Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
WIMBLEDON TITLE
WON BY MISS WILLS
Miss Jacobs Takes Only
Three GameS-Champion
in Best Form of Career.

BY the Associated Press.
WIMBLEDON, England, July s.
Miss Helen Wills reasserted her SUI
premacy over the worlds woman tennis
players today by defeating Miss Helen
Jacobs, fellow Californian, in the final
for the British women's singles cham
plonships by scores of 81, 60.
Many had thought that "Helen the
Second" might be able to extend the
queen Of the courts, but the match was
all Miss Wills. The victory climaxed
series of phenomenal straight-Set tri-
unphs over the best woman players
of Europe and the United States and
gave Miss Wills the priced Wimbledon
coronet for the third straight year. A
few days previously she won the French
championship, also in repetition OF
triumph achieved last year.
Wins in Majestic Fashion.
The great American woman player
never won championship more E Eho
iestically than on this occasion. Sne
defeated Miss Jacobs with the same
ease with which she disposed OF hVe
other opponents on her way TO maj:
Queen Helen has dropped only 10
games in her six matches IN this tour-
nament. -, s,.,+ .,a,oo
in the opening set, taking IL on me-
own service with loss OF single Ponnt
Miss Wills quickly took tne mex W. a.,
allowing her opponent only one polnt III
each. .,, ,,~ ,sr
drives. Miss Wills also won the next
four straight, but each went 10 a.
vance points and Miss Jacobs saved the
set point six or seven times IN the maj
game before the champion proouceo
the deciding point winners. MISS JACOBS
fought out the long rallies nraVeiy, oIlIy
to have Miss Wills end most OF tnem
by shooting fast one past her 1or TIC
point.
Led SO in Second.
Miss Wills led at 80 in the second
set before dropping game. MISS
Jacobs, making brave stand, LOOK tIle
next two, but the champion then ran
out the match from a.. Inc rallies
Iwere not so long as in the hrSt SET.
miss Jacobs was fighting for everything
and with match point against her she
beat her great opponent back TO the
base line with q series of flne drives,
then shot a swift volley to the deep lett
corner for the winning point But MISS
Wills was not to be long denied ana
soon carried the game for the matcn
and championship.
The point scores:
First Set.
Miss Wills. 900. / "A 6 l1-36-6
Miss Jacobs AHA 33 9-25-1
Second Set.
n
Miss Wills 80. 4 l 7-30-6
Miss Jacobs 90. 2 4 5-1S-z
$4,000 Watch Struggle.
The Wills-Jacobs title match, while
watched intently by $4,000 pairs OF
ewes, stirred not the slightest exclte-
ment. for the result was looked upon
as a foregone conclusion. The crowds
sympathies appeared to be with MISS
Jacobs in her losing fight against the
supreme strategist and mighty hitter
who ran her numerically back ana
forth along the base line until points,
games and sets were scored.
Miss Jacobs occasional winning SHOTS
were generously applauded, but mostly
her efforts were of nature doomed
not to be rewarded even by applause,
rally her efforts repeatedly were frus-
trated by the cunning of the tennis
genius across the net. Miss Wills fol-
lowed the same tactics throughout,
pounding the corners Of Miss Jacobs
court alternately until her opponent
outed or, as she more often did,
slammed the ball into the net.
In an all-British Semi-flnal in wom-
ems doubles, Mrs. Phoebe Watson and
Mrs. Peggy Saunders Mitchell defeated
Mrs. C. G. McIlquham and Miss Err
nyntrude Harvey, Ga, So, 60.
I. G.. Collins, British Davis Cup player,
and Miss Joan Fry, also Of England,
beat the Anglo-American combination
of ]. c. Gregory and Miss Elizabeth
Ryan by scores of 60, 6-3, to enter
the final in mixed doubles.