THE UNFAIR SEX

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 52, 30 August 1932, Page 16

THE UNFAIR SEX

WOMEN AND TENNIS

SELECTION QUESTION

Is a woman tennis player the best and fairest judge of another woman's play? and Should the Women's Advisory Committee to the Lawn Tennis Association's selectors be abolished? Everywhere in lawn tennis circles these questions wero being discussed as the outcome of the announcement in the "Daily Mail," that a motion for the abolition of the Women's Advisory Committee is to come before a meeting of chairmen of L.T.A. committees next January, writes S. N. Doust. One is led to believe that there is a serious difference among members of the L.T.A. itself, and already it has been hinted there is a liklihood of many resignations of councillors if the motion be carried. Players who have been in the "Wightman Cup teams are among those who think that women ought to be selected by women.,.'" They declare that they have always found the Advisory Committee consisting of Mrs. Mavrogordato, Misa Rose, knd Mrs. Godfrcc fair. ■ (Jendrally speaking, the present generation of young players, however, has not a good word to say for the Women's Committee. A promising young woman who is on the threshold of international lawn tennis said:— - , "It seems ,so hopeless to young players who want to get on. Whatever we do .we seldom, get praise for. Indeed, the women advisers seem annoyed whenever we beat their favourites. It is only public opinion that gets us recognised." ;. . • •;.. . ■ ' Mrs. Lyeett, who played in the doubles- final at Wimbledon in 1923, expressed herself as being in favour of keeping the women's committee. Mrs. Strawson, on the other hand, said she would prefer to leave her fate in men's hands. "Women are inclined to favouritism. Men are fairer,'? she declared. Mrs. Geen and Mrs. Lambert Chambers, who have beeu champions at Wimbledon, are in favour of the women. Misa Rose, one of the advisers, said "I have. always tried to do my best, and if people are not satisfied let them say so."