New-York tribune., 1920-09-15

To.mor, w some splendid players
must travel the road to defeat as tn
struggle to get into the round before
the semi-,inal is waged. The three
Californians who started yesterday are
still in the lists, Miss Eleanor Ten.
nsnt, Miss Helen Baker and Mrs. Ream
Leachman all winning to-day, the two
first named in really impressive man
ner against worthy opponents.
Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, four
times a winner of this tournament, also
showed to great advantage this morn
ing. overwhelming Miss Phyllis Walsh
the star of the local club. by q score
Of 60, 6-3. The great Morse girl
and Miss Baker are Hcheduled to meet
in the fourth roun5 at 10:30 o'clock
tomorrow morning, and this may re-
suit in one of the feature matches OF
the tournament, owing to the directly
opposite types of games concerned.
Test for Mrs. Mallory
An adept at the battling chop stroke,
Miss Baker is capable of making all
kinds of trouble for Mrs. Mallory un-
less the former champion forces the
net position more frequently than she
has been doing in her matches to
date. look for Mrs. Mallory to win,
however, through her harder hitting
and the splendid accuracy of her pass
ing strokes, but we should know con-
sderably more about the Morse girls
chances for regaining her title after
this match is finished
Miss Marion Zinderstein. of Boston,
national clay court and metropolitan
cha nlaCa6 " - Lo,
form in defeating Mrs. Ernest H.
Wiener, of New York, by a score of
G-I, 60.
The Boston girl has lost only two
games in the tournament. but to-mor-
row she may encounter real opposition
from Mrs. Rawson L. Wood, of the
West Side Tennis Club, former cham
pon of Florida. Mrs. Wood has been
going along quietly, but efficiently. de-
feating Mrs. Edward Cornell Duble, a
clubmate, by a score of 6-3, 6-3, to-
day.
Provided Mrs Wood is in full COM
mand of her low passing drives, she
may force Miss Zinderstein to uncover
some Of her great volleying strength,
for it will require fue volleying to cut
of the New Yor. stars shots, It
does not. seem, however, that the CLAW
court champion ought 20 have great
dimculty II she continues to play the
tennis she has been showing thus far.
Miss Goss Plays Well
Miss Eleanor Goss had real strug-
eon her hands against the steadiness
ana Keen fighting spirit of Mrs. Rob
ert LIE Roy, of the West Side Tennis
Club, who only yielded the honors after
me sets had gone to Cd, Ga. Miss
Goss has an unusual reach, a decided
advantage when she goes to the NET.
and sse had to make full use Of this
when Mrs. lie Roy sent sizzling fore
and back hand drives close to the side
lines
1t vas just the competition that the
national doubles champion needed
however, AID she should ret just an
other such macch tomorrow when size
meets Miss Florence Ballin, of New
Miss Tenant whom regard as the
pest OF the Californians now in the
hass, looked very much like a real
sseh'enaer Tor the title, as sne crushed
Miss Anne B. Townsend, one OF the
most promising g Of the Ph;ladelphia
oy score O. 6-2. "a The local
elfI IS one OF those rd-hitting, force
P,HJe-S "Ho .NpftSSeS the casual
on!ooher With the power Of her strokes,
pafNculariy when she can make full
use OF her driving attack.
1t came as all the more Of shock,
'heretore, 70 the friends Of Miss Town
seho when she failed completely to
MAKE any impression against Miss Ten
nahts style OF play. But the reason
IS not far TO seek. for the California
s.af Is a master Of change of pace, and
s.!er SIZE had worked in deceptive short
utises 20 mid-cour:, usually with a
wlcked!y chopped ball, she ripped over
swift low drives through deep court
on the mex, shots and added to these