New-York tribune., 1920-02-10
Mile. Lenglen
Abandons Trip
To the States
Worlds Tennis Champion
Not to Come Here to Meet
Leading Women Players
By Fred Hawthorne

According to a letter received re-
Gently by S. W. Merrihew, Of 120
Broadway, Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, the
maid of France" who won the women's
lawn tennis championship Of the world
at Wimbledon last June, will not come
to the United States this year to com
pete in our women's national cham
pionship tournament at Philadelphia
in September.
II have never any definite plans
with reference to tennis, because it
is only pastime as far as / am con-
cerned. l have not the slightest in
tention OF going to the United States,
although this would be my greatest
desire
81 should very much like to meet
your champions, of whom l have
often spoken with Dean Mathey,
Peck and Watty Washburn."
So writes the Mademoiselle. and her
statement sounds very decisive and
quite firm, yet | cannot but feel that
the impossible may happen, and that
the wonderful French girl may be per-
suaded to come.
viii Defend Her Title
OF course, Mile. Lenglen will wish to
defend her worlds championship at
Wimbledon next June, and will also
compete in the Olympic games in Au-
| gust, which would mean that she could
not possibly reach this country, IL she
came, until the first week in September.
That would bring her here, however,
! IN time 60 take part in the women's
national championship tournament.
Some weeks ago in this column I
made the announcement that Mfs.
Franklin l. Mallory, the former Miss
Molia BJurstedt. would go to Eng.
land this summer to play for this
worlds championship and at the Olym.
pic tourney. That is tru~, and Mrs
Mallory told me last week Il at she and
Il her husband plan to leave about the
nrst week in June, take in the two
tournaments mentioned above and then
return to this country in time to enter
the national event at Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mallory declared, further, that
she Will try to persuade the little
french marvel to accompany her back
to the United States, so it is possible
that the Morse girl may succeed. after
all. Let US hope that this will come
about. for it would mean a wonderful
stimulus TO the game in this country.
New Stars Appear
The women's invitation tournament
that closed last week at the Heights
Casino, in Brooklyn, brought out sew
eral interesting sidelights on some Of
the possibilities that may cnliven the
women's national indoor champion ship
tourney at the 7th Regiment Arnorv
next month.
Mrs. Samuel II. Waring, of the New
York Tennis Club, and Miss Jessie
Gott, of the West Side Tennis Club
each flashed a surprisingly good brand
OF lawn tennis in this tourney, Mrs.
Waring being especially successful. as
she defeated Miss Marie Wagner and
played sDlendidly against Mrs. Mallory
IN the semi-final round. She gave every
/ lndication in these two matches that
she has "arrived,' and from now on
VIII make her presence felt, even
among the higher circles.
Miss Gott, while less experienced in
tournament play than Mrs. Waring,
showed fully as great an Improvement
relatively, as the latter, as her success
sive defeats of Mrs. Hartmann and
Miss Phyllis Walsh proved. Both will
compete in the national tourney at the
&rmory, and both should do exception
ally we'll
Mrs: George W. Wightman, Of Bos-
ten, the present champion, will not de-
lend her title this year, and Miss
Eleanor Goss, the No player in the
nrst ten" Will also be an absentee
having left for California last satur-
DAY, 1t is not certain, either, that Mrs
Mallory will enter, SO there may be a
new name on the championship cur
this year