Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1926, Page 29

v SP ORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1926. SPORTS. 29 Helen Wills Thrills, Although Defeated : Two Basket Ball Games Here Tonight GIVES SUZANNE FIERCEST CONTEST OF NET CAREER ‘American Champion, Beaten, 6-3, 86, Probably Would Have Won Had She Been Able to Have Taken Second Set—Astonishes Gallery. BY HIRAM K. Special Cable to The Star ANNES, February 16— Helc C match the French girl won., 6 Helen carried *ing only 1 ¢ points le Indee T a time it was Suzanne was showing severe oving. It was possible t Id have become tired better than ne The match was army of Duke of Emanuel of of Suzanne w have beer by ar ni the former witnessed ari ts, inclu Gonuamaght. Portugal toc King and the Rajah Puduvota. The mo: a4 were nds and ev the Ri played in the overflow- elegant gowns on ai n on the boring i limousines. iarly t nearby additio garage top of | s brought hundreds from | resorts who hoped to get into | 11 stands which were erected L | 1 dozen movie operators and a of newspaper photosraphers were present. Helen wore her fame 1 simple duck her famous old red knitte iter. ne appeared to el abted smiles everywhe Jooked elegant in w sweater and a turban, Sends Rival to Lim Tielen's white face did not st emotion excepi » when she w betra <how s greet- the | rer placing, her | above all. her Suzanne invinelbility The strokes which strike terror to all adversaries were returned e: ¢ Helen. who was on the defens. > by no means half the time. She pushed Lenglen to the last ounce of | energy and kept the famous French | d working like electricity to de- | vise an effective comeback. Point for point they were almost equal. The match was won Ly a shade of superiority in Suzanne's mas terlly placing. Today nobody can predict what will happen when—and if—they meet again. | Helen's generalship was perhaps the most unexpected feautre of the match The simple schoolgirl revealed a power | " of consistent planning which had not | been observed in previous games. She did not give Suzanne 70 use her famous up-to-thenet leap. while she was perhaps better than the French girl in guessing. Both Are Cautious. The match started slowly, neither player taking chances. Helen is slow- hn warming up, hence she was un- v ed and her returns were frequently faulty. Then Suzanne commenced her fa- mous tiring tactics, placing the ball in the distant corners, so Helen would exhaust herself in repeated jolent efforts to make a return. This aroused Helen's fighting spirit. In the second and third games she com- pletely outplayed Suzanne. These , tactics kept Suzanne dashing to the most_extreme ends of the court and left her breathless, Helen winning both games. 1 famous hypnotic power was Helen could not be bullied. ceforth it was straight tennis. Su- ne began concentrating on line ghots, using her marvelous power to the utmost to place the ball precisely on a chosen square inch. She won | o0 love games, the last except one, | in the whole match | On the sixth game, with the score 3 to 2 in Suzanne's favor, Helen opened up her speedy serve., This, however, is not yet perfected; it wor- ried Suzanne, but it was not suffi- ciently accurate to win alone, while the Freenchwoman's perfect returns caught Helen at her weaker point. Suzanne won the last two games of the first set with comparative ease. The second set was as fine an exhibition of all-uround tennis as the world has seen in a long time. Both d proved that they could not win by any one tactic. Thereafter both produced thelr whole bag of tricks, alternating swift drives with high iobs, epinning balls, tricky place- ments and unexpected changes of strategy until the spectators’ hends swam. was gone Tension Ts Terrific. Helen won the first game at love and three out of the first four. The tension was terrific as visions of an unexpected miracle began to appear. Suzanne's worrled face vevealed her chagrin and puzzlement. If telen could win the set her mag- nificent youth and iron staying pow- er might wear down the Impress of tennis. “Little Poker Face was calmer than ever and she did not move a except to open her lips in ex on of @ serve. Then ble things 1 happen. Shots which it was tech- jmpossible to return were ught in the last tenth of a second. rrific volleys in the forecourt were ked up and accurately returned to he most unexpected point. # Helen sped up her game, doubling the velocity of her ball. By this time