The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-09
MRS. BUNDY PREPARES
To MEET THE CHAMP
Feminine California Comet" to Play
Miss Molla Bjurstedt. of Norway.
for Tennis Championship.

Long Branch. Cal, Nov. S-Mrs
Thomas c. Bundy. undefeated tennis
champion OF the world. who Is to NEE,
Miss Molla Bjurstedt. OF Norway, on the
famous asphalt courts OF the Hotel vir-
ginia in this city Thursday and Satur-
day. November 1911. has had a career
unique in the annals Of lawn tennis.
From her first championship. match in
1901. when as 13-year-old May Sutton, she
won the Pacific Coast title for women IN
I'll her marriage to Thomas c. Bundy. one
of the Pacific Coasts most famous mas
culine players in 1912. Mrs. Bundy suffered
but three defeats. while her large collec-
ton OF trophies at the Bundy home near
Los Angeles speaks volumes for her many
victories.
Starting with 1901. Mrs. Bundy won the
Pacific Coast singles title for five consec-
utive years. In 1904 she made her first trip
East. where she played in the national
Middle States and Western champion
ships to say nothing of minor events
which were wedged In between and In
which she met many of the East's mast
famous women players. She won the ma
tional title. losing no more than three
games in any match. In the Middle
States event she lost three games in the
four matches played and In the Western
championship the three games she gave
TO Miss Winner In the finals were all she
lost in the tournament
Her victories In these tournaments have
been repeated so often that they are an
old story and in her defeats lie the great
er interest Mrs. Bundy visited England
in 1895, where she won three important
ttles-the Welsh championship, r. the
championship Of the North OF England
and the so-called worlds championship
at Wimbledon.
In 1906 she was less successful in her
Invasion of Britain and while she won
the other two titles she lost to Miss Kate
Douglas at Wimbledon after a hard fight.
Mrs Bundy had played three hard
matches in women's and mixed doubles
on the preceding day and was unable to
stand the pace set by Miss Douglas, who
undoubtedly was a wonderful player. and
Is yet for that matter. for she has won
the English championship four times
within the last five years.
In 1907 Mrs. Bundy returned to Eng
land in search OF her lost laurels and
was successful. She met and defeated
Mrs. Lambert Chambers CKate Doug
las). whom she had lost to the year be-
fore, winning in rather hollow STYLE 81,
Ga. London tennis critics in speaking
OF this match. credited Mrs. Bundy with
having played the most wonderful tennis
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play in England.
During the next five years, Mrs. Bundy
continued winning title after title. Dur
ing this period her greatest rival was
Miss Hazel Hotchkiss (now Mrs George
Wightman) Of Berkeley, Cal. whom she
met eight times. Mrs. Bundy won six
of these eight matches, losing once in
a special event during the California in
terscholastic at DIAL IN 1910 and again
in 1911 in the International champion
ships at Niagara-on-the-Lake.
After the marriage to Tom" Bundy
on December II, 1912. until last July Mrs
Bundy retired from active tournament
play. During the Pacific Coast sect
ional double. held on the Virginia courts
here in July, Mrs. Bundy played a few
exhibition matches and was SO well
satisfied with her game that a few weeks
later she entered the women's open sim
gle in the Southern California Champion
ships, defeating Mrs. Louise R. Williams
in the semi final round, Miss Mary X
Browne in the finals and Miss Florence
Sutton in the challenge round, and at
no time in any of her matches did her
play appear forced or hurried.
Those who witnessed her play this
summer and compared It with that of a
few years ago belive she is now playing
fully as strong a game and perhaps a
stronger game than when at the height
OF her championship career.