New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-01-20
1914 Doubles Champions
Lose 10 No. 7 Rank
ing Team in 1921
By Fred Hawthorne

This is the day Of youth in athletics
the high speed tendency having reachcd
such a stage that no man can withstand
the terrific pace FOR more than a few
years and continue at top form. 1t is
AS true in lawn tennis quite as much as
III other sports; but even so. it is diff
cult to visualize the almost invinciblc
Maurice Mclaughlin of six or seven
Years ago, the youngster who conquered
Wilding, Brookes and Parke. as being
almost completely Through" as d
player.
Yet evidence to this effect is found
in the fact that McLoughlin and Tom
Bundy, his Old doubles partner in the
holding of the national doubles cham
pionshp in 1912. 1913 and 1914, were
defeated in the Ojai Valley tournament
IN California last spring by the team o.:
Wallace Bates and Edmund J. Levy. In
the 1921 ranking list Bates and Levy
are placed at No. 7 in a rather poor
field.
Several months later. when Ichiva
kumagae and Zenzo Shimidzu were in
California, they defeated McLoughlin
and partner by score of s 3. 6-3.
A TREND of mine who witnessed that
match writes to me, in commenting on
the comets game: "Picture to YOUR
self the fact that Maurice did not win a
Single service IN the match, and YOU
can understand how the once greatest
delivery IN the world has gone 'blaa'."
It seems almost inconceivable. does
it not, that that once tremendous burst
of speed and power, the McLoughljn
cannon BALI service. could so quickly
degenerate into the weak. hating in
strumcnt it is to-day?
Break Was Inevitable
OF course. McLoughlins was am ex-
IRENE case: he made such excessive
and relentless use of physical energy, j.,
ms playing that it was inevitable rho
break would come sooner than Womb
be the case with other PLAYERS. He IL
orally burned himself out while still =
young man, even from an athletic
standpoint, and the fact that he was
once as!-conqnerlng on the courts
makes his rapid fall from the heights
just so much more sensational md
dramatic.
Orrn Mangun. captain of the 1922
tennis team of the University OF Penn
syiVanla, has sent me a aotice to the
sHect that meeting and banquet will
be held by the L. of P. Tennis Associa-
'.'''' VII ''at uIudN, at tnc HOte A0eI-
phla, on Chestnut Street. phj|adeal-
phla, at which Wallace Johnson. V,n-
cent Richards and Watson NJ. Wash-
burn will be guests of honor. Tilden
the worlds champion, was invited bnt
illness will prevent his ATTENDING ria
banquet will begin at 6 80 O'Clock. and
Immediately alterward there will I've
exhibition matches between the NAV.
ers, to be played in Weightman Hai]
on the university grounds
The doubles game in this country has
never been developed to its full extent
and for the last three or four Years ths
standard OF play has fallen steadil,.
lower. In the days Of Alexander ava
Hackett, Mclaughlin and Bundy. John.
ston and Griffin. there were half :,
dozen other teams that could press Tho
champions closely, among them TouI
chard and Little, Behr and Poll and
Church and Mathey, and this was main.
ly because men played together al .
team through al entire season. where
as now there is too much shifting
about with new partners.
Glance at the first ten teams in the
national ranking list for 1921 and vo,,