MAKING A CHAMPION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18173, 19 August 1922, Page 10

MAKING A CHAMPION.

MLLE. LENGLEN'S FATHER. I [FROM OUB OWN COBBESPONDKHT.J "• £ LONDOH, July 7. > What Descampa is to Carpontier, s£j|' | M. Lenglen to his daughter, SKa- | Suzanne Lenglen, the champion wornst': | lawn tennis player of the world. 'To Job. . 1 Mile. Lenglen owes that superb, perfectly- | trained figure that is the Wonder % 1 Wimbledon. He is trainer, adviser, and;; business manager. He controhv her' , chooses her-friends, designs her Whfin playing fosf her title, then little mora than a girl, whenever Mile. Lengjen ■' made a bad stroke, she turned to aer : father, who was watching intently on the. grandstand, and exchwmed "Pardon! He rattled his stick iis if angrily signalling, 'Don't do that!" .' ■• "Mjr father is very strict in the ma&sr • of training, and makes not the slightest concession," said Mile. Lenglen. "Thus the various pleasures which sometimes mar the chances of other athlttes do not exist for me." M.' lenglen apt al- ' low his brilliant daughter to: p&y golf because he regards 'Jt as the atewei* gsaie in the world. When Mile. Lenglen was plajfeg and ■ defeating Miss McKane sfc 'WanMedon j she spoke to her father arid as£ed if she could have a drink. st Yeu are aU right," he replied. "You M«r playing a winning : 5 game." ■...,'-. •■'".. -&:.'- .-. "-:g "I think I should like a drink,'' pleadteJ Suzanne. "You go on playing," said t&e quiei, grey man. And the Ftenob, gal wenti; on playing arid wore down hes: plucky' opponent. "Father is always rig M,** s*jd* thi champion as she snuggled into her- fir coat. "Sometimes I cry with vexation, but he always knows. My father V I wonderful man."