This will be the thread for the collated US Open singles results. Do not reply to this thread. Post any results you have in the Grand Slam Project results thread, and I'll copy them in here.

1887 started September 27

Draw of 7


First Round

Ellen Hansell d. Jessie Harding 6-1 6-0
Helen Day Harris d. Louise Allerdice 6-3 6-5
Laura Knight d. Ruth Cott 6-0 6-3
Alice Janney bye

Semis
Hansell d. Harris 2-6 6-4 6-4
Knight d. Janney 6-0 6-1

Final
Hansell d. Knight 6-1 6-0

Townsend unable to play due to a death in her family.
*Note on Hansell-Harris semi: a different source has score 1-6 6-4 6-4-check the Philly Inquirer

June 11 to June 15
In Philadelphia, at Wissahicken. Holder Nellie Hansell "sits out" until the Challenge Round final. Draw of 9.
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First Round
Marion Wright d. Grace Roosevelt 6-2 6-3
Bertha Townsend d. Helen Day Harris 6-4 6-0
Violet Ward bye
Adeline Robinson d. Roberts 6-3 6-4
Ellie Roosevelt d. Miss Johnson 6-3 6-0

Second Round
Wright d. Ward 6-0 6-5
Robinson d. Ellen Roosevelt 6-4 3-6 6-3
Townsend bye

Semis
Townsend d. Robinson 1-6 6-5 6-3
Wright bye

Final
Townsend d. Wright 6-2 6-2

Challenge Round Final
Townsend d. Hansell 6-3 6-5
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Harris=Mrs. Alan Harris

Called the "third annual" event in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Bertha (the paper also calls her "Bertie") Townsend repels the New York invasion by downing the New Yorker Robinson in an exciting contest. After barely winning the second set at 6-5 a partisan crowd cheers her on to victory over a tiring opponent.

Sources indicate this was the first USTA santioned national women's title. The USTA later retroactively recognized the 1887 event.

There was also a doubles event played in 1888, but the USTA must not have made that official until 1889, for that year is listed as the first.

Unique features that are odd to our "modern" eyes are the 6-5 set scores and byes after the first round. Standard scoring of winning by 2 games and byes in round 1 only were still a couple of years away.

June 11 to June 15? at the Wissahicken Club in Philadelphia.

Draw of 8. Holder Bertha Townsend "sits out" until Challenge Final.
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First Round
Grace Roosevelt d. Marion Wright default
Helen Day Harris d. Rebecca Lycett 6-1 6-1
D.F. Butterfield d. Anne Cory Smith 6-3 6-1
Lida Voorhees d. Laura Knight 6-0 6-0

Semis
Harris d. Butterfield 6-1 6-3
Voorhees d. G. Roosevelt 6-1 4-6 6-5

All Comers Final
Voorhees d. Harris 6-5 2-6 6-3

Challenge Final
Bertha Townsend d. Voorhees 7-5 6-2

June 10 to June 14.
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In Philadelphia at Wissahickon Heights. Draw of 8.
First Round
Ellie Roosevelt d. D. Butterfield 6-0 6-0
Mabel Cahill(Ireland)d. Rebecca Lycett 6-1 6-1
Lida Voorhees d. F. Gregory 6-1 3-6 6-1
Margaret Ballard d. S. Day 6-2 6-1

Second Round
E. Roosevelt d.Cahill 2-6 6-5 3-2 retired
Voorhees d. Ballard 6-4 3-6 6-5

Final
E. Roosevelt d. Voorhees 6-3 6-1

Challenge Round Final
E. Roosevelt d. Bertha Townsend 6-2 6-2
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Ellie Roosevelt, a first cousin of the future President Franklin Roosevelt, becomes the first non-Philadelphian winner. For the final "nearly 2 thousand interested spectators" came to "watch the erractic bounding of felt-covered sphere". 'All have been compelled to confess that the late champion [Townsend] has not been playing nearly so well as last year of late".

Roosevelt kept up a steady reply while Bertha attempted "brilliant shots" that just missed their mark. Ellie raced out to a 5-0 lead in set two before the champ recoverd to win 2 games. "With 40 to love in her [Bertha's] favor it seemed that Dame Fortune would yet deign to smile on her, but, alas! in trying to return a hot one, put two balls in the net in quick succession. Miss Roosevelt then took a brace and finally won the set and the championship."

Early interest focused on Miss Cahill, who was visiting the US from Ireland. All admired "this plucky daughter of Erin" for playing despite doctor's orders not to because of an injured wrist. She came near to defeating Roosevelt in the semis but had to retire in the third set. Cahill's "manly play" was " a revelation to some spectators". Mabel got loads of applause for hitting spectacular volleys. After winning the first set Cahill tired. As the paper put it, "she gave unmistakable evidence of overtraining in the second set." Roosevelt "generously allowed her rival to rest several times, but it was all of no avail."

June 23 to 26. Draw of 9

*Holder E. Roosevelt "sits out" until the Challenge Round final.


Preliminary Round
Helen Day Harris d. F. K. Gregory 5-6 6-5 6-1

First Round
Adelaide Clarkson d. Emma Leavit Morgan 6-2 6-5
Grace Roosevelt d. Harris 3-6 6-3 6-4
Mabel Cahill(Ireland) d. Annabella Wistar 6-5 6-4
Lidia Voorhees d. Amy Williams 4-6 6-3 6-3

Semifinal
G. Roosevelt d. Clarkson 6-0 6-1
Cahill d. Voorhees 6-1 6-0

Final
Cahill d. G. Roosevelt 6-3 7-5

Challenge Round
Cahill d. E. Roosevelt 6-4 6-1 4-6 6-3
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Morgan=Mrs. Fellows Morgan.


Standards were still not in place for lawn tennis.

The crazy quilt draw featured a "preliminary round", with Grace Roosevelt getting a bye, then in the next round Cahill got a bye straight into the final. The idea of putting all byes in the first round to even out the draw wasn't yet in use. If contestants were tied at 5 games all the next game decided the set. Yet in the ladies doubles final the middle set was decided by an 8-6 score.

"A great crowd" watched the final match, "which was splendidly fought from start to finish, and every stroke was liberally applauded". Cahill attacked on her forehand with a "Lawford"-like stroke. (Lawford was a male champ who used a big topspin forehand).

June 21 to June 25.

Draw of 11. Holder Mabel Cahill sits out til challenge final.

Preliminary Round
Harriet Butler d. Amy Williams 6-2 6-1
Annabella Wistar d. Ethel Bankson 6-2 5-7 6-2
Augusta Schultz d. Elsie Donalson 6-1 3-6 6-3

First Round
Bessie Moore d. Lillie Slevin 6-0 6-0
Wistar d. Butler 6-4 2-6 8-6
Helen Day Harris d. Hattie Beaumont 6-2 4-6 6-2
Schultz d. Josephine White 6-1 6-1

Semis
Moore d. Wistar default
Harris d. Schultz 6-2 8-6

All Comers Final
Moore d. Harris 5-7 6-1 6-1

Challenge Final
Mabel Cahill d. Moore 5-7 6-3 6-4 4-6 6-2
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Reconstructed from the Philadelphia Inquirer and Bud Collins Ultimate Tennis Book.

1893 US Open

June 20-23 at Philadelphia.

Preliminary Round:
**Miss Kemble d. Amy R. Williams 4-6 14-12 8-6
Elizabeth "Bessie" Moore d. Emily Neff 6-0 6-1
**Miss Stone d. Mrs. Clement Beecroft 6-0 6-2

First Round:
Augusta L. "Alice" Schultz d. Hattie Butler 2-6 6-2 6-2
Annabella Wistar d. Colahan 6-1 6-2
Miss Bent d. Miss Hannis 6-2 7-5
*Underhill d. Bertha Townsend default

Aline Terry d. Miss White 6-2 6-2
Hattie Beaumont d. Helen Day Harris 6-3 6-2
Bessie Moore d. Ethel Bankson 3-6 6-3 8-6
*Helen Hellwig d. Elizabeth Slevin 6-2 6-0

Quarters:(listed in paper as "2nd Round")
Schultz d. Wistar 6-3 6-1
Underhill d. Bent 4-6 6-4 9-7
Terry d. Beaumont 6-2 6-0
Moore d.Hellwig 7-5 1-6 6-4

Semis:
Terry d. Moore 6-3 4-6 6-4
Schultz d. Underhill 6-2 3-6 6-0

Final:
Aline Terry d. Augusta Schultz 6-1 6-3

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Notes:

The draw is reconstructed from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Some oddities: Miss Stone and Miss Kemble (see **) are shown winning in the Prelim round, but not mentioned after. This is probably an error on the paper's part.

Also, first round matches marked * were actually listed in the paper as First round matches. If this was the case, then those women won a Prelim match and got byes in the next round. This is possible, as standards in draws, courts, and even balls were still being debated at the time.

Early doubles action is incomplete.

The Prelim match between Kemble-Williams set an early record for most games(in a 3 set match) at 50. The match lasted for over 4 hours.

Miss Terry won the cup for 1 year and an enamel laurel wreath pin. Miss schultz won a pair of opera glasses made of gold and pearl!

The ladies doubles winners got French traveling clocks, handy when playing away from home.

After the final, dinner was served at the club. In the evening "The grounds were illuminated by electric lights and Chinese lanterns ..."

The orchestra was stationed on the clubhouse porch and furnished the music. Dancing was indulged in all the evening and it was quite late when it was all over.

June 12 to June 16 at
Philadelphia. Draw of 11.
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*defending champ Aline Terry "sits out" until the
challenge round.

Preliminary Round
Helen Hellwig bye
Amy Williams d. White 6-2 6-2
Ethel Bankson d. Annabella Wistar 5-6 6-3 7-5
Hattie Beaumont d. Gertrude Kimball 2-6 6-3 6-2

Bertha Toulmin bye
Mrs. Clement Beecroft bye
Elizabeth Slevin bye
Juliette Atkinson bye
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First Round
Hellwig d. Williams 6-2 6-2
Bankson d. Beaumont 6-1 6-0
Toulmin d. Beecroft 6-1 6-0
Atkinson d. Slevin 6-1 6-1

Second Round
Hellwig d. Bankson 6-2 6-1
Toulmin d. Atkinson 4-6 7-5 6-4

Final
Hellwig d. Toulmin 6-2 6-5 6-4

Challenge Round
Hellwig d. Terry 7-5 3-6 6-0 3-6 6-3

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There are some oddities. What we would call the first round is called the "preliminary round".

The other strange thing are the 6-5 sets. Those are not typos. Yet the final indicates a score of 7-5.

Toulmin=Bertha Townsend.

Philadelphia-June 25 to 29.
Draw of 12.
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Holder Helen Hellwig sits out until Challenge Round final.

First Round
Juliette Atkinson d. Emily Neff default
Amy Williams bye
Kathleen Atkinson d. Gertrude Clarke 6-3 6-2
Mary Warren d. Alice Taylor 6-1 6-1

Bertha Toulmin bye
Elizabeth Taylor bye
Bessie Moore d. Ethel Bankson 6-2 6-1
Grace Booth d. Elizabeth Slevin 6-4 5-6 8-6
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Quarters
J. Atkinson d. Williams 6-0 6-4
K. Atkinson d. Warren 6-3 6-2
Toulmin d. Taylor 6-1 6-2
Moore d. Booth 6-0 6-2

Semis
J. Atkinson d. K. Atkinson 6-1 6-4
Moore d. Toulmin 6-4 6-4

Final
J.Atkinson d. Moore 6-3 7-5 3-6 6-0

Challenge Round
J. Atkinson d. Hellwig 6-4 6-3 6-2
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Two singles rounds were contested on opening day.

1896

June 17 to 20. Draw of 13

*Champ Juliet Atkinson "Sits out" until Challenge Round.

First Round
Bessie Moore d. Helen Field 6-0 6-1
Amy Willaims d. Clement Beecroft 6-2 6-4
Annabella Wistar d. Margarite Sayen 6-1 6-1
Grace Booth d. Laura Henson 5-6 6-3 6-0
Edith Rotch d. Maud Banks 6-5 6-1

Quarters
Moore d. Williams 6-4 6-5
Gertrude Kimball d. Kathleen Atkinson 6-5 6-1
Wistar d. G.Booth 6-2 6-1
Rotch d. Helen Booth 6-3 6-2

Semis
Moore d. Kimball 6-3 6-1
Wistar d. Rotch 6-4 6-2

Allcomers Final
Moore d. Wistar 6-3 7-5 6-0

Challenge Round Final
Moore d. Juliet Atkinson 6-4 4-6 6-2 6-2

Moore is the champ in a year when bicycle tennis was the latest (and short lived) fad and double faults were called "double baulks".

