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Tennis in the past five years has produced few new faces. Last week at Forest Hills it produced not only a new face but a new U. S. champion and a personage whom many experts considered quite likely to develop into the most exciting player of her sex since Suzanne Lenglen. She was blonde Alice Marble, 23-year-old San Franciscan who by beating Helen Jacobs 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the final of the U. S. Women's Singles Championship accomplished the major tennis upset of the year...
...Quincy the spirit of the founders and to understand more completely the significance of their bold plan. And with the increase in our knowledge comes a more than proportional increase in our admiration. As you have heard, the Puritans' ambition was none other than to transplant to an untamed forest the ancient university tradition. They would be satisfied with nothing short of duplicating here in New England at least one college of Cambridge University. Carried forward by the 'strong tide of Puritanism, the enterprise was at first blessed with almost miraculous success. The goal might well seem...
Since 1932 Helen Jacobs has won the U. S. Singles Championship four times in a row (a record), but in each of these years she has been beaten at Wimbledon. This year, for the first time, she won there. If she wins at Forest Hills this week, she will at last be recognized as the ablest ten-nist of her sex in the world, a satisfaction that has eluded her for ten years. Last week the forecasts of tennis experts made her an overwhelming favorite...
...Court (1935), she was six years behind Helen Wills, who by that time had married a San Francisco broker, Frederick Moody. In the long rivalry between the two, they played each other eight times. Helen Wills Moody won seven. Helen Jacobs won once, in the U. S. final at Forest Hills in 1933, but only when her opponent defaulted under highly debatable circumstances in the third set. A year ago in the all-San Francisco Wimbledon final, Helen Jacobs reached match point but Helen Wills Moody won. This year Helen Wills Moody was not in the tournament and Helen Jacobs...
...hate losing even more. Since coming so close to outright defeat by, Helen Jacobs, Helen Wills Moody has not entered any major tournaments. Last month she announced that she would henceforth make designing women's underclothes for Lastex her major interest (TIME, Aug 10). If she wins at Forest Hills this week, Helen Jacobs may reasonably conclude that her rivalry with Helen Wills Moody is essentially over and that she has attained...