The New York herald., 1922-01-02
WEST Is ECLIPSED
IN TENNIS RANKING
Nine Fasteners i'm First Ten
of Annual National
List.
VINCENT RICHARDS THIRD
New York Has Four Places in
Select Circle and BOs-
ton Three.
VINCENT RICHARDS THIRD
by SAMUEL j. BRoOKMAN.

BY SAMUEL j. BROOKMAN.
What will interest tennis fans most
about the official national rankings
announced yesterday is not that Will
lam t. Tilden I'd has been placed first
and William NJ. Johnston of San Fran
cisco second-nobody expected any
thing else-but that youthful Vincent
Richards has been named third and is
at last right among the foremost title
contenders that New York has four
places among the first ten in ranking
that Boston and environs have three
and Philadelphia has two, and that
California for the first time in thirteen
years. If we except 1918, when the Pa
cific coast players did not come on for
tho important tournaments. has just
ono representative in the select circle.
Just outside the first ten Willis e.
Davis. Robert Kinsey and Howard Kin
sey. all of San Francisco, have been
named In row. eleventh, twelfth and
thirteenth. Wallace =. johnson, runner
up 20 Tilden in the national Champion
ship. has been rated fourth. Watson NJ.
VdsAuWH WHO tTlufnpne0 over William
M. Johnston and R. Norris Williams at
Newport Is fifth and williams sixth
Then come Ichiya Kumagae. New York
resident but member of the Japanese
Davis cup team, in seventh place; S.
Howard Voshell eighth, Lawrence B.
Rice Of Newton Center, Mass, NINTH
and Nathaniel w. Niles Of Boston tenth
Mrs. Franklin 1. Mallory. unbeatc>i In
this country last year and conqueror Of
Mile. Suzanne Lenglen. of course heads
the women's ranking. In second place Is
MISS Mary K. Browne of Los Angeles
runnerup in the national championship,
while Mrs. Marion Zinderstcin J~sup,
who gave Mrs. Mallory several hard
matches. is third. Mrs. May Sutton
Bundy of Los Angeles. who came out Of
retirement to aid in the defense of the
American title. has been placed fourth
on the list and Miss Eleanor Goss of
this city fifth. Miss Goss had a victory
over Miss Browne to her credit, but she
was not as active as the California girl
and In the main her record was not
nearly as impressive.
Mass of Data Tackled.
That the ranking lists will not meet
with unanimous approval Is a certainty.
No ranking list ever has. In the main,
done its difficult work well. Only
twenty were ranked in singles this year.
as against 167 In mems singles and 81
IN women's singles a year ago, but the
task was none the less trying, for the
mass of data and statistics that the com
nittee had to ponder over was just as
heavy as usual. For the first time In
three years the ratings were not based
on mathematical formula alone but on
a
Exception undoubtedly will be taken
to placing S. Howard voshell eighth on
the list. Voshell flashed some fine ten
mis- on occasions last season, but also
some poor tennis. The best thing he
did was to beat Zenzo Shimidzu, the
Japanese star, twice, but he was de-
feated by Cedric Major. Allen Behr,
Howard Kinsey and Dean Mathey
among others. and his play was far
from consistent In our opinion four
OF the five men named right after him
in position, Lawrence b. Rice. Willis L.
Davis, Robert Kinsey and Howard Kin
rey. should have passed him in tennis
ranking.
Undoubtedly there will be many, too,
who will insist that Williams and not
Wallace Johnson deserved fourth place
and that Nathaniel W. Niles, beaten by
Stanley w. Pearson In the second round
OF the national singles. had not shown
effective enough tennis 10 warrant his
being placed tenth. Then there is the
case of Francis II. Hunter, who reached
the fifth round of the national cham
pionship, who advanced as far as the
semi-finals OF the British title tourna-
ment at Wimbledon and who was a
consistent winner In important metro
politan events. After looking over his
record the ranking committee decided
that he could not be included because
Of insufficient data. yet he had been
just as active as Niles. who was rated
tenth, and as one or two others named
in the first twenty.
Girl Sensation Fourteenth.
In the woman's list the ranking that
will occasion most comment is that of
fifteen-year-old Miss Helen Wills Of
San Francisco. who was given four
tcenth position. The California school,
girl, it will be remembered, was one of
the sensations of the tennis season.
Coming here almost unheralded, she de-
fcoted some of the foremost players In
the East and extended fhe best of the
others. She took set from Miss
Eleanor Cos, fifth in national rank, at
Seabright, where she advanced 20 the
semifinal: she gave Mrs. Marion zin-
u'Tttcln Jtssup, Tdttu tnlru, n nara
tussle at the Nassau Country Club she
defeated Miss Leslie Bancroft, who has
been placed eighth. six places ahead OF
her, and then returning TO California
she won the Pacific coast championship
by defeating Miss Helen Baker, who
year ago rated fourth nationally. That
record appeared TO entitlc her TO place
somewhere In the first ten.
Sectional Rankings, Too.
Supplementing the national rankings
this year are the ratings of tho different
tennis sections into which the country
~ divided. No FOREIGN players were
ranked with the exception of Tchiya
kumagae. who has been resident Of
the country for a number OF years The
committee has recommended that next
season subcommlttees be named to take
care OF the women's ranking, the junior
ranking and the one for boys. The
ranking committee consisted of IIol-
combe Ward OF New York, chairman I:
Abraham Bassford, Jr., New York -.
r. Thorwald Of Cleveland. Russell ~.
Dana OF Pawtucket and Dr. r. u. Hawk
Of Philadelphia.
The sectional rankings follow:
CALIFORNIA SECTION.
Mems Sinsics--i, william NJ. Johnston. ..
Roland fioberts 2, Robert Kinsey; 4. How
ard Kinsey ,. Wallace Bates. q. William
Parker; Z, Edmund Levy; 4, Phil Bettens; y,
ryron Datkln; 10. Charles Stickncy. all OF
san Francisco.
Mems Doubirs--i Robert ISinsey and How
ard Kinsey :, JOHN Gtrachan ana Roland
fioberts: ., Wallace Bates and Edmund Levy
az OF San Irnncisco.