she was placing the ball with almost impeccable perfection. Then <he weakened mysteriously, giving an to Suzanne two games, Helen winning/ only one point. Was Helen weary? appeared so. “nm the spactators nad underesti- martea the tremendous reserve power which the California girl had stored in her lithe, little body. She returned to her t: urdy as steel, and won 2 magnificent game. which went to deuce twice, producing the cleverest spins and sleeping balls, which she has been perfecting. Suzanne Annoyed. Suzanne’s annoyance now was un- concealed. Her play showed signs of erraticism and her nerve was less perfect. She placed repeatedly exact- 1y on the line, some times occasion- ing disputes between the spectators and umpire. Helen repeatedly retrieved games which seemed hopelessly lost. Su- zanne had ceased to be the technically perfect machine and she committed the only fault of the whole match. But virtuousity won by a hair, After the set went to deuce, Suzanne, panting and trembling, produced mas- ter shots which demanded her last pinch of energy—but won, Then the spectators surged down into the courts to acclaim the cham- pion. Enormous baskets of flowers 1d the Ch 1 Wills thrilled the worid today by giv- sig appeared begide the huge silver cup ,trophy. Sumanne, still gasping but with a smile fixed on her face, extended her Band te be kissed while Mother Len- MODERWELL. D o Daily News Suzanne Lenglen the fiercest hight she perhaps ever had in the [piad by an in rtain where the world champion would | gutstanding ns of fatigue, while Helen was con- hat it Helen had won the second set 1 rattled, and Helen's chances would zlen. with th ander her inevitable brown poodle m, looked on admiringl (Capy NEW YORK though def N int final match of the Carlton Club ment at Cannes Helen | Wills was not in s | humiliated. | The game score o . $—6 in ten- nis indica contested tou today, atch, signifving no marked BY LAWR N k. i HOFF AND OSBORNE WILL MATCH SKILL v the Associated Pres NEW YORK, February 16.—Char- v Hoff’s athletic conquest of Amer- already complete in his flights ovar the bar on a magic staff of bam- bov, is threatened by Harold Osborne. The Norweglan star's challenge to an allaround contest here on March 16 has been accepted by the Chicagoan. Eight events will try the skill and strength of these two athletic giants of Europe and America—Osborne s Olympic decathlon champion and Hoff a versatile performer prevented from facing his rival in the last Olym- ury to his ankle. merson Norton of rorgetown, mer Kansas Unive thiete, has | ¥ fo second set to deuce and contested every point, mak- | been mentioned as a third contestant, s than Suzanne. of fandom will center struggle between the of the two conti | but the inte; on the major stars | nents. Hom already been wmade a fa vorite in the j . the sprint and | the middle-distance run, but in the | high jump, the hurdles and the mile < conceded a distinet edge d jump and the shotput are o be the events on which |the question of supremucy between them will be settled, Rivalry Detween the two athletes dntes back to Osborne’s tour through immer, hen the Chi: hd Hoff kood-nuturedly pspective merits on the truck agreed to meet in this country in an alluround test, it condi tions favornble to such a duel could be arranged. They discussed the sub- ject azain at “nt mes of the Millr Athletic Assoctation, supet the part of the victor, nor any special inferfority on the van qQuished. Mile. L len was pls Vironment familiar hood All the dis surrounding and ot of the California girl Combining these facts with the addi- | 1 one that Miss Wills is young . that she | wtained her | to be said | t n's defeat | was not only surprising, but that many | excellent judges of tennis form in this | country did not expect her to make | the showing that she did. | Fools the Experts. | What was feared that. in vie of lack of time foy limatization and the comparatively short period of practice which the American player has enjoyed, she would not only be de- feated, but soundly trounced Molla Mallor Kitty McKane and in fact all the woman stars of the world have been when pitted against the sreat French star, either in England or_on the continent. The writer has no record that an woman star in recent years has played | Suzanne so closely as Miss Wills did today In another match adherents of Helen Wills may regard themselves as justified in the feeling that the American might well reverse the de