Netsters

Said William Tatem Tilden, II, writing for a news syndicate: "I hope to see the [national doubles] title stay here in our country, but I fear that it will go 'down under.' " Racqueteer-Writer Tilden was reporting the straight set victory of George M. Lott Jr. & John F. Hennessey, U. S. netsters, over Frenchmen Henri Cochet & Jacques Brugnon, in the semi-final round. The following day Lott & Hennessey came out on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, Mass., defeated the Australian team, Gerald L. Patterson & John B. Hawkes, by the identical score of the victory over the French, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2.

Helen Wills & Helen Jacobs have much in common. Jacobs once lived under the same roof that sheltered Wills when she was born; their first names are the same, they are California tennis misses. But in trading drives from the baseline neither Jacobs nor any other woman has the ability of Wills. Valiantly but with many an error Jacobs sped the ball toward her opponent's backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, she won the doubles title against Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper & Miss Edith Cross. Wills and Molla Bjurstedt Mallory are the only women who have won the singles title five or more times. Mallory won it seven times officially, an eighth time in the 1917 "patriotic" (unofficial) tournament.