Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-02
EAST.WEST TENNIS
FOR WOMEN STARS
TiIden Says Fair Sex Should
Hold Meet Similar to Mems
Competition
ENTAILS MUCH EXPENSE
BY WILLIAM r. TILDEN "a
Worlds Tennis Champion

THE tremendous success that attends
l all team matches in tennis. whether
they be International, sectional or In
tercity, proves that the public will sup
port competition that depends on com :.
munity feeling rather than on individ'
ual popularity.
True, there is always the attraction
Of the individual stars OF the teams
which will attract the lovers Of the per. :.
! sonal touch, but there is also the added
attraction of the team play.
Every year the Pacific Coast Tennis
Association, under the guidance Of DR..
Sumner Hardy. It's president. sends
East a representative team which in
cludes not only the leading men players
like Johnston, Davis, Roberts. etc.,
but also some women stars, as last year
when Miss Mary Browne md Mrs, May
Sutton Bundy came on to rcpcll the
invasion of Mile. Lenglen.
The greatest boom to the game In
womer,'s tennis for the coming season
lies in the presence of these west
ern girls on eastern courts. vet there
Ia at the present time no way tor the
Pacific Coast Tennis Association to
cover the expenses of sending the women
East.
The expenses of sending the men is
covered in q great part by the annual
East West match. played this year IN
San Francisco, and possibly added to
by q return meeting In the East after
the national singles championship.
Why should not the East meet the
West in n women's match? This might
be played previous to the mems cham
pionship event, but following the wom-
ems championship which precedes the
mems by some weeks.
There are many arden tennis fans who
would hail with joy chance to see the
flower o. the West fight It out 70 finish
against the best Of the East. This meet
ing would bring the greatest players IN
America together in q struggle second
only to the championship itself:
Let us look at the teams that are
available for this competition. The
East would, of course, be led by the no =
tionnl champion, Mrs. Franklin I. NAL
lory, the greatest woman star of ali time.
Her teammates would be chosen from
Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup. who
would make the team without question ;
Miss Eleanor Goss. Miss Leslie Ban
croft, who was the sensation Of the
winter seaso Mrs. Benjamin F. Cole
and Miss Edith Sigourney.
The West should have one Of the
strongest teams in the history Of the
game IL present plans can be carried
out. 1t seems now that there is an even
chance of both Mrs. May Sutton Bundy
and Miss Mary Browne coming East.
These two girls alone would make q
dangerous combination. but added tc
them is Miss Helen Wills. the national
junior champion and recent winner O.
the Pacific Coast title. Miss Wills is
a greatly improved player over Inst year
| and, in my opinion. is now among tn,
best six women in the United States.
A meeting of such stars as those men
toned would do much to offset the lack
of foreign players in the women's tour.
namcnts and at the same time would in .
sure the West against the danger of loss
by sending these women with theil
team.
Mr.. TiIden's next article will be "Tht
Church Cup Matches"
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