U. S. Lawn Tennis Association officials were startled when their 17-year-old schoolgirl guest, Miss Helen
Wills, of San Francisco, arrived in Manhattan looming broad, rugged and four inches taller than last year. Miss Wills was accompanied by her mother and the Illinois State title (won in love sets). She retired at once to Forest Hills, where she will polish her strokes for her coming campaign.
In 1922 a comparatively diminutive Helen Wills twice pushed burly Molla Mallory to the limit, once in the national finals and later at Longwood. This year the shadow Miss...
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