Word: helen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event of the year. In it were entered four members of the team that last June defeated England in the Wightman Cup matches; the topnotch players of Japan and England; a group of youngsters better than any who could be assembled elsewhere in the world; and Helen Jacobs...
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...
...Helen Hull Jacobs, daughter of a well-to-do mining engineer, was born in Globe, Ariz, in the summer of 1908. Her family spent the following winter in California in a house rented from Author Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine). At the age of six months, Helen was presented to Tennist May Sutton, an acquaintance of her mother. Just before the War, the Jacobs family moved to San Francisco. When she was 13, Mr. Jacobs gave his daughter an old tennis racquet, taught her how to use it. The day she won a set from him, she entered...
...year (1921) Helen Jacobs won the public parks championship her neighbor, Helen Wills, won the Girls' Championship of the U. S. and became the city's heroine. To Helen Jacobs, a moody, introspective little girl who disliked everything about San Francisco except the colorful life of Italian fishermen along the waterfront, Helen Wills's triumph, achieved in the distant and mysteriously exciting East, minimized her own victory. It also opened vistas of a glamorous future and Helen Jacobs decided to emulate it. What gave this decision impetus was that when Helen Wills's coach at last...
...While Helen Jacobs was winning the U. S. Girls' Championship (1924 and 1925), Helen Wills was winning the U. S. Women's Singles. When Helen Jacobs got on the Wightman Cup team (1927), Helen Wills won her first title at Wimbledon. When Helen Jacobs was presented at 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...