Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-17
suzanne TOPLAY
IN EXHIBITIONS
Mile. Lenglen May Participate in
Mixed Tennis Doubles at
Longwood
HER DREAM SHATTERED

Forest Hills. l.. l., Aug. 17.-Mlle
Suzanne Lenglen's dreams Of severa
years have vanished for time Mt least.
The famous and spectacular French
tennis champion came to America ex'
pectant of winning the title Of United
States champion on the Forest Hills
court. and yesterday, when her oppor
tunity to eliminate the titleholder, Mrs
Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, came, she was
not Suzanne the marvellous. She was
sick, and her dash and accuracy o,
placement were gone.
Suzanne has been ordered by her
physician to rest for week. Her man.
ager said he expected Mile. Lenglen
would be able to participate in the
mixed doubles at the Longwood Cricket
Club, Boston, next week, and later full
fill her scheduled engagements else
whore in the United States.
Mile. Lenglen conquered every wom-
an tennis player Of note in Europe,
won all the national championships in
which she participated, and acquired
the title of "world champion" through
victory at Wimbledon. But in the
United States the Wimbledon tourna-
ment is not recognized as comforting a
world title on the victory. and SO Mile.
Lenglen, anxious to remove all doubt
that her skill was supreme, came here
to win the American laurels.
She had triumphed over Mrs. NAL
lory only a few weeks ago in France
and last year she defeated n 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. She insisted,
however, that she did not want to put
in an alibi early" should her ambi-
tion fail Of achievement.
The French star did not want to play
yesterday. Hours before her time to
dance upon the courts came She told
A. II. de Joannis, vice president of the
French Lawn Tennis Federation, who
accompanied her, that she was i'll, and
Should not play. But he insisted, ask
ing Suzanne not to disappoint the thou
sand who came to see her. This thought
and her ambition to win the champion
ship caused her to yield against her
expressed wishes, Mr.. dc Joannis said.
From the start she was not as ad-
vertised. In the first place she wore
no sweater when she skipped out to
the court. Customarily, Suzanne wears
at least two or three of them. peeling
them on one Dy one us lne pluy
progresses. And all the heralded tor
nado- on -tiptoe stuff was absent, too.
Nlademoiselle did not pirouette. She
did not leap high into the air in a
thrilling whirl 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 fiashy
smashing at the net for which she Is
famous. She remained at the base line,
running from one side to the other, and,
save occasionally. she relied on con-
servntive, graceful stroke in all her re-
turns. 1t was obvious that she was not
in her usual surprising form.
Mrs. Mallory, on the other hand, ap-
peared at the peak of her game. ShH
was all over the court. banging her
racket against the ball with terrible
force.