New York, Sept. 25.
Let us not be too hasty in con-dernning Mrs, Helen Wills Moody for her refusal to enter the National singles championship at Forest Hills, Who knows but what she is saving herself for the veterans' championship? in two years she will be 35 and eligible for play in this matronly division of tennis. My guess is that when Mrs, Moody starts playing in the veterans' division, where the competition is on the stout and short-winded side, she won't miss a tournament. She will be a cinch to win every year and retire the cups as fast as they are put up.
Frankly, I can't understand the surprise occasioned by her refusal to enter the Forest Hill lists and possibly another joust with Helen Jacobs. The other night all of the tennis writers who believed she would enter held a buffet supper in a telephone booth, and there was room for all The only surprise her decision not to play furnished was the cause—neuritis. We all believed that a sacro-iliac ailment would be honoured. A After all why should anyone expect her io play at Forest Hills? she hasn't brought her composed countenance onto any court in this ihn in 20
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