New-York tribune., 1921-01-31
Lee'adliiiisW' 4 Y omen
1en,ii;s Players
III Local Meet
|nirs. MALLORY and Miss Zin-
dersfein to Renew Strug-
( gIe iii Brook1yn T Tourney
By Fred Hawthorne

The won,ens Invitation indoor lawn
tennis tournament that begins this
morning son, the two canvas covered
courts Of the Heights Casino, on Mon
tague Street, Brooklyn, may give US an
Insight into how the honort will be
divided during the coming season
among some Of our leading players
here in the East, ss1 IL
Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, ma
|Etioaal singles champion, and Miss
Marion ziaderstein, runner-up, are the
two outstanding figures In the Casino
lItcurrament, and there will be. tremea-
fIdousa interest when these stars renew
Iithetr bitter struggle Of last year,
|. ,ups until the week of the national
stonrnannent, at Philadel-
|sphia last Septemb ers Miss Zipderstein's
icourt srecord was, remarkably good, for
/ she did net suffer a single defeat all
.aeason; and she entered ( the supreme
Efest flled With confdence and on edge.
Right upsto the final round the young
| Boston girl swept through her half Of
the field In impressive manner, ip fact,
her playing outshone sanyt thing Mrs.
| Mallory did in the earlier brackets. !
think it. was the prevailing opinion
about the club house at Philadel phia,
| On the day Of the final match, that
Miss ,IindersteIny was going TO carry
oR the title then held by Mrs. George
wv. Wightm an, of Boston.
Mrs. Mallory Invincible
ssYets the, test came and found Mrs.
Mallory absolutely supreme and irwin
chile. The Morse Queen, after q tenn
porary hesitation in the first two games,
swung into the ful2 stride of her play
and went straight through to a two
set victory. Her game from the back
of. tho, court was practically. .HaWless,
so much SO that Miss Zinderstein felt
compelled to abandon her strong net
game end attempt to play her oppon-
lent from her own back-court.
move of the match that day, that Mrs.
Mallory had nerved herself for the
ordeal and played a game at least
fifteen stronger than anything she had
shown in two years previously, where
as Miss Zindcrstein was unexplainably
weak. Had she persisted in forcing
the net position, tits possible that her
great. yolleying might have brought
he- through, although it must be re-
membered that Mrs. Mallory was hit
ting the lines with marvellous accuracy
But the match is now part of
tennis history, a new season is dawn
ing. and the future lies. ahead. A good
volleying game on the Casino courts
Is d0ubly effective, because of the mar
row space that abuts between the sides
Of the court and the walls of the
building. A ball played at a sharp
angle from close to the net is almost
impossible Of return, once it has
bounded. ,4x
Conditions Nearly Equal
On the other hand, shots played to
the far corners of deep court, or close
to the side lines, are about as difficult
to handle, and so Mrs. Mallory and
Miss zinderstein ought to find condi-
tions nearly equal when they face one
another across the Casino net.
There are plenty of other strong con-
tenders entered, among them Miss Marie
Wagner, Mrs. Rawson L. Wood, Miss
Eleonora, Sears and Mrs. De Forest
Candee, but / doubt if any of these. can
reach into the final round, although
the danger of an upset always turks in
such fine field.
The final round match in the women's
tournament will probably be played on
Saturday morning, and in the after
noon the mems team match between the
Heights Casino and the Longwood
Cricket Club of Boston. will be played.
There Will be total nine matches
dec ided, six singles an,. three doubles,
with four matches to be played on
Saturday and FIVE OH Sunday.
Dick Williams, of Longwood, former
national champion, and Ichiya Kumagae,
Japan and Florida, who will be the No. /
men on their respective teams, will
meet in the feature match Of the series,
full struggle. Richard Harte. and s.
Howard Voshe1l and Dean Mathey and
Charles S. Garland will also be oppo-
nents.