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This week the ranking committee of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association turned out its annual honor roll, and for the first time since 1930, when Johnny Doeg did it, a left-hander topped the list. He was taffy-haired Art Larsen, 25, ranked No. 6 a year ago but winner in 1950 of the national singles title...
Died. Thomas Clark Bundy, 64, three times national doubles tennis champion (with Maurice McLoughlin), former husband of onetime (1904) women's national singles champion May Sutton, father of first-ten player Dorothy May Bundy, uncle of onetime (1930) national singles champion John Hope Doeg; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...week boxing instructor on the S. S. Franconia. Later he drifted into banking, peddled stocks in Manhattan and took up golf seriously, shot a 66. He started playing squash rackets in earnest and cleaned up tournaments around New York. Three years ago, when a match with hard-hitting John Doeg left him feeling wobbly, he threw away his racket and has never played since...
McNeill, who has won not a single tournament this year, has had a wretched season-about the worst for a No. 1 ranker since John Hope Doeg's memorable fadeout ten years ago. His game is more effective on grass than on clay, and he has been playing on clay. But his shots had been going badly and his confidence was shaken. He had no alibi last week. Parker, onetime protege of Coach Mercer Beasley, who comes up every year with a "remodeled" forehand, had an alibi. He likes clay better than turf; his mechanical style thrives...
...spring of 1928, rangy, left-handed John Hope Doeg, offshoot of California's famed tennis-playing Suttons, quit his studies at Stanford to tune up with the U. S. Davis Cup squad. Conservative President Sumner Hardy of the California Tennis Association huffed & puffed and finally howled that the Davis Cup Committee was "making bums out of young tennis players...