THE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Centre Court Matches from the ALL ENGLAND LAWN TENNIS CLUB,
WIMBLEDON
Running Commentary bv Col. R. H. BRAND and Capt. H. B. T. WAKELAM
GIRLS' FRIENDLY SOCIETY'S CONCERT
Relayed from the Royal Albert Hall
THE last Saturday of Wimbledon is (weather, always, permitting) the great day of the European lawn tennis year. On that day it is decided who is to possess for the year the title of successor to the giants of the past, Doherty and Wilding. Patterson and Brookes. This year the interest has been heightened by the return of Tilden to rontest with the Frenchmen, Borotra and Lacoste. who between them have held it for t!.e last three years, the title that he won in 1920 and 1921. At the time of writing, of course, it is not possible to forecast who will be the pair to meet in the great match on the Centre Court today ; but if—as is more than likely—it should be Tilden and either of the Frenchmen, tennis history will be made.
And in the women's event there is an equal interest, for though the amazing career of Lenglen has ended, so far as Wimbledon is concerned, we have a champion of our own—Mrs. Godfrce -who has twice won the honour, beating her two most formidable opponents of the year, Senorita d'Alvarez and Miss Helen Wills , and who may this year beat all the foreign opposition and secure at ieast one title for the home country.