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What happened that year on the centre court at Forest Hills is, as the editorial writers say, "history." That burly Norwegian woman, Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, had been champion for a long time. None of the other women could compare with her and she went through to the finals without effort. She seemed at once wiser and more primitive than the California ingénue who faced her, rather pale, under the livid August...
...Molla Bjurstedt Mallory became, for a set and a half against Miss McKane, the invincible, brown-sinewed Nordic of her salad days. Then weariness crept up her body, dulled the edge of her fiery nerves. She lost, 4-6, 7-5, 8-6. Miss Wills, champion of the U. S,. was left to face Miss McKane, Champion of Britain. Flanked with an enormous fagot of roses, the championship cup glittered on a table beside the court. Miss Mc-Kane and Miss Wills issued from the clubhouse, faced photographers, began to rally. The gallery which filled the stucco stadium was amazed...
...women's tennis-Miss Helen Wills, Miss Elizabeth Ryan, Miss Mary K. Browne, Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mailory , Miss Eleanor Goss, Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup-entered the Metropolitan Women's Turf Court Championship, strode through to the round before the semi-final without defeat. Then Miss Goss, placed at No. 4 in the National ranking, was the worm that turned against Miss Mary K. Browne, No. 2, brought her down, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Miss Wills sprang to revenge her doubles partner, handily defeated Miss Goss, 6-1, 6-2. Then occurred another upset. Miss Ryan...
...Hawks: J. A. Drexel Biddle, poloist; J. Harry Alexander, President of the Turf and Field Club; W. Hayward Drayton, of the Stock Exchange; Worthington Davis, sometime Harvard footballer; Roswel C. Tripp, banker; Franklin T. Mallory, financier, husband of tennis-playing Molla Bjurstedt Mallory...
Experts thought that the greatest obstacle confronting Helen was not Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, from whom she won her title last year; nor Mrs. George Wightman, her Olympic doubles partner; nor Eleanor Goss nor Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, other members of the American women's team that went to Wimbledon and Colombes; nor Mayme MacDonald, national clay court champion. Experts scrutinized a lithe figure that appeared from secluded practice courts in upper New York State, recognized Miss Mary K. Browne of California, national champion...