WIMBLEDON SURPRISE

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 278, 19 August 1932, Page 4

WIMBLEDON SURPRISE

Smallest Girl There COURAGEOUS GAMES , Dominion Special Service. (By Mavis.) London, June 29. Britain’s last fighter in the women’s singles is the tiniest girl at Wimbledon this year. She is Miss Mary Heeley, the only English entry in the semifinals of this season’s tennis. Two features of Miss Heeley’s play are an endless amount of courage and two of the fastest feet that have ever sped over the Wimbledon courts. She has numbed opponents into defeat by her ability to run after and return balls that everyone but Miss Heeley considered impossible for her to reach. She runs for the corners like a man, sliding the extra foot or two which has given her that famous retrieving ability. And speaking of courage—in her match against Mrs. Whittingstall for entry into the semi-final, she had lost the first set 3 —6 and was I—4 in the second. Enough to discourage an old player, let alone a girl of 21. But she pluckily settled down and scored eleven games in succession to win the match. Miss Heeley comes from Birmingham, is small, dark, and very pretty. She is an all-round athlete, and before she took up tennis seriously she was a county hockey player for Warwickshire. She has also won recognition in skating and sprinting. Playing a nonaggressive game of tennis, she has beaten every other English girl of note except Miss Nuthall.