June 15-19, Philadelphia, PA

1st round
Juliet Atkinson d. Marie Wimer 8-6 6-3
Maud Banks d. Edith Rotch 6-2 2-6 6-2
Kate Atkinson bye
Hattie Beaumont bye

Edith Kenderine bye
Ellen Ketcham d. Elizabeth Rastall 4-6 6-1 6-3
Carrie B. Neely bye
Mrs. Frank Edwards bye
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Quarters
J.Atkinson d. Banks 6-1 4-6 6-1
K.Atkinson d. Beaumont 6-4 6-0
Kenderine d. Ketcham 6-2 4-6 8-6
Neely d. Edwards 6-2 6-1
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Semis
J.Atkinson d. K.Atkinson 6-1 6-3
Kenderine d. Neely 7-5 2-6 6-0
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Final
J.Atkinson d. Kenderine 6-2 4-6 6-0

Challenger Final
J.Atkinson d. Elizabeth Moore*** 6-3 6-3 4-6 3-6 6-3
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***Elizabeth "Bessie" Moore received a bye to the Challenger final as the title holder (1896).
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Notes:
Still a local affair, with the women listed with the clubs they represent! Carrie Neely is the one non-local, coming form Chicago. In 1998 the eastern women will face the first "Western" invasion, when Marion Jones comes east to vie for the title.

All the participants had a sit down dinner after the ladies final. Fresh lemonade inside the clubhouse kept spectators cool.

The local paper noted on day 3 that "all day carriages and buggies were coming to and fro the tennis festivities".

June 14 to 18. Draw of 11

Preliminary Round
Carrie Neely bye
Helen Chapman bye
Marion Jones d. Helen Wriggins 6-1 6-3
Kathleen Atkinson bye

Helen Crump d. Elsie Malone 6-0 6-0
Maud Banks d. Rebecca Lycett default
Elizabeth Tostall bye
Marie Wimer bye

First Round
Neely d. Chapman 6-3 6-2
M. Jones d. K. Atkinson 6-4 6-3
Crump d. Banks 6-1 6-3
Wimer d. Tostall 6-1 6-0

Semis
M. Jones d. Neely 6-0 6-0
Crump d. Wimer 6-3 2-6 10-8

Final
M. Jones d. Crump 6-4 7-5 6-4

Challenge Round
Juliette Atkinson d. M. Jones 6-3 5-7 6-4 2-6 7-5
(*5mps)
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The NYT also calls Wiemer "Wirmer" more than once.
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The final was a thriller. Atkinson saves a record 5 match points!

A Tennis Battle That Was Royal
Championship play breaks a record for stubborness and quality Miss Atkinson Wins--Successfully defends her cup against Miss Jones--Latter meets with misfortunes.

Miss Juliet Atkinson is again lawn tennis champion of the women players of the United States. Good luck, superior physical condition and hard, nervy play enabled her to win yesterday at the Philadelphia Cricket Club grounds. Miss Marion Jones is the daughter of Senator Jones of Nevada.

This is a total of 26 games for Miss Atkinson and 25 games for Miss Jones. The point total was 185 points for Miss Jones to 177 for Miss Atkinson.

It can be safely said that none of the previous 11 women's contests (from 1887) was there such an exciting finish. To show the grand excitement of the contest and to tell why the crowded grand stand remained nearly filled until long after the dinner hour, it is but necessary to explain the score in the deciding moments.

Each of the plucky girls had won two sets,and in the 5th and deciding set the score stood :Miss Jones 5, Miss Atkinson 3. All Miss Jones had to do was win the set on hand. In it the score was 40 to 30 in her favor. All she needed was one point to win the game, set, match, and united States championship. Just one little point, and here is where Miss Jones' misfortunes commenced.

In the rally Miss Atkinson returned and the ball struck a ball not in play, lying in Miss Jones' court owing to the negligence of the umpires. The ball in play glanced off and shot along the ground, so that Miss Jones could not return it. This made the game "deuce" and Miss Atkinson won out.

This brought the score in games to 5 to 4 in Miss Jones' favor. Still she had the better chance. Four times in this set she needed but a point to win,and yet she never got it, Miss Atkinson "deucing" it and eventually scoring the two consecutive points. Once Miss Jones had "vantage" and neaded but a point. Miss Atkinson's return went outside of the court and and the match then and there belonged to Miss Jones, but the umpire on that line failed to do his duty and decided, contrary to the fact, that the ball was in. This decision alone cost Miss Jones the match. This little Westerner deserves unlimited praise for her splendid showing in this, her first appearance in a US championship match without the age and experience of her opponent, lacking her physical condition and having been unwell for several days, she all but defeated a champion twice.

As to the quality of play, it was the best that has ever been put up at these tounaments. The rallies were often long and spirited and both played well and made some splendid strokes. Miss Atkinson went up to the net oftener and was very effective, but the game was distinctly a back court struggle. Both used a well-judged, hard, low fore-hand stroke with good effect,and did some remarkablt clever back hand work as well. As the club's poet, Mr. "Cliff" Patterson, put it:

Good shots on both sides followed fast
But some one had to yield at last.

One thing that told very material in Miss Atkinson's favor was physique. To use a masculine athletic term of condition, "She was hard as nails". She is light and very active and this enabled her to cover more ground than Miss Jones, whose stocky stature and weight were no inconsiderable handicap.

June 21 to 24.
*Atkinson does not defend her title. Draw of 15
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First Round
Maud Banks d. Bessie Rastall 6-2 6-3
Myrtle McAteer d. D. H. Rastall 6-0 6-4
Carrie Neely d. Ethel Steel 6-0 6-0
Georgina Jones d. Rachel Harlan default

Marion Jones d. R. Lycett 6-1 6-4
Hallie Champlin d. Helen Huey 7-5 6-2
Edith Parker d. Helen Chaplin 6-0 10-8
JaneCraven bye

Quarters
Banks d. McAteer 7-5 7-5
Neely d. G. Jones 6-2 6-2
M. Jones d. Champlin 6-1 6-2
Craven d. E. Parker 7-5 3-6 6-1

Semis
Banks d. Neely 6-3 4-6 6-1
M. Jones d. Craven 6-1 6-0

Final
M. Jones d. Banks 6-1 6-1 7-5

June 19-23 at Philadelphia.

Draw of 16.

*Defender Marion Jones does not defend as she is overseas competing ib the Olympics and Wimbledon.

First Round
Huldah J. Steel d. Crowinshield default
Dorothy Morris d. Bessie Rastall 2-6 6-3 6-2
Hallie Champlin d. Rebecca Lycett 6-1 6-4
Edith Parker d. Helen Huey 6-1 6-4

Marie Wimer d. Isabel Shaw 7-5 6-3
Myrtle McAteer d. Rachel Harland 6-2 6-1
Maud Banks d. D. Rastall 6-1 6-0
Margaret Hunnewell d. Ethel Steel 6-1 6-0

Quarters
Morris d. H. Steel 6-2 4-6 7-5
Parker d. Champlin 8-6 6-2
McAteer d. Wimer 6-3 6-3
Banks d. Hunnewell 6-3 3-6 6-3

Semis
Parker d. Morris 6-0 6-2
McAteer d. Banks 6-4 7-5

Final
McAteer d. Parker 6-2 6-0 6-0

Doubles

First Round

M. Banks/Rastall bye
McAteer/Wimer d. B. Banks/H. Steel 6-2 6-1
Champlin/Parker d. Lycett/Morris ????
Champlain/Hunnewell bye

Semis
McAteer/Wimer d. Banks/Rastall 6-3 4-6 6-4
Champlin/Parker d. Champlain/Hunnewell 6-4 3-6 6-2

Final
Champlin/Parker d. McAteer/Wimer 9-7 6-2 6-2.

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Interest was not at a peak owing to the absence of Jones and Atkinson.
The local paper maintains that the recent popularity of golf as a women's sport is partly to blame.

On day one the specatators barely outnumbered the players.

A capacity crowd shows for the final where Parker won the first two games only to drop 18 straight! Parker won 32 points in the whole match.

All 16 contestants were single.



Bessie Rastall also listed as "Elizabeth".

At Philadelphia, June 25 to 29.
*Holder McAteer "sits out" until the Challenge Round.

Preliminary Round
Bessie Moore d. Rachel Harlan 6-3 6-1
Carrie Neely d. Jean Clarke 3-6 6-3 6-0
Juliette Atkinson bye
Helen Huey bye

Emma Warren bye
Georgina Jones bye
Helen Dillingham bye
Marion Jones d. D. Rastall 6-2 6-1

First Round
Moore d. Neely 6-3 6-1
Atkinson d. Huey 6-2 6-4
Warren d. G. Jones 7-5 6-4
M. Jones d. Dillingham default

Semis
Moore d. Atkinson 6-2 9-7
M. Jones d. Warren 6-1 6-2

All Comer's Final
Moore d. Jones 4-6 1-6 9-7* 9-7 6-3

Challenge Round Final
Moore d. Myrtle McAteer 6-4 3-6 7-5 2-6 6-2
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Bessie Moore survived two grueling matches to win the national title. In the final she fought back from two sets down and match point at 6-7 to defeat Atkinson. In the 5th set both women were exhausted to the point of leaning on their racquets. After 58 Moore had passed her first trial. It was on to the Challenge Round to face defending champ McAteer.

Normally Bessie would have have no problems with McAteer, but the long semi had drained her of energy. "With general humidity out in full force" for the Challenge round. Though "taxed to the upmost", Moore prevailed after 47 games. Utterly spent by playing 105 games in two matches, she defaulted the doubles final. Concerns over the ladies health prompted the USTA to ban 3 of 5 set finals soon after, despite the wishes of most of the women.

US Nationals Ending June 24.

Draw of 16.


*Defender Bessie Moore "sits out" until Challenge Round.

First Round
Clara Chase d. Huldah Steel 6-1 6-4
Juliet Atkinson d. Mary Lamb 6-2 6-0
Carrie Neely d. Ida Kitchen 6-0 6-2
Nona Closterman d. Maud Haldeman 6-2 6-0

Helen Chapman d. Virginia Maule 6-1 6-2
Mrs. M.R. Fielding d. Helen Green 6-3 8-6
Marion Jones d. Beatrice Banks 6-1 6-2
Marie Wimer d. Maud Banks 6-4 9-7

Quarters
Atkinson d. Chase 6-1 6-3
Neely d. Closterman 6-2 6-0
Chapman d. Fielding 6-4 3-6 7-5
Jones d. Wimer 6-4 6-0.

Semis
Neely d. Atkinson 8-6 3-6 6-2
Jones d. Chapman 6-1 6-0.

All-Comers Final
Jones d. Neely 8-6 6-4

Challenge Round Final
Jones d. Bessie Moore 6-1 1-0 retired.

Doubles

First Round
Atkinson/M.Jones d. Chapman/Rastall 6-1 6-1
Steel/Wimer d. Howell/Mock 6-1 6-0
M. Banks/Closterman d. B. Banks/G. Jones 6-1 6-3
Moore/Neely d. Haldeman/McClue 6-0 6-2

Semis
Atkinson/M.Jones d. Steel/Wimer 6-2 6-3
M.Banks/Closterman d. Moore/Neely 6-2 ??

Final
Atkinson/M. Jones d. M.Banks/Closterman 6-2 7-5

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*Note: Get pics from local paper. They are fantastic! The first year of full page photos rather than artists sketches.

With all the previous winners of the past 5 years entered interest ran high. The semis seeing the latgest crowd ever. People got so out of hand "and interfered to such an extent that the benches" were removed from beside the court. The USTA unilaterally decides to stop the tradition of 3 of 5 set finals for the owmen. The paper notes that, "the cholder of the title was not even consulted on the subject." The women mount a petition that "even hinted that one person alone" was resposible for the change, but the petiton was ignored.

Could the "one person" have been Westerner Marion Jones? The irony was in the final Besie Moore fainted in the second set, something that never had happened in longer matches. Jones gallantly refused to accept a retirement and proposed putting the match of. When Moore was still unwell after a couple of days Jones was declared the champion.

1903 At Wissahickon

June 24 to 27.

*Need to see Philly Inquirer.
*Holder Marion Jones "sits out" until the Challenge Round.


