At Forest Hills

Since Helen Wills Moody was entered in the Women's National Singles Championship at Forest Hills last week, there was no doubt that she would win. It was merely a question of whom she would beat and how badly.

In the first round, her opponent was able Edith Sigourney of Boston. Mrs. Moody won 6-0, 6-0.

In the second round she played Mary Greef of Kansas City, who made her work a little harder. The score was 6-2, 6-3.

Joan Ridley, an English player but not a member of the Wightman Cup team, got as far as 3-a11 in the first set the next day, when a storm interrupted the matches and drenched 2,500 spectators. Mrs. Moody won the next nine games and the match 6-3, 6-0.

Dorothy Weisel, a hard-hitting California girl against whom Mrs. Moody has no grudge as she has against Californian Helen Jacobs, was next. She covered her court well, made Mrs. Moody run her hardest, lost 6-1, 6-2.

In the semifinals, the Moody adversary was Phyllis Mudford, smallest member of the British Wightman Cup team, who had beaten Sarah Palfrey of Boston in the third round. Wearing an eyeshade and an expression of appealing determination, she looked so eagerly incompetent that Mrs. Moody neglected to put customary pace on her shots after winning the first five games. Little Miss Mudford then played as tigerishly as she could, ran the score to 6-2, 6-4.

In the finals, Mrs. Moody's opponent was Eileen Bennett Whittingstall. Before her marriage to Painter Edmund Fearnley Whittingstall, Eileen Bennett defeated Mrs. Molla Mallory in the 1928 Wightman Cup Matches. Still the prettiest and best-dressed of woman tennis players, her game has improved brilliantly this year. But while Mrs. Moody was sweeping through the upper half of the draw almost as easily as in 1929. Mrs. Whittingstall was having a hard time of it in the lower half. In the quarter-finals she played a great match against Helen Jacobs, considered second best woman player in the U.S. After reaching 3-1 in the first set, she won only four points in the next five games, then came back to win two sets and the match 3-6, 6-3, 8-6. In the semifinals, she played Betty Nuthall, defending champion and No. 1 on the British Wightman Cup team. Mrs. Whittingstall had beaten Betty Nuthall once before this year and did it again last week 6-2, 3-6, 6-4.

When they started their match. Mrs. Moody won the first three games, the last on a line decision which spectators questioned. Mrs. Whittingstall lost only two points in the next three games, but she weakened when the score was tied at four-all and lost the set. Obviously fatigued by two three-set matches on preceding days, she won only one game in the second set. The match was over in 35 minutes, 6-4, 6-1.

Mrs. Moody, who has not lost a set in singles competition since 1927, received the Championship Cup, which she had not tried for last year, for the seventh time, denied renewed rumors that she would turn professional. Next day, Eileen Bennett Whittingstall, paired with Betty Nuthall, won the U.S. Women's Doubles Championship by beating Dorothy Round and Helen Jacobs 6-2, 6-4.

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