AMERICAN TENNIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 205, 31 August 1933, Page 7

AMERICAN TENNIS.

i No Feud Between Helens, Says Mrs. Wills-Moody. LOTT AND STOEFFEN CONQUER (Received 12 noon.) SAN FRANCISCO, August 30. With the statement, "I don't regret my action," and the implication that she would like to meet Helen Jacobs under different conditions, Mrs. Helen Wills-Moody arrived home to-day from tlio ladies' national lawn tennis tourney. "As the match progressed, I had several dizzy spells, and felt that though about to faint the thought of fainting seemed so silly, as I disliked causing a scene. The pain in my right leg grew so intense I knew what I should do, but I could not follow out the impulses as I should have done, so I just decided to stop playing. Under the same conditions I would do it again. I regret the unhappy ending. There is no feud between Miss Jacobs and me, and we always have had in common a mutual love of tennis. I thinls she is a splendid competitor." Mrs. Moody said the injury pained her during the trip across country. She has no intention of giving up the game, and hopes to be a competitor next season. A New York message states that in the Ail-American final of the national men's doubles championship, at Brookline, G. M. Lott and L. R. Stoeffen beat F. X. Shields'and Frankie Parker, 11—13, 9—7, 9—7, 6—3. Last Saturday, at Forest Hills, Helen Jacobs, defending champion, defeated Helen Wills-Moody in the final of the ladiee' United States tennis championship, 8—6,8—6, 3—6, and 3—o (default). After winning only five points in the first three games of the final set, Mrs. Moody went to the judge's stand and announced that she could not continue. It was a dramatic and disappointing conclusion to one of the most spectacular matches in history. Seven times previously the same pair had met, with Mrs. Moody never losing even one set (Last year she did not defend the title.) Mrs. Moody was wearing an appliance as the result of the spinal injury which caused her to withdraw from the Wightman Cup several weeks ago. Her leg, however, bothered her more than her back, she said. She also decided to withdraw from the doubles.