Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helen ("Little Helen") Jacobs, pulled two deuce sets out of the fire of Betty Nuthall's drives and service...
Then up rose Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Leo R. C. Mitchell to meet Big Helen Wills and Edith Cross. Never was there a clearer demonstration that doubles play is a different game from singles, a game about which Big Helen Wills still has a lot to learn. The English ladies...
...rain descended the second day. Mrs. Watson took Little Helen Jacobs out to the centre court and gave her a baseline trimming. 6?3, 6?2. Mrs. Mitchell took Edith Cross out and almost gave her a trimming but Miss Cross finally found the chalk-lines and won, 6?3, 3?6, 6?3. Mrs. B. C. Covell and Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, runners-up at Wimbledon, continued the visitors' lessons in doubles play for Little Helen's benefit. The latter's partner, Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. 25 times a champion, needed no such instruction, but the final score...
Came the climax, bouncing Betty Nuthall v. Big Helen Wills. At Wimbledon the English girl had won only three games in a similar two-set match. Now she won twelve, with a whamming overhead serve, a flashing forehand drive that made her look at least twice the Betty Nuthall that played in the U. S. two years ago. Twelve games against Big Helen Wills takes good tennis, even if Big Helen Wills takes 16 games from you meantime and wins match and cup 8?6. 8?6. "The modern forehand drive . . . means Helen Wills," laughed sporting Betty Nuthall...
Californians all were the three youngest members of the U. S. team, and California-born was the fourth member, their coach and leader, donor of the Wightman cup, patriarch of U. S. tennis for women. As Helen Hotchkiss she first won the U. S. championship in 1909 before Betty Nuthall and Helen Jacobs were born and when Helen Wills was a tot. She kept the title until 1912 and then, though "they never come back," rewon it in 1919. Her score of other national titles were amassed in doubles courts and indoors. She gave the Wightman cup six years...