1920 saw Mrs. Mallory's first invasion of Europe since her
American triumphs. Misfortune was her portion. She was ill before
sailing and, never at her best on shipboard, a bad voyage
completed the wreck of her condition. She had little time for
practice in England and it was a player far below her best who
went down to crushing de feat at the hands of Mrs.
Lambert-Chambers in the semi- final round of the World's
Championship at Wimbledon.
Defeated but not discouraged, Mrs. Mallory returned to America
and, again reaching her true form, won the championship with
ease. She made up her mind the day of her defeat in England that
1921 would again find her on European courts.
The season of 1921 in America opened in a blaze of tournaments
throughout the entire country. Mrs. Mallory showed early in the
year she was at her best by winning the Indoor Championship of
the United States from one of the most representative fields ever
gathered together for this event.
Early May found Mrs. Mallory on the seas bound for France and
England. The story of her magnificent, if losing, struggle in
both countries is told elsewhere in this book, but she sailed for
home recognised abroad as one of the great players of the world,
a thing which many of the foreign critics had not acknowledged
the previous year.
The trip of the American team to France, and particularly the
presence of Mrs. Mallory, coupled with the efforts of the
Committee for Devastated France, finally induced Mile.
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