New Britain herald., 1929-06-29
PROVIDES FEATURE l IN TENNIS PLAY
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Wimbledon. Eng. June go N- A Wimbledon champion of more : than . quarter of . century ago is 2 the reigning sensation of the cur ! rent championships on England's . ; historic tennis courts. In 1905 and ! again in 1901. when feminine tennis ; players appeared on the courts Earb- ' d in skirts which swept their ankles : tight-fitting shirtwaists and straw hats perched on the top of masses s. of hair. Miss May Sutton won the ~crown now worn by Helen Wills. ~Yesterday with her 12-year old daughter Dorothy as the most im- Sportant of the many spectators, this sssams May Sutton. now Mrs. Bundy, : provided one of the 1929 tourna- , msnt's greatest sensations by elim- :. mating ono of England's leading : women stars. Eileen Benentt from . the singles championship.
 : Mrs. Bundy has modernixed her ] tennis costume but the game that brought her from behind in a great fighting rally yesterday to beat the $ ayoung British Wightman cup star, z was based on the same solid basis
 that carried her to her previous vic- terieA The 42-year old mother. who !. returned to top flight tennis last = year when she came east from Cali fornia to show her daughters some ! eastern tennis. countered Miss Ben- snett's strong back court game with . fine mixture of sound strokes and court strategy to win by scores Of fs3-s. 6-l. 6-4. In the second and sethird sets she trailed at 2-4 and 1-t ...only to come through to victory. ~ Americas two Helens won easily yesterday to join their fellow Cali 1. .fornian in the last eight. Miss Wills
 had her string of love-set victories
 broken by Miss Sigart of Belgium. but won in straight sets. while Miss
 Jacobs triumphed over the young
 English girl, Joan Fry, with equal
 ease.
 Y Another sensation of yesterdays
 play saw last years runner-up, Lii
 de Alvarez of Spain eliminated by AAn almost unknown English player. !, Mrs. c. o. McIlquahm. The Span 5sh girl has been playing under diff
 ficulties due to an injured leg, but sshe was barely able to carry the match to three sets yesterday as the ( aEnglishwoman displayed a surpris- "lngly strong game.
 The mems singles progressed in . the same way it has been going for pthe past few years, with France triumphant and America in the runner-up position. Three French ~men, Henri Cochet. Jean Borotra and Pierre Landry reached the quar- ter finals, two of them at the ex-
 pense of Americans. while Bill Til vden eliminated fourth Gallic con- tender. the young Christian Boussus
 after a hard match. Cochet defeat. ed Johnny Hennessey and Borotra : Wilmer Allison. Tilden is the only American in the last eight. but George Lott has a chance to join ! him today by beating Jan Kozeluh of Czechoslovakia in the feature sing)es match.
 t Doubles are the leading attrac- ftions in today's play with the Americans occupying the famous scenter court. Miss Wills and Edith Cross play Mrs. Molla B. Mallory, veteran American, and her partner
 Miss Desmidt of South Africa. Til.
 den and Frank Hunter go against sGordon R. o. Grole- Rees and Cyril e. Flames of England. In the singles
 H. w. (Bunny) Austin, England's
 leading hope. plays Charles H.
 Kingsley and Hans Trimmer Dutch star, meets Sharpe of England.