New-York tribune., 1920-05-07
Mrs. Mallory and Miss
Inderstein Should Do
Well at Wimbledon
BY Fred Hawthorne

With all this discussion and specula-
tion as to the makeup of our Davis Gun
team, we are quite likely to lose sight Of
the fact that the United States is to be
represented abroad this summer by two
of the gretest women players now in
this country, Mrs. Franklin l. Mallory
and Miss Marion Zinderstein.
Mrs. Mallory and Miss Zinderstein
will sail for England on May 20, the
same day that the Davis Cup team
leaves for the other side, and both will
compete in the women's All-England
championship tournament, in singles
and doubles, which begins about the
middle of June. The Americans will
play as team in the doubles, and they
ton. .
Sefore facing the cream of the Eu-
ropean women stars at Wimbledon. Mrs
Mallory and Miss Zindersten will enter
several of the early minor tournaments
IN England, as sort of preparatory
test. The English championship event,
with Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, of Paris,
the. present champion, and Mrs. Lam
bert-Chambers, former title holder, will
afford the first true Inc 2a the relative
playing skill of the American stars. as
compared with their fair rivals from
overseas. Opinion over here differs so
widely as to the real strength of Mile
Lenglen's game, that we may be pre-
pared for almost anything should she
meet either Mrs. Mallory or Miss Zin-
dersten.
1t would be wonderful boost for
the women's game in this country were
either the former Miss Molla Bjurstedt
or MISS Zlnderstein to return with the
English championship laurels, and it
would likewise be a great help to wom-
ems international tennis, taking it for
granted that England and France would
leave no stone unturned in the attempt
| to win back the honors.
take 1t that both Mrs. Mallory and
Miss zinderstein will do a little
earnest propaganda work while abroad
! in the attempt to persuade Mile Leng-
len and Mrs. Cham mbers to make a visit
to the United States this summer, to
compete for the Hazel Hotchkiss Wight
man international cup and also in our
own women's championships at Phia-
delphia.
The season gets under full headway
within the next two weeks, with an
ever increasing list of tournaments
croWding the calendaA. The annual
open tournament of the Harlem Ten
mis- Club, with mems singles only to
be played, will start tomorrow after
noon at 2 o'clock, on the clay courts
continue through the following week
William 7. Tilden End, of Philadel-
phia, won the chief cup last year in a
stirring final round match with Ichiya
Kumagae, of Japan. Louis Bry, chair
man of the tournament committee, said
yesterday that he expects a large en-
try on this occasion and hopes to have
1llden and kumagae again in the lists.
Il doubt whether Tilden will defend
his title this time, as his mind must
now be fully occupied with his prep
arations for the trip to England, but
little Kumagae win probably take the
courts. A new challenge cup will be
put in competition this year Entries
close this afternoon.
Following the Harlem tourney, there
comes brief lapse in activity, but on
May 21 and %, at the West Side Ten
MS Club, the important Church cup in
ter-city matches will be played on the
.ulf courts The work of the players
in these matches will have a direct
bearing on the selection of the fourth
man Tor the Davis cup team
On May "a, the annual invitation
mems tournament will begin on the
clay courts Of the Sleepy Hollow Coun-
try Club, at Scarborough on Hudson,
and on the following day the women's s
invitation event at the Pelham Coun-
try Club gets into swing And June ?
June is full of tournaments as it is
of roses.