First Round
Elizabeth Moore d. Miriam Hall 6-1 6-3
Marjorie Oberteuffer d. Gertrude Fetterman 6-2 6-3
Helen Chapman d. Corrine Mack 6-1 8-6
Carrie Neely d. Clara T. Chase 6-0 6-1

Semis
Moore d. Oberteuffer 6-0 6-0
Neely d. Chapman 6-0 6-1

All Comers Final
Moore d. Neely 6-2 6-4

Challenge Round Final
Moore d. Marion Jones 7-5 8-6

In Philadelphia, June 21 to 25.
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*Holder Elizabeth "Bessie" Moore "sits out" until the final.
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Preliminary Round
Miss M. Roberts d. Miss Dubring 7-5 6-2


First Round
Helen Homans d. Mrs. W. G. Fischer 6-2 6-0
Carrie Neely d. Margaret Le Roy 6-2 6-0
Miriam Hall d. M .Roberts 6-1 6-1
Marie Wimer d. L. Denegre default

Clara T. Chase d. A. E. Wallace 6-1 2-6 6-4
Sarh Coffin d. H. Rodgers 6-2 6-1
Frances Stotesbury d. Gertrude Fetterman 10-8 6-3
May Sutton d. Evelyn Howell 6-2 6-1

Second Round
Homans d. Neely 7-5 11-9
Hall d. Wimer 6-3 6-2
Coffin d. Chase 6-3 6-2
Sutton d. Stotesbury 6-1 6-0

Semis
Homans d. Hall 6-4 6-3
Sutton d. Coffin 6-1 6-0

All Comer's Final
Sutton d. Homans 6-1 6-1

Challenge Round Final
Sutton d. Elizabeth Moore 6-1 6-2

At Philadelphia-June 20 to 24
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Holder May Sutton does not defend, as she is competing at Wimbledon.
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Preliminary Round
Mrs. Clarence Hobart d. Eleonor Cohen 6-4 6-0
Mrs. Benjamin Coates d. Helen Rodgers 6-1 6-1

First Round
Elizabeth Moore d. Mrs. C. Hobart 6-1 6-1
Carrie Neely d. Katharine Morris 6-0 6-1
Margaret Le Roy d. Virginia Maule 6-2 6-2
Clara Chase d. Helen Hodge 6-4 6-1

Mrs. C. Wainwright bye
Helen Homans d. Gertrude Fetterman 8-6 6-0
Evelyn Howell d. Marie Wimer 6-1 7-9 6-2
Mrs. Benjamin Coates d. Lucy Duhring 6-1 6-1

Second Round
Moore d. Neely 4-6 6-1 6-2
Le Roy d. Chase 6-3 8-10 6-1
Homans d. Wainwright default
Coates d. Howell 6-2 7-5

Semis
Moore d. Le Roy 6-1 6-3
Homans d. Coates 6-1 6-0

Final
Moore d. Homans 6-4 5-7 6-1

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Moore sets a record at that time with her 4th national title.

June 19-25

*Defending champ Bessie Moore does not defend.

Singles

Preliminary Round
E. V. Maule d. Lena Duhring default
Gertrude Fetterman d. Helen Kimball 6-3 7-5 6-3 (correct?)


First Round
Helen Homans d. Lucy Duhring 6-0 6-1
Lily Newhall d. Elizabeth Ostheimer 6-3 6-4
Rachel Harlan d. E. Clement 6-0 6-2
Marjorie Oberteuffer d. Miss Rudderow default

Clover Boldt d. Claire Kulp 6-1 6-0
Clara Chase d. M. Potter 6-1 6-0
Edith Rotch d. Myriam Clements 6-1 6-0
Virginia Maule d. Elizabeth Taylor 7-5 6-4

Gertrude Fetterman d. Greta Lewis 6-2 6-3
Blanche Chaveau d. Sarah Coffin default
Bertha Toulmin d. Helen Rodgers default
Matilda Borda d. Louise Ostheimer 6-0 6-0

Maude Barger-Wallach d. Mrs. H. W. Lewis 6-1 6-1
Margaret Johnson d. Mrs. Benjamin Choates 6-1 6-2
Gray Werner d. Nellie Ostheimer 6-1 6-4
Anita McCall d. Elsie Ross 6-4 6-3
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Second Round
Homans d. Newhall 6-1 6-1
Harlan d. Oberteuffer 6-3 6-2
Boldt d. Chase 6-3 7-5
Rotch d. Maule 6-4 6-1

Fetterman d. Chaveau 6-1 6-1
Toulmin d. Borda 6-2 2-6 6-3
Barger-Wallach d. Johnson 6-4 6-2
McCall d. Werner 2-6 6-3 8-6
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Quarters
Homans d. Harlan 4-6 6-4 6-4
Rotch d. Boldt 6-1 4-6 6-0
Toulmin d. Fetterman 6-1 6-2
Barger-Wallach d. McCall 6-1 6-0

Semis
Homans d. Rotch 6-2 6-3
Barger-Wallach d. Toulmin 6-2 6-3

Final
Homans d. Barger-Wallach 6-4 6-3.
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Defending champ Bessie Moore and the tennis sensation May Sutton are both absent, dimming much interest. All eyes are on Sutton as she competes in England for the coveted Wimbledon prize.

1907 US Open

June 26 to July 2 at Philadelphia.

Draw of 40.

First Round
Agnes Groome d. Miss Hodge 6-2 6-2
Marie Weimer d. Claire Kulp 6-3 6-1
Mrs. Thomas Elwyn d. Gertrude Fetterman default
Phyllis Green d. Matilda Borda 7-5 6-4

Edna Wildey d. Caroline Clothier 6-2 6-0
Mildred Wildey d. Marie Disston 6-4 6-4
Rachel Harlan d. Lucy Disston 6-3 6-4
Margaret Roberts d. Miss Duhring 6-4 6-4
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Second Round
Elizabeth G. Ostheimer d. Martha Groome 6-2 7-5
Nellie Ostheimer d. Miss Hopkins 6-3 7-5
Evelyn Sears d. Gertrude Ostheimer 6-0 6-1
Marie Wagner d. Catherine Macfadden 6-3 6-0

Mrs. G. L. Chapman d. Mrs. William Clothier 6-0 6-1
Clara Chase d. Natalie Wildey 3-6 8-6 7-5
Marie Wimer d. Agnes Groome 6-2 6-2
Phyllis Green d. Mrs. Thomas Elwyn 6-2 6-0

Emily Scott d. Miss N. Williams 6-2 6-2
Margaret Leroy d. Mary Sears default
Helen Pouch d. Miss Lewis 6-1 6-0
Mary Coates d. Miss Thompson 6-3 6-0

Edna Wildey d. Mildred Wildey 6-2 6-1
Rachel Harlan d. Margaret Roberts 6-1 6-4
Maud Barger-Wallach d. Helen Rodgers 6-2 6-0
Carrie Neely d. Louise Ostheimer 6-3 6-1
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Third Round
E. Ostheimer d. N. Ostheimer 6-2 6-1
Sears d. Wagner 6-2 6-4
Chapman d. Chase 6-3 6-3
Green d. Weimer 4-6 6-4 6-2

Scott d. Leroy 6-3 6-1
Pouch d. Coates 6-2 6-4
Harlan d. E. Wildey 6-4 6-2
Neely d. Barger-Wallach 6-2 8-10 6-4
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Quarters
Sears d. E.G. Ostheimer 6-1 6-1
Chapman d. Green 6-2 6-0
Pouch d. Scott 6-4 6-2
Neely d. Harlan 2-6 6-4 6-3

Semis
Sears d. Chapman 6-2 6-1
Neely d. Pouch 8-6 7-5

Final
Sears d. Neely 6-3 6-2
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Notes:
All the women were from the east except for Carrie Neely of Cincinnatii. The best American female, May Sutton, is competing at Wimbledon. Bostonian feminist and socialite Evelyn Sears wins.

Evelyn had a tough time with frail Newport socialite Maud Barger-Wallach, who took the second set 10-8. Maud got cramps and play was stopped "til she recovered", but Evelyn won through. Maud won the title in 1908 and often played with her doctor present courtside!

In Philadelphia. June 22 to 27. Draw of 57.
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*Holder Evelyn Sears "sits out" until the Challenge Round.
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Missing results from June 24 and 22nd. As a consequence there is no draw order to results.

First Round
Mary Coates d. Mrs. C. R. Wainwright 4-6 6-3 6-1
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Second Round
Helen Pouch d. Erna Marcas 6-3 6-1
Louise Hammond d. Mrs. W. H. McCarthy 2-6 6-1 6-3
Edith Rotch d. E. P. Ross 6-0 6-1
Mrs. A. G. Miles d. Clare Johnson 6-1 7-5
Matilda Borda d. Margaret Curtis 2-6 6-3 6-3
Maud Barger-Wallach d. Emily Scott 6-2 6-3
Natalie Wildey d. Coates 1-6 6-2 6-3
Edna Wildey d. Elsie Little 10-8 6-3
Margaret Johnson d. Miriam Stoever 6-4 7-9 6-4
Margaret LeRoy d. Esther Smith 6-2 0-6 6-3
Eleanor Cohen d. C. W. Bumstead 7-5 1-0 ret.
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Third Round
Barger-Wallach d.
Borda
Rotch d.
Pouch d. L. Ostheimer 6-3 7-5

M. Johnson d.
Cohen
Wagner d. Swords 6-2 6-1
Neely

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Quarters
Barger-Wallach d. Borda 6-3 6-2
Rotch d. Pouch 2-6 7-5 6-1
M. Johnson d. Cohen 8-6 6-2
Wagner d. Neely 6-4 4-6 7-5

Semis
Barger-Wallach d. Rotch 6-2 6-4
Wagner d. M. Johnson 7-5 6-2

All Comer's Final
Barger-Wallach d. Wagner 4-6 6-1 6-3

Challege Round
Barger-Wallach d. Evelyn Sears 6-2 1-6 6-3
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Draw notes:
Pouch = ???? champ
Steever of the doubles is almost certainly Stoever of the singles draw, with one of those merely a misspelling.

1909 June 21-26

Entry not as large as in 1908-no preliminary round. On the first day the first two rounds were played.

*Holder Maud Bargar-Wallach "sits out" until challenge round.
Quarters equal the 3rd round

Edith Reese (??) holder of the mixed.

First Round
Gwendolyn Reese d. Marie Wagner (Wagner won second set and retired in the third)

Second Round
??? d. G. Reese
Hotchkiss d. Mrs. Pouch ?? (Could be first round)

Quarters
Hazel Hotchkiss d. Emily Scott 6-3 6-0
Edith Rotch d. Alice Day 6-1 6-0
Louise Hammond d. Gwendolyn Rees 6-4 6-1
Lois Moyes (Canada) d. Margaret Roberts 6-1 8-6

Semis
Hotchkiss d. Rotch 6-2 7-5
Hammond d. Moyes 6-2 7-5

All Comers Final
Hotchkiss d. Hammond 6-8 6-1 6-4

Challenge Round Final
Hotchkiss d. Maud Barger-Wallach 6-0 6-1.

Hazel lost only 6 points in the first set.

June 20 to 25.

Lois Moyes was Canadian.

Draw of 28 plus defender Miss Hotchkiss, who sat out until the challenge round.

First Round
Carrie Neely bye
Miss C. Cassels bye
Louise Hammond d. Miss. M. Sattersfield 6-2 6-1
Helen Pouch d. Mrs. W. Fischer ?????

Constance Evans Sullivan d. Lillie Cheston 6-0 6-3
Lucy Disston d. Caroline Stokes 6-1 6-1
Edith Rotch d. Dorothy Disston 6-2 6-2
Elizabeth Ostheimer d. Miss Meredith 6-4 6-0

Clara Chase d. M. Merrick 7-5 6-3
Edna Wildey d. H. E. Mills 6-2 6-1
Mrs. C. K. Oliphant d. B. Chanveau 6-2 6-2
Lois Moyes (Canada) d. Nellie Ostheimer 6-2 6-2

Mrs. Drexel Paul d. M . Pilling 6-1 6-0
Adelaide Browning d. B. Morgan 6-3 6-0
Dorothy Green bye
Helen Alexander bye

Second Round
Neely d. Cassels 6-1 6-1
Hammond d. Pouch 6-1 6-3
Sullivan d. L. Disston 6-2 4-6 6-0
Rotch d. E. G. Ostheimer 6-2 6-2
E. Wildey d. Chase default
Moyes d. Oliphant 6-0 6-2
Browning d. Paul 7-5 6-2
Green d. Alexander 6-2 6-4

Quarters
Hammond d. Neely 6-1 8-6
Rotch d. Sullivan 6-2 6-4
E. Wildey d. Moyes 6-3 6-4
Browning d. Green 3-6 6-3 6-2

Semis
Hammond d. Rotch 7-5 6-2
Browning d. E. Wildey 6-1 6-4

All Comers Final
Hammond d. Browning 6-2 6-4

Challenge Round
Hazel Hotchkiss d. Hammond 6-4 6-2
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Notes:
American Lawn Tennis reported that there was "a lowering of class" as "many contenders of former years" were absent, especially May Sutton, who entered the Canadian singles then went back to California. Also missing were the 1907 and 1908 champs Evelyn Sears and Maud Barger-Wallach.

