Sport: Doubles

That twins make ideal doubles players was demonstrated last week when William and Chester Murphy, identical twins, wound up their tennis careers at the University of Chicago. Playing in the Big Ten ennis championships at Chicago, the solemn-faced Murphys outplayed the star doubles teams of eight rival colleges, won the doubles title without losing a set. In three years of varsity tennis (including three Big Ten championships), they had never lost a doubles match, had dropped only two sets.

In singles play, their records have been identical too. Crooked-nosed Chet, No. 1 singles player on the Chicago squad, has been defeated just once in the past three years. So has straight-nosed Bill, No. 2 singles player. Although they are good enough to have a national ranking* (mainly because of a doubles victory over Davis Cuppers Bobby Riggs and Bitsy Grant in the famed Seabright tournament last summer), the Murphy twins have no intention of becoming “tennis bums” (amateur players who tour the circuit of bigtime tournaments and live on the clubs’ “expense accounts”). They want jobs as basketball coaches, a game at which they also excel.

* In Class A, a group of twelve ranked just below the top 20 U. S. tennists.