Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-24
women EXHIBIT
GAMENESSA NET
Miss Townsend and Mrs. Leach.
man Play Brilliantly In PhiIa-
deIphia Championships

It's hard luck for the other fellow
when you don't know when you are
beaten. Yesterday Miss Ann B. Town
send, Of the Merton Cricket Club, had
hard luck because her opponent. Mrs.
Real Leachman, Of California, didn't
know when she was beaten in the anti
penultimate round of the women's lawn
tennis singles for. the championship Of
Philadelphia and vicinity.
Mrs. Leachman took the first set,
then Miss Townsend got the lead at
5-4 and 40-30 In the second set. BY ali
the laws Of debate Mrs. Leachman
should have lost the next point giving
Miss Townsend the set, but she didn't:
Instead the California woman played
the next two shots as though IL were
the first of the set, driving the ball with
reckless speed to Miss Townsend's
backhand corner, winning the point.
Mrs. Leachman finally took that game
and the next, evening the count at
sail.
But Miss Townsend wasn't to be out
done in gaIheness. So the match pro-
gressed until Mrs. Leachman got the
Miss Townsend In a far worse position
than she had had her opponent, be-
cause now a slip meant the loss of the
set and the match.
But Miss Townsend was more than
equal to the occasion, she was about
three jumps ahead of 1t. Instead or
safely playing the point, the loss OF
which meant the loss Of the match, she
took healthy swing and drove the
ball cross court. Mrs. Leachman made
fine return but Miss Townsend was
at the net waiting and drove 1t to the
opposite side, deucing the score. Then
Miss Townsend took the game and
ultimately the set at OF.
| 1t looked, after the rest, as IL Mrs.
Leachman would run the third set out
easily, for she got a al lead, but the
Merton again showed her nerve by put
ting more speed on her drives and racing
to the net. This style Of attack gave
her three games in row. Mrs. Leach :
man got another game. but that was
all, Miss Townsend taking the ninth
game at 30 and the final one at love.
Both Miss Townsend and Mrs. Leach
man played just about the gamest and
best tennis seen this year in any Of the
local tournaments. Miss Townsend's
drives were very severe, bur Mrs
Leachman managed to get many OF
them back, and she had something or
them. too, when she did get them over
whether from her left or right hant
side.
Miss Townsend's service was no,
shot did not land in the court as otter
as it generally does. Most of the tim,
this fast delivery was striking just abou
three inches outside the court.
Mrs. LeachpRn went to the net fire
Quently, and scored a number of earnet
points by fine volleying across court.
The semifinals in the singles, doubles
and mixed doubles are scheduled to b.
played today. In the singles. Mis-
Townsend meets Miss Phyllis Walsh
who yesterday defeated Mrs. Robert
Herold, of Belfeld, in another great
match, $40. 6-3, So. and Miss Moll,
Thayer plays Miss Leslie Bancroft. II
the doubles Miss Townsend and Mis-,
and Miss Leslie Bancroft, while Mrs
NJ. b. Huff and Mrs. Erskine Smith
are booked to fight it out with Mis-
Helen Sewell and Miss Katherine Por
ter.
Mrs. Herold's game against Mis-,
Walsh was an excellent one. Sh,
fought for every point In the first SCI
| and was rewarded by winning it al
1913. Miss Walsh tried to win by going
to the net. but found that Mrs. Heroic
was passing her almost at will or fore.
ing her into, errors by her good drives
down the side lines. Finally, Miss
Walsh abandoned this style, but it was
too late; Mrs. Herold won the set.
That first set seemed to have taken
most Of Mrs. Herold's energy, and she
was rather easy for Miss Walsh in the
last two sets.
In the mixed doubles today, Miss
Molly Thayer and Joe Thayer play
Mrs. HUFF and Frank White In the final
round OF the mixed doubles.