Word: jacobses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At Forest Hills, the stanch disinclination of a slim British Sunday-school teacher to play on Sunday, and four days of rain, had delayed the tournament a full week. When sturdy Helen Jacobs, whose muscles were as solid as her opponent's convictions, finally took the court against Dorothy...
Just how different this match was to be did not become apparent even when Helen Jacobs had won the first set, 8-6, keeping Mrs. Moody on the defensive, chopping back her fastest drives to the corners of the court so that she never had a chance to stop running...
In 1921 Suzanne Lenglen, after losing a set to Molla Mallory, defaulted when she developed a hacking cough. That set the pattern for the extraordinary way in which Mrs. Moody's supremacy in women's tennis, unchallenged for seven years, ended last week. In the first game of...
Later she decided to default that match as well. She explained: "In the third set of my singles match I felt as if I were going to faint because of pain in my back and hip and a complete numbness of my right leg. The match was long and by...
Whether or not Mrs. Moody would have been physically capable of finishing her match and whether she should have done it, were by no means all that tennis enthusiasts had to argue about after her default. Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers, who had been attending Helen Jacobs, said he had advised...