The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-29
Jacobs, Perry
Defend Net
Crowns
BY MICHAEL ]. FOSTER
international News Service
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NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-With
Helen Jacobs, defending women's
titleholder, and Fred Perry, who
will be defending the mems crown,
both striving for their third win
in q row, Americas own "Wimble-
don" starts at Forest Hills this aft
ernoon.
For the first time in the history
Of the tournament the mems and
women'S tennis championships are
being held together. Gate appeal
is the reason; the feminine rae
quet-wielders have been short on
cash customer as well as sex ap.
peal in their recent champion
ships, and the court mogulS are
putting them on parade along
with their masculine rivals, hope
full that the combination will lure
bigger and better-paying crowds
to the horseshoe stadium Of the
west side tennis club.
If the new system doesn't ap-
peal to the fans, then, the U. S.
L. T. A. is sunk, for there's GER
tainly very little in the way of
competitive attraction to the
championships. Perry is better
than even chance against the rest
of his field, 81 racqueteers, and
until katherine Stammers meets
Mrs. Marshall Fabyan in the
semifinals, which she should, and
the winner tackles Champion
Jacobs for the title, very little in
the way of important fireworks is
expected in the women's tourney.
There should be plenty of
Bcrapping along the way, however,
as the lesser fry battle to make
as good an impression as they can
on the members Of the ranking
committee. A place in the first
10, or even in the second 10, can
be won or lost on a players show
ing in the nationals.
Jacobs Plays Today
Some of the minor sniping
starts right off today, with the
first round match between Miss
Jacobs and Mrs. H. Walter Blu
menthal, the former Baroness
Maud Levi, the steller attraction.
The Baroness is peeved because
she wasn't seeded, despite her
1884 No. 5 ranking, and she hopes
to take it out on Jake" But the
chances are all against her, for
only a hard-driving game can
beat Berkeley Helen, and the eX-
Baroness never could hit a fore
hand drive.
Another women's match which
should produce fine tennis Is the
field tilt between Mrs. Penelope
A. Mcbride and Jane Sharp.
The striking Miss Stammers
shouldn't find Gertrude Dwyer
particularly tough in their grand
stand court contest, but Mrs. w.
v. Hester, Jr., may make F'reda
James, another of John Bulls
pretty daughters, work hard to
come through. IGNORE Adelman
looks easy for Mrs. Fabyan.
In the mems play, the first
round tilt between Jacques Bru
non, fifth seeded foreigner, of
France, and Gene Mako, youthful
Davis Cup sub, is spotlighted in
the stadium. Unless Mako let's his
cockiness get the best of him, the
veteran Frenchman is due for a
tumble.
Perry and Donald Bulge, the
kid Davis cupper who is conceded
the best chance of upsetting the
Englishman, if anybody is to turn
the trick, are both idle today, hav-
ing drawn firSt-round byes, but
Wilmer Allison meets fair opposi-
lion in the hard-hitting Henry c..
Brunie, and Frank Shields tackles
an unknown, Henri P. Enard, of
Montreal.
Welsh Meets williams
Clifford Suffer VS.. Eddie De
Gray, Berkeley Bell VS.. Manuel
Alfonso, Sidney Wood VS.. Billy
Reese, and Dick Williams against
Barnard T. Welsh, national public
parks champion, are other good
matches. And Bill Lurie may
make trouble for Henry Culley,
who has won such notable sue.
cess recently in doubles competi-
tin with Wilmer Hines as his
partner.