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MISS HELEN WILLS.

THE GIRL AND THE PLAYER.

Frank Poxon, writing on the. subject of Miss Helen Wills in the Daily News Bayalım y

Miss Helen Wills has one thing in common with, Mlle. Lenglen, her great rival; both of them were "caught young." At the age of 15 Helen Wille won the Champlon- ship of the Pacific Coast; Mlle. Lenglen won the Championship of Picardy at the age of 14.

That early achievement of fame is about the only thing that the two beat players of their sex in the world have in. common; in ull else in appearance, in mannerisms and in style of play they diametrically opposite.

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When they came on the court at Canues u few, months ago to play that mernorable match which act two-Continents talking, an Ameri- ean woman sitting near to aald: "They remind me of Carmen and the Quaker Girl," and the com- parison was very apt. Suzanne Lenglen, dark, unger, vital; Helen Wills, fair, placid, demure,

Her Temperament.

From a temperamental point of view, Helen Willa is splendidly equipped "for game which is

specially trying to the nerves. A badline decision against her would never affect her play in the alight- est degree; she would hardly notice it, in fact, so tranquil is her quiet concentration on the actual game. Unruffled, serene and effi- cient, she just "carries on." no. matter what the state of the score. and to that fact thust be ascribed a good deal of her success.

She belongs, to a category of games players who are always "bad to beat," the category which includes. players who are modest and yet confulent in their own powers. For Ifelen Willa certain- ly has that confidence, and she is incapable of those sudden lapses which come to players who are too highly string; she never com- mits the folly of antier-rating an opponent. but she never commita, the equal folly of over-rating them. She just produces her best, n10 matter what is the nature of the opposition.

Helen Wills is popular wherever she goes, and that fact is easy to understand, for her personality radiates the charm of an unaffect- ed simplicity. She never gets in the least excited about her lawn tennis triumphs, and off the court she prefers to talk about art, music, or good books rather than about the game in which she, at' the age of 20 has achieved.. so much.

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Her Tennis. Perhaps severity is the best Word to use in describing ber lawn tennis. She hits, partien- larly on the forehand, with tre- mendous force; in the whole his- tory of women's lawn, tennis. I doubt, if there have been three other players who hit the ball equally hard. Her service is power.j ful and well placed, and when she volleys, she does so with a crisp finality. I would be difficult to point to any phase of her.game which is really weak, for as she his developed, her lawn tennis frshe has carefully concentrated on thone strokes which were less good than others,

The result is that to-day Helen Wills has become second only" to Suzanne Lengler, and there are a graat many excellent judges of the game who are fully convinced that the Lenglen "ern" will 3000 be ended, and that the new Queen of lawn tenuis will be this pretty, charming girl from California who has yet to reach her 21st birthday.

THE MODERN WITCH.

EVERY VILLAGE HAS GOT ONE.

Witchcraft as an occupation for modern woman is advocated by Miss Sylvin Townsent Warner, the witty authoress of "Lolly Willows," the novel which relates. how a spinter entered into a com- pact with Salad and became 1 witch..

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Miss Warner brightly to the Daily News. "should be a witch.T. F. Powys has lived for the past In those big gloomy houses in Bol will doubtless find herself spend- "The village in Dorset where Mr. London, too, if people only knew. a witch, and has a talent for it, By withcraft I mean. the actual 20 years had a very good witch, gravia and roundabout, closed so ing much time alone in the coun practice of witchcraft, for which but she diet recently. Thoard one many months of the year, there try talking to trees as a prelimin- there is an immense craving. of the village women say, expect to see a great revival of so and so is the witch now, is she?' craft with great skill. The in-animals."

Oh, are caretakers who practice witch-Jary, and making friendships with "The general impression is that three-probably the remains of a different, of course. There is a of witchcraft, was her parting "Mappowder, also in Dorset, has gredients of the art in London are If these should be a renaissance witchcraft has died out," she pro-cover of 13, the unit into which lot done with glass bends and red observation, there will be no ceeded, "but anyone who knows the witches of a given. district, Bannel. In the country there is a burning of prominent witches. Tho the West Country well knows that used to band themselves together great demand for dried herbs and Government will present them with practically every village has its with the warlocks, or witch at the present time and that

male dead bats,"

O.B.E.a. instead. Witchcraft Is the villagers firmly believe in her witches."

"The modern woman," continued not evil. It does not, do, half as "There is witchcraft going on in the speaker, "who wants to become much harm as philanthropy."

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