1938-07-18 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 18, 1938.

Passing Of Suzanne Lenglen

ENGLAND'S MOST BRILLIANT

13 PLAYERS OF WOMEN

FOR 4TH

TEST MATCH

London, To-day.

Several changes have been made in the selection of the 13 players invited to attend the Leeds ground next Friday for the Fourth Test Match against the Australians

The England team will be select-

ed from the following 13 players:

W. R. Hammond (Gloucester)

(Capt.).

P. A. Gibb (Cambridge and York-

shire).

H. Verity (Yorkshire). E. Paynter (Lancashire). D. Compton (Middlesex). W. J. Edrich (Middlesex). D. V. P. Wright (Kent). C. J. Barnett (Gloucester). T. W. Goddard (Gloucester). K. Farnes (Essex).

C. L. Bowes (Yorkshire). N.. W. D. Yardley (Cambridge).

Three changes have been made from the team selected for the un- played Third Test.

Farnes, Yardley and Bowes re- place Smailes, Nichols and Hutton. Farnes played in the first Two Tests, but was dropped from the Third, and Yardley was 12th in the First Test and not selected for the Second and Third.

TENNIS PLAYERS

Triumphs Of An Outstanding Personality

(By AIR MAIL)

London, July 4.

"REVIEWER'S" SPORTS COMMENTARY

Cricket Journalists"

As Social Outcasts

who is now in tour, SUZANNE LENGLEN, the world-famous tennis A Test cricketer, former Australian

England reporting the present player of a decade ago, died at 6.30 this morn-makes some caustic comments about

present-day cricket reporting condi

article ing at her home at Auteuil, where she had been tions in Great Britain in an lying ill for some time suffering from pernicious to the Sydney "Daily Telegraph."

He says that cricket writing in Eng- anaemia. She had had a number of blood trans-land is not the comparatively pleasant Job be claims it is in Australia, and fusions, but last night she took a serious turn for adds that the English generally treat

cricket journalists as though the worse. She was only 39.

were social outcasts,

Suzanne Lenglen was unquestionably one of the most remark- able personalities who have ever appeared before the sporting public. It goes without saying that she had tennis genius in full measure, but she would have made a name for herself in any walk of life. It was said of her that she was the most celebrated woman of her day, and that only the existence of Charlie Chaplin prevent- ed her from being the most celebrated person in the world. Every- where she was known as "Suzanne."

She had, of course, a temperament. Unfortunately, a French temperament is not just the thing most likely to be understood by the British sporting public, and there were many "differences."

As far as

the

they At Worcester, the opening match of the Australians tour, Mailey com- plains that he was forced to sit in the open on a bitterly cold day. "Icy drops water, ran along the sent and of rain fell from our hats to the paper we wrote on, and the blue of the car- bons streaked everywhere," he says.

Mailey states that newspaper men are treated worse in Sheffield than At Leicester, anywhere in England.

he says, no accommodation was pro- vided for him, and he was forced to do his reporting from the roof of a friend's car.

It can be said of her that she the game of tennis. was passionately absorbed in her women's side of the game is concerned, hope that his comments will not be re- play, and that her nerves while she remade it.

the on

court were

Mailey ends his despatch with the

ported in England before the Aus- tralians again visit Yorkshire.

* Amateur Boxing. Rules

*

A PAVLOVA IN ACTION she was

The old style of women's tennis stretched to breaking point would not have taken the thousands She and also that some of the "inci-to Wimbledon that Suzanne did.

played tennis of extraordinary grace dents" in which she figured were The way she skimmed over the ground The Selection Committee an- nounces that should Gibb be unfit more than a trifle exaggerated. made her opponents look clumsy in the

extreme, and the skill of her footwork Some important decisions affecting to play, as a result of being struck RE-MADE WOMEN'S TENNIS reached eloquence. A Bernhardt in amateur boxing have been taken by on the forehead by a ball from.

temperament, and a Pavlova in action. the International Amateur Boxing She was reported, when disagreeing Smith in the Gentlemen v. Players with an English linesman, to have said,

And yet it could not be said that she Federation, which has been meeting match last week, necessitating "The English are pigs"; once it was was a "born" player, for few athletes in Paris.

