Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-06
|N[R|ON NET STARS
|CR[ATLY IMPROVED
u, Anne 3. Townsend and
w.. .,,., PHYLLIS Walsh Are Play
,oo Great Lawn Tennis
soauEa STATE CHAMPION
-, spICK HALL

D' ,snn,s players in recent
No law. lawo improved as much in the n
rafs nav ., year as Miss Anne ms,.S d.
c."rsend sOu, and Miss ,s pnS,,,SS wSo won the
lo"1, \. two Merton gir'1E eastern States
fs,s. and played each prhe %.he;r form
dcup,'' of the singles. ,,,nnt which
hnaS Ss,hout the tournan'',ot tn ~ Merton.
thrOuaSs thsa saturday afternoon tboir IN great
closed 'conclusively that aneh ane f. Is
proves match was not a hasn' ash hattie
singles ss1rS ,r we're times in the the,tmaiiv Sa,
tue 'pv, Miss Townsend won eyeh.Jii .uiaxsi
vhicno G'I6 a "a, that both giris u; tSe;r
6.S. o tSon they had in many o, raroas @
worse .a1m matches, yet on the .er aser"f 20
previous - 81 each was far superb. "
ne wyh,S ,hsr nlayer in the tournsn,.., nnssn,nnsond
any otnep epops p," that both Miss IownSsene nSons
i appe1W, Walsh stand today Tar aoove
ind ME- M;,,ne field in Philadelphia s,,nb .en
the fem'nIIn last wear there was no suct
nlsdon. h II in 1920 a tournaWN.Gins N.iss
dfereneen, nseeen,oined the names OF o,inass M.ss
entry con'oMI Miss walsh, Mrs. GiIoers GiIo
Townsend, Mr. Mrs. NJ. Il. HUFF, MISS
a. HepVeITib % Tb.yer and Miss Helen sew. sew
Molly u lna nf those was just as likely
ell, any o"t tovrnament as another. huI
70 win INV g thc players can be Judgeu
tbs YEA ,nterclub matches and he,,. their
M taei ;nterclub matches! ana !nc,s a;as
By tn,n tneI IL looks as though MISS
q Mes,yd and Miss Walsh Will reaci
IoWnsehu IN nil OF the tournaments III
tne nlaiu nnl,u;U;ty. provided, of course, tns!
~ iS'' not clash in the same na'i VI wv
draw.
Tbeir Services Help v.,,, both
% w., Townsend and Miss Walsh ootn .a
MISS Il, uO" nSrcentage of their success
owe -. U's ssorvices, With the possiole
70 tynns .nsir Of Mrs. George Wightman,
sicep'tWyn exec Marion Zinderstein and MISS
MIS- MLss Goss. there is not woman
Leano, IN rho East who can approach
pMr.e pr'. Miss Townsend or Miss Walsh III
.ia ei.ne, soyerity OF their services. MISS
MIasunsond nv has the edge on Miss W alsn
because she is more accurate; Sa.vr.
annie, in their match at Merton tia, SntI
Jsr Miss Walsh served tour ooup,,e,
Ssnlts in the first set and one IN u,
ihird Miss Townsend served only WV
10 the match. no srst 20,
I'm two occasions IN lh' III
v,ss walsh served doub lc faults OF
came points. and in one OF thos&gathe'
she served three doubles.
The subject Of doubles recalls the lac'
MAT Miss Leslie Bancroft. the Long
wood lofthandcr. who won the Phiia
Sslnbia championship at Mannheim, las
T fsiI has speedy delivery, but she II
az ", rsrv w erratic that she can hardly b'
considered as a real. high grade server
Should Make Showing ,,
II Miss Townsend and Miss Walsl
continue TO improve through the sum
NOR as they have since last season
tbere Il every reason to believe tina
tbey will make fine showing IN TN
National and other big tournaments o
tbe Fast. Both Of them outclaSs Mrs
Molla Biurstedt Mallory in service AM
botb play better game at the net
Miss Townsend drives harder than Mrs
Mallory. but thus far the Merton cir
is not nearly up to the plane OF the Ma
tional wOmcn'S champion in stcadiness
Miss Townsend'S unsteadiness cam
very nearly causing her defeat on Sat
urday. She had q total Of 54 errors
20 Of yhixn were nctted shots. II wer
balls driven out and . were dOubl
faults That figure is entirely too high
ss shown by Miss Walsh'S errors, whic
totaled only 80, and yet she lost tn
match.
Miss Townsend apparently wa
slightly nervous in the first part Of he
match and did not hit with the sam
freedom that she developed later. Sh
seemed to hold back slightly, with tn
result that she did not get enough to
on the ball. and this caused her I
oyerlrive the base line very frequently
A number of times Miss Townscn
stroked the ball in the forccourt o
Miss Walsh's short shots when Il cho
would have been far more effective. \
II was, these drives from points nea
Tie net usually resulted in points fc
Miss Walsh. because Miss Townscn
would send the ball past the base lir
when she had the whole court in whic
70 make her shot.
More tournament play will stead
toth Miss Townsend and Miss Walsl
lnd it wouldn't bc surprising to 81
thelr names appear among tho first te
when the women players arc rankC
after the 1921 season.