At Forest Hills, L. I. last week, Helen Jacobs won the U. S. national tennis championship for the third year in a row. Last year, when Helen Wills Moody defaulted in the final, Miss Jacobs' victory lacked eclat, served to increase the un- reasonable antipathy with which U. S. galleries regard her. She won in 1932 when Mrs. Moody was not entered. With Mrs. Moody out of the field again last week, Miss Jacobs dropped only one set, to Mary Greef Harris of Kansas City, gave demure little Sarah Palfrey of Brookline, Mass,...
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