The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-17
tBy Associated Press)

FOREST HILLS, y. Y, Aug. H.
Suzanne Lenglen. her marvellous rec
ord on the tennis courts blemished by
defeat for the first time in two years
lay in her sick bed today tragic
figure, whose dreams of several years
had vanished.
She came to America expectant of
winning the title of United States
champion on the Forest Hills court,
and yesterday, when her opportunity
to eliminate the titleholder, Mrs. Molla
| Bjurstedt Mallory, came, she was not
Suzanne the marvellous. She was sick,
and her dash and accuracy of place
ment were gone.
Mrs. Mallory, playing with skill
she seldom has equalled, defeated this
French jewel of the court, 6-2 in their
| first set. Then when Suzanne failed
10 rally at the opening of the second
set she walked to the umpire and
said
Il positively cannot continue. / can
not breathe"
Will Fill Engagements.
Exhausted by coughing from a sud
den recurrence of bronchitis, the
French wizard dropped into chair,
and later went to her rooms and was
ordered by a physician to rest for at
least week. Her manager said he
expected Mile Lenglen would be able
| to participate in the mixed doubles at
! the Longwood Cricket club, Boston,
next week, and later fulfill her SEIZED
uled engagements elsewhere in the
United States.
| But her hope of winning the cham
pionship has passed. So too has the
mary elous reputation of not having
| lost set in two years of tournament
play
| Mile. Lenglen in these two years
/ conquered every woman tennis player
| of note in Europe, won all the nation
al championships in which she par
ticipated and acquired the title of
world champion through victory at
Win bledom. But in the United States
the Wimbledon tournament is not rec
ognized as comforting world title on
the victor, and so Nile. Lenglen,
anxious to remove all doubt that her
skill was supreme, came here to win
/ the American laurels.
Health Not Recovered
She had triumphed over Mrs. Nal
lory only few weeks ago in France,
and last year she defeated a British
star who previously had won from
Mrs. Mallory Suzanne expected to
/ defeat the United States champion
again, but she warned those who met
her on her arrival from France last
=, Saturday that she was a convalescent
and wanted to put in an alibi early,
should her ambition fail of achieve.
ment.
The French star did not want to
play yesterday. Hours before her
time to dance upon the court ca me
she told A. R. De Jcannis, vice-presi
dent of the French lawn tennis fed
/ Grafton, who accompanied her, that
| she was i'll and should not play.
! But he insisted, asking Suzanne not
to disappoint the thousands who anne
to see her. This thought, and her am
bition to win the championship, caused
her to yield against her expressed
| wishes, Mr. De Jcannis said
Not in Usual Form
From the start she was not as ad
vertised. In the first place, she wore
no sweater when she skipped out tc
the court. Customarily Suzanne wears
at least two or three of them, peelins
them off one by one as the play pro
crosses.
All the heralded tornado-on-tiptoe
stuff was absent, too. Mademoiselle
did not pirouette. She did not lear
high into the air in a thrilling whir
to slash the ball back across the net
She appeared bereft of all the
dazzling jumps from one end of the
court to the other and the flashy
smashing at the net, for which she is