Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-19
i'm TOO FAT,' S|GHS
TENNIS CONTENDER
Mrs. Wightman Says Lobster
and French Pastries Are Bad
for Training
TO PLAY MISS BJURSTE0T

Lobsters a la Newburg, French pas
tries and midnight frolics do not go
hand in hand with tennis champion
ships. according to the bevy of renowned
women experts who are now playing off
the thirty second annual women's lawn
tennis championships tournament at the
Philadelphia Cricket Club.
ooh, dear, I'm too fat to be real
athlete Please do ask the others what
they do to keep fit
The bystanders smiled indulgently as
Mrs. George Wightman, of the Long
wood Cricket Club Boston. flushed and
warm from a successful match, made
this plea. Az Miss Hazel IIotchkiss
she won the national title three times,
and she has come back into singles this
year. after several years absence. with
such clear ''tennis head and such
splendid work that she is expected to
regain her title this season.
She will contest the title with Miss
MolIa Bjurstedt, the present champion.
1T was ten years ago. before | was
married, that l first won the national
title" said Mrs. Wightman "Then I
won several things after that But |
dropped out after ! was married and
didn't re enter till 1918. Then it was
only to play in the doubles. But |
love singles and felt ! might get back
into them this year.
Children and Tennis Her Sports
1T is pretty hard to keep yourself
athletic when you have three perfectly
adorable children to train. and | con-
fess they give me good deal of exer-
else, ] don't indulge in other sports
because | haven't time. Tennis and the
children occupy my time and give me
pretty fair training
"Of course. I'm careful Of what !
eat No foolish. rich food is included
on my menus when it is tennis season
And | am careful to get plenty of sleep.
1t is rather easy to take these precau
tions because Mr.. Wightman plays, too.
and we train together. My worst worry
is that l am getting too fat
Mr. Wightman said he worried more
during the tennis tournaments than all
the rest of the year put together, he is
so eager for his wife to win all the
honOrs she sets out to get.
Mrs. Wightman looked diminutive and
1.-THE as she stood in her tennis shoes
beside her tall husband. Perhaps feet
3 inches in height and weighing about
| 1870, she was sun Drowned and muscular.
Laughing and happy she was a prime
savorite about the courts. She was clad
in navy blue sweater, white skirt and
soft gray sports hat. On the court she
sureness, serving and returning balls
with an ability that brought cheers fire.
quently from the spectators.
Miss Bjurstedt Is Boyish
The boyish looking Molla Bjurstedt
won her share of plaudits, too. Her
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narrow brow ribbon and she wore a
dark brown jersey over the short white
skirt. Her face, throat and arms were
almost as brown as the sweater Every
mite Of her, body and heart, was in
the game as she played.
There was something boyish in the
way she swung the racket and placed
the balls in unexpected corners of her
opponents court. And there was q
clear boyishness in her manner of fling
ing off the praise and congratulations
that greeted her when the game was
finished.
Miss Marian Zinderstein. of Boston,
and Miss Eleanor GOss, of the West
Side Tennis Club of New York, ma
.tional doubles champions, are both of
the tall, slender type. Any one would
recognize what Miss Zinderstein her.
self claims, that nothing ever ''fusses"
her.
The short white skirts and the glo-
riously bright sweaters and sport coats
of the women players made a colorful
picture on the smooth sod courts today
Hundreds of spectators, men and
women, also in gay sport clothes, sit
ting on verandas and steps Of the club
house or scattered about the lawn on
chairs and benches, added to the beauty
of the scene and lent eager enthusiasm
to cheer the players.