Evening star., 1939-12-24
Youngster From Each
Sex Wins High Spot
In Select LIST
WeIby Van Horn, Helen
Bernhard Receive
No. a Ratings
BY BILL BONI,

sters from opposite sides of the
North American Continent. Welby
Van Horn or Los Angeles and Helen
Bernhard of New York, were given
prominent positions in the top los
OF tennis ranking for 1899 as an
nounced today by the United States
Lawn Tennis Association.
Van Horn, lean, broad-shoul-
dered kid with much of the power
If not all of the control of Don
Bulge, went to the final round of
the mems singles championship at
Forest Hills last September and
thereby won fourth place. No. l
position, of course, went to Chunky
Bobby Riggs of Chicago. United
States and Wimbledon title-holder.
Miss Bernhard. diminutive miss,
who, like Van Horn, barely is out
OF the Junior division, spread her
accomplishments more generally
over the season to advance from
17th place in 1888 to fourth place
in 1899. The women's singles rank
ings also accorded top position, as a
matter of course, to Alice Marble,
the California blond who likewise
won both at Wimbledon and Forest
Hills.
Parker Makes Big Advance.
The makeup of the mems first 10,
including as it did five players who
failed to attain such recognition
year ago, apparently showed that the
U. S. L. T. A. Ranking Committee
was placing less emphasis on per-
formance in the nationals except in
the case of Van Horn and more on
al-around tournament proficiency.
Between Riggs and Van Horn come
Frankie Parker of Pasadena, Calf,
and Don McNeill of Oklahoma City.
Parker, who shared the Davis Cup
singles assignments with Riggs and
led off in the losing fight against
Australia by upsetting Adrian Quist,
advanced from eighth place to Sec
ond. McNeill, who wound up a
world tour by winning the French
hard court championship, was
pushed up from 18th place to third.
Completing the first 10 were:
No. 6, ElWood T. Cooke, Portland,
Greg, unranked year ago and due
for a hearing next February on
charges that he violated the U. S.
L. T. AS eight-Weeks rule.
No. 6, Elwood T. Cooke, Portland
Greg, seventh a year ago and 1899
Wimbledon flnalist against Riggs.
No, 7, Bryan M. (Bitsy) Grant, jr.,
Atlanta, Ga, who dropped one
notch.
No. 8, Gardnar Mulloy, Coral Ga
bles, Fla, up from 1lth place.
No. 9, Gilbert A. Hunt, jr., Wash
ington, D. c., ninth a year ago.
No. 10, Henry j. Prusoff, Seattle,
who staged notable comeback. Il,
Four Drop From Top 10.
Dropped from the previous years
first 10 yere Gene Mako, who went
from third place to 18th; Sidney
Wood, from fourth to 10Th, and Joe
Hunt and Frank Kovacs, fifth and
10th, respectively, in 1898, who were
not ranked because of insufficient
data. Hunt teamed with 17th-
ranked John Kramer of Belvedere
Gardens, Calf, in Davis Cup
doubles, but attendance at the
United States Naval Academy kept
him from extensive tournament
play.
Notable in the 1899 women's rank
Ing list is the temperance of Helen
Jacobs. The popular Berkeley
(CallfD veteran won the No. 2 berth
because of her gallant battle against
Miss Marble in the Forest Hills
final and her feat of going to VIM
bledon's quarter-fnals. Her return
to the lists forced Mrs. Sarah Pal
frey Fabyan of Cambridge, Mass,
down to third place.
The other flrst-tenners:
No, S, Virginia Wolfenden, San
ia Monica, Calf, up from ninth.
No. 6, Dorothy May Bundy, San
ia Monica, down from third.
No. 7, Dorothy Workman, Los An
geles, down from sixth.
No 8, Pauline Betz, Los Angeles,
unranked in 1888.
No. 8, Katherine Winthrop, Bos-
ton, up from 10th.
No. 10, Mary Arnold, San Fran
cisco, unranked in 1888.
McNeill and Parker topped the
mems doubles ranking, ahead of
Cooke and Riggs. the Wimbledon
winners. Both pairs lost to Aus
trallan teams in the national semi
finals.
The rankings will be submitted
Tor final approval by the U. S. L. T.
A. at its annual meeting in New
York on February 10, 1910.
Such approval is merely a mat
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