The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-24
.F|V AMERICANS
IN Tennis MATCH
Championship Tournament to
o2en Monday in Vim
bleton, England.

NEW YORK, June 24.-Five
Americans, two women and three
men, will compete in the series OF
British grass court championships
at Wimbledon. England, beginning
Monday. not, however. as an off
cial team but as individual entries.
The United States Lawn Tennis
Association decided to concentrate
its resources upon a team to de-
fend the Davis Cup, enbierc.tic o.
the worlds team championship,
thereby precluding official sponsor
ship for the Wimbledon classic.
The quintet which is entered Is
the same as last year on the wo-
mans side, but5due to the declina-
ito nof William T.. Tilden I'd, pre-.
mier singles champion OF the
world to play abroad this year the
mems section of the invading five
is not as strong as last year. Chief
! interest is in Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt
Mallory five times American
champion who failed at Wimble-
don last season.
Last year the. official American
team was headed by Mrs. Mallory
and Tilden,s. the latter successfully
defending his worlds title. J !. D.
E. Jones and Arnold Jones, father
and son, the others, did not go this
year but Miss Edith Sigourney o.
Boston, again accompanied Mrs.
| Mallory Dean Mathey. c. c..
Gamer and H. A.. Gore will repres-
! ent America. in the mems tennis.
OF course, the result of their
playing will be an American vic
tory or an American defeat. as
the scores will tell but if it is Il
defeat in the mems half Yankee
devotees of the net will gain com
American players were unable 70
make the trip. Mrs. MaHorys title
as American woman champion
places a different aspect on her
entry.
c.. C. Gamer, is familiar to East
ern galleries. particularly followers
OF intercollegiate tennis. While al
Harvard Gamer was intercollegiate
singles champion in 1916 and with
Richard Harte, was intercollegiate
doubles champion in 1917. Dean
Mathey ranked No. 10 in national
standing in 1916 and was an inter :
collegiate doubles champion at
Princeton in 1910 and 1911. Not
much is known of Mr:NGore.
Mrs. Mallory sailed for England
hoping to meet Mile. Suzanne
Lenglen, the French champion.
who defeated her once broad but
defaulted last summer at Forest
Hills when "Marvellous Molla'
had carried the court in the! first
, set OF the international match
CO. Mile: Lenglen complained OF
illness at that time.
If these two meet early in the
play or both later reach the final
round the Wimbledon tournament
will hold for American followers
of the racquet greater attention
than was devoted last year. If they
do not meet the touramAE will
lack the color that the sporting
public has been prepared to view
from afar. but in any event the
spotlight will center on Mrs.
Mallory who is much set upon an
nexing the worlds title as she is
anxious to deefat The Suzanne. =
With the exception of 1919 Mrs;
Mallory has been American cham
pion since her advent in the Unit
ed States in 1915 as Miss Molla
Bjurstedt, a native Norwegian. Her
first year as a matron she dropped
to third among the First Ten Wo-
men but in 1920 she greasserted he:-
self and last year held, to her title.
She is the wife ofsF'ranklin I. Nal
lory, a broker.