Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-08-20
MRS. MALLORY AND
CALIFORNIA GIRLS IN
TENNIS CLASH TO-DAY


Forest Hills, y. Y. Aug 19.--The
woman's lawn tennis singles cham
pionship OF 1921 lies between Mary
*. Browne of Santa Monica, Cal and
Mrs. Molla b. Mallory of New York.
Tomorrow afternoon these sole sur
vivors of the thirty fourth national
tituar tournament will meet for the
the semi final round play on the
courts of the West Side club here to-
dya Miss Bro~ne, chapmion in 1912,
Is, and IA won the. right to compete
for premier honors again by defeat
ing Mrs. c. V. Hitchins of Mexico
City, 6-S, so, while Mrs. Mallory be-
came tinalist by eliminating Mrs
May Sutton Bundy. the international
sensation of the courts almost two
decades ago. S-5, 60.
While Miss Browne had a compar-
atively easy task in defeating Mrs
Hitchinss, the playing through cham
plon fought terrific court battle with
Mrs. BundE before she conquered the
lighting spirit of the California ma
tron. In many respects the contest
between the two was the most sensa-
tional of the tournament. Mrs. .Bundy
brought from the Pacific coast after
virtual retirement from tournament
tennis in recent years, staged a SEN
sational come back which seriously
threatened to dethrohe the Morse
woman, until ature could no longer
keep pace with spirit and a slowing
mp of. Mrs. Bundy made victory pos
slble for her opponent
Both players warmed up like whirl-
winds as soon as they came on the
court and the sympathy and support
of the galleries Immediately went out
TO the Californian. when IL was seen
that she was playing with all the
dash. fire and power which made her
inNincible neatly two decades ago
Mrs. Mallory opened the service and
a continuous vcller. Of strokes which
ran close to twenty before the chan
pion lost the point on an error. From
that point on through the fourteen
games of the first set, there was hard
fighting every minute as the two
players drove and Sma shed the ball
back and forth without a moments
let up.
A greater part Of the sensational
play ccntered in this set. and the
closeness Of the battle is indicated by
the difference Of bat Ave points be
tween winner and loser. Both fought
although Mrs, Bundy made an occa-
Sonal sortie to the net. 1t was Mrs
Euudy's repeated driving the ball on
the baselne Of her opponents court
that finally brought her downfall. In
placements and other departments OF
the play the pair were comparatively
well matched and each took turns in
racing the other back and forth acrsss
the baselines in order to reach deep
court drives.
Mrs. Bundy by frequent attacks
upon Mrs. Mallory's backhand held the
scores even until she began to tire in
the gruelling race. The point was
reached where semi mi-placement strokes
were permitted by a pass for points
without an effort at return. This
marked the beginning of the end, and
Mrs. Mallory ran off four straight
games in the second set before Mrs.
Eundy took one of the two games
which saved her from love defeat in
the final set.
The recapitulation or point Vand
stroke figures in this match shows
that Mis. Mallory had margin Of
IS points. but five more placements
than Mrs Bundy. She also made sew
On more nets than the Californian but
her her out of court errors to 90
against 81 for Mrs. Bundy.
The Browne Hitchins match was
simply a vehicle for disclosing the
power Of tennis analysis and the STRAIT
egy of the former thrice champion
Mrs. Hitchins' peculiar under-spin re-
turns and deliveries with the sliding,
low bounding rise OF the ball puzzled
h, Santa Monica player for two
games. Once she had solved this form
of attack and altered her top drives
TO a lifting stroke. the result was no
longer in doubt.
After the completion OF the third
round Of the doubles. the four surviv-
in2 pairs were called to the courts
and it was not until long after 6
o clock that the finalists in the doubles
Nero evolved.
Miss Browne and Mrs. Williams
worked their way through the upper
half of the draw by defeating Miss
Marie Wagner and Miss Clare Cassell,
e-s. s-2. The survivors in the lower
half were Miss Helen Gilleaudeau and
Miss l.. Q, Morris. who defeated Miss
Leslie Bancroft and Miss Martha Bay
ard 6-1, GA