Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03
T;lden Leads; Wallace
Johnson No. 10; Seuen
Local Women in First
Fifty
TWO DOUBLES TEAMS
py SpICK HALL


~ members of the committee, did not
.ho worst Of It in the 1920 ranking
,, American lawn tennis players. Once
MORO the complicated mathematical sys-
.,,, ,,os uscd, and once more the results
,howcd that Judgment is better than
s,nros in rating players in this ever
growing sport. ~
rborc we're 1G1 men ranked for 1870,
= ,,bom forty six were from New York
" I fifteen from Philadelphia. In
., umu dnublcs. forty five teams were
m,pod and of these nine teams are
In,,, Yorkors and two Philadelphians.
i%r,, ErT women are ranked, a dozen from
,bo metropolis and seven from here.
'"t nmo m of the many remarkable features
= ,hc ranking is that in doubles, Alrich
=, Nan IT.. New York. is ranked with
,lo r NIohan. New York. as the four.
.oonth hest team in the country: and
ho IL also ranked with Cedric a. MAJOR
| Tcw York. as the twenty. fifth best;
IIorc is the list of the fourteen Phila
| IcInbio men, with their rankings ana
| clubs: a, c.,,,o,to,,,
Cricket Club; No. 10. Nallne =.
Johnson. Cynwyd; NO. ~, Craig D'a
dc, PlNladelplia Country Club; no.
Az Stanley W. Pearson, Germant0wn
Cricket Club; No. 40, Carr riScner'
Cynwyd and the University OF rem
sylyania, No. 90. f. NJ. EDWARDS; hn-
erton and Merton; No. ~. Dr; +. D.
IIawk. Merton and Cynwyd; NO. VI,
f""' Cassard. philadelphia Cricket
Ciuh. 40 I32, j. Marshall Vanneman.
rwnwyd. No. 1873. Paul A. Nanneman,
Ir 80. IIS. Charles Watson. I'd,
Cynwyd: No. .i5G. Herman DOrnheim;
\o I57, Percy Orsborne. Belfield; No.
i5O indrew Morgan. Germantown
Cricket Club: No. 1853. Roy Colin,
t,prmpntown Cricket Club.
In the doubIes. Wallace +. johnson
ond Stanley W. Pearson are given fifth
nIarp and Brooke Edwards and Ted
Edwards are placed at No. 2B.
ClOthipr not Ranked
Although William J. Clothier. of
Philadelphia. and Beals {. Wright,
BOSTON. two former national cham
mons. played excellent tennis in the
national doubles at the Longwood
Cricket club. they are not placed among
thc first forty five teams. Clothier also
did great comeback in singles, and
his play at Southampton was the fca-
turc of the tournament. And he isn't
among the first 1G1 players of the coun-
try. Among others from Philadelphia
who seem to have been forgotten by the
committee in ranking the singles are
Joe and Alex Thayer, J.. ). CraviS,
Norman Swaync. Johnny llaincs. IL. Z.
Wistrr. Rowland Evans. Henry b. En-
dicott and l.. H. Richards. Swayne
and Richards were both ranked among
the first lbs in 1919. The ranking of
Wallace Johnson rs low as No. 10 is
q rather weird capcr of the mathcmati
cal system.
The national champions, William NJ.
Johnston and Clarence Griffin ARE ranked
first in the doubles. Although there is
nothing wrong with their selection for
first place. it might be casually men
toned that Bill Tilden and X. n. Will
liam, gave them a decisive trimming in
the East West matches last fall at the
Germantown Cricket Club. Further
more. Tildrn and Charles G.. Garland,
Of Pittsburgh, are not ranked at all in
the doubles. To be sure, they didn't
play a great deal together in this coun
try because they were in Europe for
long while in the summer. but at that
they should have been\ranked. They
competed in the nationals at Longwood.
Mrs. Mallory First
Mrs. MOla Bjurstedt MallOry's Sc
lection as No. | among the women was
expected and justified Then in order
cora" Miss Xinderstein, Miss Tenant,
Miss Baker and Miss Goss. Miss Leslie
bancroft, LongwoOd, is given thirteenth
place. She is good at times. but her
lay was very crratic all year. Miss
Florence Rallin is placed at No. II and
Miss Phyllis Walsh at No. 81, although
me Phiadel pha girl defeated the New
YORK glrl in no uncertain fashion in
We ,M delaware state tournament at the
Wilmington Country Club.
Mrs, Gilbert \. Harvey, of the Phil
ad"Ipia Country Club, is not ranked
al all, although she was fourteenth
place. in 1919. She was unable to play
IN the national tournament in 1920,
our She certainly played enough tennis
To be considered.
Ihe seven Philadelphia women ranked
are; No. i3, Miss Molly ID. Thayer,
Philadelphia Cricket Club; No. 81,
Miss Phyllis Walsh. Philadelphia COun-
Try Club; No. %, Mrs. NJ. Brooke Hun,
r. PIiladclphia Cricket Club; No. 2S,
MISS Anne u. Townsend, Merton; No.
", Miss Mildred Willard, Merton; No.
w. Miss JaCqueline Green, Merton; No.
Valley.
Miss Townsend was ranked far too
low at No. ~. Miss Walsh and Mrs.
linh dld well throughout the tennis
season nut their records cannot compare