New-York tribune., 1921-03-06
HYDE Is Placed
First i'm Rating
OF Squash Stars
Harvard Club Player Noses
Out Jay Gould; Cordier
Drops to Third Position
By Jack Masters


mis- players in the United States foi
the season Of l92o-'2l is jest as diff
cult this year as making correct in
come tax return, and it is equally un
pleasant because Of the wide diver
sity Of opinion that is certain to pre-
vail with such large field Of frs
class racquet wieldcrs in line fol
honors.
No season in recent years has pro
duced as many new stars, and on iheil
journey from the rovice ranks tins.
players have caused an uausua. Nun
Der Of upsets, displacing sevcra. of tht
veterans on the Class A teams Of fhs
various clubs, as well as in the ranking
list. have given PAGES to two o.
these e~comcrs3Tnomas Coward. Ne
). and Fred S. Whitlock, No 9.
Fillmore Van S Hyde, Of the Iiar.
Yard Club, heads the list chiefly be.
cause he vas able 70 defeat Jay Goule
Tor the national csarnp npionship 4 few
weeks ago IN this instance have
deviated from the policy Nhicn / an
dertook u pursue j.. making tie seize
tons naneli', that the players would
pc rated on tneir merits through the
casional spectacular exhibition.
Champion Starts Late
While Hyde does not tit into this
category, 1t is Z fac. tnat he did not
get into action until the season va-
we'll under way. and even then ne was
beaten by several mediocre opponents
as veil as ~ Class A me-. The cham
plon rounded INTO form slow. but
IN ,e-.,
conducted, Tor he reached the pcak JUS,
stale.
Gould trouncea Hyde On December ;
last, but tHo nortns i1ter. with .bo
national .;tlc at stake. the Harvard
man swept the court tennis champioo
to defeat in four gamer HYDE, in This
match, played the best squash he has
ever flashed, and he deserved TO win.
But 1t is extremely doubtful i he could
nave beaten Could Rad he not dis
regarded the early team match contests
ahd pointed exclusively for the title.
A. j. Cordier. .1ho stepped down from
the pedes-a. in favor Of Hyde. goes into
third place. Gould eliminated the 1920
champion in the recent tournament and
must be rated ahead OF the Yale man.
Cordler vas handicapped because OF
an operation for appendicitis. from
which he had not fully recovered when
ne began training 70 defend the cham
pionship.
Former Champion Fourth
The next choice is j. " Appel ir. o.
the Harvard Club, q former chainDjon
and veteran OF many q merry racgue-
battle. Appel is one Of the most pic
turesquc players in the game to-dav
and his play is almost as good as it was
when he was champion. He was ,
consistent winner in all Of the metro
poNtan league games and went through,
the national title tournament 10 tne
l,hnal round, where he was defeat
ed By Gould.
Once past the first four the tas,, he
comes harder, and am inviting criti-
clsm by nominating for fifth place {.
man who was q novice at the beginning
OF the season. However. the record
show that Thomas Coward, of the Yale
Club, was the outstanding figure OF the
year he made an overnight bid for
tame on December 4 last, when, playing
ms Hrst match IN fast company, he de-
Yeated Charles N. Bull jr., OF the
oqpash Club, who was one of the lead
ers last year. Three weeks later the
Coward won.
month or so later the newcomer
won the Glass B national title. He also
participated in all Of the Class A
matches, registering victories over Cor
dler and Appel, among others. Ape
defeated Coward in the deciding game
OF the metropolitan champion shin la st
Thursday. But for this defeat the Yale
man would have been placed one steD
higher in the selections.
Veteran Dana Near Ton
Anderson Dana, another Harvard
Club veteran, wins sixth place, with
X. +. Fink, Of the Crescent Club
crowding him close for the honor. Dana
has victories to his credit over all os
the next four stars, with the exception,
Of "hitlock. He defeated Mixsell, No.
s, on December 0 and again on Janu-
ary q, and put Fink to rout on Janu-
ary 20.
With d none too liberal handicap
Fink Won the annual fall tournament
of the National Association and he has
beaten Mixsell, Platt and others in
scratch play In fact, the Crescent A. c.
players game has been consistently
good an season. The same can be said
fcr Mixsell, who has been a tower of
strength to the Princeton team, but
he falls just a little short of equaling
the record OF Fink.
Livingston Platt's performances are
fully creditable enough to warrant plac-
ing him in the charmed circle, although
he has dropped several notches from
the position he held last year.
Fred Whitlock. the Harvard young
ster, who was the runner-up in the
Glass b title meet, is the second Of
the newcomers to find place on the
list of stars. He played Glass A
squash all season, met the best play
ers, and his record is second only to
that of Coward in point of interest.
There are several other players who
have performed in great style and
probably should have been placed
among the first ten. Among them are
prentiss Sanger, Harvard Club, and
{. j. MacGuire, Yale Club Both Of
these players were in top form at the
close of the championship season and
scored victories over some good men,
but neither played the full schedule.
McCabe Stops Fentour
Mike McCabe stopped Willie Fen