Word: helen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...score was 3-5 in the third set? match point for Helen Jacobs?with Mrs. Moody serving. In the stands, the capacity crowd of 19,000, many of whom had stood in a queue all night to get a seat, leaned forward, silent as death. It was, they realized, the crucial point of the most exciting match that Wimbledon had ever seen. To understand why it was the most exciting it would have been necessary to know something of what led up to it, to understand, for instance, exactly why two young women from California who, if they had wanted...
...Helen Wills went East for the first time in 1921, a shy sturdy-legged girl with pigtails, won the National Girls' Championship at Forest Hills. Coolidge had just become President, Jack Dempsey was Heavyweight Champion and Babe Ruth was playing his fourth season with the New York Yankees the year she won the U. S. Women's Championship for the first time, in 1923, against nutbrown, iron-muscled Molla Biurstedt Mallory. By 1927, after Suzanne Lenglen had turned professional, Helen Wills, at 21, was admittedly the ablest amateur woman tennis player in the world. In 1929, she was presented...
...Beneath Helen Jacobs' first wish to be a tennis player there must have been a furious hope to be like her famed neighbor. The irony of her success was that the more she became like Helen Wills the more dramatically she emphasized the differences between them. For Helen Wills Moody to defeat her on the tennis court with superb, indifferent ease ? at Wimbledon in 1929 and 1932, at Forest Hills in 1928 and 1931?became a matter of routine. While Helen Wills Moody was feted in London and Paris, Helen Jacobs was mentioned in the newspapers as the unfortunate...
Everyone at Wimbledon last week knew what had happened after that: how newspapers had accused Mrs. Moody of poor sportsmanship; how she had spent a year and a half recovering her health; how Helen Jacobs had gone to Wimbledon in 1934 and been unexpectedly beaten in the finals by an English girl named Dorothy Round; how last spring Mrs. Moody had packed up her rackets, sailed for England, only to be eliminated in the semi-finals of a minor tournament that made it clear that she had not quite reached her oldtime form; how Helen Jacobs had finally been presented...
Then there happened the incredible incident which will be a nightmare for Helen Jacobs as long as she lives. She trotted up to smash the easy lob that seemed destined to end the match, hit the ball into the net. That made the score deuce. Mrs. Moody, suddenly reassured, ran out the game, the set, the match...