The Washington times., 1931-08-22
q. S. NET HOPES IN MRS. MOODY
ONLY HOME
PLAYER. TO
SURVIVE

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-Mrs.
Helen Wills Moody stands all by
her lonesome at Forest Hill to.
day, the lone bulwark between
the forty-fourth annual national
women's tennis championship and
the strongest trio of invading
British women ever to seek Amer
ica'S most priced women's net
laurelS.
California's other Helen, Helen
Jacobs, let Uncle Sam down un-
expectedly yesterday, when she
lost a torrid, three-Set match to
Mrs. Eileen Bennett Whittingstall
and now Queen Helen is the lone
American survivor in the semi
final round.
Three English Wightman Cup
stars occupy the three other
brackets. Phyllis Mudford. whose
dynamite forehand upset Mrs.
Lawrence Harper in the quarter
finals, is Mrs. Moody's opponent
today, and the honor of battling
the great Moody in the finals to-
morrow will be contested for by
Mrs. Whittingstall and Betty
Nuthall.
That Helen the first will
survive to the finals goes al
most without saying. Mrs.
Moody trOunced Miss Mund-
ford when they met in the
Wightman cup matches fort
night ago by the very decisive
scores Of 6-1, Ga.
Judging by the exhibition the
great Moody gave against Dotty
Weisel yesterday, the little British
girl with the siege-gun forehand
drive will be lucky to even dupli-
cate these scores.
Just Wasted Effort
Miss Weisel played fine tennis
against Queen Helen, tennis that
would have given Betty Nuthall
or Helen Jacobs all sorts of
trouble, and might even have
taken a set from those two stars.
But against the worlds cham
pion, it was just wasted effort.
Queen Helen actually toyed with
her pretty opponent, running her
all over the court with her mar
velouSly controlled shots, and
then slipping over the knockout
punch" when she had Miss
Weisel way out of position.
Whatever real battling is pro-
duced today will be seen in the
Nuthall- l-Whittingstall contest.
There's the makings Of as fine a
penultimate round match as For
est Hills has seen in a long while.
Mrs. WhittingstaIl proved
that she was worthy of a rank
ing right up with the very top
motel >rs in the wOmen'S tennis
world by her brilliant exhibition
of vOIleying and smashing
against Miss Jacobs.
A good net player will always
make the going hard for a back.
court driver of the Nuthall type.
And the former Eileen Bennett
sure knows how to handle herself
up at the barrier.
In fact there would be very
few strained eyebrows among the
experts if the prettiest of John
Bulls tennis daughters were to
upset the sturdieSt. Mrs. Whit
tingstall showed that she could
take a lot Of. beating in her match
with Miss Jacobs, and if "Bounc-
ing Betty" isn't right on top of her
game, therell be trouble awaiting
her at Forest Hills.
England dominates the semi
finals Of the doubles. as well as
the singles. Two all-EngliSh as
well as the one Anglo-American
team are in the next to the last
round of the tandem play, and
only one all-American combina-
ton.
The all-American team is com.
posed of Josephine CruicEshank
and Mrs. John Van Ryn. They
meet Mrs. Whittingstall and Miss
Nuthall. The Anglo American
team, Miss Jacobs and Dorothy
Round battle the Wimbledon
champions, Mrs. Shepherd-B Bar
ron and Miss Mudford,