TENNIS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11382, 6 December 1930, Page 7

TENNIS

WHAT AMERICA THINKS OF BETTY , '

Miss Betty NutHnll returned to London- from America, where she won the women’s lawn tennis championship of the United' States. Mr. John R. Tunis. in a lively character sketch of Miss Nuthall in the "New Yorker,” wrote recently: "Betty has changed, has thinned down from the flit, child wonder .of {eleven to the wolLbuilt; young lady who-in 4929 ’ gave Miss' Helen Wills the closest match she has played since ■her contests against the Lenglen in 1927. . . . '

~""Ib is largely to the mother that Betty,, owes lior prominence in the world, of sport. One of the few tennis players, men or women, who'display a happy smile during actual matches, sho llaS been taught this by her astute' mamma. :

“'Smile', smile, \ and keep on smiling,’ counselled Mrs. Nuthall.- 'First, •because, it gets the crowd, and that .'is an important; factor in a big match. Sefeond, because it. helps you keep cool yourself. Third,. because it. deceives.- the .opponent. They, know just what you are thinking.-- Betty’s carefree toss of. her head; that attractive and artless' smile when her whiplash fo,rehand goes just an- inch over, the line in a •crncial ~point;. are by. now'second ! nature. :

"Betty is- an amazingly- good-nat-' ured young lady, extraordinarily tinspoilt'consideriifg the flattery and adulation she-has ancl still does endure. I have seen her atUhinhiahibhts on the .Riviera fawned and - pawned over .by duchesses: and peeresses Without .'nuiiibef.' 'Dealt Bettoh "Oh, Beiteli, dealt, .. ’ - and so -it -gobs." • '\ : ' - : ,The. -wifi tei 1 goes -on to' -say -• that Betty jiked best ’irt America! the hon-oy-dow melons; and that she found Americaninen pppr danc6i;s r .