Evening star., 1932-08-22
EXPERTS BELIEVE
SHE'LL Be BETTER
New Champion Is Declared
to Be Superior in Stroke
and Court Play.
BY ]. p. ALLEN.

n JEW YORK, August d.
M Eight years ago a some
Y what pudgy girl from Cali
fornia won the girls ma
tional tennis championship sin
giles. She fairly blazed with the
will-to-win spirit. There was also
a screaming, walloping forehand
and an overhead stroke that,
when properly trained, threatened
to Damage high ranking players
who opposed her. In that far
away final of 1924 on the court
of the Germantown Cricket Club
it was Helen Hull Jacobs who de-
feated Alice Francis, 60, 6-1.
Right there a tennis career bloomed
forth. Now it is crowned with the vic
tory of the self-same Miss Jacobs in the
national singles championship tourna-
ment on the turf of the stadium at
Forest Hills. If ever indomitable pluck
had its reward, the courage to over
come heartbreaking encouragement,
then the high honors gained by the
little Helen Of California stand richly
deserved It's the same old story. You
can't keep squirrel on the ground or
Pollyanna from being glad and happy.
MISS JACOBS emerges from her
sixyfI, y1ofiapaJ q ~
ship not alone with the crown Of
the singles, but also with that of the
doubles. In the latter event she had
Miss Sarah Palfrey as her partner.
This has been a great year for the
California women. Four of them stCCd
in the last eight at Forest Hills-Miss
Jacobs. Mrs. Marjorie Gladman Van
Ryn, Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper and
Miss Carolyn Babcock. There is also
another of importance-Miss Alice
Marble They have dominated the
tournament this season and now all
are returning home this week.
ANY student of tennis records has
n realized for several seasons that
the outstanding rival for the hon.
ors held by Mrs. Helen Wills Moody
was the girl who began to poach upon
her pet preserves several years ago
Also, it may be mentioned right here
that those who watched Mrs. Moody
critically through her recent Wimble-
don boldly state that she knew she was
nearing the end of her reign as queen
of the courts.
Those who are critically watching the
progress of Miss Jacobs, and they in
clude several Of the foremost profess
sionaB, express the opinion that Miss
-. to hnHnFr1n q
greater player than Mrs. Moody. They
base their belief upon her greater
wealth of stroke production and court
play. ;.
tenset rivalry between the two 'Helens
of California sGoad appraisers of tennis
form,E however, eistoutly hold that on
eacn successive meeting Miss Jacobs Is
more closely overhauling the Wlmble-
don winner.
By the Associated Press.
EOREST HILLS, N. Y, August a.
Il Helen Jacobs, the comely Califor-
nian who has answered to queen
member, today occupied the woman's
tennis throne relinquished by Mrs.
Helen Wills Moody.
With her longtime nemesis safely IN
Europe completing her art studies. Miss
Jacobs finally crashed through to the
title yesterday with 6-2, GO VIC
tory over little Carolyn Babcock Of Los
Angeles in the final Of the national
event,
Black-haired Carolyn, who had prov
ed a sensation by eliminating Mrs. L. A.
Harper and Joan Ridley on successive
davs, collapsed almost completely In
the final and offered the weakest klno
of onnosition after her service was
broken early in the initial set. -:
By way Of making her long-awaited
success complete, Miss Jacobs paired
with sarah Palfrey Of Sharon, Mass,
10 win the doubles championship from
Alice Marble of San Francisco and Mrs
Marjorie Morrill, Painter of Dedham
Mass. 8-6, 6-1. Again it was Helen's
flashing racket that made the victory