here ior
the Davis Cup matches in 1914 the
great Australian played Francis Ouimet
at Boston and made II. The eXcep-
tjonal performance of Ouimet, however,
who had a good day and went around
in ten strokes less, overshadowed the
excellence Of Brookes's play.
Readers who saw in newspapers ac-
counts Of William A. Larned's triumphs
in Florida golf tournaments early IN
the winter may or may not have rec
ognized the name of the former daddy
OF all American tennis players and an
other PLAYER still who was at his best
The best in the world. Larned has been
n high class golfer for years, and since
his retirement from tennis competition,
uecessitated by rheumatism when ne
caught in the Spanish American ar,
ne has followed the long shot and the
short putt competition almost eXclu-
sively.
;e not vet ended. Beals {. Wright, the
greatest chop stroke exponent the
world ever saw, the greatest court gen
eral. and the man who defeated Brookes
in Davis Cup competition in New Zea-
land. is a good golfer. Wright Is not
quite so good as Larned, perhaps, but
the reason il mainly lack Of practice.
An apple grower and ranch owner IN
the Northwest, the indomitable Beals
has little opportunity to play. ;,
Wright's younger brother, the wen
known player, Irving c. Wright, Is
golfer beyond the ordinary duifer 80
Is Nathaniel W. Niles, pride OF New
England OH the courts. X. Norris VIZ
Jams, I'd, intercollegiate champion, IN
ternationalist, eX-nationa! champion
Harvard captain, survivor oil the IL
tanic. and music lover, Is a promising
Young golfer lie has not yet gwen
enough attention 20 the game to become
an expert. W. d. Clothier. ex-cham
pon, is another golfer. The DIG FhH-
adelphian hits EN- far.
In the metropolitan district there
are many golfer-tennisers. Included
among them are Robert ID. Wrenn, the
recently retired president OF the Unit
ed States National Lawn Tennis Asso-
citation and four times national singles
champion. who is one Of the best IN the
Country Club of Westchester. George
T. Adee. successor Of Wrenn, IS ms
rival on the links az the club. BenJa-
min VI. Phillips, well known as tennis
tournament player in this vicinity. re-
Gently made the Woodmere LINKS
famous by playing a good round, rs. on
skates. Phillips used 10 be hockey
The list Of golfers who are pr mari
tennis players might be extended In
defniteiy. The preceding will give
faint glimmeriug OF how closely con
nected. on the player side, the two
sports are. Baseball also IS closet!
connected with golf Ty Cobb, Matty
Heine Zim. Chief Bender and Others
are fanatics
To give the other side of the picture
good tennis player who is primarily
a golfer. we might mention Miss Mar
garet Curtis, three-time women's ma
tional golf champion. In the last three
wears Miss Curtis has played as much
tennis as she has played golf-perhaps
more.