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...finals, Mrs. Moody's opponent was Eileen Bennett Whittingstall. Before her marriage to Painter Edmund Fearnley Whittingstall, Eileen Bennett defeated Mrs. Molla Mallory in the 1928 Wightman Cup Matches. Still the prettiest and best-dressed of woman tennis players, her game has improved brilliantly this year. But while Mrs. Moody was sweeping through the upper half of the draw almost as easily as in 1929. Mrs. Whittingstall was having a hard time of it in the lower half. In the quarter-finals she played a great match against Helen Jacobs, considered second best woman player in the U.S. After...
...motion pictures, "Raffies", with John Barrymore, and "Tennis", featuring William T. Tilden II, Helen Wills Moody, and Molla Mallory, will be shown; magic, music, and refreshments will also be in order...
...Burly" has no opprobrious connotation for TIME. Webster's New International Dictionary defines it: "Large or stout of body." TIME has applied "burly" to such strapping-strong persons as Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, Diego Rivera, Christopher Morley, Herbert Clark Hoover...
Meantime, in the other bracket, came an upsetter in the person of brown, brawny Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, eight times National Champion. Seeming to forget her years, but not her craft, Mrs. Mallory stepped briskly to the court, flashed her teeth, stamped her feet, theatrically eliminated England's No. 1 player, bouncing Betty Nuthall, 6-3, 6-3. Thus she flouted a Wills-Nuthall semifinal, long anticipated. Thus she herself gained the privilege of playing Champion Wills. That privilege, however, lasted only 20 minutes, with the grim Californian giving her not a game...
...gave the Wightman cup six years ago. The next year her husband, George W. Wightman, an able player himself, was elected President of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Mother of four, brown, firm, skillful, she it was who coached Helen Wills to win the singles title from Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in 1923. "Calm, quiet, generous and sporting," as Helen Wills calls her, she it is who deserves credit for the Wills-Wightman doubles championships of 1924 and 1928. Playing together, wise Mrs. Wightman and Big Helen Wills have never been beaten...