New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-18


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"Certainly, that's her, she, l mean.
Always sounds funny to say that or 1T
is L. don't you think so? Yes, it's
Susan Langley, or Longley, or what
ever they call it. My husband asked
the steward"
"You say it sort of queer, through
your nose-Long lcng-as if there was
at the end, only you leave it off.
You know how funny French isl
eyes, we'll, she doesn't look like
champion exactly, does she? You know
what I mean, with that veil wound
around her head and everything.
said to my husband last night, 1T
seems a funny way to bring up a girl,
running around the country playing
game and being conspicuous
81 don't know what's got into young
people nowadays. I wouldn't let Edith
take up tennis; she's too high strung.
She's inherited my nerves. They say
this Miss Longlong is awfully nervous.
The man at our table went up to her
yesterday and said: 4 suppose you're
going to put it all over our American
women She looked awfully queer and
just said, 4 beg PARDON"
"Well, suppose it was the slang
guess slang like that would be the
last thing you'd learn in foreign
language"
Then" said the playwright, "they
turn on the hero 81 suppose" mad
wagged Mr.. Deems Taylor, "the ideal
actor for that part would be George
Fawcctt."
We have read all the things written
all of them written in kindness, about
the Lenglen default. 1t seems to us
flat she deserves little kindness. Her
default was not even graceful; and,
speaking as one whose trachea and
larynx have been affected to such an
extent that tennis ball scarcely was
visible, we know that no throat irri-
taton makes it impossible to shake
hands. Mile. Lcnglcn hubbed her
chance to go down to legitimate de-
feat that would have endearcd her to
Tic gallery and to the rest of the coun-
try, defeat that would have made
friends fer the France she processes
So to love-
But she did nub the chance. And
mobiles and all the kings chauffeurs
can ever put together the shattered
by her-pieces of American admiration
that were hers before Tuesdays match.
that SO great a player should be un-
able to lose.
What the Tuesday crowd at Forest
Hills felt when the Lenglcn default
came was expressed by woman sit
ting near us "Well,' she said, that
won't do much to undevastatc France"
Or Noiaris-
SIR They tell us that the defeat of Nile
LcnElon was partly due to bronchitis hut
tack of Mailora? II. M. LOTT.
Speaking of craftsmanship, in 1915,
when William M. Johnston defeated
Maurice Z. McLoughin in the final of
the national championship, The Con
ming Tower, next morning, did most
O.! the gallery at Forest Hills the after
noon before, -wept and took on Soma.
thing Dreadful. Maurie called The
Tower by telephone "Say' he said
you oughn't to take it so hard
ut was matter OF great consterna-
ton and surprise to her." said Mr. A.
Wallis Myers, that she should have
been expected to play the most diff
cult match Of eli within few days
of her arrival here AS to it being
the most difficult match that was the
luck of the draw; as to playing soon
after arrival, there is nothing in the
tournament rules chat forbade her ar
irving hcrc-the date of the tournn-
mcnt having been Known for many
onths--two weeks or two months be-
fore she landed.
Well, the womens lawn tennis cham
pionship will be American.
Including the Scandinavennc