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...missed the first ball. She changed her grip and hit the next one. Within a month she could defeat her father. Four years later, when she was 15, she won the U. S. junior singles champion ship. Before she was 17 she drove back the shots of burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory and became champion of the U. S. Two years later she met her most glorious defeat at Cannes at the hands of swarthy, turbaned Suzanne Lenglen, most graceful of women tennis players, now a professional. Followed a Paris operation for appendicitis and the Wills tennis for a while...
...thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, she won the doubles title against Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper & Miss Edith Cross. Wills and Molla Bjurstedt Mallory are the only women who have won the singles title five or more times. Mallory won it seven times officially, an eighth time in the 1917 "patriotic" (unofficial) tournament...
...first surprise. Mrs. Mallory, winner last year of the championship from Elizabeth Ryan (Miss Wills did not play), fell before the skill and determination of Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin. Tennis followers saw in the defeat the eclipse of Mrs. Mallory, who came to this country from Norway as Molla Bjurstedt in 1915, and through the years until Helen Wills appeared, monopolized the U. S. women's tennis spotlight...
...wherein the leading amateur women racquet-wielders of the world were thoroughly trounced by a modest 22-year-old, Helen Wills. In the North London finals, she defeated Elizabeth Ryan (U. S. ranking No. 2), 6-2, 6-2. In the Kent semifinals, Miss Wills ran burly Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mailory (U. S. ranking No. 1) around the court for only 23 minutes, disposing of her, 6-0, 6-1. Next day, that skilled tactician and Wimbledon champion, Mrs. L. A. Godfree (the onetime Kitty McKane) threatened but could not conquer Miss Wills...
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...