London, July 23, Helen Wills, the fame American tennis player and work woman champion, who is now on her way back to America, recently cabled to the American Lawn Tennis Association requesting it to pay the. expenses of Miss Elizabeth Ryan: from Europe so as to enable her to: represent America in the Wightman. Cup competition, which is being: layed off at Forest Hills on August!
The Association replied that it would never pay the expenses of anyone living outside the United: States, 'Miss Ryan, who is probably stilt the best woman doubles player in the world, was born in California but thas resided in England for twelve years. She cannot play for England' and, unless she returns to live in: America, cannot represent America, The action of the American Lawn Tennis Association is a puzzling-one as Miss Ryan played for America. in the Wightman Cup at Wimbledon: in 1926, when America won Reuter. a
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