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Show : Winning Tennis Series With. Brain Against Pnysupife BT J. B. SHERIDAN. Hl pHEY grow girls great In Call- fl fornia. Never bad much use for the natives sons. But tho native daughters from Ada Menckon and Lottn Crabtrco to Mary Sutton and Mary Browne. Oh, boy. You can't beat those California girls. It is in the air of their native stato. Mostly they aro from the Rivera of tho United States. Southern California. If there is anything that they can't uo better than anyono else has done it we'd like to know what it is. H; Time has not bcon when tho daugh- tors of California have not been show- 1 lug. the world. Ada Mencken dollght- cd tho eyes and cars and charmed the Hu senses of half the world in the early fifties. She was a shnou puro prod-uct prod-uct of tho gold camps, was washed out of a pan somewhere on tho Sacrn-Hj Sacrn-Hj racnto river. Fdr flftoen years she was one of the lights of the world; Men lived and died for her favor. When she played "Mazcppa" and camo upon the stage, clad in whlto tights and tied to the back of a horse, "a Tartar of the Ukraine breed;" tho miners wcro liable to stono her to death with the nuggets they throw. Ada Mencken lived to charm half the j men of America and of Europe. She married many of them, one being John Hj C. Heenan, "The Benicla Boy," tha H man who fought Saycrs that unforgct- table battle at Farnsborough, England. ; "Tho "Benicla Boy," a perfect flg- ! uro of a man, was only ono of Ada Mencken's innumerable heroes and ' victims. She lived life to the fullest and loft behind a book of poems that aro tho equal of anything burning Hj ' Sapho wrote on her far-famed Los- bian 1 Adams Almost a Califomlan. j Contemporary with Mencken was Lotta, lovable, charming Lotta, sweet-I sweet-I est of all comediennes, gold-born, hor tongue tipped with auriferous airs. For forty years Lotta was tho idol of the American stage. I doubt that un-less un-less it was Adelaide Noilson, the Eng-lish Eng-lish gypsy, "who played Juliet about B- Lotta's time, that over a sweeter iu- genuo trod the stage than little Lotta. I She was a great commcdienno in her i maturity, a far sweeter thing than j Maude Adams at her besL Mauco Adams, by tho way, was born only a j step from California, right across the j I golden Sierras in Utah. Wonderful how they reared those lovely women in the gold camps and on the cattle i ranches. Yet are not tho sweetest j flowers always wild? There were scores of lovely women bred ' in California between Aaa I Mencken and Lotta Crabtrco and Mary 1 Browne. Kuhn Beveridgc and her fa- " mous sister, for many years reckoned the modern Venus. Someone found Charmlon, who was a beautiful acro-bat. acro-bat. It is a very difficult matter for v an acrobat to be beautiful as well as j powerful. Cbarmion, a beautifully proportioned woman, was a find of the "BaTbary Coast," the wickedest, wild-est wild-est part of California, the Frisco docks. The Mencken died before I could see her. Lotta I remember well. Char-mion Char-mion is of yesterday and was, truly a most beautifully formed woman. Not j even the hardest sort of acrobatic j work could destroy the glory of her They grow women fine in California. They go a long way these "girls of the Golden West." There was Salomy H- Jane, for Instance, one of the girls H whose name and personality grasps I and holds the imagination forever, i Bret Harte's genius begat Salomy Hj Jane, but no doubt, she was a real person. She was a woman who clung to a man as inlaid gold clings to the blade of Toledo steel. Yes, California H is a great place to breed women. 1 The Golden' State is turning out its H women today. I saw one of them a few hours ago. Her name is Mary H Browne She is the tensest thing in Hl L womankind that my eyes have ever I rested upon. Like Ada Mencken, Lotta, H Kuhn Beveridgc and many others, H Mary Browne has mado herself and B California famous. H When Molla Bjurstedt, a hardy Nor- H -wegian maid, came to America some H three years ago and defeated all the H women who play tennis, winter and H summer, indoor and outdoor, in the H Eastern statCB, it seemed that no wo- H man could hopo to compote with her on a tennis court. Sho was stronger than moBt men, more vital, enduring. Sho was hard and tenuous as a Nor-H Nor-H -way pine. Sho beat all the women ten- H nis players of the East with ridicu- H lous case. Many men players of tho second rate went down before her. H She won the indoor tennis cham- H pionship In tho spring; sho won the H f grass court and clay court and con-H con-H crete court championships during the H summer. All with ridiculous case. H Ilarely did Molla Bjurstedt lose a set, h not to speak of losing a match. And all her matches wore won with great ease. It did seem that in tho length MISS MARY 4&r BROWNE, 'Qtr LOS ANGELES nflrBFf ' d in and breadth of tho Western Hemisphere Hemis-phere there was not a woman who could hopo to compote at tennis with tho bronzed and brown Norwegian lass. For somo reason or other, American Ameri-can women aro accounted physically weak. It is not easy to understand why. It is true that woman of the leisure class aro not so strong, so vigorous, vig-orous, as the outdoor girls of