Bisbee daily review., 1916-08-20
MRS. [. W|DDOWSOH
 TENNIS CHAMPION

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19.-It takes two or three days and an imagination like an Fl Paso war correspondent tS appreciate that the Suttons' most cherished family heirloom, the South ern California tennis championship in women's signles, has been taken away from them.
 Old-timers, such as Simpson Sin sabaugh, who has seen twenty-two successive women's championships crowned, are still almost dazed at the thought. And to the women play CTS it seems far more impossible than to the men.
 Mrs. Gladys Widdowson, the pep pery party who so unceremoniously upset tradition by defeating Miss Florence Sutton last Saturday, did the best thing for women's tennis in Southern California that has hop pened since May Sutton first won national recognition.
 She has shown that a Sutton can be beaten and will thus encourage the hitherto timid women players to go through and do likewise! But more than that, Mrs. Widdowson, by de, monstrating that an offensive game is a winning game, will speed up the rather dreary safety first methods which hitherto have been practiced by the local women players.
 Mrs. Widdowson reminds me oi Ty Cobb, Ad Wolgast and the All Black Rugby team. Each of these operated upon the principle that the best defense in a good offense and each, by carrying the battle to his or her opponent, became a champion.
 Mrs. Widdowson beat Miss Sutton by forever keeping the initiative. She was always attacking. Try as she would, Miss Sutton could only once force her conquerOr to drop the attack and play safe. That was when Mrs. Widdwson had Miss Sutton 5-3 in the second set. She tried to play safe and Miss Sutton took fouI straight games and the set
 The strokes, or rather the stroke of the new champion is quite as dis tinctive as her theory of play. Mrs Widdowson, who is very short, use the English sidewheel drive which is really half drive and half chop
 There is practically no distinction | between Mrs. Widdowson's service forehand, backhand or volley strokes Even her nearest approach to an over head is the same, a terrific sidewipe with the racket checked and carrying the whole weight of her body.
 Mrs. Widdowson is deadly accurate on both forehand and backhand. Sht never simply tries to get the ball back Every stroke is batted for the side l lines and nine out of every ten hit ] the mark. Even when forced to make a hard run for a ball, she returns :t in such a manner as to put her op ponent out of position.
 Mrs. Widdowson has an excellen; | eye and covers court with a lot oi speed and splendid judgment. She is seldom caught out of position anc takes the net only when she has he. 1 opponent so hopelessly on the ru, that she is certain to ace the return
 The new champions game is es sentially back court game. Her laci | of height and chocked-up method O. holding her racket in addition to hel weakness overhead make it almost | impossible for her to take the net eX cept occasionally.
 In the final match Miss Sutton wor games by forcing Mrs. Widdowsor completely of the court with a high bounding ball, which the champions lack of overhead forced her to take up against the backstop and then cutting her return down close to the net with a neatly executed cEop.