SUZANNE A SPECTATOR

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 4

SUZANNE A SPECTATOR

Back at Wimbledon PLANS FOR FUTURE Dominion Special Service. (By Mavis.) London, July 6. After an absence of six years, Suzanne Lenglen came back to Wimbledon for the finals this year—-but only as a spectator. She who . once ruled the centre court sat idly by as two American women, Mrs. Helen Wills-Moody and Miss Helen Jacobs, fought for the crown she wore for six continuous years—that of woman champion. Mrs. Moody has almost equalled Suzanne’s record, taking it the fifth time during the play last week. , The great Frenchwoman seems undecided about what to do with herself in lawn tennis. She said “maybe” she would seek reinstatement as an amateur, so that she could come back to Wimbledon. She also admitted that she might give exhibition games or start a school for lawn tennis. But she has played no tennis for three years, and is just starting to practice again. Sitting on the sidelines in her expensive white fox and sable furs, Suzanne watched Miss Elizabeth Ryan, her old team mate, win the mixed doubles for her sixteenth championship in doubles at Wimbledon. Suzanne flew over from Taris at the request of Borotra to “help him and Brugnon win the men’s doubles.” They did. In speaking of the new champion she said: “They told me in France that this Ellworth Vines’s service was faster than that of Bill Tilden. But I said no nothing could be faster than the service of Big Bill. I have played against it, and I know. If the ball went any faster it would burn the covering off itself. Now, me, I am a reformedconvinced do you say?—Suzanne.