Word: helens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British Women's Singles-won by Helen Wills, U. S.; at Wimbledon...
...Helen Wills defeated her California neighbor and acquaintance, Helen Jacobs, 6-1, 6-2. Fifteen thousand people watched Miss Jacobs rush about the court, applauded with chilling politeness her brilliant recoveries. With no more enthusiasm did they greet the cold, feline accuracy of the Wills game. Helen Wills knows that the best Jacobs shot is a cross-court backhand. Rarely was Helen Jacobs able to use it. There was no drama as once there had been when Miss Wills, winning, was suddenly unnerved, defeated by the swarthy Suzanne Lenglen, who found new strength and boldness by drinking a glass...
...times' sake, and because such victories as were hers were more bitterly earned, Mrs. May Sutton Bundy more than Helen Wills was Wimbledon's idol last week. She, before the enthusiastic eyes of William Tatem Tilden II (who murmured, "It's too good to be true") and to the anguished exhortations of her nine-year-old daughter (the youngest of four), defeated England's hard-hitting Eileen Bennett 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. British newspapers reprinted oldtime photographs taken when Mrs. Bundy, then May Sutton, became Wimbledon's first U. S. champion...
...108th Bishop of London, the Rt. Hon., Rt. Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, had every reason to be well pleased last week. In Town was a 23-year-old friend of his, Helen Newington Wills, that tennis girl from California. Although she is perhaps the world's best amateur woman player and although he is a septuagenarian, the Bishop and Miss Wills played tennis together last month while she was in England to be presented at Court. It was not, however, to play him a return match that she had returned. It was Wimbledon time. The Bishop, like many another...
...play in a bathing suit; England's cheery, sandy-haired Eileen Bennett and determined, hard-driving Betty Nuthall; Mme. Renee Mathieu who is France's greatest woman amateur; Miss E. L. Heinie who lives and plays in South Africa; rosy Fraulein Aussem of Germany, and the other Californian Helen, Miss Jacobs, who strained her back a few days before the tournament but did not think it would bother her and between whom and Helen Wills is supposed to exist not only rivalry but a shade of dislike...