Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
WOMEN TENNIS
PLAYERS READY
Play for National Title Be.
gins Today on Courts at
St. Martins
MISS BROWNE ABSENT

thVhoi III thS SihBics uou-
bles and mixed doubles will begin this
afternoon at o'clock on the classic turf
courts of the Philadelphia Cricket Club,
1t st. Martins.
The events for the various titles in
clude a field not quite as representa-
live as in former seasons. and there Is
hardly one of the array of net stars who
can hope to compete successfully with
Miss Molla Bjurstedt, the present holder
of the national outdoor. indoor. clay
SQUIRT and metropolitan titles. Miss
Bjurstedt has won the national title on
patriotic tournament which was substi-
tuted for the championship event.
Miss Brown Not Entered
One of the regrettable facts connected
4 with the tournament this season is that
there will be none of the leading Cali
n fornans in the event. After the brilliant
& play of Miss Mary Brown against Miss
Bjurstedt in the series of Red Cross
exhibition matches last summer, it was
hoped that the Pacific coast expert would
hnd 1t possible to enter the national
tourney. The entries closed Saturday
CVciiiHS, dliu JeIihiusS, VI 'iiC
delphia Cricket Club, has filled to re-
ceive her entry.
Had Miss Brown entered, Miss Blur
stedt would have been in danger Of
losing her laurels. Early in the year
4 Miss Brown took UP war duties in
bank. and this precluded an opportunity
Z for her to compete. For several years
: there have been rumors galore that Mrs.
May Sutton Bundy would again test her
prowess with her rivals in the national
classic but another year will have to
pass without seeing her in eastern COM
petition.
Some of the Contestants
large number of young stars have
entered the play and there is the possi-
bility that some unheard Of entrant will
blossom forth as a strong contender for
the title. But there is small likelihood
OF the Morse girl dropping her title.
Some of those who will vie with Miss
Bjurstedt for honors are Miss Eleanor
Goss. who has made an enviable record
since she first began serious tournament
play last year Miss Marion Zinderstein,
. Of Boston; Miss Claire Cassell, former
Metropolitan champion; Miss Helene
Pollak. Mrs. Rawson l.. Wood, former
champion of Florida; Mrs. re Forest
s, Candee, Miss Eleanor Sears, of Boston,
and probably Mrs. H. F. Morse, who, as
Marion Nanderhoef, was runner-up tc
Miss Bjurstedt in the national tourney
year ago.
Hasn't Lost a Match
The play in the womens tournaments
) thus far this season stamps Miss Blur.
stedt as the leader of the women of the
Atlantic seaboard among whom the
3 championship must be decided. She had
N had one or two hard matches. hard
matches from the point of view that she
s usually wins in straight sets and by
one-sided scores. Only once this season
has she been seriously threatened, and
y In that instance she obtained the honors.
4 With record of having won every tour
nament in which she has competed there
is not much consolation for those who
would. strive to wrest from her the
laurels.
In some respects Miss Bjurstedt s
game appears even stronger than it WAS
year ago. There is not the least doubt
that the series with Miss Brown
served to make Miss Bjurstedt a more
formidable antagonist than she was In
the past when she was consistently win
( ming trophy after trophy. Her back
hand is unquestionably more finely de-
veloped, and she has developed more Of
a net game than she ever had before.
& With all this in mind, it is hard to be-
lieve that she will do other than sweep
through the nationals in the same con-
fident and decisive manner in which she
had won before.
Only Saturday Miss Bjurstedt showed
that she was far ahead Of her most for.
midable rivals when she defeated Miss
Eleanor Goss in the final Of the women's
metropolitan tournament at Forest HIS
taking the honors at So, 6-3, without
ever having to feel that she was calling
her greatest skill into the fray.
A feature of the week will be the ma
tional girls tournament which will be
contested in conjunction with the
women's event. Miss Helen Hooker, who
recently scored victory over Mrs. Lyle
f. Mahan, will be among the contenders.
This tournament was sanctioned lasi
winter by the national association IN
order to stimulate the game among the
girls as 1t had been developed among the
y BOYS and the juniors.
Play in the singles will begin at 3
received for the girls championship OF
Z the United States and OF these seven
are local entries. The draw for both
events resulted as fellows:
woMAN's CHAMPIONSHIP
Preliminary Round
crieket Miss Ciub, ,sAM VS.. Miss Rebecca Thomson,
Ma4ion Miss anssss,ein, Mlidess IN m'i LoSswSoa e c:
6u5: KSssanss %esi sde Hsss Tanas Cub Mrs
sussnEs Tsrss si,veEsrSssd ss1Ssd unattached vs.
crlakst Mss ciub. ner vs.. Mrs <. D. Smoker. Bel.
he'u First Round-Upper Bracket
Mrs. ]. e. Bailey. Longwood C. c.. vs..
Miss GLADYS Paine GermantoT,1t, hi,. town.. cr,or.,
Club. VS.. Miss Marion Rudderow, Merton
M9Ss West fhds sds rsnns cSS
club. VS.. Mrs, Alexander Chisholm, West
s'Ss Mr., atps'f De Forest Candee. West Side Tennl.
cvt Mrs es, Ssisst sids Tsnn. Mllm,nefSS eiSS
i Club M'' ''"1,' go,
Miss Eleonora Sears. Longwood C, c.. bye;
Hflsn Mrs.. 'n j. r Betz' Sd. Ph!iadelphia coun.
try club. H. F. Hun. West Side Tennis
mi Miss Barbara F. Hooker; West side Ten.
mis- Club, vs.. Miss Anne Naylor. Philaedl.
phMssi Miss Deborah Seal, Merton. vs. Mrs. Full.
ierton Weayerd pnsttaGhed ns,bs,G uun,,opdor Val,
lev. VS.. Mrs. Payne, Wilmington,
S'S Miss CAROLYN Otis. Bethlehem. vs., Miss
ElMjssse'qR M7s RaWosn ons'% Wood. VEST Side Tenn.
= club. VS. Miss Eleanor Goss. West Side
GIRLS SINGLES
Preliminary Round-Upper Bracket
Miss Helen II Hooker. West Side Tenni,
Club vs. Miss Mary Heaton. Greenwich.
Lower Bracket
Miss Louise Dixon. Philadelphia Cricket
Club. VS.. Miss Virginia Carpenter. Phila'
delphia Cricket Club.