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Wills. Sports writers have long: referred to Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory as "the lion-hearted." They began to use this somewhat hackneyed phrase for a most uncommon quality in 1921 when Mrs. Mallory beat Suzanne Lenglen in their one-set match at Forest Hills. They repeated it when, in 1923, Mrs. Mallory lost her title, after a redoubtable struggle, to Miss Wills (TIME, Aug. 27, 1923.) And they reiterated it last week when Mrs. Mallory had eliminated Helen Wills from the New York State championship at Eye. It was Helen Wills second defeat in eight days. She spent her energy...
...much faith, you Democrats, in rumors that peasants of the Middle West will defeat Coolidge. They change with the wheat crops and he has two to go." Or, "A bunch of American tourists were hissed and stoned yesterday in France, but not until they had finished shopping." Or, "Suzanne Lenglen has been landed by Pyle. He is now here in London trying to get Bernard Shaw to turn professional and write for money...
...test of her condition since her operation in England, and she passed it with never a quiver. Her old bulletlike serve sang true; her sly placements sped exactly. Mary Browne was buckled down to business, but the two sets took Helen Wills only 45 minutes: 6-3, 6-2. Lenglen. Not long ago, Harold ("Red") Grange wound sinuously, ably through tough tacklers while thousands screamed frenzied delight. C. C. Pyle, "Red's" manager, was pleased. "Red" was a good bet-but how long would this Wheaton iceman last? There were other "stars," men and women of taste, gentility...
Last year she took the national cup for the third time and now holds it as her own. The papers have been prodigal in reporting her recent doings-how she won many tinkling little Riviera tournaments and lost to Suzanne Lenglen and got appendicitis. She made no apologies for that match at Cannes. Mlle. Lenglen beat her because she is, still, a better match player. They hit the ball about equally hard; Miss Wills is somewhat the better stylist; Mlle. Lenglen is faster on her feet. But when they played at Cannes the sunburned gentlemen at the courtside were betting...
...Mlle. Lenglen likes bandeaux and silks and flounces; the little brown moons under her eyes suggest that she has come to the court without sleep after a night of carnival. Miss Wills is, essentially, as simple as her father's prescription for a healthy childhood. Once, in their third set, she was three games ahead of the Frenchwoman. Mlle. Lenglen had won the first set but she was obviously tiring; the little moons were ominous. She went to the side lines and asked for a glass of brandy. Helen Wills lost the match. She would not, matching drink...