Hazel plays "essentailly a man's game". She quickly overcame her finals opponent, the match lasting 34 minutes!
In the ladies doubles the most excitement came in the quaters, where Green, who "played brilliantly at the barrier(net)" and Candian moyes, with her many aces, gave the champs a real fight.

Miss Moyes the first ever Canadian to make a slam quarterfinal.
Hazel Hotchkiss=Hazel Wightman.
Mrs. Pouch =1984 champ Helen Helwig
Hammond later married as Mrs. Raymond.

June ?? to 17. At Philadelphia. Draw of 40.

*Holder Hazel Hotchkiss "sits out" until the challenge round final.

Preliminary Round
Helen Alexander d. Maud Barger-Wallach default
Elizabeth Keen d. Marion Cresswell default
Elizabeth Fox d. Mrs. Robert Pope 6-1 7-5
Edith Handy d. Gertrude Ostheimer 6-3 6-1
Lily Cheston d. Edith Rotch default
Nellie Ostheimer d. Marie Disston 6-4 6-1
Florence Sutton d. Dorothy Green 6-1 6-2
Edith Bunce d. Barbara Fleming 6-3 6-3

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First Round

Clara Chase d. Teresa Kuser 4-6 6-2 7-5
Mrs. Wallington Hardy d. Efiie Wheeler default
Eliabeth Ostheimer d. Clare Cassell 8-6 6-1
Eleanora Sears d. Edith Katzenburg 6-1 6-0

Mrs. Gilbert Harvey d. Margaret Roberts 6-2 6-1
Mrs. Joseph Warren d. Dorothy Disston 6-3 6-4
Alexander d. Keen 7-5 4-6 7-5
Fox d. Handy 5-7 8-6 6-1

Cheston d. N. Ostheimer 4-6 6-1 6-3
F. Sutton d. Bunce 6-0 6-1
Edna Wildey d. Clara Kutroff 6-2 6-4
Agnes Hutchinson d. Margaret Tottersfield 6-2 6-0

Emily Bradbury d. Carrie Neely default
Adelaide Browning d. Lois Moyes (Canada) 6-3 6-4
Marie Wagner d. Beatrice Morgan 6-1 6-3
O. D. Oliphant d. Hannah Wright 6-1 6-3


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Second Round

Hardy d. Chase 11-9 6-1
El. Sears d. E. Ostheimer 6-2 6-1
Warren d. Harvey 6-3 4-6 6-0
Handy d. Alexander 6-4 6-4

F. Sutton d. Cheston 6-0 6-4
Wildey d. Hutchinson 6-3 6-3
Browning d. Bradbury 6-0 6-3
Wagner d. Oliphant 6-2 6-1

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Quarters
El. Sears d. Hardy 6-2 6-2
Warren d. Handy 3-6 6-2 6-3
F. Sutton d. Wildey 6-1 6-3
Browning d. Wagner 6-3 3-6 6-2

Semis
F. Sutton d. Browning 6-3 6-2
El. Sears d. Warren 6-1 6-3

Final
F. Sutton d. El. Sears 6-2 6-1

Challenge Round
Hazel Hotchkiss d. F. Sutton 8-10 6-1 9-7

June 10 to 15 at Philadelphia. Draw of 35.

*Hazel Hotchkiss does not defend her title.
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Preliminary Round
Whitling d. Charlotte Cheston 6-3 6-2
Dorothy Green d. Mrs. Conserse 6-1 6-0
Eleanora Sears d. Nellie Ostheimer 6-1 6-0

First Round
Adelaide Browning d. Marion Cresswell 6-3 6-2
Helen Pouch d. E. Katzenburg 6-0 5-7 6-1
Augusta Schmitz d. Gertrude Hollis 6-2 6-3
Mrs. Clothier d. Miss Walbridge default

Maud Barger-Wallach d. Lola Seeds 6-1 7-5
Mary Browne d. Eliza Fox 6-2 6-3
Marian Fenno d. Clara Chase 6-2 4-6 6-1
Green d. Whiting 6-2 6-2

El. Sears d. Dorothy Disston default
Mrs. Wainwright d. Christine Biddle 9-7 6-3
Helen Alexander d. Elizabeth Meehan 6-1 6-1
Elizabeth Ostheimer d. May Cayres 6-4 6-4

Effie Wheeler d. Mrs. C. A. Adams 7-5 0-6 6-4
A. Hensel d. Rachel Lotta 6-1 6-0
Mary Merrick d. Marianne Biddle 6-3 6-1
Louise Riddell Williams d. Miss E. Henzel 6-4 6-2

Second Round

Browne d. Barger-Wallach default
Fenno d. Green 6-3 4-6 6-3
Browning d. Pouch 6-4 6-3
Schmitz d. Clothier 6-0 6-0

El. Sears d. Wainwright 6-0 6-3
Alexander d. E. Ostheimer 3-6 7-5 6-4
Wheeler d. A. Hensel 8-6 4-6 7-5
Merrick d. Williams 6-4 6-2

Quarters
Browne d. Fenno 6-0 6-4
Browning d. Schmitz 6-1 10-8
El. Sears d. Alexander 6-2 6-2
Merrick d. Wheeler default

Semis
Browne d. Browning 6-4 3-6 9-7
El. Sears d. Merrick 5-7 6-0 6-2

Final
Browne d. El. Sears 6-4 6-2

1913 June 8-??

Draw of 36.

Need NYT or Philly Inquirer for first names.
Taken from Spaldings Official Lawn tennis Annual for 1914
Holder Mary Browne "sits out" until Challenge Round.

First Round
F. Kerbaugh d. Miss Thompson 8-6 6-2
Mrs. Gilbert Harvey d. Miss Allison 6-0 6-2
Dorothy Green d. Miss White 6-3 6-2
Miss Collins d. Miss Patterson 6-2 0-6 7-5

Second Round
M. Cresswell d. Miss Hopkins 6-0 6-0
Miss Talman d. M. Toedt 3-6 6-0 6-2
Edna Wildey d. Miss Hollis 6-0 6-2
Dorothy Disston d. Mrs. C. R. Wainwright 3-6 6-3 6-4
Mrs. Drexel Paul d. Miss Katzenburg 6-3 6-1
M. Williams d. Miss Ross 6-1 6-2
Harvey d. Kerbaugh 6-0 6-1
E. Carey d. S. Hermann 8-6 6-4
Green d. Collins 6-2 6-1
Miss Henry d. L Disston 6-4 8-6
Mrs. Herold d. Miss Porcher 6-2 6-1
Miss Thayer d. A. C. Kennedy 6-3 6-3
J. Alexander d. C. Biddle 6-1 6-1
C. Chase d. Miss Harrington 6-2 6-4
Mrs. Robert Williams d. Miss Law 6-2 6-1
E. Clark d. Miss Welsh 6-4 7-5

Third Round
Cresswell d. Talman 6-2 6-2
Wildey d. Disston 6-1 6-1
Paul d. Williams 6-3 6-3
Harvey d. Carey w/o
Green d. Henry 6-3 6-0
Herold d. Thayer 16-14 6-2
Alexander d. Chase 6-2 7-5
Williams d. Clark 6-2 8-6

Quarters
Edna Wildey d. Marion Cresswell 6-0 6-2
Mrs. H.J.D. Paul d. Flora Brown Harvey 2-6 6-3 7-5
Dorothy Green d. Mrs. Robert Herold 6-4 6-2
Louise Riddell Williams d. Helen Alexander 6-0 4-6 6-2

Semis
Wildey d. Paul 6-1 6-2
Green d. Williams 7-5 6-3

All Comers Final
Green d. Wildey 6-3 6-4

Challenge Round Final
Mary Browne d. Green 6-2 7-5.

Results courtesy of Andrew Tas:)

1914

Taken from Spaldings Lawn Tennis Annual 1915
Thank to Andrew Tas for the results!:)

At Philadelphia, June 8-


First Round
Molly Thayer d. Gertrude H Henry 62 46 60
Alberta Webber d. CT Chase 63 75
Mrs Louise Raymond d. Dorothy Disston 6-0 6-2
Mrs Constance Evans Sullivan d. K Brinton 61 63
Barbara Lewis d. CC Walbridge 26 75 62
ME Wilcox d. Elizabeth Henry 63 26 63
Mrs Theodore Cassebeer d. Eliza Fox 75 60
Isabel Pendleton d. Miss Williams 6-1 6-1
Sarah Neilson d. Adelaide Collins 3-6 6-3 6-1
Susanne White d. Edna Wildey wo
Mrs Forrest Keybaugh d. Elizabeth Ostheimer 8-6 4-6 6-2
Mary Coates d. Lucy B Duhring 6-2 6-3
Margerette Myers d. EH Katzenburg 6-3 6-4

Second Round
Marie Wagner d. Theresa R Kuser 6-3 6-1
Mrs Harrison Smith d. Lily Cheston 6-4 6-0
Carrie Neely d. Mrs Robert Herold 6-2 6-4
Eleanor Hopkins d. Mildred Patton 6-0 6-8 6-1
Thayer d. Elizabeth Smucker 6-2 6-1
Raymond d. Webber 6-0 6-0
Sullivan d. Lewis 6-1 6-2
Cassebeer d. Wilcox wo
Pendleton d. Neilson 6-0 6-0
White d. Keybaugh 6-4 4-6 6-2
Myers d. Coates 6-0 6-1
Hannah P Wright d. Helen Alexander 13-11 7-5
Ann W Sheafe d. Angela Douglas 6-2 6-4
Mrs Robert Williams d. Mrs CN Beard 6-2 5-7 9-7
Eleanor Carey d. Florence A Ballin wo
Clare Cassel d. Elise Hopkins wo


Third Round
Wagner d. Mrs Smith 6-2 6-2
Neely d. Hopkins 6-1 6-0
Raymond d. Thayer 6-1 6-8 6-0
Sullivan d. Cassebeer 8-6 6-4
Pendleton d. White 6-3 6-1
Myers d. Wright 6-3 6-1
Sheafe d. Williams 8-6 6-3
Cassel d. Carey 7-5 6-4


Quarters
Wagner d. Neely 6-2 6-3
Raymond d. Sullivan 4-6 6-2 6-1
Pendleton d. Myers 6-2 6-1
Cassel d. Sheafe 4-6 6-4 6-1

Semis
Wagner d. Raymond 6-4 6-4
Cassel d. Pendleton 6-2 6-1

All Comers Final
Wagner d. Cassel 6-1 7-5

Challenge Round Final
Mary Browne d. Wagner 6-2 1-6 6-1

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Raymond=married name of Louise Hammond.

At Philadelphia. June 7 to 12?.

*Holder Mary Browne did not defend title.
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Preliminary Round
Marion Vanderhoef d. E. Cheston 6-1 6-1
Phyllis Walsh d. Mrs. B. S. Briggs 2-6 6-1 7-5
Marion Creswell d. Eleanor Carey 7-5 7-5
Agnes Kennedy d. G. Chapman default
Mary Smith d. J. W. Huff 6-4 6-3
E. Katsenberg d. Carolin Culley 6-0 6-2
Mrs. A. Drexel Paul d. Elizabeth Porter 6-1 6-1
Florence Ballin d. Hannah Wright 6-1 6-2
Deborah Seal d. E. Hopkins 6-1 6-2
L. Bostwick d. E. Meehan 6-4 11-9

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First Round
Anne Sheafe d. L. T. Whitney default
Mrs . Theodore Cassebeer d. Sarah Myers 8-6 6-2
Mrs. W. Newhall d. Mary Willard 6-4 6-3
Mrs. Robert Pope d. Mrs. B. Lewis default

Molla Bjurstedt (Norway) d. Mrs. C. Wainwright 6-0 6-1
Findlay
Mrs. C. Beard d. Miriam Steever 6-1 6-4
Clare Cassel d. A.D. Fleischer 6-2 6-0

Martha Guthrie d. L. Duhring 6-1 6-1
Helen Alexander d. L. Weitzel 6-3 3-6 6-3
G. Henry d. Gertrude Hollis default
J. A. Kissell d. M.A. Fleisher 6-1 6-0
Vanderhoef d. Adele Criagen 6-0 6-0
della Torre
Agnes Kennedy d. Mary Smith 6-1 6-1
Creswell

Mrs. A. Drexel Paul d. E. Katzenberg 6-0 6-3
Florence Ballin d. Deborah Seal 6-1 6-1
Mrs. H. H. Smith d. L. Bostwick 6-2 6-3
Eliza Fox d. A. D. Morrison 6-3 6-0
Cunningham bye?
Dorothy Disston bye?
Mrs. Robert LeRoy d. Edith Runk ????
Eliazbeth Ostheimer d. C. D. Johnson 6-1 6-1

