MISS HELEN WILLS,
SUCCESSFUL OPERATION. HOPES TO PLAY AT WIMBLEDON. (Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.) (Received June 7, 8.55 a.m.) PARIS, June 6. Miss Helen Wills, who has undergone an operation for appendicitis, is progressing favourably. She still thinks she will play at Wimbledon, but doctors and others say it is impossible. Helen complained to her mother on Saturday morning that she had a slight pain, which increased rapidly, necessitating a telephone message in the afternoon that she would be unable to play in the match against Miss Boilman, of Holland.
'Tiie Sunday Express says that Helen suffered agony, but as a fervent Christian Scientist she fought it until she collapsed, when a doctor was summoned.
She was sent in an ambulance to the American Hospital. The operation was most successful.
Suzanne Lenglen called with flowers. She hopes to be tiie first admitted visitor.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16816, 7 June 1926, Page 5
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