Alterations were made in the system three stitches, he will be replaced said that she threw down her racket ever had a more strenuous career of

In future, points by Price (Middlesex).

and trampled on it; and she certainly preparation. She toiled for tennis "as of point-scoring. burst into tears and retired when in a saint toils for virtue"; she was liter will be awarded for:

A blow which lands clearly; à blow 'L. Hutton, who fractured the losing position against Mrs. Mallory ally dedicated, by an iron-willed father,

to the game.

which lands clearly and scores 8 middle finger of his right hand in America.

knock-down; when the opponent is when struck by a ball from Edrich

Against these, one must put the

clean and successful movement-of-de- testimony of those who never saw her

cautioned: before at in-fighting each -in-the-same-match, was-not-avail-do an unsportsmanlike-thing, and the

able. Reuter.

tremendous amount of good she did for

fence; tactics, leading, clean boxing, and accurate timing.

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A WONDERFUL RECORD From the day of her first appear: ance at Wimbledon until she turned profession-her most sensational step- Mlle. Lenglen was never beaten.

Her father began to coach her when she was 11, and at 14 she was cham pion of Picardy. She was, women's hard courts champion at 15 and Wim bledon champion at 20.

face. For once she was oblivious congratulations.

to

Her victim in her first Wimbledon DEFEATED MISS WILLS final in 1919 was Mrs. Lambert Cham- Mlle. Lenglen won the first set at bers. Before the war, when Suzanne 6-2, but Miss Wills, who hit all through. was 13, she had taken the great Eng lish player to 8-6, 3-6, on the Riviera: now, at Wimbledon, she won a never to-be-forgotten match by 10-8, 4-6, 9-7- the last point being a net cord.

REGAINED TITLE

with great power, led 6-2 in the sec- ond before the French girl got-level and won at 8-6. Mlle. Lenglen was then 27 and Miss Wills 21, and it was freely predicted that if they met at Wimbledon later in the season, the American would win. **

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She held her title till 1923, beating in successivė" finals Mrs, Chambers, But they never met again. "Suzanne Miss Ryan, Mrs. Mallory, and Miss did not play at Wimbledon, and M'Kane. In 1924 she scratched to month later came the announcement Miss M'Kane (later Mrs. L. A. God that she had turned professional. It free), but regained the honour in 1925, was stated that she was paid 110,000, beating Miss Joan Fry (Mrs. Lakeman) dollars for B four-months tour of It was in 1921 that she had the fam America. For a time she appeared in ous game with Mrs. Mallory, and the professional matches including a visit Norwegian-American had won the first to Hampden Park, Glasgow, her only set 6-2, when Suzanne retired, com- appearance in Scotland then she re plaining of illness. Miss M'Kane took turned to Paris, and little more was her to 8-10, 2-6 at Brussels the next heard of the former queen of tennis. year, and Miss. Ryan got a set off the Frenchwoman at Wimbledon in 1924 6-2, 6-8, 6-4.

FIRST CLASH WITH "HELEN”

In February 1926 came the most notable match of her career, when she faced the rising young Ameri can, Miss Helen Wills, at Cannes. It was easily the most extraordin- ary tennis encounter ever staged. Cosmopolitan hordes invaded the Riviera resort, and queues started to form at 8 a.m. Crowds rushed.

··LOVE - FOR HER SCHOOL:

She had become a gentler-Lenglen. To the general public she will romain a brilliant figure, flashing across tho court, dancing in expectation on feet: that were never still, a brown arm dealing the most deadly strokes, bright coloured bandeau held with a diamond pin swathed round her dark hair; but when recently she founded her lawn tennis school in Paris, she discovered a love for children and de lighted in starting the young ones. game was played in a continual din along the path she had trodden, herself. of cheering and shouting.

"I don't try to make champions,” When Suzanne reached the ground Suzanne said. "I try, above all to see her car was surrounded by hundreds that thousands of children 'amuse of cheering people, and she bowed her themselves, and at the same time get a acknowledgments like a queen taste for sport, and learn self-discipline. queen going to fight for her throne. At Lawn tennis has a great drawback. It

or hysterical in too easy to play badly and too dif

down her ficult to play well."

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