Helen McLean
Maud Barger-Wallach
Hazel Wightman
Snyder

Cabot
Williams
Eleanora Sears
Kerbaugh
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Second Round
Sheafe d. Cassebeer 6-4 6-2
Newhall d. Pope default
Bjurstedt d. Findlay 6-3 6-0
Beard d. Cassel 6-1 6-4

Guthrie d. Alexander 6-2 4-6 6-2
Kissell d. Henry 6-2 4-6 6-2
Vanderhoef d. della Torre 6-1 6-2
A. Kennedy d. Creswell 4-6 6-2 7-5

Drexel Paul d. Ballin 6-3 3-6 7-5
Fox d. H. H. Smith 6-2 6-3
Cunningham d. D. Disston 6-1 6-2
LeRoy d. E. Ostheimer 6-0 7-5

McLean d. Barger-Wallach 3-6 7-5 8-6
Wightman d. Snyder 6-1 6-4
Cabot d. M. Williams 6-2 6-1
El. Sears d. Kerbaugh 6-0 6-0
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Third Round
Sheafe d. Newhall 6-2 6-2
Bjurstedt d. Beard 6-4 6-0
Guthrie d. Kissell 6-3 6-4
Vanderhoef d. A. Kennedy 6-1 6-1

Fox d. Drexel Paul 7-5 6-4
Cunningham d. LeRoy 6-1 6-4
Wightman d. McLean 6-3 3-6 6-3
El. Sears d. Cabot 7-5 6-2
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Quarters
Bjurstedt d. Sheafe 10-8 6-2
Guthrie d. Vanderhoef 7-5 6-0
Fox d. Cunningham 6-2 6-1
Wightman d. El. Sears 6-3 5-7 6-2

Semis
Bjurstedt d. Guthrie 3-6 6-2 6-2
Wightman d. Fox 6-1 6-4

Final
Bjurstedt d. Wightman 4-6 6-2 6-0

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Draw notes: Mrs. H. H. Smith listed twice in doubled draw, an error or an oddity!

Mrs. Helen McLean="former national champion" Homans.

June 5 to 12. draw of 71.
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*Holder Bjurstedt "sits out" until the Challenge Round.

"Preliminary Round"
Currie d. Charlotte Cheston 4-6 6-3 6-4
Eleanora Sears d. Helen Pouch 6-2 6-4
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First Round
Evelyn Sears d. Florence Sheldon 6-2 6-3
Mrs. Theodore Cassebeer
Mrs. Robert Pope
Sarah Neilsen

Alice Patterson d.
Margaret Moes
Mary Merrick
Alice Hawkins

Louise Raymond d. Margaret Tattersfield 6-0 6-2
Mrs. C. W. Adams
Mrs. Clement Wainwright
Marion Steever d. Edna Wildey 6-0 6-2

Maud Barger-Wallach d. Helen Pouch 6-0 6-0
M.E. Wilcox
Edith Handy
Elizabeth Ostheimer d. Mrs. David Sterns 5-7 6-1 6-3

Eleanora Sears
Ina Kissel
Mrs. T. H. Cabot
Mrs. Robert Herold

Phyllis Walsh d. Florence Ballin 6-4 7-5
Eleanor Freeley
Clara Chase
Kitty Brinton

Susanne White
Alice Drake
Mrs. Gilbert Harvey
Hannah Wright

Mrs. John Hall
Dorothy Disston d. Mrs. Robert Leroy 6-1 6-4
May Snyder
Margaretta Taylor
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Second Round
Ev. Sears d. Cassebeer 6-0 6-1
Pope d. Neilson 6-2 9-11 6-3
Patterson d. Moes 6-1 6-3
Merrick d. Hawkins 6-4 8-6

Raymond d. C. Adams 6-2 6-1
Steever d. Wainwright 6-3 6-0
Barger-Wallach d. Wilcox 6-0 6-1
Handy d. E. Ostheimer 6-4 6-0

El. Sears d. Kissel 6-4 6-1
Cabot d. Herold 6-2 6-0
Walsh d. Freeley default
Chase d. Brinton default

White d. Drake 6-3 6-2
Harvey d. Wright 6-0 6-0
Hall d. Disston 4-6 6-4 7-5
Taylor d. Snyder default

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Third Round
Ev. Sears d. Pope default
Patterson d. Merrick 0-6 7-5 6-3
Raymond d. Steever 6-3 6-4
Barger-Wallach d. Handy 6-3 6-3

El. Sears d. Cabot 6-2 6-4
Walsh d. Chase 6-2 6-0
White d. Harvey 6-4 4-6 6-1
Hall d. Taylor 8-6 6-3

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Quarters
Ev. Sears d. Patterson 6-3 6-2
Raymond d. Barger-Wallach 6-1 6-3
El. Sears d. Walsh 6-3 6-3
White d. Hall 4-6 8-6 7-5

Semis
Raymond d. Ev. Sears 6-2 6-1
El.Sears d. White 6-1 6-3

Final
Raymond d. El. Sears 6-3 6-4

Challenge Round
Molla Bjurstedt (Norway) d. Raymond 6-0 6-1

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Pouch=Helen Homans
Raymond=Louise Hammond
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Norsewoman Molla Bjurstedt set a record (for the time) of winning a final in only 25 minutes. Though the filed was quite large, Mrs. May Sutton Bundy and Mary Browne were "particularly missed", as no challenger for Molla could be found.

Philadelphia. June 18 to 23. Draw of 46.
Source: New York Times-not in exact draw order.
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* As this wasn't officially a USTA national title (this was disputed in later years) the defender Molla Bjurstedt "played through" rather than wait until the final by choice.
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First Round
Molla Bjurstedt (Norway) d. Elizabeth Ostheimer 6-2 6-0
Mrs. Robert Leroy d. Miss M. P. Toulmin 2-6 6-3 6-3
Marion Zinderstein d. Sophie Norris 6-1 6-1
Mildred Williard d. Eleanora Bispham 6-1 6-0

Phyllis Walsh d. Mary Law default
Leslie Bancroft bye
Sarah Nielson d. Mrs. David Stern 6-0 6-3
Mrs. Jacqueline Green d. Ansie Naylor 6-1 6-3

Mrs. Gilbert Harvey bye
Gertrude Ostheimer bye
Helene Pollak bye
Mrs. M. B. Huff bye

Mrs. Rawson Wood bye
Edith White bye
Mrs. James Nathan bye
Gertrude Henry bye

Marion Vanderhoef bye
Miss R. Thomson bye
Margaret Moes bye
Mrs. John Bailey bye

Susanne White bye
Mary Porcher bye
Caroline Valentine bye
Carrie Neely bye

Eleanora Sears d. Florence Ballin default
Mary Thayer d. Alice Fleisher 6-3 6-1
Dorothy Disston d. Margaretta Myers 1-6 11-9 6-2
Elizabeth Strubing d. Mrs. A. D. Smoker 2-6 6-2 6-4

Mrs. Knud Dahl (Denmark) bye
Mrs. Lewis Bailey d. Elizabeth Thompson 8-6 6-4
Helen Bernhard d. Miss U. N. Berg 7-5 9-7
Anne Townsend d. Mrs. Charles Hitchings default
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Second Round
Bjurstedt d. Leroy 6-2 6-2
Zinderstein d. Williard 6-0 6-0
Walsh d. Bancroft 6-1 6-2
Nielson d. J. Green 6-4 7-5

Harvey d. G. Ostheimer 6-0 6-1
Pollak d. Huff 6-0 6-3
Wood d. E. White default
Nathan d. Henry 6-4 6-4

Vanderhoef d. R. Thomson 6-0 6-2
Moes d. J. Bailey 6-3 8-10 6-3
S. White d. Porcher 6-3 6-1
Valentine d. Neely default

El. Sears d. Thayer 8-6 8-6
Disston d. Strubing 6-4 6-2
Dahl d. Bailey 6-0 6-0
Bernhard d. Townsend 7-5 6-3
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Third Round
Bjurstedt d. Zinderstein 6-4 7-5
Walsh d. Nielson default
Harvey d. Pollak 6-2 6-3
Wood d. Nathan 6-1 6-1

Vanderhoef d. Moes 6-1 6-3
S. White d. Valentine 6-2 6-1
El. Sears d. Disston 6-4 6-3
Dahl d. Bernhard 6-4 6-3
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Quarters
Bjurstedt d. Walsh 6-4 6-1
Harvey d. Wood 1-6 6-4 7-5
Vanderhoef d. S. White 3-6 6-2 6-2
El. Sears d. Dahl 6-2 6-4

Semis
Bjurstedt d. Harvey 4-6 6-0 6-0
Vanderhoef d. El. Sears 8-6 6-3


Final
Bjurstedt d. Vanderhoef 4-6 6-0 6-2
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A "Patriotic" event was held as the US had recently entered World War One-known at the time as "The Great War". As this wasn't officially a USTA national title (this was disputed in later years) the defender Molla Bjurstedt "played through" rather than wait until the final by choice. The New York Times declared the event "for all purposes the National title". 1917 was unusual as there were two foreign entries. Molla was form Norway and Dahl from Denmark. Mary browne beat Molla sevreal times in 1917 in a series of exhibition matches, but unfortunately did not enter Philadelphia.

Held in Philadelphia June 17 to June 22
*Taken from the New York Times and not in draw order.
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First Round
Eleanor Goss bye
Mrs. Rawson Wood bye
Elizabeth Ostheimer bye
Carolyn Otis bye

Emily Stokes Weaver bye
Deborah Seal bye
Mrs.Payne bye
Gertrude Ostheimer bye

Helen Ledoux bye
Anne Townsend bye
Mrs. Robert Herrold d. Suzanne Silvercruis default
Katherine Porter d. A.D. Smoker 7-5 6-0

Barbara Hooker bye
Ansie Naylor bye
Mrs. J. F. Bretz bye
Mrs. M. B. Huff bye

Helene Pollak bye
May Moes bye
Mary Thayer bye
Mrs. Alexander Chisholm bye

Dorothy Walker bye
Myriam Rudderow bye
Mrs. John E. Bailey bye
Gladys Paine bye

Claire Cassel bye
Mrs. John Rogge bye
Mrs. Deforest Candee bye
Mrs. H. S. Calcolt bye

Eleanora Sears bye
Rebecca Thomson d. Margaret Dixon 6-3 6-1
Marion Zinderstein d. Mildred Willard 7-5 6-4
Mrs. H. Forrest Kerbaugh d. Cornell Seeble 6-2 6-2
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Second Round
Goss d. Wood 6-2 6-4
E. Ostheimer d. Otis 6-3 3-6 6-4
Weaver d. Seal 6-2 6-2
Payne d. G. Ostheimer 6-3 6-4

Ledoux d. Townsend 7-9 6-4 6-1
Herrold d. Porter 7-5 6-0
B. Hooker d. Naylor 6-2 6-3
Bretz d. Huff 1-6 6-3 6-4

Pollak d. Moes 6-1 6-1
Thayer d. Chisholm 6-0 6-2
Walker d. Rudderow 6-1 6-2
Bailey d. Paine 6-0 6-3

Cassel d. Rogge 6-4 9-7
Deforest Candee d. Calcolt 6-0 6-1
El. Sears d. Thomson 6-0 6-1
Zinderstein d. Kerbaugh 6-0 6-1
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Third Round
Goss d. E. Ostheimer 6-1 6-0
Weaver d. Payne 4-6 11-9 6-2
Ledoux d. Herrold 7-5 7-5
B. Hooker d. Bretz 8-6 10-8

Pollak d. Thayer 7-5 6-1
Walker d. Bailey 7-5 6-0
Cassel d. Deforest Candee 7-5 6-3
El. Sears d. Zinderstein 6-8 6-2 6-4
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Quarters
Goss d. Weaver 6-2 6-4
Ledoux d. B. Hooker 6-4 6-1
Pollak d. Walker 6-1 6-0
Cassel d. El. Sears 6-2 6-1

Semis
Goss d. Ledoux 6-3 6-4
Pollak d. Cassel 6-3 6-0

All Comer's Final
Goss d. Pollak 6-2 7-5

Challenge Round Final
Molla Bjurstedt (Norway) d. Goss 6-4 6-3

First Round
Eleanor Goss bye
Mrs. M.B. Huff d. Margaret Moes 6-4 7-5
Hazel Wightman d. Mrs. Erskine Smith 6-0 6-0
Phyllis Walsh d. Mrs. George Stanwix 6-2 6-4

Anne Townsend d. Jessie Gott 6-3 6-3
Elizabeth Warren d. Mrs. M. D. Straffin 6-3 7-5
Mrs. Robert LeRoy d. Mrs. Edward Duble 6-0 6-2
Marion Iler bye

