Women's Tennis

Women from the East, women from the West, women from England, one from Holland gathered at Forest Hills, Long Island, with tennis rackets under their tanned trained arms. They gathered to determine who is the best player in the U. S. Most of them felt that Helen Wills was the best, with the others ranked in fairly predictable groups behind her. Matters went as expected through the early rounds. Miss Wills won, Mrs. Molla Mallory won, all the visiting Englishwomen won except Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfree who defaulted to save herself for doubles.

In the quarter finals came the first surprise. Mrs. Mallory, winner last year of the championship from Elizabeth Ryan (Miss Wills did not play), fell before the skill and determination of Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin. Tennis followers saw in the defeat the eclipse of Mrs. Mallory, who came to this country from Norway as Molla Bjurstedt in 1915, and through the years until Helen Wills appeared, monopolized the U. S. women's tennis spotlight.

In the same round Holland's champion, Kea Bouman, was ousted. She took only three games in two from the relentless Miss Wills.

Betty Nuthall, England's principal, survived by beating Eleanor Goss.