The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-03
MISS BJURSTEDT
VS.. MRS. BUNDY
Tennis Experts Urge Series
Between Women Stars.
HAVE met THREE TIMES.

In First Match Miss Bjurstedt Won
Easily, but In Second and Third
Meeting Mrs. Bundy Won HandiIy.
Matches Would Attract.
There are any number of lawn ten
mis- enthusiasts here in the east who
will never be satisfied until they see
series of matches on the courts be-
tween Mrs Thomas C. Bundy, the for
mer May Sutton of California, and Miss
Molla Bjurstedt of Christiania, Nor,
way, the national lawn tennis cham
pion of 1915.
There was such meeting between
these two great players in California
during the last month, and Mrs. Bun
dy, who formerly held the national
and worlds championships, was vic
torious in two out of three matches
played on the asphalt courts of the
Pacific coast. At the first meeting
Miss Bjurstedt won at 10-S, GO, and
a few days later Mrs. Bundy won by
a score of 6-1, ca. The third match
resulted in victory for the California
| girl who vanquished the Norwegian
at 6-1, IL, GO.
! The comparison is interesting. Mrs.
| Bundy won total of two matches,
four sets and thirty-fve games, while
| Miss Bjurstedt carried off one match,
three sets and thirty-two games, fig
ures that show how evenly matched
they are.
Mrs Bundy was not ranked by the
national association this year, owing
to insufficient data" and rightly so,
it seems, whereas Miss Bjurstedt, who
made almost a clean sweep of tbs
country in winning a dozen champion
ships. was ranged at No. 1.
1t is eleven years since Miss Sutton
was carrying all before her, and after
she had retired, as Mrs. Bundy. he1
name became only memory of former
greatness on the courts. New cham
pions came and went. but it was not
until the Juror created by the sensa
tional playing of Miss Biurstedt. the
first foreigner to win the American
title, arose that Mrs. Bundy emerged
from obscurity and began to appear in
California tournaments.
Miss Mary Browne. who won the
! title in 1912, 1918 and 1914, was an
other of the great California player:
who were lured from retirement by the
success Of the Norwegian girl, but SHE
was forced to lower her colors to Mis-!
Bjurstedt in a series OF special matches
Only Mrs. Bundy remained to dispute
the new champions sway. and few be
II ! hn no.
/ standing.
Always known as one of the hardes
hitters among women lawn tennis play
ers, Mrs. Bundy soon proved that sh
was fully as strong as ever. either of
the ground or overhead. and won al
the tournaments in. which she appear
ed. Then the matches with Mis-
Biurstedt were arranged, resulting il
Mrs. Bundy's victory
But this does not mean that the fol
mer May Sutton is the Norwegian
girls superior at the game. Miss Bjul
z Stedt has undergone an unusuall
/ strenuous season on the courts, AM
the fast, unyielding surface of the as
phalt whereon the matches with Mrs
Bundy We're played must have prove
more or less of a handicap.
1t is because of this that many pei
sons in the east are anxious to see til
present and the former champion NEE
on grass courts next season and settl
4 the questions of supremacy once an
= for all time. And it is not beyond til
: range OF possibility that the two wi
=. oppose each other in the next nation;
championship for women in June.