Ten

The U. S. Lawn Tennis Association came out of conference in Chicago with the scroll of honor for 1927. There was little question about the head man and leading lady. As he has done since 1920 William T. Tilden, 2nd, placed first in the ranking list of U. S. tournament tennis players. Helen Wills, struck from the 1926 list by appendicitis, returned to the top of the female troupe. Among the males youth assumed a predominance shocking to spry ancients. In the first ten Tilden, Francis T. Hunter, No. 2, and Manuel Alonso, one-time Spanish subject, No. 4, were the only veterans. Third place went to George M. Lott, Jr., Michigan undergraduate, the highest ranking ever bestowed upon the middle west. Notables conspicuous by absence from the lists owing to insufficient tennis activity in 1927 were William Johnston, for a dozen years in the first six; R. Norris Williams, potent defender of many a Davis Cup; Elizabeth Ryan, second woman in 1926, and Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup.

The rest of the ranking:

Men

5. John Hennessey

6. John Van Ryn

7. Arnold W. Jones

8. John Doeg

9. Lewis N. White

10. Cranston W. Holman

Women

2. Mrs. Molla Mallory

3. Mrs. C. H. Chapin Jr.

4. Miss Helen Jacobs

5. Miss Eleanor Goss

6. Mrs. J. D. Corbiere

7. Miss Penelope Anderson

8. Miss Margaret Blake

9. Mrs. E. H. Rosser 10. Miss Alice Francis