at Cannes, wving in an en- o her fr c ow that she has faced the fire of | the French girl's genius and knows something about her game she will upon the occasion of the next mee ing—if the two do meet—be in a pos tion to play even better tennis than she played at Cannes. At least so it would seem. Like most persons of temperament, Mile. Lenglen seems to have been able to control herself when it was ap- parent that she had to do so. With a great majority of the tators rooting for the American with Miss Wills making a real con-| test out of it, the French star had| plenty of opportunity to explode. That she did not do this is creditable to her sporting spirit—all the more creditable when one considers thatin the past she has not always been able to summon it to her assistance in various emergencles. It is too early to say whether the cause of tennis will have been helped or hurt by the tremendous amount of publicity which have been broadcast from the Riviera over the meeting of the two girls. If advertising, irre- spective of its nature, pays them the sport has gained stupendous benefit Otherwise all the commercialism and | gambling and other objectionable itures that have characterized the climinaries to this great intern: tional match, may be found to h: PENN TO CONSTRUCT BIG INDOOR STADIUM PHILADELPHIA, —One of the largest in the country soon will be in course of construction for the University of Pennsyivania, offic { the institu tion announced toda Preliminary | for a structure ¢ approximately $1.000,000 and having a seating ca- pacity of more than 10.000. Perey Wilson, universit aid the site selccted is close to Frank- Field and that the stadium will give Pennsylvania indoor athletics fa cilities unequaled. “We plan a building to complete base ball diamond ket bLall courts, and & gymnas of the present one. “The stadium proper will seat 10, 000 persons and the facilities at the ol will care for un additional 5,000. ans have been submitted to the city for approval.” ve been drawn engineer, include a three has BASKET: BALL GAMES. At Brookland—Catholic U., 5%; Wil- liam and Mary, 19. At Blacksburg — Virginia Poly Fresh, Potomac State, 24, At Richmond—Richmond U., 42; Duke, 30. At Memphis—University of Missis- sippi, Memphis Southwestern, 20. .'!DA' Clemson—Clemson, 32; Davidson, illfl—‘_‘Furmlll. 46; College , 16, Minneapolis—Minnesota, 28; Michigan, At Chattanooga—Chattanooga U., Citadel, 20. At Raleigh—North Carolina State, 30; Guilford, 16. At Starkville — Mississippi Aggles, ; Mississippi College, 25. At College Station, Tex.- 37; Texas Aggies, 27. JAt Fort Worth—Texas Christian University, 41; Rice, 18. American Basket Ball League. (Second Reries.) 0 1.000 Ft. Wayno 0 1.000 Brooklyn 1 7780 Buffalo.. 1 1500 Chicags Tomorrow’s G: Brooklsn at Cleveland Arkansas, Cleveland. 4 Rochester. 1 Wash'gton 3 Detroit. .. 1 | Nearly 12 miles of pipe are embed- {ded in the arena of Madison Square Garden to furnish the ice surface for given the cause of international sport. hockey and skating. AGE AND EXPERIENCE WIN AS FRENCH ELEN WILLS conceded much beaten by Suzanne Lenglen, Cannes, France, today. Miss Wills, who is only 20 years GIRL SCORES in age and experience when she was 6—3, 86, in their tennis match at old, has been in the tennis limelight only four years, while Mlle. Lenglen, six years her senior, has been a conspicuous figure on the courts for Two more opposite types in play as well as in personality have seldom been brought face to face in a battle for tennis honors of the world. Suzanne, temperamental to an un- usual degree and nervously on edge, plays a _dynamic, brilllantly versatile | game. Helen, cool and self-relfant. she has been nicknamed “poker fac —depends upon the steady and con- sistent power in her strokes, delivered with almost masculine severity. To sum up the chief qualifications’ in second round (2—6 default). of each, Helen's stroki greatest asset, plus @ keen fighting spirit_and steadv nerves, while Su- zanne's advantages lle in her speed of foot, strategy and experlence, support- ing an unusually effectlve and accu- rate bag of strokes. Thumbnail sketches of the rival players, prepared by the Assoclated Press, follow: HELEN WILLS. Born October, 1905, at Berkeley, 1if., where she learned game. Won “pace’” {s her a much longer period. which she competed on Riviern with- out loss of set, and won singles at Wimbledon for first time. Wimbledon victorles in singles repeated in 