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Show mm hked as BEST TENNIS PLAYER Philadelphia Star Given Honor by Committee; Japanese Player Fifth. :-:v vuiik, i n-: n. n. rris wu- !tnn,R If .if I' .: !-f rfr-; i jl, !;i , nutiojial singles ch. minimi, is tin- lanking liiwn tennis pl.-i Ver r,f l ,',r .-oil lit ; V, a (curding ' he ofli.-litl lb-Is mad- public ho re today By the ranking oniuiltir,. of I ho T'nlted States National l.;uvn Tennis asmicia I ion. W Ilia in M. Johnston of San Francisco. )'.;, title!, older an. I nuiner-up to Wll-ins Wll-ins this season, in placd second, with ;...;.: M. chnieh third, U. Lhidley Mur-lav Mur-lav I'uinili and l.'hi.wi KllMiuK.'.-, the Jup- , I . K. " .MrI,.,Mi;liIin. former natii.nal i I i,i tup;, us, a ml la iron:; I a vin cup eon-tct-.ianl, is in. I ranked among Hie first hundred thn.ngii lack of data, and for Ihe fiist time, .'mice llttts din name, docs not ain-ai in 1 1 1 r- .slngl--;; re lew except as an addend;. Ii Hi-- i-ecui-rln of the ranked tennis ten-nis f-'vperfn. This iv due in par!. In the request of fr. Sumner (larrly, piesident ( tin; ! 'a.-il'ir States a:-su-ia t ion, t lia t where California players (1,1 nut compete tie. inch 1 1 v enough to furnish cum pic te i hi ia fur corn pa rat Ivo p or poses their nauieH should he omitted 1'ioin t lie rank-In-.' I ! ;i I h fill i rel v. .MH.oughlin, coupled with Ward Dawson, Daw-son, is plm-cd aecnnd in the doubles pairing pair-ing rHnking. however, being preceded by V. M. Jolin.sion anil Clarence J. Griffin, while church and Willis Lavis get third Miss Molla Ljurstedt heads the list of woman player-'1 William Earned Honor. The aeli:.-tnn or Wllli.mis for first place 1m no surprise, as he haw been ranked second every year since l!tl2 and was eon-cede eon-cede d to have' earned the premier position bv his showing during tlie national tournament tour-nament at Forest Hills hist September. The inclusion of Kuniayae's name in the tanking list, however, is a novelty, as no foreign plaver has been so honored since IK9T,' when Dr. V. V. leaves, H. A. Nes-btt Nes-btt nnil 11. S. Mahoney of England were ranked ;(, 4 and o, respectively. The ranking committee in Its report to the executive committee of the United States National J. awn Tennis association suggest.-:; that the system of ranking: pUy-ers pUy-ers be changed next year and that they he classified in groups lnsteadv of the method now in vogue. It also statVs that in pieparing the lists for lfllfi the recoids of tournaments, 450(3 singles and Hill doubles players were considered. The Leaders. The first twenty singles players as ranked and the 1 It st ten doubles teams, t oire t her with the leading ten women players, follow: 1 K. Norris Williams II, Philadelphia. William M. Johnston. San Francisco. George M. Cliinch, Tenafly, N. J. 4- -R. Lindtcy, Niagara Kails. 5 lehiya Kuruugae, Japan. U Clarence J. drift' in. San Francisco. 7 -Walsim M. Washburn, New York. s--VYihis K. Davis, San Francisco. :i-J. J. Arms irony. Philadelphia, ln -Deau Mathey. Cranfoiil, N. J. 11 Karl p.ehr, New York. U' --11, l-lvi'onl, 'Chienso. IS C K. Doyle, AYashinton, D. C. 14 11. C. Johnson, Boston. 1,-, N. W. Xiles. Hoston. hi T. U. Pell. New York. 1 t I . A. Throckmorton. F.lizabeth, N. J. 15 W. T. Ttlden. Jr., Cynwyd, Pa. l!i K. 1 1. Whiiney, New York. 20 S. H. Yoshel!, Brooklyn, fioubles vankini; : 1 Y. M. Johnston and C. J. Griffin. 2 M. Mclonqhlln and Word Dawson. 3 It. iM. Chinch and YVUlis K. Davis. 4 Ci. AT. Church and D. Mnthey. ; ft Y. F. Johnson and J. J. Armstrong. f, F. p. Alexander and K. H. Behr. : l 7 1'. Jlathev and Harold Throckmorton, i S V. T. Haves and R. H. Murdick. n---A. Ah lnn, Jr., and C. M. Bull, Jr. in- W. E. "avis and H. V. D. Johns. Women players, first ten: 1 Miss Molla Pjurstedt. j 2 Mrs. I'M ward Raymond. , : Miss I'lvelyn Sears. F .Miss Anita Meyers, i a Miss Sinli ivltvjrston. : ii Miss Marie Warner. 7 M'rs. CI. S. Cireen. 5 -Miss Martha (Uithn'e. 0 Miss F.leanoru Sears. It' Mrs. Biirger Wallach. ' Double Tourney Planned. The executive committee also announced i that it will recommend to the association at the annual meeting- in February that in the future the national doubles ehani- ' plonship he decided in a separate tourna ment upen to all under the rules of the organization or-ganization and in which the title-holding pair shall play through in the same manner man-ner as now prevails In the singles. A new section of the association, to he known as the Pacific northwest section, and to Include the states of Oregon. Washington and parts of Montana and Idaho, is also recommended, the territory to he taken from the present Pacific states and intermountain sections. The executive committee further stated that it stood pat upon the proposed changes in t he rules governing the status of an amateur tennis player and would recommend recom-mend the same at the annual gathering. |