LAWN TENNIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1921, Page 11

LAWN TENNIS.

MADEMOISELLE LENGLEN. It has recently been reported that Mademoiselle Lenglen, whose brilliance on the tennis court gained her worldwide fame, has been advised, on account oi the state of her health, to discontinue playing. Commenting on her match at Forest Hills, Long Island, with Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in the tournament for the woman’s championship of America, the New York Outlook says that Mademoiselle Lenglen, after having been beaten in the first set and in two games of the second, abandoned the contest in a fashion which was sbmewhat theatrical and must have been for her somewhat tragic. She had arrived from France only two days before and had a slight bronchial cough as a result of an attack of bronchitis from which she was recovering. It was perhaps too much, under these circumstances, to expect her to play the game which has led European and English experts to regard her as the greatest woman tennis player that ever lived. Indeed, the game she played under adverse conditions was in its grace, accuracy, and skill, probably sufficient to have beaten almost any other woman than Mrs. Mallory, whom the French girl kept forcing from side to side in deep back court play in an extraordinary fashion. But the endurance, muscular power, and determination exhibited by Mrs. Mallory on this historic occasion was worthy of the football field. Mrs. Mallory has since completed the tournament* by winning the American championship for the sixth time, beating some of the greatest American woman players. While Mrs. Mallory is an American by adoption and marriage, she is a Norwegian by birth.