Sport: Jacobs' Third

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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, a lesson in the final, 6-1, 6-4. More spectacular than the champion's anticipated achievements were those of others in the National Women's Championship.

¶ Elizabeth ("Bunny") Ryan won her first tennis championship in 1912. She went to England for the summer of 1914, stayed abroad to drive an ambulance in the War. Since the War, she has won 20 titles at Wimbledon (doubles and mixed doubles), innumerable minor championships, played Suzanne Lenglen in a Wimbledon singles final. Last week, equipped with a British accent and a contract to write about the tournament, Elizabeth Ryan, 43. was entered at Forest Hills. Playing in shorts for the first time in her career, she lost to Helen Jacobs in the quarterfinals, 6-0, 6-1.

¶ Baroness Giacoma Giorgio Levi, born Maud Rosenbaum, is the daughter of Chicago Grainman Emanuel S. Rosenbaum. She married her Italian Baron, a polo-player, in 1927, divorced him last winter. Spectators were not surprised to see Baroness Levi at Forest Hills last week. She is No. 7 in U. S. ranking, a ubiquitous match player. They were surprised to see her execute the most dignified fall of the week in her match with Betty Nuthall of England, even more surprised when she defeated England's one-time No. 1 player, 6-4, 6-4. Against tall, statuesque Dorothy Andrus. the Baroness tried to contrive another upset, failed 6-1, 6-4.

¶Experts decided that the most promising young player in the field was 22-year-old Carolin Babcock of Los Angeles who has an unusually powerful backhand, volleys better than Helen Wills Moody, lacks experience and confidence. In the singles she beat England's No. 4, Katherine Stammers, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, then lost to Helen Jacobs, 7-5, 6-0.

Next day, Carolin Babcock and Dorothy Andrus played Helen Jacobs and Sarah Palfrey for the doubles title, lost, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.