Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
Helen Wills Will MEET l6 YEAR
OLD ENGLISH Girl FOR AMERICAS
WOMENS TFNNIS CHAMPIONSHIP.

FOREST HILLS, N. Y, Aug. 20, R
Helen Wills, 21-year-old Californ-
ian. and Betty Nuthall, 16-year-old
English girl, will match their youth
and skill tomorrow in an information
al battle for the American women's
tennis championship.
Blond and blue-eyed Betty, SEN
sation of the tournament, fought
her way to the final today by over
coming Mrs. Charlotte HoSmer
Chaplin, conqueror Of Mrs. Molla
Mallory, in three sets, 81, AS, 6-3
while Miss Wills crushed her Cali
fornia rival, Miss Helen Jacobs IN
the same relentless fashion she has
dispensed with all her other oppon-
ents so far. The scores were 60,
6-2.
Miss Nuthall will be III the tick
of two battles, for with Miss Joan
Fry as her partner she reached the
doubles final by defeating two
countrywomen, Miss Gwynneth Sterry
and Mrs. John Hill 6-3, 6-3. In all
British final for this American
championship, they will meet Mrs.
Kitty McKane Godfree and Miss
E. H. Harvey, who put out the last
native team today when they defeat
ed Miss Eleanor Goss and Mrs.
Chaplin, 6-4, 7-5.
In the singles final, the two youth
full aces of British and American
tennis will NEE tfor the crown that
Miss Nuthall is seeking for the first
time and Miss Wills is hopeful OF
wearing for the fourth time in five
wears. There are all the elements of
Youthful skill, drama and color in
yolved in this test the first time
they have met, but it will be re-
garded as nothing short Of a ten
mis- catrostrophe if Miss Wills does
not emerge the victor.
The American girl not only is the
favorite because her play has been
the most impressive OF the entire
tournament, dominating all others,
but because she has reached the
peak with one of the most powerful
attacks any woman player ever has
possessed.
The five years difference in their
ages represents a vast store of ex-
perience and development that Miss
Nuthall, in spite of her brilliant rise
has yet to gain. The English girl
is reaching her first national final
at the same age that Miss Kills did
16) and five years ago the Cali
fornian was not yet up to the task
of winning big championship. Now
with three titles to her credit, as
well as this years Wimbledon crown,
Miss Wills is meeting for the first
time a younger opponent in the final
test.
It will be the second British-Amer-
ican contest for the title in three
years and the second time Miss
Wills has been called on to meet a
foreign challenge. Then at the
height of her game, Kitty McKane,
now Mrs. L. A. Godfree, extended
Miss Wills to three sets before loS-
ing in 1925 This year, Mrs. Godfree
deciSively beaten in the Wightman
cup matches by Miss Wills defaulted
in the singles tournament while the
Baby of the British team has car
ried to the final.
Bounding Betty" as she has been
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speed with which she romps all over
the court, may give Miss Willsrl a
keen and interesting tltSsle, even If
the odds are heavily against her.
The English girl has displayed a
dash and confidence as well as a
knowledge Of tactics and resouceful-
ness usually associated with players
sof much greater experience. Her
three-set victories in succession over
two of Americas best players, Flea
nor Goss, third in the ranking list,
and Mrs. Chaplin, fifth on the ma
tional roll, demonstrated the Eng
lish girls ability to withstand pres
sure and return her best shots un-
der fire.
Miss Nuthalls underhand service,
delivered from as ia ras ten feet
back of the base line, has handicap
ped her at times, not only through
numerous double-faults, but because
of disadvantages in position. It was
an unusual lapse in this service that
contributed to her loss of the sec
ond set today to Mrs. Chaplin and
threatened to cost the English girl
the match. But, as she has done on
other occasions, she brought her
driving power to the rescue, mixed
her pace craftily and won.