The Washington herald., 1922-05-07
FORMER NATIONAL
net CHAMPS ENTER
CHEVYCHASEEVENT.
Five Ex-Singles and Three
Ex-Doubles Titleholders
In Action Thursday.

national singles champion OF
the Eastern team, took three.
out of four singles matches
from John Stratchan, San
Francisco net star and william
NJ. Johnston, former national
champion. of the western team.
took three straight matches
from Vincent Richards. the 19-
year-old Eastern sensation.
Johnston played a brilliant
game. Tilden also was in best
form. The scores: Tilden, 646-
Sc: Strachan, 1922.
Johnson. $50; Richards. 32l.
Entries for the invitation dou-
bles tournament at the Chevy
Chase Club. which begins next
Thursday. May IL, are coming in
fast as the opening day approaches,
according to Arthur HELEN. chair
man of the tournament committee.
I'm addition to Dwight F. Davis,
Holcombe Ward and Beals C.
Wright" said Mr.. HELEN yesterday,
three more former national sin
giles champions have sent in their
names-william A. Lar9ed, william
]. Clothier and Richard Norris
Williams I'd. Larned won the
championship no less than seven
times, Clothier once. and Williams
twice. other recent entrants are
Karl Behr and Wallace F. Johnson.
both internationalists. who expect
to stay over after the exhibition
matches at the White House on
Wednesday"
The Chevy Chase tournament
may well be called a tournament
of champions. for no less than five
men who held the singles title and
three former doubles champions
will he In action there. William
\. Larned is the most noted Of
them all as player. and INDEED
he is considered by many experts
to have been the greatest player
Of all time. 1t will be remem-
bered that the last year he COM
peted in the singles championships
at Newport he beat Mclaughlin,
then In his prime, quite easily in
three straight sets. Besides his eN-
traordinary series of seven wins OF
the singles championship. Larned
represented the United States in
countless international matches
during the past twenty years. He
has been devoting himself more TO
doubles. and will probably be part
nered at Chevy Chase by w. J.
he hold the
Eastern doubles championship sew
eral times. There Is chance
however. that he may play with his
younger brother. Edwin P. Larned'
who, though not so famous, has
also appeared frequently in Amer
icas First Ten.
1t is expected that r. y. Will
Jams 2d. will pair with Watson
washburn. as II was this combi-
nation which represented the United
States in doubles in the challenge
round Of the Davis Cup match at
Forest Hills last September. defeat
ing Shimidzu and Kumagae, OF
Japan. Williams played for the
United States in singles for the
Davis Cup in 1913 and 1914. and
he and Washburn were also mem"
bers Of the team in 1920. Williams
and washburn, who are both for
mer Harvard players, have won
many titles together in the United
states. and also were victorious at
the championships of the A. E. F.
held at Cannes after the armistice
Among the other well-known out
of f-town entries received in the past
few days are Leonard Beekman. the
old Princeton captain, who is paired
with Hugh Kelleher, former Har-
ward star. and Julian s. Myrick. OF
New York. president of the United
States Lawn Tennis Association
and a doubles player of no mean
ability. who will play with George
w. Wightman, o< Boston.
The Washington Newspaper Goli
Club has broadened its scope to
include tennis. and 1t is planned
to hold a tournament shortly after
the clubs golf event on May 26
A committee appointed to handle
tennis consists of Mark Thistle
waite. indianapolis News. chair
man; G. Gould Lincoln. Washington
Star; James L. Wright. Cleveland
Plain Dealer; Frank ]. Taylor, New
York Globe. and Carl d. Ruth
Cleveland Press.