The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-22
AMERICAN ATHLETES IA VE EYE ON OLl
TRACK AND FIELD STARS TO| GET PLENTY OF WORK SOON
William TiIden May Not Com
 pete On American Tennis Team In Olympic Next Year

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Eastern track and field stars, hopeful of winning positions on the 1924 Amer ican Olympic team, will have many opportunities to demonstrate their qualifications before the outdoor sea son begins. for. early next month. there will be inaugurated the most extensive indoor track and field schedule yet attempted in this sec ton.
 No less than 80 indoor meets. sew eral confined to college athletics. but the majority open to both club and college representatives, are in cluded in the list which will be con- ducted in New York, Boston, Phila- delphia. Newark. Buffalo, Baltimore and Washington.
 The indoor season will open with the annual Osceola club game at the Seventh regiment armory Janu sry 12, and, continuing from that date through the month of March, each week will witness from one to five important track meets.
 In many of the meets the competi- tion will be national in scope, for invitations have been sent to the star athletes of the west and south to appear in the special and handi- cap events.
 The urge to win positions on the next olympic team and the fact many of the leading coaches believe in door competition is the best means of preparing athletes for strenu- ous outdoor campaign, is expected to bring out large field in every event at every meet, and close fol- lowers of the sport look for many new indoor records before the sea son is ended.
 TILDEN MAY NOT PLAY
 PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 21,- Because he rates the Davis cup above Olympic honors, William T. Tilden, II, national tennis champion, said today that it was extremely unlikely" that he would be a mem Der of the United States Olympic team next summer. He certainly would not make an extended tour to take in the Wimbledon champion ships in England, the champion added.
 As yet I have not been asked to become a member of the American Olympic team said Tilden. and until I am, I will not come to defi- nite decision.
 T understand, unofficialIy that Dick Williams, Vincent Richards, Frank Hunter, Watson Washburn and myself will be invited. Person. ally. I do not want to make the trip and, unless so many drop out that IL Will dIIeCt the team, | WOuiu plS- fer to remain at home"
 PARIS. Dec. 21.--Nul the 1924 Olympic games mark the passing of Suzanne Lenglen from the undis- puted throne of woman tennis cham pion of the world?
 This is the foremost question be- ing discussed by tennis players and fans as the best racquet Wielders 0. Europe gather for the annual tour nament wars along the Riviera where the superb St zanne has been queen for many winters.
 Close students of the net game de clare that when Suzanne finally meets defeat it will be at the hands or a young, slashing player willing to mix things all the way in the trench champions own whirlwind style in stead of falling back on defensive game.
 Three stars of the younger gen eration are regarded as the Hkeliest hopes against Mile. Lenglen. The three candidates for the crown are:
 Miss Helen Wills, the marvel maid Of California, holder of the American national title at the age of II, ana improving all the time.
 Miss Evelyn Colyer, aged 17, the pretty English girl who, with her young partner Miss Joan Austin, set the staid stands of Wimbledon roar ing Ike the FOlO last June The pair, affectionatelY named "Wimbledons Sweethearts, were playing in their first big tour nament, and were runners-up to Mile. Lenglen and Elizabeth Ryan in the women's doubles. Miss Colyer, known as the Baby Paviowa Of Tennis made Suzanne look very bad many times in this match.
 Senorita de AlVeraz. aged lS, span ish beauty, who flashed into proml- nence last winter on the Riviera ano cave promise of being world champion in two years.
 None of the reigning European stars are granted chance against the mighty Suzanne. The Brlush last season entertained dizzy hopes that Kathleen McKane, the best con tender in Europe, might beat Suz- anne. But the French wlzardesS toyed with the English champion every time they met. AS Miss Nc Kane walked off the court after the last drubbing. she remarked: haven't a chance to win set from her before I'm 30 years old. And the English girl has five or SIX wears to go before that date.
 As for Molla Bjurstedt Mallory .he has a chance to beat suzanne The same chance Joe Beckett has or