Evening star., 1922-12-18

student wintering I'm France. says:
"If proof Of the fact that Suzanne
Lenglen was playing as well as she
has ever played were needed. 1t could
be found in the recent tournament
held by the Marseille Tennis Club
at Marseille. This tournament. the
first of the long series up and down
the coast, took place last month
with most Of the best man and woman
players in France competing. The
champion won the women's singles
in her usual convincing fashion. In
deed. her play was as powerful as 1t
was in the winter of 1921. when she
swept through tournament after
tournament. defeating the best
French and English woman players
with the greatest ease.
"Playing at Marseille in bad
mistral. or south wind, she went
through five rounds Of the singles
without the loss of a single game.
And this against some of the strong
est woman players in France, coun-
try that is turning out some remark
generation. In the final round against
Mile. Contostavlos she dropped the
fourth game Of the first set. this be-
ing the only one taken from her in
the entire tournament. In this set.
incidentally, she made exactly three
d
rors, and about the same number in
the second set
"In mixed doubles she paired with
Roger Danet. winning without losing
a set. although several couples man
aged to take a game or so from them.
Her play on the fine courts at Cannes
and Nice will be interesting to watch.
as it is stated on good authority that
1923 will be her last year of active
competition"
South Attracts Players.
For years it has been the custom
Of the golfers who could afford the
luxury to make an annual tourna-
ment tour of the south every winter.
OF recent years the tennis players
golfers book and going south them
selves, but their opportunities for
tournament play have not been so
numerous as is the case with the
golfers. Golf clubs dot this fair and
broad land from coast to coast,
between in comparison.
But each winter season sees the
list of tennis tournaments in the
south increasing in length. Where
few years ago the Florida cham
pionships for men and women on the
Royal Poinciana courts at Palm
Beach were about the only Journeys
south of Pinehurst worthy of men,
ton, today there is string Of sane
toned tournaments, beginning with
the Florida public courts champion
ship at Jacksonville on Saturday and
lasting well into March.
It is now possible for a tennis
player to start on February IA in the
championship of the Bahama Islands
at Nassau, Bahamas, then to take the
boat back to Miami Beach, Fla, and
start play in the southern Florida
championships on February 10. On
February "a the annual Florida state
championship Journeys for men and
women begin. lasting into the first
few days of March. Tournaments at
st. Augustine and Jacksonville follow,
and then. on April 3, the annual north
and south championships for men and
women get under way at the Pine
hurst Country Club. A week later
the annual spring tourney of the
Greenbrier Tennis Club at White
Sulphur Springs will start.
Then there is the Bermuda cham
pionships for men and women in
early March and the corresponding
events at Havana, Cuba, in the same
month.
Palm Beach, Miami. Nassau. Ber-
muda and Pinehurst and White Sui
phur Springs have had their entry
lists distinguished by the names of
world famous players. like William
T, Tilden, I'd, Vincent Richards. Rich
ard Norris Williams, S. Howard
voshe1l, Lawrence B. Rice. G. Carlton
Shafer, Mrs. Molla Ejurstedt Mallory,
Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup and
LrA. George w. Wightman.