New-York tribune., 1922-08-28


The suggestion made by Patterson
yesterday that this final match for the
championship on the courts of the
Longwood Cricket Club be transferred
to the West Side Tennis Club at For
est Hills and played on Saturday, with
the national title as we'll as the Davis
Cup doubles result at stake, was not
approved of by the Davis Cup Commit
tee, In solemn convention assembled.
1t was pointed out that the Long
wood Cricket Club had gone to con-
siderable expense in staging the ma
tlonal doubles tournament, and that
the entire seating capacity ef the club
has been sold out for the final round
match, The sporting spirit shown by
Patterson, however, in thus stalking
everything on one throw of the diceo
was thoroughly appreciated.
incidentally, the Australian team
captains proposal may be taken to
mean, think, that he intends to play
the Davis Cup doubles match with
OHara Wood as his partner, and not
u q. Anderson, whose illness has kept
him out of all tournament play since
the Seabright tourney. Wood has long
been recognized as one of the worlds
great doubles players, and it 10 ,ks as
though Patterson and Anders.h, as
snming that the latter is in good CON
ditios by Friday, the opening day of
play N the international matches, will
play all four Of the singles matches
against Tilden and Johnston.
With the playing of the final round
match in the women's Longwood invi-
tation singles tomorrow, between
Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, the ma
tional champion, and Miss Helen Wills.
~ al Al.
women's season practically reaches it's
climax. The invitation mixed doubles
event beginning at Newport to-mor-
row, and the invitation tournament on
the Rockaway Hunting Club courts.
starting. on Thursday, winds up the
for 1922. =
Already there has arisen much dis
cusslon as to the personnel that will
be found in the "frst ten this year,
and while there seems to be general
unity OF sentiment in naming the first
tour or five players to occupy the lead
Ing positions, there is wide diver
gence of opinion as to the last five or
six players.
Mrs. Mallory, whose long season on
American courts is unmarked by a
single defeat, is of course the No. |.
with nobody even within striking dis
tance to challenge her supremacy.
The No. player looks open to Miss
Wills, whose performances in the ma
tional, when she defeated Mrs. Marion
zinderstein Jessup and Mrs. Nav SUIT
ton Bundy and was runner-up to Mrs.
Mallory for the title, were astonish-
Ing in one so young.
Miss Leslie Bancroft, of Longweod
will undoubtedly win the No. place,
and had it not been for her defeat bv
Miss Martha Bayard at Longwood last
Thursday, she would be entitled to
second place over Miss Wills. In fact,
there may be considerable argument
as to whether Miss Bancroft is NOT
entitled to the No. position. She has
been remarkably successful in an un-
usually long season Of play, and the
fact that she has defeated Miss Wills
every time they have met this year on
four occasions, to be exact, cannot he
lost sight of when 1T comes to ranking
these two.
Mrs. Bundy, Mrs. Jessup and Miss
Bayard will certainly be found among
the next four or five, with at least a
dozen logical contenders for the last
half-doZen places.