Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennis in the past five years has produced few new faces. Last week at Forest Hills it produced not only a new face but a new U. S. champion and a personage whom many experts considered quite likely to develop into the most exciting player of her sex since Suzanne Lenglen. She was blonde Alice Marble, 23-year-old San Franciscan who by beating Helen Jacobs 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the final of the U. S. Women's Singles Championship accomplished the major tennis upset of the year...
...third set the brilliant game with which she had beaten England's Kay Stammers the afternoon before went completely to pieces and she won only four points in the first four games. She got the next two games but that was merely the brave gesture of a player who knew she was beaten. The crowd, which had been rooting for Miss Marble, showed its understanding by rooting for the old champion. A few minutes later the match was over and it cheered...
...might enable her to travel around the world in style like Miss Jacobs and Mrs. Moody. Alice Marble took his advice, improved so rapidly that she won the California State Girls' title at 16. This brought her to the attention of Eleanor Tennant who, third ranking U. S. player in 1920, had since become Hollywood's best known coach. When she was 19 Alice Marble left her home in San Francisco, went to live with Coach Tennant who hired her as secretary, taught her not only a new forehand but also numerology, bodybuilding, cooking...
...this decision impetus was that when Helen Wills's coach at last arranged a game between the two girls. Helen Wrills won 6-0 in seven minutes. What gave the decision its subsequent importance was the odd chance that Helen Wills went on to become the greatest woman player in the world and that Helen Jacobs' salient characteristic is a dark unshakable determination...
Often frustrated, Helen Jacobs' career has been far from futile. In her efforts to beat Mrs. Moody, she became expert enough to beat any other girl player in the world. She left the University of California as a senior in 1930. She fulfilled an ambition to write; of three able books her autobiography, Beyond the Game, is last and best. She was taught to ride to hounds by Henrietta Bingham, daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. She achieved the goal of all young female notables by establishing a fashion in clothes...