Evening star., 1939-07-09
Second Leng|en
In Victory
Kay Stammers
First Ever to Make
Sweep of U. S. and
British Crowns
BY SCOTTY RESTON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

WIMBLEDON, England, July g.
Alice Marble, golden haired girl
from San Francisco, beat Kay Stam-
mers for the all-England women s
singles tennis championship today
and when she walked off the center
court to meet Queen Mary, Britain S
tennis experts agreed that here at
last was another Suzanne Lenglen.
Playing with that relentless
rhythm of all true champions and
covering the court like some great
inhuman golden doll, Miss Marble
simply swept the beautiful English
girl right off the court in Is min
utes and led the American team
to one of the greatest triumphs of
international sport.
The young American team not
only won all five Wimbledon titles
as they did last year, but even took
the mems consolation tournament
to make it six. The only title they
didn't win was the women's con-
ISOLATION singles.
Alice Wins Unique Distinction.
Here's how they did it;
Bobby Riggs, Chicago, defeated
Elwood Cooke, Portland, Greg, 2-6,
8-6, 3-6, 6-3, 60 (played yester-
day..
Miss Marble defeated Miss Stam-
merS. England, 60, 60.
Riggs and Cooke defeated Frank
Wilde and Charles Hare, England,
6-3. 3-6, 6-3, 81.
Riggs and Miss Marble defeated
Wilde and Nina Brown, 81, 6-l.
Miss Marble and Mrs Sarah Pal
frey Fabyan of Cambridge, Mass.
defending champions, defeated
Helen Jacobs, Berkeley, Calf, and
Billy Yorke. England. 81, Go.
Don McNeill. Oklahoma City, de-
feated j. Van Den Eynde, Belgium.
8--6, 60 for all-England plate
(consolation)
Think of all the attributes of a
great tennis player and Miss Marble
had them today as she became the
first woman in the history of inter-
national tennis to hold three Ameri-
can and three all-England titles at
the same time. Her first serve. hit
with that beautiful full -blooded
stroke, positively streaked across the
net and when she needed her second
service she made it kick wildly to
Miss Stammers' backhand.
Little Nervous at Start.
At the start, it's true. Miss Marble
was little bit human. She even
looked a little nervous and her serv-
ice wasn't working so well. In fact,
Kay got to 40-15 on it in the first
game and even managed to break
through it in the third. But from
the fifth game until the end of the
match, Kay got only 5 points against
service
On the other hand Miss Marble S
sweeping returns Of the English girls
left-handed service were so good
that only in the sixth game did Kay
manage to win game with service.
Even against Miss Stammers'
hardest serves, Miss Marble was
driving the bal. back at terrific
speed and her length was uncanny.
All afternoon she was clipping the
chalk of the baseline while Kay just
ran and ran and famed at them.
just as in the singles, Miss Marble
and Mrs. Fabyan had no trouble
defending their doubles title. They
broke Miss Jacobs service in the
second game for a lead they never
lost. 1t was all over in little more
than half hour.
Alice Shaken in Collision.
Alice and Riggs had little more
trouble winning the mixed doubles
They pulled it out, though Alice was
shaken up in a collision with her
partner in the 18th game of the first
set. The vital game of the match
was the 18th of the first set, when
the Americans broke Miss Browns S
service and then went on to win the
10th from 0-40 for set. They broke
through Wilde's service in the first
game of the second set and never
were headed after that.
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fight against Wilde and Hare for
the mems doubles title and though
the Englishmen saved five match
points in the 14th game of the fourth
set, the Americans broke Wilde's
service in the 18th and went on to
win behind Riggs service in the 18th.
Miss Marble Alone Outstanding.
Despite the American sweep Brit
ish critics are convinced the only
champion who can be compared with
past Wimbledon winners is Miss
Marble.
Eight times Helen Wills Moody
came over here and won this VIM
bledon title, but never in all these
victories were British experts willing
to concede she was as good as Leng-
len.
Tonight they we're saying that
Marble plays like Lenglen-only
harder"
Miss Marble is going to Ireland
to play next week before sailing for
New York on the Champlain July 10.