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923 and 1925, besides triumph in doubles with Miss Ryan and in mixed doubles with different partners in most of these years. Won Olympic titles of 1920 at Antwerp and world hard court championships sev- eral years. Visit to America in 1921 resulted in defeat in United States na- tional championships by Mrs. Mallory Later defeated Mrs. Mallory abroad in 1922 and 1923, once at 6—0, 6—0. In 1924 withdrew from Wimbledon _singles after close call against Mrs. Ryan in round before semi-finals. fic coast champlonship at age of , and came East for first time, winning national girls’ title. Re- peated in national girls’ championship following year and advanced to finals of national women’s champlionship si losing to Mrs. Molla B. Mallory; tional women's doubles with Marion Z. Jessup. 3, at of 17, captured national women's title, defeating Mrs. Mallory in final round; also scored tories over Miss Kathleen McKane, English champion, in =ingles tournament, as well as Wightman Cup tournament. Retained national championship in 1924, again beating Mrs. Mallory in final, and went abroad to win Olympic singles championship, also Wimbledon and Olympic doubles with Mrs. Wightman, partner in holding natfonal doubles honors. Beaten twice by Miss McKane at Wimbledon same year. Won na- tional championship third straight time in 1925, also retained doubles title with new partner, Mary K. Browne. SUZANNE LENGLEN. Born May, 1899, at Complegne and taught game by her father. Won championship of Picardy at age of 14, also several tournaments along Riviera. Made rapid progress, includ- ing victory in international hard court championship of 1914, but World War curtailed play for several seasons Began real reign of supremacy in 1919, when she won evgry event in reat swimming pool | m four times the size | The Evening Stav BOYS CLUB Conducted by ROBERT C. McCLELLAN HE bounce pass and the criss- cross are two of the popular plays in boy basket ball circles this year. The bounce pass is very difficult to master. A bounce pass expert must first be a great dribbler, and there are few of the latter But the criss cross is just & play, which may be perfected by any group of boys who work together enough. It is just what its name implies— deceptive pass from one teummate to i) another as they are speeding in op- posité directions across the court. But important in the criss cross pass is th style of shot. The shot follows « speedy bit of team p therefore the breast shot is The breast shot has been written of many time before. But the wrist pro- pelled breast shot for long tries will be described here. The ball is held at the chest with the fingers slightly behind the center of it. (The runner has come to a sud- den halt.) The ball is shot by a sud- den snap of the arms, wrists and hands. The body and legs have no part in it. For a fast long shot, when required, this works weil. Chimning. There ure two kinds of chinning hut this one has to do with the athletics of the body undinot of the tongue. First you must have a bar to work on. A dot of fellows have found per fect horrizontal bars on the old apple tree, and in other spots where sport ing goods manufacturers never visited. A ‘good horizontal bur, the kind vou 8ee in gvmns, costs some monev and probably is out of the question. But | you may be able to find & good pie of pipe an inch and a quarter or an inch und a half in thickness, which you can plice far enough above the head to answer the requirements. 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These men are recog- nized as the best in the country In their line, and whether any individual cares to compete or not, he would do well to drink in these athletic wi doms. Interest in track and fleld events is growing surprisingly fast through- out’ the country. Its success is due primarily to the love of the sport and its cleanliness, although there is an- otlier fuctor aiding in its development. That is the desire to keep Uncle Sam in_the forefront in athletics. prepare for it. There was @ time, not far past, when | the United States was head and shoulders over any other country in the world athletically. They reigned supreme. But every year there is a growing menace in the development of athletics abroad. America took only one flat race in the last Olympics, but enough of her men placed to enable her to wi Uncle Sam needs athletics if he is golng to maintain his position in the world of sport, and an inbred pa- triotism is sending young America to the cinder track and fleld to contest the successes for forelgners like Hoff, Nurmi, Hill, Lidell, Abrahms, ali splendid athletes, and first place win- ners in the last Olympics. The members of the club should get busy now. Start preparing for your athletic carnl Read vour column daily and vou'll meet with surprising success in your efforts. A list of new applicants received today follows: Edward E. Gibson, jr., 3200 Thirty- eighth street; Mason Gray. 3313 Ross place, Ell Bera, 303 Longfellow street; Willlam Turner, Vienna, Va.: Harry lkner, 1527 I street: Myron - Tracey, 1815 Rhode Island avenu Franklin Gorman, Ballston. 