Show Union Jack Jacl Does Something to Net Star 1 By HENRY McLEMORE 1 v NEW YORK Sept 5 UP UP UP-A. A flag fluttered and so did a girls girl's heart That's the only explanation of ot otone one of ot the biggest tennis upsets of the year year Mary Mary Hardwicks Hardwick's Palfrey Palfrey Palfrey Pal Pal- straight set win over Sarah frey In ln the third round of the national national national na na- na- na championships at Forest Hills yesterday Miss Palfrey is this country's third ranking player and stands no worse than fourth In world listing She was selected by more than one critic to reach the final round this year and few gave gave Miss Hardwick even a fighting chance when they took the courtin court courtIn in the big Hills Forest Forest Hills stadium Flag Fl Flutters But as the two girls walked through the marquee and onto the smooth green of the turf a Union Jack atop the stadium came to life in the wind and the sun Defiantly It rose from Its staff bright and proud Later with victory hers h rs Miss Hardwick over a cup of tea I gave all the credit to the flag of her country and to the challenge its colors flashed to her its Its silly you know now and perhaps perhaps per per- haps you'll think me sloppy Miss Hardwick said but when I 1 lifted my head to serve the first time I caught a glimpse of the flag Ive I've seen it a million times goodness knows but It never looked quite as today She forgot for a while Miss Hardwick explained all the things she usually remembered during a tenn tennis s match The things about keeping your our eye on the ball the body at right angles with the net on every shot the Importance of leaping In putting away a smash the well the well the ten tea thousand tenets of a precise game I just kept hitting and remembering remembering remembering re re- re- re that I must win Then as if she feared she had talked too much revealed too much of her feelings to to a stranger who was a journalist at that Miss Hardwick reached in her purse and brought out a let let- ter I 1 got this by the morning post she said Its from father t. t I 1 got it only a little while before I played and perhaps it'll explain explain explain ex ex- ex- ex plain the way I felt today Hes He's 1 at Salisbury That's where we I live only a few miles from the cathedral Brothers in Guards Then she read to me from her fathers father's letter It was a letter that told of how the two young boys were doing splendid work inthe inthe in inthe the home defense corps of how courageously England was standIng standing standing stand stand- ing up under the shock of nazi terror by air and how there was the deep and unyielding feeling there in the little town of the theold theold theold old cathedral that d decency would again prevail in the world and that young people would again play their games under untroubled untroubled untroubled bled skies He spoke of Marys Mary's birthday and wished her h r well In the tournament tour tour- The letter from home was Wll In my sweater pocket when I 1 went out to play she said And then I saw the flag fla The scores were 6 1 6 63 |