Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-25
BRlTlSHERS LAUD MAY
SUTT0N'S RACQUET WORK
AM ERICAN GIRL ATTAINS GREAT
POPULARITY
Travels Again to England to Meet
Miss Douglas, Whose Sprained
Wrist Barred Her From Last
Years Events


NEW YORK, May 24.-The Times to-
day says
When Miss Sutton was i'm the heyday
of her glory upon the English courts
last season her reputation as a lawn
tennis player became almost house
hold word. From one end of the United
Kingdom to the other tennis is almost a
universal sport, and from princes to
petty clerks all play at the game.
So wonderful was the racquet work
of the American girl that even the
music hall artists found time to pun
and joke about her supremacy and to
interpolate songs and verses bearing
upon her prowess. One of these songs,
to the tune Of May, May, May"
which was in vogue in London last sea-
son, is as follows:
There's n lady from over the way,
From the west of the great u. S. A.,
Drive, volley and service
With puZzling curve. is
TO To her nut t. the th,i mersst childs play!
She studied out west, so they say.
Some wish they could slaughter
The tutor that taught her
Such quite irresistible play
Q, May. May, May! 4.
C, The girl from the great U. $. A.
lightning passengers
Slaves that her will must obey,
With a muscular force that outrivals
And the dash of light coryphee.
She aspires. like her nation, to lick all
creation
Does May, May May!
So great is the splash she has made
That the czar has requested her aid,
So the mutinous rover
POtemkin gave over,
And Linevitch ventured a raid;
Why. look ok at at the w, wimbledon i stand!
Not sticks now remaining
And Palmer's complaining
Miss Sutton costs more than the band
o, May, May, May!
The girl from the great U. S. A.,
They say that Doberty is getting quite
shirty Gealous)
At seeing some one else making hay.
She mOckS at the sun and until she has
The thunder keeps out of the way;
For its bolts are joke when compared
with the stroke
OF May, May May!
Miss May Sutton, who halls from
Pasadena, Cal, is considered the most
remarkable lawn tennis player that the
sport has ever known. She will sail for
England this week. Miss Sutton had
not planned to make the conquest OF
the English courts again this season.
She had intended to remain at home
IL
possible, that had been wrested from
her in her absence by Miss Elizabeth
H. Moore, the Brooklyn girl, who. has
four times held the national champion
ship. But the English We're not kind
to Miss Sutton after she had defeated
them in sensational fashion in the many
tournaments in which she played abroad
last year
They fairly "booed' when she over
whelmed Miss c. M. Wilson to the
score of 60 and 6-1 for the Welsh
championship Then when she had the
temerity to essay their own national
championship and coming through the
best field that has ever been seen in
the historic event in the Wimbledon
courts when she won the title, they
said to the American girl:
'You could not have done it only
Miss Douglass was suffering from a
sprained wrist, and a right wrist at
that, and any foolish tennis player
knows that it is impossible to. play
championship tennis with sprained
wrist, especially when it is the right
one" To tell the truth the American
girl was not nearly as popular when
She left England with three or four
of their pet championships packed in
her grip, as she was when she first
went over.
That is the reason Miss Sutton; with
the true spirit of American fair play.
is returning to the English courts to
give them satisfaction. The great play
er will be I'm this city next Tuesday
and will engage in some practice
matches on the courts of the New York
Lawn Tennis club, one Hundred and
Twenty third street and Manhattan
avenue. She will be the guest of the
club and will play i'm singles against
Theodore Roosevelt Pell.
AS Miss Sutton is the special friend
of Miss Blanche Donnell of the club,
II is expected that mixed doubles will
be arranged with the women players
on opposite sides of the net paired with