Evening star., 1919-03-09
OVER THE NET.

Unless the plan to bring to the
United States Mile. Lenglen, the
French girl who is the tennis sensa-
ton of France, or the effort, to have
Miss Mary Browne, former national
champion, return to the game, ma
terialize, the determination of Miss
Molla Bjurstedt to make a try for
the English title will mot cause aspir-
ing players in this country. any tears.
If Miss Bjurstedr decides to make the
trip she necessarily will have to for
felt her American title. Play for the
American championship will start in
Philadelphia the second week in June.
and the English tourney is scheduled
to begin at Wimbledon the latter part
of the same month. 1t would be fool
ish for Miss BjurStedt to try for the
English championship without at
least two weeks in Great Britain in
which to prepare for the effort.
Miss Browne gave up tennis shortly
after the outbreak of the war to be-
come a teller in a bank in California,
and at that time said she was through
with the game as far as serious COM
petition was concerned. But her fond
ness for the game may cause her to
reconsider.
Miss Browne, who defeated the
Morse girl in an average of two out
of three times in the various clashes,
is the only American woman player
who has demonstrated that she is Su-
perior to Miss Bjurstedt on the courts,
and, according to r. Norris Williams,
former national champion, and Peck
Griffin, former joint holder with Will
liam Johnston of the doubles -honors,
Mile Lenglen is a greater player than
the Norwegian wonder. 80
With none of the famed trio men
toned in competition about a dozen
native Americans would be in the rum
ming for the women's championship
singles: Among the formidable array
are Mrs George Wightman, who, as
Miss Hazel Hotchkiss, was national
champion and last year No. 2 on the
ranking list. Mrs. Homer S. Greene,
No 3; Miss Eleanor Goss. No. 4; Miss
Marie Wagner, No. 5: Miss Helene Pol
lax, Miss Eleanora Sears. Miss Claire
Cassell, Mrs. Rawson Wood and Miss
Marian Zinderstein. all of the east, and
Miss c. B. Nicely of Chicago and Miss
Catherine Gould, the sensational young
st. Louis player.
Navy twice runner-up to War for
the Departmental League. title. de-
ciares that the team that beats it will
win the flag in that circuit this season.
With E. H. Whitney, former Harvard
captain: Commander John NJ. Han
cock. Z. ]. Lowry Owen Howenstein
and a score of other players to call
on, the Navy team figures that it can
claim to be in the running for the
championship without being accused
of showing undue EGO"
Tourney dates will be fixed at a
meeting of the executive committee of
the National Association in New York
March 81. That tennis will be put
back on it's f1ourishing pre-war basis
is shown by the large number of ap-
pIications. Washington's share will
be the Middle Atlantic, which will in
clude the championship sectional
doubles. to be played at Columbia
Country Club starting May 80. and
the District title tournament, to be,
staged at Dumbarton in September.
1t is Brig. Gen. Walter A. Bethel
now When he last played for Chevy
Chase in the Washington Association
and War in the. Departmental League
in 1917 it was Lieut.. Col. Bethel. Gen.
Bethel is judge advocate general of
the A. E. F.