England. Nor do American women of tho agricultural agri-cultural class work in tho Golds as do many women of tho peasant class In Europe. Yet, on the wholo American women do more and harder work than European women. This is particularly true of what arc known as tho "middle "mid-dle classes." The American woman of the so-called so-called "middle class" does more work and does it bettor than any woman In the world. Englishwomen and Sports. It is true that American women aro not given to outdoor sports as are Englishwomen. Eng-lishwomen. Tho American sun and the American winter wind aro more trying than tho sun and winds of England. Eng-land. American women do not walk much because It is olther too hot or too cold to walk. Also thoro aro not so many good roads in Amorica qb are in England. Nor tho fine blue-grass fields whore sod is good all tho year round. Further most Araorlcan women wo-men have not got the time to walk abroad or to play games. "Help" is not so easly obtained in Amorica as In Europe. Therefore mamma and slater must do tho housework and cooking. All of which explains tho apparent superiority su-periority of the Englishwoman at outdoor out-door sports. So it seemed that Molla Bjurstedt was to havo It all her own way on tho American tennis courts. Most of our good girls were too busy at housework or nt typewriters to offer opposition to the Norskl loss. Of courBO, there wcro tho daughters of tho rich,, but the rich never turn out defonders of tho sport laurels of tho country. So It was up to Southern California, whore they breed a leisure class of middle-class girls, to savo the reputation reputa-tion of tho United States. Right nobly Southern 'California answered an-swered tho call. First camo Mrs. Thomas M. Bundy, who, as Miss May Sutton was the champion tennis player of tho wholo world. Stome years ago MIbs Sutton had gone to Europo and done there what Miss Bjurstedt bad done in the United StateB beat every girl she met and many of the men who had the courage to try her game. Like Miss Bjurstedt, Miss Sutton was a very strong young woman, round, heavy boned, vital. Sho was a great playor and California reared. Thoro was, however, ono flaw In MIbs Sutton's availability as on Amorlcan champion. Sho was born and had lived In England Eng-land until sho was quite a girl. It was truo that sho learned her tennis and got her strength in California, but she was British born and British bred. Miss Sutton was and is a wonderful tennis player. Sho is now tho mother of a hardy trlbo of little Bundys she married Maurice McLaughlin's doubles partner, Tom Bundy, and is practically practical-ly retired. Of that anon. Training a Winner. .When Miss Bjurstedt burBt upon the American tennis world It felt as the Belgians did when tho Germans rushed rush-ed past tho fortB at Liege. Tho Norwegian Nor-wegian lady ran over the top of all American women who played agalnBt her. Ono championship after anothor fell into hor lap. Thero was not even a good contest among them. Then Maurice McLaughlin, Tom Bundy and other Californlans began training little Mary Browne to beat Molla Bjurstedt. Tho Norwegian girl is a bounding Juno, strong as a young lioness, active and agile as a ocky Mountain goat. She won her tennis matches on her suporb physical strength. Thero wero Amorlcan girls in plenty who wore moro skillful players than tho Norse-woman, Norse-woman, but none who could endure so well under a hot sun, none who could punish a tennis ball with such a terrlfflc power. Americans just had to produce a girl to beat Molla Bjurstedt. Bjur-stedt. And, as Is usual with them, thoy did it. Thero Is a peculiar resilience about the national character of Americans that enables them to produce something some-thing better than the best when that something is sorely needed. Every now and then a great performer, per-former, an athlete, a boxer, an opera singer, an actor, a soldior a horse, a ship, an engine comes along, and the world says: "This is tho greatest that ever was or ever will be." Behold, Be-hold, In a trifle of time Amorica produces pro-duces a bettor one. At times it seems Impossible that it should be done. Dono it always is. W. C. George's great one-mile running run-ning record of 4:12 stood for thirty years. John Paul Jones, an Amorlcan, finally broke it, though Americans aro not given to running miles, Mike Swcenoy Jumped 6 foot 7 Inches, some years ago, and tho world said: "That record never can bo equalled." Alvin Richards, a Uto, Jumped 6 feet 8 Inches. Tom Flannagan put tho 16-pound 16-pound shot 48 feet. Again the world said "That is 'the limit" Ralph Rose, a Callfornlan, did 61 feet very soon afterward. aft-erward. Always among tho record-breakers you find the Californlans. For fifty years thousands of sprinters had tried to put tho record for running 100 vards under :9 4-5. Then Dan Kelly, not a Callfornlan, but next door to it, an Oregonian, ran 100 yards In :9 3-5 That's the way with these Californlans. Californl-ans. Put Up to California. When MIbs Bjurstedt danced over all the girls of the East the Californlans saw that It was up to them to stop her victorious Viking voyage. Thoy cast about for a girl to stop hor. MIbb Sutton was Mrs. Bundy and was busy with the