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Augustin, Febroary 16 ) There will be a division into classcs, 50 as to give every boy an [ | | i i ] | » com. series of golf and ten er, at _Ormo: 19 and 20. The same | in on the courts sbruary 21 and sh Prices b . b Flint, Michigan $510 Touring Roadster Coupe Coach Sedan Landau . 13 Ton Truck (Chasms Onty) 1 Ton Truck (Chassis Oubyd 7 Luttrell Ch u lon HINKLE IS IN FINAL OF RACQUET EVENT M. Hinkle reached the final round of the District championship squash racquets tournament being held at the Racquet Club by defeat- ing R. W. Miller in straight sets last night in the last match of the lower bracket. The scores were 15—12, 16—10, 15—10. David M. Key, defending champion, meets Hinkle today In the declding match of the tourney. Key reached the final last week when he defeated Blair in the upper bracket, 15—12, 15—12. opponents in the title en- have been named to repre- sent Washington in the fight for the natio 1 crown, which i3 purt of the program arranged for the local courts during the coming week end when teams from 11 or more cities pather here for the annual tournament and meeting of th United Squash Racquets Association. MISS COLLETT GETS 83. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla 16 (®)—Glenna Collett, woman's na- tionul golf chimpion yesterday broke the woman's record for the &t gustine links with an 83. At e sunie time Wilfred Reid, Detroit, al Winter professional, set a ne The countel course record when he negotiated a {of nine, are in front of the Old Line par 7 MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA TO CLASH IN HEADLINER Conference Rivals Meet at College Park—George Washington to Play Host to William and Mary. Which Bowed to C. U. HERE will be two college basket hall games playing Maryland at College Park and Gec l taining William and Mary in the Hatc A battle of real proportions is promi 1 Cavaliers and OId Liners, with the latter determi defeat suffered at Charlottesviile about 10 da William and Mary, which came to Wa ened by the loss of several leading players year exams, was beaten last night by Cat} probably will prove rather easy for the vastly ton quint. Maryland, in third place among the 22 teams in the Southern Conference | 0% standing, with six wins In seven starts |5 %) in the organization, will be battllng' North to stay among the leaders, while Vir-|16: the Cav ginla, who has won four of six 34 to games within the circuit, will have to hers do win to remain in the running. Only Kentucky, which has won all its six conferen games, and Missis. sippi U., which has taken eight out Lampior aggregation. North Carolina, the VERSATILE VIRGINIA MEN at College Park tonight Howard Holland of Norfolk, Va., is captain of the basket ball quint, id he has as his running mate another Norfolk m e Mackall of Washington, D. C.. has been chosen to head the 1926 foot ball team, and paired with him is Paul Walp | oi Charlottesville, Va., who was captain of basket ball in 1924, | | | | |e captain-elect of base ball, Cha; or five regulars Wat N. Dak., center who has not major tean:. 15 though T #ood for i captain's place since he has won the varsity “V' in three sports, foot ball, track and basket ball A trio of the quint have been three varsit Tyler is the been chosen And it the to lead : loc arded e won the “V" Holland _has been a letter ball. basket ball, and while Walp, like Tyler, has award in football, Wrenn has the * and base ball, and Mackall 1 foot ball egular team represents al of 27 major athletic awards, A this number is brought to 30 by incluc g the two substitutes who in two 510 645 645 735 765 395 550 evrolet Sales Co. 14th St. and Rhode Island Ave. N.W. Aero Auto Co., Inc. 1101 King St., Alexandria, Va. 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