Sport: Wills to Wimbledon

In San Francisco last week, reporters found famed Helen Wills Moody on a station platform with a trunk full of tennis rackets, bound for Wimbledon where the All-England championships start June 24. Retired since her default to her ablest rival, Helen Jacobs, in the National Championships at Forest Hills in 1933, she explained that she had been practicing this spring, gradually convinced herself that her game was as good as ever. Said she, about her trip to Wimbledon: "I just made up my mind to go this afternoon."

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