Mrs. Gilbert Harvey d. Augusta Wurm 6-2 6-0
???? ????
Ansie Naylor bye
Mary Newbold bye

Mrs. Theodore Sohst d. Gladys Paine 6-2 6-1
Leslie Bancroft d. Grace Scattergood 5-7 6-0 6-4
Mary Heaton d. Margaretta Sharpless 6-1 6-0
Adelaide Hooker bye

Mrs. Wainwright bye
Dorothy Newbold d. Peggy Ferguson 6-4 2-6 6-0
Molla Bjurstedt d. Mrs. Robert Herold 6-0 6-1
Marion Murray bye

Marie Wagner d. Katherine Porter 6-3 6-1
Katherine Gardner d. Mrs. J. E. Bailey 6-4 6-3
Katherine Lauder d. Rebecca Thomson 7-5 6-1
Mrs. W. H. Pritchard d. Mrs. E. V. Lynch 3-6 6-3 6-4

Mary Thayer d. Mrs. Lewis Bailey 6-2 6-2
Virginia Carpenter bye
Mrs. DeForrest Candee d. Margaret Taylor 6-0 6-2
Claire Cassel d. Mrs. R. T. Nalle 6-0 6-2

Florence Ballin d. Penelope Anderson 6-2 6-1
Marion Zinderstein bye
Eleanora Sears d. Mrs. H. F. Kerbaugh 6-2 6-3
Mrs. T. H. Cabot d. Mrs. A. D. Smoker 6-1 6-1
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Second Round
Goss d. Huff 6-3 6-1
Wightman d. Walsh 6-2 6-2
Townsend d. Warren 6-2 6-3
LeRoy d. Iler 6-2 6-0

Harvey d. ???? ????
Naylor d. M.Newbold 6-3 8-6
Bancroft d. Sohst 6-2 6-3
Heaton d. Hooker 6-1 6-2

Wainwright d. D.Newbold 2-6 7-5 7-5
Bjurstedt d. Murray 6-0 6-0
Wagner d. Gardner 6-3 6-2
Pritchard d. Lauder 6-1 6-3

Thayer d. Carpenter 6-0 6-3
Cassel d. Candee 6-2 6-1
Zinderstein d. Ballin 6-1 8-6
Sears d. Cabot 6-1 6-2
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Third Round
Wightman d. Goss 6-3 4-6 6-4
Townsend d. LeRoy 6-2 6-0
Harvey d. Naylor 6-1 6-2
Bancroft d. Heaton 6-1 6-3

Bjurstedt d. Wainwright 6-0 6-1
Wagner d. Pritchard 6-2 6-1
Cassel d. Thayer 6-3 6-1
Zinderstein d. Sears 6-2 6-1
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Quarters
Wightman d. Townsend 6-0 6-1
Harvey d. Bancroft 6-2 4-6 6-4
Bjurstedt d. Wagner 6-2 6-8 6-4
Zinderstein d. Cassel 6-3 6-1

Semis
Wightman d. Harvey 6-2 6-2
Zinderstein d. Bjurstedt 4-6 6-1 6-2

Final
Wightman d. Zinderstein 6-1 6-2

At Philadelphia. September 13 to 18.
Draw of 76.

First Round Most women get byes

Upper Half

Molly Thayer d. Mrs. John Rodgers 6-1 6-0
Mary Law d. Ellen Trevor default
Alice Bayard d. Mrs. Joseph Grubb 6-1 6-3
Anne Townsend d. Evelyn Seavey 6-3 6-3
Mrs. S. B. Gibbs d. Deborah Seal 6-4 7-5
Eleanor Tennant d. Caroma Winn default

Lower Half

Mrs. Robert LeRoy d. Mrs. Gilbert Harvey default
Mrs. E. V. Lynch d. Mrs. J. E. Bailey 6-0 6-1
Eleanor Goss d. Mrs. de Forest Candee default
Mrs. Newhall d. Madeline Malqueen 6-1 6-3
Mrs. Nalle d. Mrs. Robert Herold 7-5 2-6 8-6
Florence Ballin d. Lilian Scharman 6-0 7-5
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Second Round
Helene Pollak d. Mrs. F. Borden 6-0 6-0
Helen Rice d. Harriet Chapin 6-2 6-0
Mrs. R. M. Leachman d. Mrs. Sidney Wolf 6-3 7-5
Eleanor Cottman d. Gertrude Ostheimer 6-3 4-6 6-3

Mrs. Kerbaugh d. Mrs. Straffin 6-4 6-1
Marjorie Hires d. Odette Feder default
Peggy Ferguson d. Elizabeth Strubing 7-5 6-3
Edith Sigourney d. Rosamund Newton 6-0 6-2

Molla Mallory d. Rene Christy 6-0 6-0
Phyllis Walsh d. Ethel Hays default
Marguerite Davis d. Katherine Gans 6-2 6-2
Helen Baker d. Corinne Gould 6-0 6-1

Thayer d. Law 6-4 6-1
Louise Cattus d. Mrs. A. C. Butler default
Townsend d. Bayard 6-0 6-1
Tennant d. Gibbs 6-3 6-4

LeRoy d. Lynch 6-2 3-6 7-5
Eleanor Goss d. Newhall 6-0 6-1
Mrs. Joshua Brush d. Frances Brainard default
Ballin d. Nalle default

Mrs. Edward Gamble d. Gertrude Hopper default
Niles d. Cecelia Riegel 6-3 6-1
Mrs. Wm. Allen d. Mary Porcher 6-3 6-1
Bobbie Esch d. Mrs. E. B. Whitman 6-3 6-2

Leslie Bancroft d. Mrs. Huff 6-3 6-2
Mildred Willard d. Clare Cassel 6-3 5-5 ret.
Dorothy Briggs d. Mrs. C. Madeira 6-2 6-3
Venette Willard d. Maud Barger Wallach default

Mrs. Ernest Wiener d. Margaret Remark 4-6 6-2 6-4
Marion Zinderstein d. Margaret Wiener 6-0 6-1
Mrs. Rawson Wood d. Pauline Fenno 6-2 6-0
Mrs. Edward Duble d. Mrs. A. D. Smoker 6-1 6-1
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Third Round
Pollak d. Rice 6-4 6-0
Leachman d. Cottman 6-4 6-0
Hires d. Kerbaugh 6-3 6-1
Sigourney d. Ferguson 6-1 6-3

Mallory d. Walsh 6-0 6-3
Baker d. Davis 6-1 7-5
Thayer d. Cattus 6-2 6-2
Tennant d. Townsend 6-2 6-0

Goss d. LeRoy 6-4 6-4
Ballin d. Brush default
Niles d. Gamble 6-3 6-1
Esch d. Allen 6-2 6-4

Bancroft d. M. Willard 6-3 6-3
Briggs d. V. Willard 6-2 6-0
Zinderstein d. Wiener 6-1 6-0
Wood d. Duble 6-3 6-3
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Fourth Round
Pollak d. Leachman 6-4 6-3
Sigourney d. Hires 6-2 6-4
Mallory d. Baker 6-0 6-4
Tennant d. Thayer 8-6 6-2

Goss d. Ballin 6-1 6-4
Niles d. Esch default
Bancroft d. Briggs 6-3 6-3
Zinderstein d. Wood 6-1 6-0
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Quarters
Pollak d. Sigourney 6-3 8-6
Mallory d. Tennant 6-2 2-6 6-3
Goss d. Niles 6-4 6-2
Zinderstein d. Bancroft 6-4 6-2

Semis
Mallory d. Pollak 6-2 6-3
Zinderstein d. Goss 6-3 6-4

Final
Mallory d. Zinderstein 6-3 6-1

*Note:Mrs. Briggs =former Dorothy Green.

First Round
Patricia Butlin Hitchins d. Mrs Stenz 4-6 6-4 6-4
Mrs. Cyrus Clark d. Jessie Gott 6-2 4-6 6-3
Mrs. Percy Wilbourn d. Mrs. S. J. Strauss 6-0 6-2
Deborah Seal d. Alice Bayard 6-1 6-2

Mildred Willard d. Mrs. N. Niles 6-3 6-8 8-6
Mrs. Gilbert Harvey d. Katherine O'Rourke 6-0 6-0
Adelaide Browning Greene d. Mrs. S. H. Waring 6-1 6-1
Janet Travell d. Mrs. George Chapman 4-6 6-3 6-3

Martha Bayard d. Mrs. Rawson Wood 6-2 6-1
Mrs. E.V. Lynch d. E. Ward Hugus ?????
Leslie Bancroft d. Marie Wagner 9-7 7-5
Ann Sheafe Cole d. Clare Cassel 9-7 6-3

Mary Browne d. Brenda Hedstrom 6-1 6-1
Mrs. de Forest Candee d. Mrs. Albert Humphries 6-4 7-9 6-4
Eleanora Sears d. Caroma Winn 6-4 8-6
Edith Sigourney d. Mrs. Edward Duble 6-0 6-0

Mrs. David Mills d. Mabel Straffin 6-1 6-1
Katherine Gardner d. Mrs. J. C. Brush 7-5 6-1
Helen Pollak Falk d. Mrs. Culver McWilliams 6-0 6-3
Louise Cattus d. Mrs. Nathaniel Dain 6-2 6-2

A. Sherwood d. Mrs. W. H. Pritchard 6-3 7-5
Florence Sheldon d. Mrs. Walter Ellis 7-5 6-3
Molla Mallory d. Marion Jessup 7-5 6-0
Suzanne Lenglen (France) d. Eleanor Goss default

May Sutton Bundy d. Mrs. Marshall McLean default
Virginia Travell d. Bertha Sexton 6-2 6-3
Louise Raymond d. Mrs. M. B. Huff 13-11 6-2
Mrs. Robert LeRoy d. Mrs. Frank Godfrey 6-4 7-5

Phyllis Walsh d. Mrs. Paul Martin 6-1 6-1
Margaret Grove d. Mary Case 6-4 6-2
Helen Gilleaudeau d. Edna Welty 6-1 5-7 6-2
Theodora Sohst d. Mrs. John Bailey 6-1 6-2
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Second Round
Hitchins d. Clark 6-1 6-0
Wilbourn d. Seal 6-2 6-3
Willard d. Harvey 9-11 8-6 retired
Greene d. J.Travell 6-0 6-1

M. Bayard d. Lynch 6-2 6-3
Cole d. Bancroft 5-7 8-6 8-6
Browne d. Candee 6-0 6-3
Sigourney d. El. Sears 6-2 6-1

Gardner d. Mills 6-3 6-1
Falk d. Cattus 6-1 6-0
Sheldon d. Sherwood 6-2 8-6
Mallory d. Lenglen 6-2 0-0 retired

Bundy d. V.Travell 6-0 6-0
Raymond d. LeRoy 6-2 6-2
Walsh d. Grove 8-10 6-3 6-2
Gilleaudeau d. Sohst 6-3 6-2
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Third Round
Hitchins d. Wilbourn 6-1 6-3
Greene d. Willard 6-1 6-0
Cole d. M. Bayard 6-4 7-5
Browne d. Sigourney 6-0 6-3

Falk d. Gardner 6-2 6-4
Mallory d. Sheldon 6-0 6-1
Bundy d. Raymond 6-3 6-2
Gilleaudeau d. Walsh 6-0 6-3
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Quarters
Hitchins d. Greene 8-6 6-2
Browne d. Cole 6-1 6-2
Mallory d. Falk 6-2 6-1
Bundy d. Gilleaudeau 6-1 6-2

Semis
Browne d. Hitchins 6-3 6-0
Mallory d. Bundy 8-6 6-2

Final
Mallory d. Browne 4-6 6-4 6-2
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Draw noters:
Falk =married name of Pollak
Mrs Stuart Greene=married name of Adelaide Browning.

At Forest Hills.
Draw of 54. 2 foreign.
August 14 to 19.

Used Spaulding Annual and the NYT.

First Round
May Sutton Bundy [2] bye
Mrs. S. H. Warning bye
Edith Handy bye
Caroma Winn bye

Mrs. Robert LeRoy [7] bye
Florence Ballin d. Ceres Baker 6-4 6-4
Martha Bayard d. Katharine Gardner 8-6 6-3
Marguerite Davis d. Marion Chapman 9-7 7-5

Grace Mungen d. Dorothy Quinn 6-1 6-4
Edna Hauselt d. Gertrude Hopper 6-0 6-2
Mrs. Walter Trumbull d. Isabella Mumford 6-2 6-4
Marion Jessup [6] d. Mrs. Percy Wilbourne 6-0 3-0 ret.

