Word: forehanded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came the climax, bouncing Betty Nuthall v. Big Helen Wills. At Wimbledon the English girl had won only three games in a similar two-set match. Now she won twelve, with a whamming overhead serve, a flashing forehand drive that made her look at least twice the Betty Nuthall that played in the U. S. two years ago. Twelve games against Big Helen Wills takes good tennis, even if Big Helen Wills takes 16 games from you meantime and wins match and cup 8?6. 8?6. "The modern forehand drive . . . means Helen Wills," laughed sporting Betty Nuthall...
Aged 22, 5 ft. 10 ¾ in., 155 lbs., slim faced, freckled, agile, Van Ryn is Princeton's pride. He was graduated last year. He will probably grow no taller and, because he is all smooth sinew, not much heavier. His service, smashes and forehand drives are orthodox and highly accurate. Last week in Brooklyn he revealed a new (for him) half-volley which frequently caught the aging Tilden flatfooted. In addition he has an aggressiveness nerve-wracking to the man across...
TENNIS-Helen Wills-Scribners ($2.50). Champion Wills' game misses monotony by the power and deadly accuracy of her one great stroke. Failing the power, Author Wills' book is deadly in its repetitious monotony. A little editing would have cut from page 15 the description of her first forehand drive described in almost the same one-syllable words on page 5, or from pages 8, 25, 108, the repeated precept of playing only two sets at a time and stopping though keen to go on to the third...
...game, which was one of the fastest contests played this year at the Association, was won through Pool's speed. Pounding Baker's backhand shots, the Harvard player took the jump early in the game and retained the lead until the end of the last match. Baker's forehand was difficult for Pool to handle at times, but the University player often forced the defender into many errors on his back-hand shots...
...Prittwitz was a "fair" tennis player, taking his honesty for granted and meaning, obviously, to indicate that he played tennis "fairly well." A "fair" golfer is one who scores between 85 and 95 on an eighteen average holes. A "fair" tennis player is one who can play backhand or forehand with almost equal facility, and beat approximately half the able-bodied male playing members of his country club, in case he belongs...