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Show BEST AGE FOR TENNIS Man Plays at Topnotch When Thirty-Five Years Old. Champion Williams Says McLoughlin Not Through Because He Is Twenty-Six Years of Age Will Keep on Playing. "How long can a man play topnotch tennis?" It. Morris Williams, II, gave vent to a modest chuckle before answering this query put to him shortly after he had defeated William Johnston, California, in the national lawn tennis championship champion-ship finals at Forest Hills, N. Y. "Why, I should say until he is thirty-four thirty-four or thirty-five. Do you think 'Mor-rie' 'Mor-rie' McLoughlin is entirely broken simply sim-ply because he Is twenty-six?" the champion asked in reply. "Not a bit of it. It is entirely probable, and I shouldn't in the least be surprised to; see him come back to the best he ever played within the next six years and regain the title. "I have no expectations, but only hopes, as to the length of time I can remain champion or a championship, contender. I am twenty-four now. r-- 'E ' R. Norris Williams, II. And a man ought to play the very bestj tennis of his career around twenty-nine or thirty, for the reason that at that age he is likely to have retained his stamina and to have played long enough to have acquired the experience which is so valuable in big matches. Look at Karl Behr. He is far from broken. f'There may be this, however, to be, said about McLoughlin. It is highly possible that his smashing style takes the physical strength out of a man in his younger years, where the game which either William Johnston or I play would conserve It. It is not Impossible Im-possible that a vital difference Ilea there. "I expect to keep up with my tennis while In business as much as I did while at Harvard, where I was graduated gradu-ated last June." |