Helen Wills [3] d. Helen Collingwood 6-0 6-2
Mrs. E. V. Lynch d. Mrs. M. B. Huff 6-3 6-2
Mrs. Harry Bickle (Canada) d. Mrs. W. Sheddon 6-3 6-4
Winifred Ellis d. Theodora Sohst 7-5 6-1

Molla Mallory [1] d. Mary Case 6-0 6-0
Mrs. F. Godfrey d. Dorothy Van Slyck 6-3 6-2
Eleanora Sears d. Mrs. William Henry 6-2 6-2
Molley Thayer d. Mrs. J. S. Taylor 4-6 6-2 6-2

Edith Sigourney [5] d. Dorothy Briggs 6-0 6-0
Gladys Hutchings (Bermuda) d. Mrs. B. F. Stenz 6-3 6-1
Katherine Caldwell d. Mrs. A. E. Michel 6-4 6-2
Agnes Sherwood d. Martha Hollister 6-3 6-3

Leslie Bancroft [4] d. Dorothy Brand 6-0 6-0
Jessie Grieve d. Marguerite Strahler 6-2 6-2
Helen Hooker d. Mrs. Edward Powers 4-6 6-3 6-3
Mrs. W. H. Pritchard bye

Clare Cassel [8] bye
Florence Sheldon bye
Marion Jones Farquhar bye
Jessie Gott bye
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Second Round
Bundy [2] d. Warning 6-2 6-1
Handy d. Winn 6-4 4-6 6-2
Ballin d. LeRoy [7] 6-3 6-4
Bayard d. Davis 6-2 6-0

Jessup [6] d. Mungen 6-0 6-0
Hausert d. Trumbull 6-0 6-1
Wills [3] d. Lynch 6-0 6-1
Bickle d. Ellis 6-1 6-4

Mallory [1] d. Godfrey 6-2 6-2
Thayer d. El.Sears 6-4 6-2
Sigourney [5] d. Hutchings 6-2 6-2
Sherwood d. Caldwell 6-0 8-6

Bancroft [4] d. Grieve 6-2 6-0
Hooker d. Pritchard 6-3 7-5
Cassel [8] d. Sheldon 6-2 6-3
Farquhar d. Gott 6-4 6-1
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Third Round
Bundy [2] d. Handy 6-1 6-0
Bayard d. Ballin 7-5 6-8 6-3
Jessup [6] d. Hauselt 6-2 6-3
Wills [3] d. Bickle 6-2 6-1

Mallory [1] d. Thayer 6-2 6-0
Sigourney [5] d. Sherwood 6-1 6-2
Bancroft [4] d. Hooker 6-4 6-4
Cassel [8] d. Farquhar 6-2 6-0
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Quarters
Bundy [2] d. Bayard 12-10 4-6 6-0
Wills [3] d. Jessup [6] 2-6 6-4 6-2
Mallory [1] d. Sigourney [5] 6-0 6-1
Bancroft [4] d. Cassel [8] 8-6 6-3

Semis
Wills [3] d. Bundy[2] 6-4 6-3
Mallory [1] d. Bancroft [4] 6-0 6-4

Final
Mallory [1] d. Wills [3] 6-3 6-1
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Draw notes:
Farquhar=1899 champ Marion Jones
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Mallory shows her mettle from the start with a double bagel win in round one that took all of 17 minutes. She is seeded first-the first seeding ever in a US women's title. Last year's fiasco with Lenglen and Mallory meeting in the 2nd rd. has convinced the USTA that seeding is the way to go.

A young sensation has arisen from the West to challenge Molla. Helen Wills wears her schoolgirl uniform to the court, but she is more apt to play the role of teacher than student. Even at 16 she posseses a better serve and net play than all entries. Only Molla is her superior off the ground. Helen whipped through the draw until she met Jessup in the quarters. Marion's serve and volleys won her a set before Wills barely pulled out the second. Helen's power took the third easily. Against 35 yr. old May Bundy in the semis Helen resorted to drop shots with telling effect, "though she was rather prone to overwork it." Helen tried off-pace tactics in the final. The change of pace didn't faze Molla a bit, as the Norse star ran Wills off the court in a 6-3 6-1 final witnessed by only 2,500. The lack of foreign entries kept many a fan away.
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August 13 to 22.

First Round
Molla Mallory bye
Lilian Scharman d. Caroline Banister 6-3 7-5
Mayme MacDonald d. Mrs. George Stanwix 6-3 6-0
M. B. Huff d. Louise Raymond 6-3 5-7 7-5

Helen Hooker d. Mary Leachman 6-8 8-6 6-4
Mary Heaton d. Mrs. S. G. Leon default
Anna Fuller d. Mrs. W. Pritchard 6-8 6-2 6-2
Geraldine Beamish (GB) d. Eleanora Sears 6-1 6-0

Leslie Bancroft d. Virginia Travell 6-2 6-0
Edith Moore d. Marguerite Ginn 8-6 6-1
Mrs. Bernard Stenz d. Marion Chapman default
Mrs. Bronson Batchelor d. Jessie Gott 6-4 6-0

Agnes Sherwood d. Florence Sheldon 6-1 6-4
Mrs. W. Ellis d. Mrs. Samuel Waring 6-3 6-2
Mrs. David Mills d. Mrs. J. C. Collingwood 6-2 5-7 6-1
Mabel Clayton (GB) d. Caroma Winn 6-1 6-0.

Helen Wills d. Martha Bayard 6-1 6-3
Ceres Baker d. Rosamund Newton default
Mrs. H. S. Green d. Dorothy Briggs 3-6 6-3 6-4
Helen Pollack Falk d. Mrs. John Bailey 6-2 6-4

Mrs. W. Shedden d. Mrs. Arthur Duncan 6-1 6-0
Mrs. Percy Wilbourn d. Mrs. Nathaniel Davis 6-1 6-3
Mrs. Robert LeRoy d. Bessie Holden 6-1 6-0
Kitty McKane (GB) d. Loiuse Dixon 6-1 6-0

Helen Gilleaudeau Lockhorn d. Mrs. J. S. Taylor 6-2 6-3
Phyllis Walsh d. Mary Case 6-2 6-2
Mrs. A. F. Reise d. Beatrice Sheridan 6-0 6-1
Eleanor Goss d. Penelope Anderson 6-2 6-0

Edith Sigourney d. Katherine Gardner 6-4 7-5
Mrs. J. D. Corbierre d. Theodora Sohst 6-1 6-2
Gertrude Hopper bye
Phyllis Covell (GB) bye
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Second Round
Mallory d. Scharman 6-3 6-4
MacDonald d. Huff 6-2 3-6 6-1
Hooker d. Heaton 6-3 7-5
Beamish d. Fuller 6-0 6-1

Bancroft d. Edith Moore 6-2 6-3
Stenz d. Batchelor 6-2 6-2
Sherwood d. Ellis 6-1 7-5
Clayton d. Mills 7-5 6-3

Wills d. Baker 6-1 6-0
Falk d. Green 5-7 6-4 6-2
Shedden d. Wilbourn 6-1 6-4
McKane d. LeRoy 6-1 6-0

Goss d. Reise 6-2 6-0
Lockhorn d. Walsh 6-2 6-2
Sigourney d. Corbierre 6-0 6-4
Covell d. Hopper 6-0 6-0
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Third Round
Mallory d. MacDonald 6-3 6-2
Hooker d. Beamish default
Bancroft d. Stenz 9-11 6-2 6-3
Clayton d. Sherwood 6-1 6-2

Wills d. Falk 6-0 6-1
McKane d. Shedden 6-1 6-1
Goss d. Lockhorn 6-2 6-2
Covell d. Sigourney 6-4 6-1
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Quarters
Mallory d. Hooker 6-3 6-1
Clayton d. Bancroft 6-3 6-1
Wills d. McKane 2-6 6-2 7-5
Goss d. Covell 6-1 2-6 8-6

Semis
Mallory d. Clayton 6-4 6-2
Wills d. Goss 6-4 6-0

Final
Wills d. Mallory 6-2 6-1
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6,000 show for the finals. Mrs. Wightman's new international competition brought a British contigent to the US to inaugerate a new stadium at Forest Hills.

August 11 to 15 at Forest Hills

First Round
Helen Wills [1] d. Mrs. L. Beaupre (Canada) 6-0 6-0
Helene Pollak Falk d. Mrs. Harrison Smith 6-2 6-0
Ceres Baker Sackett d. Gertrude Hopper 6-3 6-3
Margaret Blake d. Jessie Gott 6-1 6-0

Marion Jessup [5] d. Mrs. Bronson Batchelor 6-0 6-4
Mary Case d. Virginia Carpenter default
Marion Leighton d. Agnes Sherwood 6-0 6-0
Edith Handy d. J. C. Collingwood default

Mayme MacDonald [6] d. Martha Hollister 6-0 6-0
Rosamund Newton bye
Mrs. J. Saunders Taylor bye
Theodora Sohst bye

Mary Browne [3] d. Mrs. Samuel Waring 6-2 6-1
Penelope Anderson d. Naomi Thompson 6-3 6-3
Leslie Bancroft d. Mrs. Philip Hawk 6-1 6-0
Anna Fuller d. Mrs. W. H. Pritchard 6-3 6-4

Eleanor Goss [4] d. Margarita Ginn 6-1 6-2
Mrs. B. E. Cole d. Penelope Davies 6-4 6-3
Eleanora Sears d. Mrs. M. B. Huff 6-3 7-5
Isabella Mumford d. Mrs. J. E. Bailey 6-3 6-1

Martha Bayard [8] d. Mrs. James McMillan 6-0 6-0
Mrs. B. F. Stenz d. Alice Francis 7-5 6-2
Katherine Gardner d. Mrs. J. C. Brush 6-4 6-0
Katherine Porter d. Catherine Cauldwell default

Edith Sigourney [7] d. Vandy Cape 6-0 6-2
Mrs. Robert LeRoy d. Elizabeth Hugus 6-1 6-1
Edna Houser Roeser d. Louise Cattus 6-0 6-0
Mildred Williard d. Florence Sheldon 6-3 6-3

Caroline Bannister d. Mrs. Martin Vorhaus 6-4 5-7 6-3
Mrs. Arthur Duncan d. Mrs. Warren Lewis 6-3 6-2
Caroma Winn bye
Molla Mallory [2] bye
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Second Round
Wills [1] d. Pollak Falk 6-0 6-0
Sackett d. Blake 7-5 4-6 6-3
Jessup [5] d. Case 6-0 6-0
Leighton d. Handy 12-10 6-3

MacDonald [6] d. Newton 6-2 6-2
J. S. Taylor d. Sohst 7-5 6-1
Browne [3]d. Anderson 6-2 6-1
Bancroft d. Fuller 6-2 6-1

Goss [4] d. Cole 4-6 6-4 6-3
El. Sears d. Mumford 8-6 6-3
Bayard [8] d. Stenz 6-3 6-2
Gardner d. Porter default

Sigourney [7] d. LeRoy 6-3 6-3
Roeser d. Williard 6-4 6-1
Bannister d. Duncan 6-3 6-0
Mallory [2] d. Winn 6-1 6-0
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Third Round
Wills [1] d. Sackett 6-2 6-1
Jessup [5] d. Leighton 6-1 6-1
MacDonald [6] d. J. S. Taylor 6-4 6-2
Browne [3] d. Bancroft 6-1 6-2

Goss [4] d. El. Sears 6-0 6-1
Bayard [8] d. Gardner 6-2 6-4
Roeser d. Sigourney [7] 6-3 8-6
Mallory [2] d. Bannister 6-0 6-0
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Quarters
Wills [1] d. Jessup [5] 6-3 6-3
Browne [3] d. MacDonald [6] 6-2 5-7 6-4
Goss [4] d. Bayard [8] 8-6 6-4
Mallory [2] d. Roeser 6-1 6-1

Semis
Wills [1] d. Browne [3] 6-4 4-6 6-3
Mallory [2] d. Goss [4] 6-3 6-4

Final
Wills [1] d. Mallory [2] 6-1 6-3
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Draw Notes:
Mrs Horace Dudley=former Mrs. R. Williams, who won US dubs 3 times with Browne from 1913-14 and 1921.


8,000 are present for the finals.

August 17 to 24.