babies. Thero was Miss Browne, who had won the United States championships in 1912-13-14, and who had retired unbeaten. Tho trouble was that while Miss Browne had been champion, sho was not deemed the equal of her predecessors, predeces-sors, Miss Sutton and MIbs Hazel Hotchkiss. She was brilliant but erratic. er-ratic. Her ganio was in tho formative stago. Sho knew all about tho be3t strokes and could mako them, brlliant at times, but sho could not make them day In and day out, every timo they had to bo made. Which was something a champion has to do. Bundy and McLaughlin and her brother, Nathaniel Browno, and several sev-eral others, set about training the little lit-tle Callfornlan to stop the Norse in-vador. in-vador. Miss Browne is small, even petite Sho docs not weigh over 110 pounds. Miss Bjurstedt weighs 135 pounds, bone and well trained, Arm flesh. Miss Browne is flne-fibered, oven delicate. Miss Bjurstedt is as Arm and resilient as rubber. Not only was Miss Browne's gamo to bo refined and made reliable, her physique was to bo built up so she could withstand tho tremendous rushes and assaults of the Norwegian. It was a labor of lovo with the men who taught and doveloped Mary Browno until sho defeated Molla Bjurstedt Bjur-stedt Sho was pllablo and plastic, perfect clay for their molding hands. They developed her gamo on all sides, gave It many facets, mado it a man's game, which la full of devices and resources, not a woman's game, which Is usually ono strong point, base line like Miss Bjurstedt's and sheor power and strength as was Miss Sutton's. Both these ladles relied on their great physical strength and speed to fotch thorn victory. Miss Browno has no such exceeding power or speed as Miss Sutton had or as bolongs to Miss Bjurstedt. So she waB obliged to rely re-ly upon playing real tennis to bring her victory. Got Her Fit and Ready. Thoy got her fit and ready in California Cali-fornia and, sent her East to play Miss Bjurstedt a series of somo thirty matches for tho American Red Cross. Just a slip of an American girl, weighing weigh-ing Httlo mpro than 100 pounds, going all tho way across the continent to play tho Viking queen who had humbled hum-bled all tho women tennis players of the East. Ono can imagine them holding their broathB in California while awaiting the results of the first matches. One can imagine tho grief and disappointment disappoint-ment that was theirs when tho flrBt thtfeo matches wore won by Miss Bjurstedt, Bjur-stedt, the first two In straight sets. Then camo the turning point The fourth match was played at Greenwich, Green-wich, Conn. Miss Browne won. She took the next two matches at Glen-ridge, Glen-ridge, N. J. Miss Bjurstedt won a braco of matches thon, and since that jpT ere time, August 11, Miss Browne has woajljj two matches to tho one won by Missed re Bjurstedt soft When thoy left St Louis, Septombotftrays 23, the score stood, Miss Browne 15igJa' Miss Bjurstedt 11. Do not forget tbajSj Miss Bjurstedt won the first thretjtep tl matches straight That means of thefw w last twenty-two' matches played MIss1 Browne has won fourteen, Miss Bjur4j stedt only eight fetof You may Imagine how thoy smiledJ oi in California when, on August 26, Mlarn !ab3 Browno tied tho tour, 6-5. Miss Bjurj stedt made it 7-5 by consecutlvo Vlc-yja l torles at Whlto Plains and Forest or Hills, but Miss Browne mado it 7-7 twaf-days twaf-days later. Miss Bjurstedt got backlWft her lead, S-7, tne next day. Ajjjjj Kiss Browno Pulls Awny. 2 Misn Blurstcdt mnrin It 9-8 Jw cHn-'i arrs ning In tholr last day In the East, Auf Wo gust 30. When they struck the Mld-fj dlo West Miss Browno pulled awayiwshl from her nimble and rugged adversaryjjjtos. Starting at Cleveland, Miss Brownef.P made tho high run of the engagementvt8 U by taking five straight matches atifhiy, Cloveland, Buffalo, Niagara Fnlls.Wsub Rochester and Scranton. Miss BJur-tn stedt took three straight then, buti1 Miss Browne came back with fourjtyl straight In Chicago. Rain spoiled thepil, l engagement in St. Louis and then Missort, Browne had to leave tho party and re-jfc31051 turn to Callfornl't, where her mother jWjf1 lay dangerously 111. As said horcin-ming, above, the score was 15 to 11 in favor Jw of Miss Browne when the tour came totif51 wl its abrupt end. -ar?on IJnn fnnnnr mim-n rv rf '.1 . Browne gets her strength. She ilfQat ridiculously slight and trim whenTjjand compared with the boyish-looking sL011 bounding Hebe known as Molla Bjur"'' arc stedt Miss Browne is not muscular, Bely Miss Bjurstedt is muscular to a de- j1 gree not often seen among women. JE? Miss Browne is not, apparently, fast of Mil , foot, while Miss Bjurstedt bounds ovor v's b a court like a young panthoress. Miss ft'16 Browno docs not hit the ball very'- hard, while Miss Bjurstedt fairly mur-'iifjIJ ders tho Bphcre. 3jrt of Yes, Miss Brown fairly outplayi f6 1; Miss Bjurstedt right along. She has iffif ' the sounder stylo, has had tho advan-ijk tage of much bettor training and 5 pac coaching than Mis3 Bjurstedt. Mc- 0lit Laughlin, Bundy, Nat Browne and oth- jj1 er Callfornians had given Miss Browns a solid foundation to lay her gama ilh upon. She gave them a neat hand, a 'ajfs keen, clear mind and an unfaHng j26, heart |