The Washington herald., 1918-12-22
Even RANK IN
TENNIS LIST
Robert Lindley Murray and
W. T. Tilden, Jr., Put on
Same Basis.

New York, Dec. 21.-Robert Lindley
Murray. southpaw meteor. formerly
of California, but now of Niagara
Falls, n. Y. is ranked at the head of
Americas wartime tennis players In
the first list of ratings made public
by the United States National Lawn
Tepnis Association since the fall or
1915
Equally prominent with Murray,
with the exception of the fact that
he is ranked number two in the first
class. is william T. Tilden, jr.. OF
Philadelphia. The difference between
the records of these players was so
not separate them.
No Pacific coast player who did not
take part in Eastern tournaments was
given ranking. owing to a request by
the California Lawn Tennis Assocla-
ton.
There were l24 ranking players, d.
vided into nineteen classes, a new dc
parture in ranking players. Originally
the list of players was divided into
classes of ten each. This year play
ers of approximately the same ability
were ranked in the same class. one in
stance being the ranking of Murray
and Tilden, each of whom was ranked
i'm the first class Paul w. Gibbons
of Philadelphia. one member OF the
committee, filed a minority report as
serting the belief that Tilden should
have been ranked first instead of sec
end.
Corresponding to the old-time first
ten players, and following the two
leaders. are placed: Second class,
Frederick B. Alexander. New York;
third class, Walter Merrill Hall, New
York; William T. Hayes, Chicago;
Nathan W. Flick. Boston; fourth
class. Echiya Kumagae. New York,
Charles $. Garland. Pittsburgh; >.
Howard Voshell, Brooklyn. and Theo-
dore Roosevelt Pell. New York.
R. II. Burdick, Chicago. heads Glass
5; Lyle f. Mahan. New York. heads
Glass 6: Elliott Binzen. New York.
Glass :; Theodore Drews, St Louis.
Glass S: H. II. Hodge. Buffalo. Class
9: P. B. Hawk. Philadelphia, Glass 10;
DR.. William Rosenblum. New York,
Glass II: H. B. O'Boyle. Pelham Naval
Training Station, Glass 12; J. MCGEE,
st. Paul. Mimi, Glass l3; Fenimore
Cady. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Glass II;
w. S. Knight Minneapolis, Glass 10;
w II Benedict. Belmar. n. j.. Glass
Is: H. r. Hathaway, New York, Glass
II; Herman Dornheim, Philadelphia,
Class Is: Cecil Donaldson. Brooklyn,
Class 10.
Harold Throckmorton. foSmer junior
champion. was ranked eighteenth,
landing in Glass s.
In ranking Miss MOlla Bjurstedt.
best of the women players, the com
mittee expressed regret that at least
two prominent women players of Cali
fornia were not rated because of the
request of the California Association.
The players were not named. In ad-
dition to Miss Bjurstedt, the first ten
women included:
Mrs. George Wightman. Boston;
Miss Eleanor Goss, New York; Mrs.
Stuart Green. TaTrytown. n. Y: Miss
Marie Wagner. New York: Miss Car
rie Neely. Chicago; Miss Helene Pol
lax. New York; Miss Glare Cassel.
New York; Miss Eleanora Sears, Bos-
ton: Mrs. Jack Rameson adelaide
Yeager), Los Angeles. in the order
named. Glass ! also includes Miss
Florence Ballin. New York; Miss
Marguerite Chesney, Phoenix. Ark;
Miss Corrin Gould, st. Louis: Miss
Edith B. Handy. Tompkinsville. N.
Y: Miss Marion Leighton. Chicago;
, Mrs. Malcolm Macneill, Chicago; Mrs.
John Rogge, New York; Miss Cath
crime Waldo. Chicago; Miss Ruth
Wise. Cleveland; Miss Marion Zin-
derstein Boston.