The sun., 1904-07-31

much underrated by nvn-players, as II
looks absurdly easy.
1One finds garden party folk ignorant
OF half the beautiful little delicate strokes
which can be cultivated, and II any one
happens to dare drop ball short over the
net there are Immediately cries OF 'oh,
how meant
In conjuring up the composite figures
but q scant suggestion has been taken from
any individual likeness. Miss Mary Sutton,
the present lawn tennis champion. Is only II
and she Is far from spare In figure. while
her forearm is as firm and muscular a. an
oarsman's.
She has been playing In tournaments
since her twelfth year, and for four years
has held the California championship.
Her game is phenomenally good, and on
the Eastern tour that included the cham
pionship she did not lose a set.
Having been trained from the very be-
ginning to play the game in the way boy
takes to sport, Miss Sutton is an exception
to the ordinary tennis player. physical
training from childhood would make
woman suite to the most vigorous sport.
Her immediate predecessors in tbs cham
pionship, Miss Bessie Moore and Miss Marian
Jones, we're extremes in nervous tempera-
ment and physique, and both had the clean
cut, 1.-the appearance typical Of such great
wielders of the racquet as Miles, the Doher'
tys and Wrenn.
Womens tennis, after all, Is stM game
Of rallies and on this account far less ex-
hausting than the volleying game OF the
men. A check to volleying among the
feminine players is the fact that the lob 10
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kill it with asmash than they could throw
stone straight, and for the same reason
The best attempt they make Is a full arm
slap at the ball.
Volleying Is what takes most from the
strength OF the men, and they may overlook
this In crit icising lawn tennis as oene"
foial sport for women.
As in the composite imagined; tho indi-
vidual golfers depicted possess the solidty
and rounded outlines OF the ideal for the
type, but all Of the quartet are slim In
figure All are very prominent IN the
Miss Frances Grisoom Is former cham
pion and Misc Maud Wetmore has oeen H
runner-up. The present champion. MT;
B. s. Horne married soon after the national
tournament, which she won as Miss Bessie
Anthony.
She is all nerves and activity in tenn
permanent, "a bundle Of whipoord, to quote
tribute to the calming influences OF golf
on an excitable dis position In tennis,
such nature would soon have been worn
out
Mrs. Charles T. Stout, winner Of ths
championships Of 1901 and 1902 as Miss
Genevieve Hecker, married in the latter
year and she has now a baby son. Matri-
mony is not the end Of woman's goians;
In which fact the game scores In signal
way over tournament tennis, and both
Mrs. Stout and Mrs. Horne will probably
take part in the October championship
meeting. Mrs. Stout possesses the serenity
of disposition that is unchanged In defeat
or success that is a typical golfng trait.
The women dress with good sense IN
both games, for the suitable requirements
for vigorous exercise are now well under
stood, and aside from the shoes the 9es-
tunes are practically the same. Golfets.
indeed, sometimes wear tennis shoes, but
the spiked walking shoes would be anchors
n court
nothing in the choice between the two
sports.