Meredith W. Jones, who is just fifteen, is rapidly developing into as fine a player as

rounded, well-conceived game, coupled with determination, that succeeds for Ingraham.

His younger brother, Arthur, Junior, is following in Billy's footsteps and developing as fine a stroke game as I have seen in a boy of fifteen.

The youngest member of the family, Andrew Clark Ingraham, aged eleven, is also a remarkable tennis figure. He is already possessed of many of the strokes of his older brothers, which he uses with remarkable judgment for so young a lad.

One of the most attractive personalities in the game, and a player of the utmost promise, is Charles Watson, 3rd, of Philadelphia. Young Watson, aged seventeen, is a miniature edition of the famous Chuck Garland of the 1920 American Davis Cup Team. Charlie Watson is a real student of the game. His strokes, beautiful in execution, are scientifically studied, and he is improving rapidly every year. He is one of the cleverest tacticians that I have ever met. There is little doubt in my mind but that Charlie will loom

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VINCENT RICHARDS

"In that furiously fought five-set match with William M. Johnston at Germantown in September, Richards proved that he must be considered as one of the real leaders of the game. Only three points stood between him and victory on that occasion, with Johnston fighting with every ounce of strength and every atom of playing skill that he could command."-Fred Hawthorne in the "New York Tribune."

Arnold, and I look to see him one of the leading stars of the next ten years.

There is another remarkable family from Rhode Island-the Ingraham family, sons of Arthur Ingraham, one of the leading tennis figures in the district for many years. The eldest boy, William W. Ingraham, was runner-up to Richards in last year's Junior Championship.

Billy has just returned from a most successful tour of the Pacific Northwest, during which he won the Oregon State Championship. His attractive personality and cleancut game gave him a wonderful popularity in the cities in which he played. He, too, plays an all-court game on the type of Richards and Jones, but lacks the superlative features of either. On the other hand, he has not the weakness off the ground of Richards nor the uncertainty overhead of Jones. It is a well

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large in American tennis in the next decade. New York boasts of another promising player in Charles Wood, Junior. This brilliant youngster, who is now seventeen and a student at De Witt Clinton High School,

promise. The ability to play virtually all year round tends to develop the game more rapidly than in the East. Let me mention but two outstanding figures among the juniors from those districts.

Phillip Bettens, of San Francisco, seems to me to give promise of becoming a logical successor to "Little Bill" Johnston. Betten's game is closely modeled on the lines of the famous little Californian. He has a terrific forehand drive of great severity and remarkable accuracy for so fast a shot, while his volley and overhead are severe and, in the main, reliable. His backhand, when last I saw him, was defensive; but at the time he was working on an offensive flat drive which, if acquired, will give him a magnificently

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Marion. He has an excellent stroke production, which experience will improve.

Among the boys just out of junior age limit are several figures that stand out preeminently. Chief among them is Marshall Allen of Seattle, Washington, who combines terrific speed with one of the keenest athletic brains I have ever met. Allen only needs seasoning in tournament play to make him a serious contender for the highest honors.

Phillip Neer, of Leland Stanford University, Inter-Collegiate Champion of 1921, and his partner, J. M. Davies, are two youngsters of infinite promise. Both of these boys during the present season have carried several of the great stars to the limit, before acknowledging defeat.

Australia, so that my opportunity for studying conditions in these nations has been quite extensive. My own work among the junior tennis-players of America, with whom I have been in touch for some seven years, has given me a standard to judge by, and by it I measure the work in the various countries.

England, just at present, presents the least promise. The schools of England, for years wedded to their conservative team games of cricket and football, are loath to break down the bars of tradition and allow golf and tennis to take the places they deserve. The boys themselves are not the aggressive, assertive type which one finds in the Antipodes or in America. They are more easily regulated and easy-going, following school policy rather than setting that policy themselves. The result is there are no school-boys playing organized tennis in England. The few boys who do play the game are the product of clubs to which their parents belong and where the boys pick up the game, or are the

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Carl Fischer, of the University of Pennsylvania, the famous left-hand star of the Philadelphia district, and holder of the 1921 Middle States Championship, has advanced into select company by leaps and bounds. He seems destined to figure largely in future

years.

From these few outlines, of some of our youngsters, it is easy to see that America may well face the future with pardonable pride in her tennis prowess.

I see no reason to doubt but what the term of the future, made up from such boys as I have mentioned, will far exceed the ability of our own Davis Cup Team of 1921. So firm is my trust in the future, that I dare to prophesy that having retained the cup this year, it will remain in America for fully a decade. But what of the other countries?

