AGAIN CHAMPION

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1042, 5 August 1930, Page 13

AGAIN CHAMPION

MRS. HELEN WILLS MOODY’S TENNIS CAREER

FAMOUS MATCH RECALLED

Once again. Mrs. Helen Wills Moody has won the \yomen’s tennis championship at Wimbledon. She Is the latest of lour Californian girls who have made tennis history. Mrs. Moody is a worthy successor to May Sutton Bundy, Mary K. Browne and Hnzel Wightman. She leaped from tennis obscurity to supremacy in two years. In 1923 she dethroned Mol la Mallory, six times national champion, and she not only retained her title the following year but added to her laurels the Olympic championship. Born in California, October G, 1905, she learned the game of tennis at a comparatively youthful age —ll or 12 years—and the tremendous power in her stroke and steady force of her game are directly attributable to the fact that she has consistently practised with the strongest men players Tennis fans who witnessed the match in which Molla Mallory was dethroned, will never forget the impression that the then 17-year-old California girl made at Forest Hills on August 18, 1923. Quietly, in her characteristic manner, Helen walked out upon the courts with

Mrs. Mallory, smiled into the champion’s face as a dozen cameras clicked and flickered and then proceeded to make court history with one of the most devastating attacks ever launched at a titleholder.