The New York herald., 1922-07-05
Mile. Lenglen Comes Through
Hard Tennis Test With
81, 8-6 Victory.
ANDERSON BEATS WOOD
His Speed Discounts Erratic
StrOking in Fierce Five
Set Tussle.
by STANLEY y. DoUsT.
Teteran Internationalist.


Special Cable 10 THE New YORK HERALD.
CopD'1oht, 1929, by THE New YORK HERALD.
WIMBLEDON, England. July 4.--De-
spite the disappointing weather two
matches. beth of them thrillers. were
played in the British tennis champion
ship to-day The crowds that waited
through several hours of rain to SEE
Mile. Suzanne Lenglen in action were
we'll rewarded, for brilliant match
followed, in which the French girl,
after a great fight. defeated Miss
Elizabeth Ryan of California, 81.
S-6. Thc gallery also saw James O.
Anderson of Australia defeat his fell
low countryman Pat OHara Wood, in
q match that furnished five set
feast, 6--S. 6-3. 2-6. 2--6. ca
Miss Ryan has been a tournament
regular at Wimbledon since 1912 and
she is well known and we'll liked.
She has met Mile. Suzanne on many
occasions, but she has yet to win a
set from the French girl Both on
the hard courts of the Riviera and on
the grass courts at Wimbledon Miss
Ryan, great player against any
BODY else, has in the past been able
to offer only feeble resistance against
Suzanne.
To-day's match gave early promise
OF repeating the same old story. the
story of last year and the year before.
During the first set 1 wondered how
hAa r. hAC
women players here, as she always
does. Mile. Lenglen made her opron-
ent's play look second rate in that set
She has this gift against many.
Wastes No Motion.
Her own game is so delightfully."-
easy. There is no undue exertior on
the French girls part, no wild rushing
from one end of the court to the other;
she doesn't try to retrieve impossible
shots. When you see Mile. Lenglen
chasing the ball, it is almost certain
that she will return it.
To Suzannes speed Of foot is added
remarkable anticipation. These are her
two chief assets. a third is the fact
that she possesses almost every known
stroke. Miss Ryan is a great player.
but because she lacks the pace and
ease of Lenglen and because there is
less variety in her tactics. La Belle
Suzanne has always beaten her.
So wonderfully improved however. was
Miss Ryan's game in the second set of
to-day's match that she came within
measurable distance of winning
II. Her ground strokes became more
effective for volleying campaign. The
slice shot she employs kept the ball
bounding very low on the yielding turf
The length OF her drives. which had
been poor, became effectively deep.
rMlle. Lenglen in contrast grew un-
certain in the face of the persistent at
tack. Shots that previously had passed
Miss Ryan we're now being volleyed
back at her and her own volleying de-
veloped flaws. This however. was only
intermittent for the score remained
level most of the way.
Both played splendid tennis after the
score had gone to 3 all. although Mile
Lenglen did not reach her usual high
standard. The rallies grew trcmend-
ously exciting. and the spontaneous
applause had to be suppressed by the
umpire. Both women were voleying
well and deep. At 4 all. Miss Ryan
served double fault at critical stage
which lost her the ninth game.
Tennis Unequal to Test.
Miss Ryan played pluckily in the
tenth, went out for winning points in a
fearless. admirable way. unmindful Of
the score. Mile. Lenglen. when she
wants single game badly, generally
attacks as she did to-day, but Miss
Ryan countered more ferociously and
delayed defeat a few moments. Her
tennis, however. was not quite equal
TO the supreme test
b Anderson was in devastating form to-
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terrific speed. Wood is a very fine
voleyer but the pace of Anderson's s
drives was unanswerable. But Ander-
son was guilty Of errors galore. In one
game he served four double faults. on
another occasion. on Woods service An
derson was 40-love. and then made
three glaring mistakes
Anderson seems to have no happy me-
dium He either makes hair raising
winning shots or misses them by feet
rather than inches. In the first set
Wood attempted to volley too much.
especially as Anderson was going great
guns. Woods tactics were to attack
Anderson's backhand, which taking the
match as a whole was not convincing.
Wood stood no chance i'm the first two
sets. but in the third he won because
Anderson seemed willing to slaclSen his
pace.
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slower base line game and allowed An
derson to make mistakes. The change
from the fast forward game to the slow
base line play did not suit Anderson,
who dropped game after game on his
own errors. In the final division of
play however, Anderson made a fine
Tecovery and triumphed.
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TiIden Survives in
Clay Court Championship