The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-18
HELEN WILLS, NO
 LONGER 4 CHILD, TO TRY FOR TITLE
California Girl Opposes MolIa For Second Time This
 Season
By WESTBROOK PEGLER CLeased Wire To The Age-Herald.)

NEW YORK, August 17.-Helen Wills, grown up to the estate of womanly hair-do and long skirts in the year since Mrs. Molla Mallory deftly spanked away her impetuous rush at the championship in 1922 will try again Saturday on the Bazor- ed grass of the championship courts within the stadium of Forest Hills.
 Helen Wills no longer wears her blonde hair in braids listed about the top of her head. Only the visor and a characteristic manner of playing tennis better than most other women and girls in the game, would iden- tify Miss Helen Wills, challenger in 1923 as the little Helen, the rather gangling school girl of 1922. She Is still the serious sally of the tourna- ments but this characteristic, this i'm passive sameness of the girls ex- pression whether in winning her way to the Alps of her ambitions or los ing a set on the way to the finals, Is better known to those who have played with her or umpired her games than to the people in the stands.
 Those on the grass, close enough to peer at the delicate, peachtinted face of the girl beneath the long white eye-shade have made note, however, on the changeless appearance of un- concern that masks the mental man. envering much animates the game of Helen Wills. As pretty as marble and IS cold is Helen Wills in tourna- ment,
 Beats Eleanor GOss.
 She whacked Eleanor Goss in Fri day afternoons semi-final match. It was a cold afternoon and so it seemed, was the handshake the two oh Q ne ha t1rba Wills had eliminated Miss Goss, 6-4, so. Miss Goss had beaten Helen Wills only a short time ago in an invitation tournament and when they came along to the semi-final Friday to clout for the chance to meet Mrs. Mallory in Saturdays Lone Star match, the girl from California seemed to be in for a tremendous tria4-if not a defeat. In the first set when Miss Goss rushed up from deep court and outguessed her with a short one near the net bringing the score to four-all, it appeared that perhaps the reputation of Helen Wills had been built everlarge for so young a girl She is IF. But Helen neither smiled nor grimaced as most athletes do under tsress. She was peach ice cream. If she was calling up some fund of supreme energy she never betrayed the fact as she frightened her game, attacking faster and harder and won the set, 6-4.
 Twice within the last week Miss Wills met and defeated Kitty Me- Kane of the British women's team, accounted the best In Britain, one of the numerous joiners of the league of those who have beaten Molla Nal loFy. From this it would seem that she should, herself, beaI Mrs. Mallory in the final round for the title But Mrs. Mallory has a terrifying way when others attack her champion ship. She lost several times in France and England this year. and she may be beaten occasionally in unimportant matches. But the girl or woman who wins her title in the national women's championship tour nament must play tennis beyond any that has overwhelmed hers in these sideshows.
 Mrs. Mallory defeated Helen once this summer in the New York state tournament, although the California girl did win set of the match.
 The semi-final match was easv for the champion. She met Mrs. R. c. Clayton. the graceful, small. but muscular English woman. The score was 6-4, 6-2, but notwithstanding the figures, Mrs. Clayton never was threatening and the deeply tanned Norwegian woman was simply work ing out for another challenge from Helen Wills to be dealt with Satur- day, a return match after a years lapse.