Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23

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lee. but when II comes to sheer fighting
heart I'll take Molla Mallory
For savage attack in the face of odds,
for flaming spirit which will not admit
defeat, this little tigress OF the tennis
courts has no superior in any game
that's known. She is the epitome of
the ninth-inning rally. the last minute
touchdown. the Knockout punch, that
turns the scales of war.
When she look the court against
Betty Nuthall here yesterday. the match
was considered almost formality.
Molla Mallory had won her first ma
tional championship when Betty Nut
hall was years old. Now. she has a
twisted knee, with bandage on 1t. She
WAS playing the brilliant youngster who
"a DAYS ago had forced Helen Wills
queen of the courts, to sets Of SIS. 3-H
10 beat. her. Miss Nutf,ail had Youth,
skill. speed in her favor. The crowd
settled laneuidly back, but 1t didn't stay
there long.
The spectators we're looking for some
thing In the nature of q practice match.
BETTY Nuthall would, naturally, save
herself all she could. She must play
Miss Wills IN her next encounter.
Mrs. Mallory had different ideas. She
was spotting Miss Euthall 18 years. but
what of it? Molla Mallory never stepped
on tennis court without intending to
win. She intended 20 win now.
Miss Nuthall was confident. Why
shouldn't she be? Here was veteran
ready for the slaughter. Yes. but whose
Slaughter That became question
that was answered with startling rapid
ity. When Mrs. Mallory took the first
game. there was no excitement, even
though she took it on Miss Nuthall's
service. The crowd was glad to see her
cio so well. She lost the next game and
the next. That was TO be expected.
But when Mrs. Mallory took two more
games in her turn, the throng grew In
terested. The old spirit was there.
She was going 10 make fight of II.
Mss Nuthall. reused to her best, brought
Tho game to all. Then her best WASH I
good enough. MoiIa Mallory. hitting
with all her old power. won the next
three games and the set.
This stirred the crowd. The ole
champion had shown fash of the old
stuff. It couldn't last. but 1t was great
Miss Nuthall hadn't played her game
was that Molla Mallory wouldn't let
her play her game. They had forgotten
the dav when Suzanne Ienglen didn't
play her game against this opponent.
British Girl Surprised.
II YES a serious English girl who
started the second set. This vas not
the easy victory which she had antici-
pated She must pull herself together
But Molla Mallory was not TO be denied.
Steady as a gun platform. grinly de-
terrined, she carried the attack to her
opponent. Forcing shot followed fore
70 a..
two games.
Now Misr Nuthall was desperate.
She was trying everything she knew
but still the ball came back Swift
drives and drop shots, losses close to
the net and forehands to the baseline-
none of them was good enough. The
British star tried the supposedly vul-
nerable Mallory backhand, but Mrs.
Mallory either returned the bail In the
manner or danced around it
and slammed it back like whistling
shell Fighting like the game girl she
Is, Betty Nuthan managed to bring the
she could do. Mrs. Mallory took the
next three games and the match.
Marvellous Molla Mallory They may
well call her that. AS Molla Bjurstedt
she won her first national champion
ship in 1915. She won again in 1916.
1917 and 1918. Then in 1920 she came
oack as Mrs. F. l. Mallory and won
.hree straight years. The next year
saw the rise of Helen Wills. Mrs. NAL
Dry was just a veteran until she came
back in 1926 and won the championship
Tor the eighth time in Il years.
Now she faces Helen Wills. Prob
bly, she will be beaten. Miracles rarely
happen. twice in succession. But if she
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Is Long Shot Today.
BY he Associated Press.
FOREST HILLS. N. ". August 3D.
lust when Mrs Molia Biurstedt Mallory
seemed fading from the picture ss a
for major tennis honors the
Norsewoman has come back
INTO the spotlight with smashing vic
tory over Betty Nuthan, 6---3. 6-,3. in
The quarter finals of the national wom-
Ems championship.
II may be that the familiar surround
,ngS served as an inspiration to call
forth some of the super tennis that
marked her heydav. However. Mrs.
Mallory was given something less than
me chance in a hundred to stop Helen
Wills. whom she meets in the semi
finals today. The champion has lost
only two games in four matches, hav-
ing smothered Mrs. Peggy Michel of
England yesterday. 60, 6-1.
In view of the wonder tennis which
the champion has been producing, In
fact. the odds were something like 30
to l against Mrs. Mallory's chances Of
taking a set from the young California
marvel
In the other semi-final today Helen
Jacobs, Americas second ranking star,
Jared one of the hardest tests Of her
career, as her opponent was to be Mrs.
Phoebe Watson. the slender, dark
haired Englishwomap who defeated her
in The Wightman Cup play last week.
Although easily able to defeat Mary
Greet, the Kansas City youngster, yes
terday, Miss Jacobs has bsen somewhat
nar,ent, strained ligament In her back
proving decided handicap. Mrs. Wat
son. to. has had her lapses, for eS-
ample, YESTERDAY, when she lost the
FIRST set to- Edith Cross Of San Fran
CISCO, and was forced to work like q
Trojan to pull out the match, but, in
general, iaer play has been sound and
her driving as crisp and accurate as any
Miss Jacobs has uncovered this season.
In the doubles only one American
remains, that Of Mrs. Anna
Harper and Miss Cross, runners-up last
wear. Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Peggy
Saunders Michel form one OF the
strong British combinations which are
to bring about an all-Eng--
,ish final. and Mrs. Phyllis Covell and
MRS. Dorothy Shepherd Barron the
other. The Anglo-American team OF
Helen Jacobs and Betty Nuthall holds
the fourth seni-final berth, and faced
Mrs watson and Mrs. Michel, the Eng
jish champions. today. while Mrs. Har-
per and Miss Cross opposed the second
British pair.
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