Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-20

the courts of the West Side club here today Miss Browne, champion in 1912, '1S and '14, won the right to compete for premier honors again by defeating Mrs. c. V. Hitchins of Mexico City, 6-3, so, while Mrs. Mallory became finalist by eliminating Mrs. May Sutton Bundy, the international sensation of the courts all most two decades ago, S-S, e-2.
 While Miss Browne had a comparative ly easy task in defeating Mrs. Hitchins the playing-through champion fought a terrific court battle with Mrs. Bundy be- fore she conquered the fighting spirit of the California matron and paved the way for her complete defeat in the second set.
 Mrs Bundy, brought from the Pacific coast after virtual retirement from tour nament tennis in recent years, staged a sensational comeback which seriously threatened to dethrone the Norsewoman until nature could no longer keep pace with spirit and slowing up of Mrs. Bundy made victory possible for her op- ponent.
 Mrs. Mallory opened the service and continuous volley of strokes. which ran close to 20 before the champion lost the point on an error, gave an indication of what was to come.
 A greater part of the sensational play centered in the If games of the first set, and the closeness of the battle is clearly indicated by the difference of but five points between winner and loser. Both fought almost continually from the base line, although Mrs Bundy made san oc- casional sortie to the net. A study of the stroke analysis discloses the fact that it was Mrs. Bundy's repeated driving the
 ball on the base line of her opponent S hot ,oA% In placements and other departments of the play the pair were incomparably well matched.
 By frequent attacks upon Mrs. Nal lory's backhand Mrs. Bundy continued to hold the scores even until she herself be- gan to tire in the grueling race. The point was reached where semi-placement strokes were permitted by Mrs. Bundy to pass for points without an effort at re- turn. This marked the beginning of the end, and Mrs Mallory ran off four straight games in the second set before
 Mrs. Bundy took one of the two gamer which saved her from q love defeat in the set.
 The recapitulation of point and stroke figures in this match shows that Mrs. Mallory had a margin of 13 points, but five more placements than Mrs. Bundy. She also made seven more nets than the Californian, but held her out-of-court errors to 20, against 37 for Mrs. Bundy. The Browne -Hitchins match was sim ply a vehicle for disclosing the power of tennis analysis and the strategy of the champion of 1912. 1913 and 1914. Mrs. Hitchins' peculiar under-spin returns and deliveries, with the sliding, low bounding rise of the ball, puzzled the Santa Moni- ca player for two games. Once she had solved this form of attack. and altered ] her top drives to a lifting stroke, the re- ! suit was no longer in doubt, and the win ner was so little exerted that she imme- diately returned to the courts with Mrs | Williams and won a doubles match and later reappeared, when with her partner 1 she won place in the final rounds of i the doubles which also will be staged | tomorrow afternoon.
 1 Following the completion of the third round of the doubles the four surviving l pairs were called to the courts, and il
 was not until long after o'clock that the l fp2iists in the doubles were evolved. l Miss Browne and Mrs. Williams work 1 ed their way through the upper half o1
 the draw by defeating Miss Marie Wag-
 ner and Miss Clare Cassell. e-4, 6-2 Int
 survivors Tn the lower half were Miss
 Helen Gilleadeau and Mrs. L. G. Morris | who defeated Miss Leslie Bancroft ana
 Miss Martha Bayard. s-1, S4.