Evening star., 1924-07-27

/ There may be 4 different story this
season. Certainly if a careful regime
and a strategic arrangement of play
| ing engagements are all that is nee
essary TO put the Californian back
| expected to stand forth once more as
| second to none.
Herd the Placid Players.
Johnston and Howard Klnsev. both
| of California, head the list Of seeded
| players al Seabright In addition TO,
| Johnston and II. Kinsey. there were
also seeded in the mems singles Har-
Vey SnodGraSs. Robert kiusey and
| Clarence Griffin. all of California,
! Brian !. Q. Norton, formerly of South
! Africa, who will make his first an
| pearance of the season in the East in
| this tournament; Fritz MerCur, win
| ner of the Longwood Bowl, and Dean
| Mathey.
Among the other players entered in
| the mems singles are Ignacio Bar
bolla Of the Mexican Davis cup team;
Carl Fischer, William ClUthier. Law
renee r. Rice, Charles 5. Garland pf
the 1920 United states Davis cup
team, willard +. Crocker and Jack
Wright of the Canadian Davis cup
team, DR.. George King, Walter West
brook and Elliott II. Binzen. .
The seeded teams in the mems dou-'
bles are Johnston and Griffin the Kim
sey brothers, Lewis y. White and
Louis Thalheimer of the University
Of Texas, Intercollegiate champions.
Mathey and Karl Behr. Snodgrass and
Westbrook and Crocker and Wright.
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Miss Mary K. Browne Of California.
who is returning to the courts after
an absence of three years heads the
list of placed players in the woman S .
tournament. The others are Miss
Mayme Macdonald, national clay
court champion; Miss Martha Bayard
of Short Hills, y. J.. a member of the
AS a special feature of the opening
day of the tournament Capt. Gerald
Paterson and Pat O'Hara Wood of the
Australian team will play an eXhibi-
tion doubles match probably against
| Mathey and Behr.
Among the teams entered in the
doubles are four Of the SIX that are
being considered by the Davis cup
selection committee of the United
States Lawn Tennis Association. The
six teams are: William T. Tilden, ID
and r. Norris Williams, I'd, who d.
feated the Australians in doubles
last year; Vincent Richards and
Francis II Hunter. Olympic cham
pions; Johnston and Griffith, who
have held the national doubles title
three times; the Kinseys Behr and
Mathey, and White and Thalheimer.
All but the first two pairs are en-
tered at Seabright and will pass
under the inspection of the selection
committee, which, headed by Bernon
S. Prentice. Will hold its first meet
| ing at Seabright on the final day Of
| the tournament
Test for Doubles Team.
The doubles tournament in realIL9
| constitutes the first of a series Of
f.l1 f1r
| lively mapped out by the committee
According to the present plans the
committee Will tentatively name the
| players to represent the United States
! in the Davis cup challenge round On
or about August 20. although the cup
defending contest will not be held at
| the Germa ntoWn Cricket Club, PhilaA
delphia. until September II, IL and
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The early naming of the tentative
team has been adopted in accordance
| with the suggestions of some of the
| leading Davis cup players. in order
| that these players may arrange their
tournament engagements in such a
manner that they will not conflict
with the Davis cup team practice in
| both singles and doubles during the
three weeks preceding the challenge
round.
Modern tennis is celebrating it's
jubilee this year according to A.
Wallis Myers as editor of the new
edition of Ayers Lawn Tennis NJ
manac, just published in England
He draws attention to the fact that
it was fifty years ago-in 1874-that
Maj Wingfield took out a patent for
what the latter describes as "a new
and improved portable court for play
ing the ancient game of tennis"
The roots of the now universal
game may go deeper than WingfieldS :
invention, but his was the first speCi-
ned court; his laws. primitive as
they were, the first that were codi-
fed in print. declares the writer
In reviewing the extraordinary
growth of the sport he claims that
its domestic origin-it originally disr
placed croQuet in the home gardenL
was at once its strongest foundation
and its greatest guarantee of future
development.