The future of the game of lawn-tennis rests in the hands of the boys and girls of the world. All athletics are only as strong as the interest they create among the youngsters of the various nations. It is for this reason that organized athletics are part of the educational system of every country.

During the years of 1920 and 1921, I have played on the American Davis Cup Tennis Team in France, England, New Zealand, and

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sons of tennis-players who own courts and teach their children at home.

Young Dicky Ritchie, son of M. J. G. Ritchie, one of the most famous of English Davis Cup stars, is a boy of the latter type, and bids fair to follow in the footsteps of his

famous father. Dicky is now only eleven. J. C. Parke, the famous champion-beater, who has defeated Brookes, Wilding, McLoughlin, Williams, and Gobert, has a young son of about two years of age, whom he proposes to coach in the game. André Gobert, the French player, is the father of a boy of the same age, and the great Park-Gobert matches of the past should be resumed about 1940.

Yet while she may produce individual stars in the future, England faces a serious situation for the years to come, for they have no organized system of development for the boys and girls, and only by this can the standard of tennis be raised. There are no young players between the ages of fifteen and thirty in England to-day except Max Woodman, the new Davis Cup player. Yet I have that implicit faith in England's ability to cope with any situation that allows me to rise above pessimism.

France is quite the opposite of England. Childhood in sport is almost a fetish in France. True, they do not have highly organized scholastic competitions, such as one finds in cricket in England, but the Clubs afford ample opportunity for play, and these chances are quickly grasped by the children. Boys

MARSHALL ALLEN AND WILLIAM T. TILDEN, 2D

"Everywhere one goes there are new players, many of them not out of their teens, who handle a racket with the poise, skill, and strategy of a veteran. Players like Marshall Allen, of Seattle, who carried me into a 11-9 set, appear to be developing in all parts of the country." Zenzo Shimidzu.

and girls with tennis-rackets are to be seen in all directions, as well as boys in track-suits, running, pole-vaulting, putting the shot, etc.

This was the general appearance at the Stade Français, St. Cloud, where the American team arrived for its daily practice.

It is a healthy, inspiring people one finds recovering from the effects of the Great War.

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The French are always volatile, and nothing serious depresses them. Sport is essential to them. They will have it. To Englishmen it

is essential, but businesslike in its methodical precision.

There are not

many very young boys of great promise in French teams at the moment, but there is a vast mass of potential material from which may come a champion of great class. The leading players of France are all young. They are about the ages of the leading

American stars. André Gobert is almost thirty; Laurens, his partner, is twenty-five; Marcel Brugnon and Mlle. Lenglen, the famous girl-champion, are both twenty-two.

Max Decuges and Alfred Germont, the veterans of French tennis and heroes of many a Davis Cup match, are each well under forty, so one sees a marked difference from England, where, almost without exception, the leading players are well over thirtyfive. A. R. F. Kingscote is the only star in England who has not yet attained that age.

New Zealand and Australia present the usual aspect of young countries, progressive, aggressive, and interesting. True, they are not yet far along the path of organized development, but the example of such great stars as Norman E. Brookes, the late A. F. Wilding, Rodney Heath, Horace Rice, and others, offset to a great degree by inspiration the need for organization. New Zealand has a marvelous youth in their land. The type of boy one finds in New Zealand is the wide-awake, active, keen-thinking youngster one is accustomed to meet in America. Physically mag

THE GIRLS' TENNIS CHAMPION TENNIS Courts, both in the East and on the Pacific Coast, have been the scenes of conquest for Helen Wills this last summer. This fifteen-year-old member of the Berkeley (California) Tennis Club not only won the National Girls' Junior Tennis Championship at Forest Hills, Long Island, in August, by defeating Virginia Carpenter of Philadelphia, but paired with Ceres Baker of South Orange, New Jersey, annexed the doubles' title in a fast match with Adelaide and Helen Hooker of Greenwich, Connecticut.

In September, she acquired two more titles. Playing in the California women's tennis tournament, she won the state title from the Pacific Coast champion, Miss Helen Baker.

Miss Anna McCune, champion of the University of California, was the next to bow to Miss Wills' prowess when her title of Bay Counties' champion went to this young wizard.

A Californian tells us that Helen Wills is one of the best girl players the game has ever produced, and he says some of her success is due to the fact that at the Berkeley Club she has played mostly with the older men, thus acquiring strength and speed in her play.