The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-16
HELEN WILLS MEETS
 MRS. MALLORY TODAY
Youthful Champion Wins Great Semi-Final
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 WEST SIDE TENNIS CLUB, FOREST HILLS, l.. l., Aug. 15.- Helen Wills, the placid California girl, who calmly walloped Mrs. Molla Nal lory last August and relieved her of the duty of defending the Americal women's tennis championship for at least one year, will play Mrs. Mallory again Saturday on the same court, within the same concrete oven, the ob- ject being to extend Mrs. Mallory s furlough from duty for one year more. The sitting process of the preliminary rounds finished Friday afternoon with a blistering battle between Helen and another Californian, Miss Mary Browne, and a much less interesting fight between Mrs. Mallory and Miss Eleanor Goss.
 Helen, the champion, defeated Mary, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, and Mrs. Mallory won from the tall, sturdy Goss girl, 6-3, GA.
 In. discussing a tennis match be- tween women you need q sort of tao. that is never required at the ringside. If Willie Stribling, of Atlanta; were fighting Frank Moran it would be all right to refer to Frank as "the old man. and to moralize on youth anG age. But it is a little difficult to con vey the same idea regarding a similar situation in this tennis match between Miss Wills and Miss Browne. Lont after the matches ended the refined devotees of this sport were still stand ing around the lawns or sitting on the veranda over the drinks with orange peels and green cherries in them. try ing to express their thoughts on the subject without, using the phrase "old girl" The only thing to do IS to men tion the fact that Miss Browne won the national championship IF years ago and that she isn't recorded as the youngest of the champions, distinc tion which is held, in fact, by Miss Wills, herself, who was IT when sht took the title last summer.
 Miss Browne Older
 Miss Browne, then, is slightly old CT than Miss Wills. She trained into superb condition after three-year's ab- sence from the national championship tournament. in which she last com peted in 1921, on which occasion she was runner-up to Mrs. Mallory. For long time she practiced at some place. upstate in New York, away from the "tennis crowd" with only a few friends, comparative dubs at the game, but good enough players to give her the work she needed Then she came down to the tournament and smashed her way through to the semi final round in which she brought up against Helen, sometimes referred to as little pokerface," because she has never yet been seen to smile or frOwn or heard to utter sound during a match. Helen is not little any more, however. Her arms are big and smoothly muscular and she has de- yeloped stout calves and ankles dur ing her years of tennis as a girl and a young woman.
 Helen looked like a nurse Ill her white linen with the long white, visor shading her eyes. Mary also wore white, but with a blaze of yellow neckerchief at her throat and she had on a white felt hat. ..,
 Helen won the first set without any great trouble Although the day was not unusually hot,. the concrete hau-moon of the stadium forbade the breeze and the atmosphere inside was too hot and lifeless for comfort.
 Mary's lips peeled back, disclosing clenched teeth that gleamed against her tanned complication as the second set got under way. Little exclamations, like squeals, came from her as she stretched herself for difficult gets. Helen's face was tranquil. Even when Mary did her some trifling wrong and exclaimed sorry" Helen said nothing.
 Mary Rallies
 Helen took the first two games of the second set. Mary flew all over the little acre that she was defending to snatch the ball off the grass by back hand returns that she had to play with out seeing, and took the third game. Helen scattered her fire still more wide ly and won the fourth. Now Mary be- gan to claw back and Helen was sent gamboling from corner to corner from the net to the baseline, making shots with her back turned to the ball and netting or driving outside in spell of wildness. The umpire called a fault on Helen for the set point and Mary protested. She said it should have been a service ace for Helen and re- marked that's awful" Helen said nothing but went to the umpire's stand, put on a long white coat, folded it around her and sat down to pass the intermission chewing lemons, without leaving the court. Miss Browne, at tended by another girl, left the stadium, crawled over a low fence and found a shady spot in the lee to the stand where she spread out towel and lay down