The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-21
EYES OF TENNIS
 FANS TURNING TO
 NATIONAL MEET
Mrs. MoIIa Bjurstedt Mallory Was at Her Best Against
 Mile. Lenglen
By WALTER CAMP Special Correspondent of The Age Hersld. Copyright, 1921. by Tho Age -Herald.)

Copyright, 1921. by Tho ge-Herald) New York, August 20.-The eyes of
 all tennis enthusiasts now are turn ing toward the singles champion
 ships of the United States Lawn Ten
 his association, which will begin
 September g at the Germantown Cricket clubs courts at Mannheim, | Pa. There was time whom no one | thought of tennis championships in connection with any. other place than
 Newport. Then Newport came to re- | gard these events as. fixtures owned
 in fee simple, and became careless,
 There were rumblings of possible
 transfers, but 1t was not until the | West Side club at Forest Hills, l.. l.,
 developed their courts along lines
 produced at Wimbledon, that New
 port became nervous. Then 1t was too late and shifts were made
 Development of tennis under s'f:h executives as Bob Wrenn, George Ade
 and Julian Myrick has been so great the fixtures have become so numer-
 ous that this year 1t was decided to divide them up, so the national sin gles championship will be played at
 Germantown and the Davis Cup matches at the West Side club. The turf at Mannheim long has been
 known as the finest in America and
 no less than 26 courts now are being laid out there.
 More Countries Now Entered Some idea of why it will be worth
 while to visit this tournament may
 be gathered from the fact that no less than nine countries have tenered players in the singles competition. With the entry of Dorbolla of Mexico,
 the lists include stars from America, | England, Canda, France, Japan, India
 Denmark and Australia.
 In recording the excellent form
 Miss Mallory was displaying before
 the beginning of the woman's cham pionships, the writer declared that
 Mrs. Mallory was determined to avenge on an American court her defeat in Europe at the hands of Mile.
 Lenglen, the Frenchwoman cham
 pion. This she has now done, but
 not to her entire satisfaction. The
 writer felt Mrs. Mallory would be right at the top of her game, and the play in the single set that was finished indicated this. It is no dis | credit to Mrs. Mallory to say that the
 Frenchwoman' had no business to be entered with no preparation' and en- tirely out of condition, for Molla certainly was playing the game of | her career. She was never so inn l pressive as in this set. which she
 won from the French girl.
 Mile. LangIen Off Game
 Now to take the other side of he
 net. Mlle.. Lenglin will be bitterly
 criticised and has already been more
 or less laughed at for her showing. | Those who were at the side of the
 courts at Forest Hills know, if hon. est with themselves, that Mile. Leng- len. when she began to cough, was
 practically out of it. Whether, with 1 true American abandon, she would 1 have sacrificed herself and gone on
 struggling and perhaps have laid
 herself open to esrious illness for the
 sake of mot quitting" is a matter
 that is viewed differently by differ | ent people.
 1 At any rate. the crowd of spec 1 tators was naturally much dsap- pointed. It is safe to say. the French woman. when she recovers. will give | the American tennis enthusiasts a chance to see what she can do. Per | sonally, the writer feels that Mrs.
 Mallory would have welcomed a real
 contest and had her confidence and her game in such shape that 1t Is uouDtIul IT the fTencn Slrl coulQ nave
 repeated her two previous victories Mrs. Mallory learned much from her 1 other matches with Mile. Lenglen and
 she certainly made use of that Knowledge at Forest Hills when the French champion collapsed. Their
 next meeting will be watched with keenest interest. . Daily our chances for successful de- fense of the Davis cup improve. Til den's physical condition already shows betterment, although he is not | yet the. Tildcn of year ago. John- l ston looks better physically than the writer has ever seen him. and his
 game is as crisp and clean cut as ever. Washburn is better than he
 has ever been before and Williams
 streaks of brilliant play seem to be l getting longer with less interpolation
 of vagaries. Meanwhile, the Japan 1 CSC and Australians are showing | nothing new.