Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-22
HELEN WILLS NOW
APPEARING AT BEST
Drops Lone Game in Winning
TWice-Today's Matches
International.
BY F. G. VOSBURGH,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


ToREsT HILLS, N. Y. August
tennis more irreSiStibly nor more
4 ruthleSsly than In the present
national women's championship
tournament at the West Side Stadium
In three Of the quickest matches on
record, the poker-faced champion OF
the world has overwhelmed two players
by scores Of Go, Go, and accounted
for a third at 81, Go.
If 1t is possible for a person to play
the game too well, 1t appears that Miss
Wills may be charged with that oRense
Her matches thus far have been SC
one-sided that not even her world
wide fame and her terrific wallopine
Of the ball have been able TO keep the
attention Of the gallery from straying
to the matches that happened to be In
progress on an adjoining court.
This was the case yesterday when
Miss Wills outclassed Alice Francis OF
Orange, N. j., the country's twelfth
ponent for almost any girl except
Queen Helen, in two love sets.
On the next court Mrs. Peggy Saun.
ders Mitchell, the English girl whom
Helen meets in the quarter-finals to.
day, was coming from behind to defeat
Marjorie Gladman, the young Califor-
Man, who ranks seventh among Amer
lean players, and this match just about
stole the limelight.
Mrs. Mitchell is an experienced cam.
paigner who Is expected to give the
great Californian battle. A bold, free
swinger, she plays the hard-hitting type
woman, Betty Nuthall, to force Mis-
Wills to deuced sets in the Wightmar
Cup matches last week.
Two other Anglo-American contests
are on the program for today, Miss Nut
hall meeting Mrs. Molla Mallory, sever
/ times winner of the title. and Edith
Cross, young San Francisco star, en-.
countering Mrs. Phoebe Watson. II
the other match Helen Jacobs, who wa:
extended to defeat Mrs. B. c. Covell o.
the British forces yesterday. is to op.
strained ligament in the back ha.
bothered Miss Jacobs in all her matche.
| so far, while Miss Greet played bril-
| liantly yesterday in eliminating Sarat
Palfrey, the youthful Brookline, Mass.
sensation.
SINGLES.
Third Round.
Helen Wills defeated Alice Francis, 60
Mrs. l.. II. e. Michel oeIetteo M@IJutie
| Gladman. 4-e, 60. 81.
Mrs. Molla B. Mallory defeated Virgins
Betty Nqthsli defeated Mrs. May Sutton
sq Helen 7 jacobs S defeated Mrs. B. c. coven
Mary Greet defeated Sarah Palfrey. e-s
Edith Cross defeated Mrs. Lillian sehar.
man Hester, So, Ga.
Mrs Phoebe Watson defeated Mrs. Law
renee A. Harper, 1I-e, g..
DOUBLES.
Second Round.
Mrs. Harper and Edith Gross defeated
Carolyn Babcock and Helen Marlowe, Ga,
Margaret Blake and Mrs. Anna Fuller
pf MTs Charlotte S ei ao.m.r Chaplin and Mis-.
Gladman defeated Mrs. Henry Guild and
Mrs. Covell and Mrs. Shepherd Barron de-
| feated Mrs. Bundy and Dorothy Cruikshank'
Miss Jacobs and Miss Nuthar defeated
Marguerite FalEenbers and Mrs. II. H.
sarah Paltrey and Mianne Palfrey Dc:
feat Ys,! mrs. 2: A. Aston and Mrs Frederick
NJ MIS-. George W %Siightman and. Marjorie
Morrill, defeated Eleanor ooss and Dorothy
Mrs: watson and Mrs, Michel defeated
Mrs. Theodore De NJ. johnson and Grace
Surber. 60, 60.