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...Forest Hills, L. I., U. S. women were destroying chances of British women for the Wightman Cup. Helen Wills, to describe whose game sporting writers resort to increasing jumbles of superlatives, was worthy of their praise and easily defeated Joan Fry and Mrs. Kathleen McKane Godfree. Molla Mallory, with more difficulty, did the same thing. Miss Wills and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman won a doubles match for the U. S.; Eleanor Goss and Charlotte Hosmer Chapin lost one. Helen Jacobs lost the only U. S. singles match to Betty Nuthall sixteen-year-old-English girl who defeated Mrs. Mallory...
...Mother of fivE . , . Mother of five ," your Sports Editor repeats that three times before the name of Mrs. George W. Wightman, and seems to think it a great feat that she has been five times a mother yet has won three tennis titles...
...George W. Wightman met Miss Margaret Blake last week in the finals of the women's national indoor singles tennis tournament on the Longwood courts, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Superior headwork enabled Mrs. Wightman, mother of five, to tire her younger opponent early in the match; to win the championship, 6-0, 2-6, 6-4. A few minutes later Mrs. Wightman and Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup lined up against Miss Blake and Miss Edith Sigourney in the doubles event finals. Again Mrs. Wightman, mother of five, added to her laurels. Score: 8-6, 1-6, 6-3. The gallery...
...finals of the National Indoor Mixed Doubles Tournament to be played on the Longwood Covered Courts at 4: 30 o'clock this afternoon will have a decided Crimson tinge. Miss Sarah Palfrey and M. T. Hill '30 will meet Mrs. G. W. Wightman and G. P. Gardner '10 for the title. The first pair reached the final round yesterday by defeating Miss Margarer Blake and Karl Pfaffman '24, former Crimson tennis captain, in a close match, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. Mrs. Wrightman and Gardner, however, won decisively from Mrs. F. V. Roeser and W. W. Ingraham...
...week, a gallery received Miss Helen Wills when she stepped on the courts of the West Side Tennis Club to play with Miss Mary K. Browne against Miss McKane and Miss Colyer of England in a doubles match that would decide the international women's series for the Wightman Cup. The match score stood at 3-all. Mrs. Mallory, after half an hour of sturdy driving with her leathery right arm, had trounced Miss Joan Fry of England, 6-3, 6-0. Miss Wills had mustered enough reserve on an off day to resist a determined rally of Miss...