Evening star., 1919-08-18
WAR RPREPAREDF FOR
BALTIMORE MATCH
D. c. Tennis Champion Will
Put Strong Team in Inter-
city Title Clash.
by w. H. HOTEL,


When the War Tennis team goes to
Baltimore to play Maryland Athletic
Club Saturday for the intercity title
series it will present stronger line
up than when 1t defeated Chevy Chase
Club last Saturday for the District
honors. Capt. AL Gore. who was away
last Saturday. will be available. In
the singles Maj A. E. Foote. Gore
Simpson and Ed Leech probably will
play in the order named. In the dou-
bles 1t likely will be Foote and Gore,
Edgar and Purinton and Simpson and
Leech However. there is possibility
OF Col: Jacobs playing No. singles,
and of Coils Wilson and Cole appear
ing in No. doubles.
Among the foreign tennis players
there has grown up an opinion preju-
dicial to the American racketers to
the effect that few of them deliver
fair and legal service. 1t seems
due to the fact that the Americans.
as a class. have more developed the
any other nation. The famous Doher-
ty brothers of England. when they
were in America, in 1902 and 1903,
complained on several occasions that
the footing into the court on the
service was not sufficiently ruled
old-timers admit that there was
some room for criticism in former
days, they believe that the defect has
been remedied to the extent that the
Americans are not worse offenders
than the general run of racketers
the world over.
Walter Westbrook of Detroit. the
twenty-one-year-old western intercol-
legiate champion. is said to be the
YV,n nSf tcfr MI i,, fhn
middle west.
Canada is due to soon get back into
international competition, according
to American players who competed in
the Canadian championships at To-
ronto. They are loud in the praise
of Paul Bennett and L. g. Holmes of
Winnipeg. who won the doubles title
Holmes. who il deaf. Is described as
an amazingly steady player with a
wonderful eye. and highly developed
sense of touch to counteract his lack
of hearing. Bennett is the dashing
performer of the pair, hitting hard
overhead and of the ground. and in
general supplying the fireworks as
the background to his partners de-
Rennis, Toronto city champions, are
said to be exceptional players. Other
Canadian stars are A. J. Vesey of
Montreal and H. H. Hewetson.
r. B. Powell. the greatest tennis
player ever developed in Canada. was
killed in France. and r. p. Schwenger.
his old Davis cup partner. has in
creased too much in weight and age
to keep up with the younger genera
tion.
just now we are hearing all sorts
of stories about Suzanne Lenglen the
twenty-year-old French girl. who is
the feminine tennis sensation of the
nRlA
ly will visit the United States for
competition next season and another
is that she Is to be married this win
ter and that there absolutely is no
chance of her coming to America in
1920. Mile. Lenslen not only defeated
Mrs. Larcombe Chambers, seven times
English champion. in winning the
British singles title. but with Miss
Elisabeth Ryan Of California, she won
light nve years ago when she won the
clay court championship of Europe
and she has been improving steadily
in her play ever since. Men who have
a fellow is right on his game he will
get good trouncing. Her game. ac-
cording to all accounts, is built on
masculine lines. She comes to the
net at every favorable opportunity
and volleys steadily and accurately.
to her play and also shows remark
ably fine generalship.
She won the mixed doubles event at
many notable Journeys just before the
world war broke out in partnership
with the late Anthony Wilding. She
10 believed by many to be the greatest
woman tennis player of all time
Lots of questions have been asked
about Miss Elizabeth Ryan, the Amer
lean girl who has been playing abroad
Tor several years, very few tennis fol-
lowers having . line on her. We read
the tennis columns Of other papers. so
mite about her.
Buddy" Ryan, as she IL known to
her friends because Of her cheerful
disposition. learned her game on the
hard courts Of southern California.
She Is the stepdaughter of T. n. Dud-
ley. wealthy banker and former mayor
OF Santa Monica. After proving her
superiority over all other California
woman racketers, save Miss Mary
Browne and Mrs. May Sutton Bundy,
both OF whom were several times ma
ticnal champion. Miss Ryan went abroad.
Her game improved greatly after her
arrival in England, whore she had the
benefit of expert coaching, and she has
made quite name for herself in the
British Isles and on the continent
During the recent international
tournament at Wimbledon. Miss Ryan
gave Suzanne Lenglen a hard battle in
the semf-dnal round. only losing by
g.. Is. 1t was the French girls
ability to come to the net and volley
from the half court that enabled her
to pull out victory. as Miss Ryan
more than held her own in the base
line style Of play. Miss Ryan later
won the singles title of Ireland. She
f0 70 to A~f~
and endeavor to carry of the 1920
women's national indoor and outdoor