First Round
Elizabeth Ryan d. Caroma Winn 6-0 6-0
Mrs. M. B. Huff d. Katherine Gardner 6-3 6-3
Muriel Bremner d. Mrs. William Pritchard 4-6 6-3 8-6
E.H. Harvey (GB) d. Mrs. Bernard Stenz 5-7 6-1 6-1

Marion Jessup d. Mrs. Harrison-Smith 6-0 6-2
Edith Guiler d. G. Gallery 6-2 2-6 6-1
Mrs. Frank Godfrey d. Mrs. J. E. Bailey 6-1 6-2
Kitty McKane (GB) d. Mrs. J. Saunders Taylor 6-0 6-2

Molla Mallory d. Alice Francis 6-1 6-2
Phoebe Grierson d. Jessie Gott 6-1 6-1
Mrs. F. Letson d. Maud Barger-Wallach 6-3 6-2
Anne Townsend d. Lilian Scharman Hester 6-3 6-3

Penelope Anderson d. Mildred Brock 6-3 6-0
Helen Jacobs d. Mrs. Harry Bickle 6-0 6-3
Mrs. Philip Hawk d. Eleanora Sears 6-4 6-4
Evelyn Colyer (GB) d. Elsie Weymouth 6-1 6-0

Helen Wills d. Helena Pollak Falk 6-2 6-3
Mrs. C. Hubbard d. Eleanor Cattman 6-1 6-1
May Sutton Bundy d. Edith Handy 6-1 6-0
Charlotte Hosmer d. Mrs. G. Stanwix 6-3 6-0

Mary Browne d. Theodora Sohst 6-1 6-1
Margaret Blake d. Virginia Carpenter 6-4 6-1
Edna Hausert Roeser d. P. Rykert 6-1 6-1
Joan Fry (GB) d. Peggy Loughrane 6-0 6-0

Eleanor Goss d. Francis Bates 6-0 6-1
Mrs. Robert LeRoy d. Mrs. H. Stuart Green 5-7 6-2 8-6
J. D. Corbiere d. Rosamund Newton default
C. C. Madeira d. Mrs. F. Harper 7-5 12-10

Marion Williams d. Florence Sheldon 6-2 6-3
Mrs. Charles Boehm d. Mrs. John Collingwood 6-4 6-3
Edith Sigourney d. Martha Bayard 8-6 6-3
Dorothea Chambers (GB) d. Molly Thayer 6-4 4-6 6-2
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Second Round
Ryan d. Huff 6-2 6-1
Harvey d. Bremner 6-0 6-0
Jessup d. Guiler 6-0 6-0
McKane d. F. Godfrey 6-1 6-0

Mallory d. Grierson 6-0 6-0
Townsend d. Letson 6-2 2-6 6-4
Anderson d. Jacobs 6-4 4-6 6-3
Colyer d. Hawk 7-5 6-2

Wills d. Hubbard 6-1 6-0
Sutton Bundy d. Hosmer 2-6 6-4 6-3
Browne d. Blake 6-2 6-1
J. Fry d. Hausert Roeser 6-2 6-3

Goss d. LeRoy 6-2 6-0
Corbiere d. Madeira 6-2 6-3
Williams d. Boehm 6-0 6-1
Chambers d. Sigourney 7-5 6-1
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Third Round
Ryan d. Harvey 6-0 6-3
McKane d. Jessup 6-0 6-0
Mallory d. Townsend 6-3 6-4
Anderson d. Colyer 7-5 7-5

Wills d. Sutton Bundy 6-3 6-2
J. Fry d. Browne 2-6 6-4 6-3
Goss d. Corbiere 6-1 6-0
Chambers d. M. Wiilliams 6-1 6-1
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Quarters
McKane d. Ryan 3-6 7-5 6-2
Mallory d. Anderson 6-2 6-1
Wills d. J. Fry 4-6 6-0 6-3
Goss d. Chambers 6-2 11-9

Semis
McKane d. Mallory 4-6 7-5 8-6
Wills d. Goss 3-6 6-0 6-2

Final
Wills d. McKane 3-6 6-0 6-2
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Wills takes permanent possession of the cup with her 3rd US nationals in a row before a Monday finals crowd of 7,000. With her win over Kitty McKane in the finals Helen establishes a clear lead of 4-2 in their rivalry. After losing the first set Helen's shots only increased in pace as her foe tired, a pattern that followed the semis where Wills "raked her opponent's court with blistering shots".

The match that "enthralled " all was the semi tussle between Mallory and McKane. "Marvelous Molla" was 2 points from a win at 5-3 when Kitty clawed back by taking the net. At 5-4 Molla was 6 times within two points of victory, only to see Kitty's volleys repeatedly dig her out of trouble. McKane got the game winning point to tie at 5-5 when Molla's passing shot clipped the net and bounced back. When it ended the pair got the biggest ovation of the week that even had the loser smiling as she left thew court.

McKane had upset Elizabeth Ryan in the quarters. Ryan was an American expatriate who lived in England and was entered in her own championships for the first time ever. She was a co-favorite coming in, having upset Helen Wills at Seabright.
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draw notes:
Chisholm=nee Gertrude Della Torre.

11 seeds, 6 American and 5 British

First Round

Elizabeth Ryan bye
Eleanor Cottman bye
Miss Heaton bye
Elsa Tauble bye

Eleanor Goss d. Jeanette Chappell 6-1 6-3
Isabelle Mumford bye
Mrs. Lockhorn bye
Mrs.Eaton d. Dorothy Blodgett 6-2 6-2

Mary Browne d. Maud Barger-Wallach 6-0 6-2
Mrs. Stenz bye
Theodora Soest d. Caroma Winn 6-0 6-0
Rosamund Newton d. Golda Gross 6-2 8-6

Penelope Anderson d. Florence Sheldon 6-3 6-3
Mrs. B.E.Cole d. Mrs. Owen Lewis 6-1 6-1
Edna Roeser d. Louise Gladwin 6-0 6-1
Mrs.William Sheddon d. Irving Murphy 6-1 6-3

Mrs. William H. Pritchard bye
Jesse Gott d. Mrs. Arthur Duncan 6-0 6-4
Margaret Blake d. Edith Moore 6-8 6-1 6-1
Mrs. Hawk d. Mrs. de Forest Candee 6-2 6-8 6-4

Martha Bayard d. Gertrude Dwyer 6-0 6-3
Mrs. Le Roy d. Agnes Lamme 3-6 6-3 6-3
Eleanora Sears d. Florence Ballin 6-4 retired
Mildred Willard d. Mrs. Harrison Smith 6-1 6-2

Molla Mallory d. Mrs. Frank Godfrey 6-0 6-1
Grace Bristed d. Jean Burritt 6-0 6-1
Alice Francis d. Florence Bradley 6-0 6-0
J. Van Der Ende d. Anne Page 3-6 6-3 8-6

Charlotte Chapin bye
Mrs. P. Mitton bye
Mrs. John Bailey bye
Hazel Wightman bye
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Second Round
Ryan d. Cottman 6-0 6-1
Heaton d. Taubele 6-2 6-0
Goss d. Mumford 6-0 6-3
Lockhorne d. Eaton 6-2 6-1

Browne d. Stenz 6-2 6-1
Sohst d. Newton 6-4 6-4
Anderson d. Cole 6-0 1-6 6-3
Roeser d. Sheddon 6-1 6-3

Pritchard d. Gott 6-3 6-3
Blake d. Hawk 6-2 7-5
Bayard d. Le Roy 6-0 6-1
Willard d. Sears 8-6 7-5

Mallory d. Bristed 6-1 6-0
Francis d. Van Der Ende 6-3 6-1
Chapin d. Mitton 6-1 6-1
Wightman d. Bailey 6-1 6-1
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Third Round
Ryan d. Heaton 6-2 6-0
Goss d. Lockhorn 6-3 6-2
Browne d. Sohst 6-0 6-0
Anderson d. Roeser 9-7 5-7 6-4

Blake d. Pritchard 3-6 6-1 6-1
Bayard d. Willard 6-4 7-5
Mallory d. Francis 6-1 6-0
Chapin d. Wightman 6-4 6-4
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Quarters
Ryan d. Goss 3-6 6-4 6-0
Browne d. Anderson 7-5 6-1
Bayard d. Blake 6-4 6-2
Mallory d. Chapin 7-5 6-0

Semis
Ryan d. Browne 6-1 6-3
Mallory d. Bayard 6-3 6-3

Final
Mallory d. Ryan 4-6 6-4 9-7**
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Notes: There was seeding. It was the 1921 Lenglen disaster that introduced the concept. Ryan-Mallory at 1-2 (or reverse), with Browne, Goss at 3-4. Anderson and Bayard were tough.
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Some of these women were around a long time. Eleanor Sears was around in the "aughts" and Barger-Wallach was the 1908 champ! Wightman was the 1909-12,19 winner.Browne 1912-14.

A poor entry. Helen Wills was still recovering form her appendicitis operation of June. The British were absent as the Wightman Cup was played in Britain. There were no foreigners entered. Ironically,Molla was considered more American than Ryan, due to Ryan's living abroad. Fans cheered the Norsewoman mightily as she batterd her way to one last Us title-a record 8th.

August 22 to 30.

Draw of 64. 16 seeds. 8 domestic and 8 foreign.
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First Round
Helen Wills [1] d. Josephine Cruickshank 6-0 6-1
Lilian Scharman Hester d. Edith Tough 6-2 6-2
Mrs. Muhl d. Elsa Taubele 8-6 6-4
Mrs. John Hill d. Helen Rice 6-0 6-1

Mrs. J. Dallas Corbierre d. Hazel Wightman 6-2 6-3
E. N. Warren d. Caroma Winn 6-0 6-0
Mayme MacDonald d. Rosamund Newton 6-2 6-4
Kea Bouman (Neth) d. Beryl Robinson (Bermuda) 6-2 6-0

Helen Jacobs d. Gertrude Dwyer 6-2 6-0
Elizabeth Hugus d. Helen Sinclair 6-2 6-4
Molly Thayer d. Isabella Mumford 6-3 6-4
Eileen Bennett (GB) d. Mary Greef 6-1 6-1

Edna Hauselt Roeser d. Theodora Sohst 6-0 6-1
Alice Francis d. Marjorie Thorn 6-1 6-3
Mrs. Wm. Pritchard d. Mrs. T. Johnson 5-7 6-1 6-4
Mrs. Arthur Duncan d. Kitty Godfree (GB) default

Molla Mallory [2] d. Mrs. Philip Hawk 6-1 6-3
Mrs. Wm. Endicott d. Mrs. Frederick Letson 6-2 6-2
Anna Fuller Hubbard d. Janet Travell 6-4 6-2
Gwen Sterry (GB) d. Dorothy Andrus 6-2 6-3

Charlotte Hosmer Chapin d. Mary Fenesterer 6-4 6-2
Catherine Porter Hopkins d. Barbara Stevens 6-1 6-3
Marjorie Gladman d. Virginia Rice 6-1 6-1
Joan Fry (GB) d. Mrs. F. Stenz 6-1 6-2

Eleanor Goss d. Marguerite Davis 6-3 6-2
Mrs. H. Richards d. Corinne Frazier 6-2 6-0
J. Saunders Taylor d. Jeannette Chappell 6-2 6-3
Ermyntrude Harvey (GB) d. Marjorie Morrill 6-3 6-0

Penelope Anderson d. Edith Moore 6-2 6-2
Clara Zinke d. Mrs. Harrison Smith default
Gladys Hutchins d. Mrs. J. Bailey 6-0 6-4
Betty Nuthall (GB) d. Priscilla Mitton default
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Second Round
Wills [1] d. Hester 6-0 6-2
Hill d. Muhl 6-0 6-0
Corbierre d. Warren 6-3 6-1
Bouman d. MacDonald 6-1 6-3

Jacobs d. Hugus 6-1 6-0
Bennett d. Thayer 6-1 9-7
Roeser d. Francis 7-5 4-6 6-2
Pritchard d. Duncan 6-3 6-2

Mallory [2] d. Endicott 6-4 6-4
G. Sterry d. Hubbard 6-2 6-1
Chapin d Hopkins 6-1 6-1
J. Fry d. Gladman 6-4 6-2

Goss d. Richards 6-1 6-0
Harvey d. Saunders Taylor 6-4 3-6 6-2
P. Anderson d. Zinke 6-0 6-3
Nuthall d. Hutchins 6-1 6-2
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Third Round
Wills [1] d. Hill 6-1 6-4
Bouman d. Corbierre 1-6 6-0 6-2
Jacobs d. Bennett 7-5 6-4
Roeser d. Pritchard 6-1 6-1

Mallory [2] d. G. Sterry 6-0 0-6 6-0
Chapin d. J. Fry 2-6 6-3 6-4
Goss d. Harvey 1-6 6-1 11-9
Nuthall d. P. Anderson 6-4 6-3
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Quarters
Wills [1] d. Bouman 6-1 6-2
Jacobs d. Roeser 6-8 8-6 6-2
Chapin d. Mallory [2] 6-3 1-6 6-4
Nuthall d. Goss 4-6 7-5 6-2

Semis
Wills [1] d. Jacobs 6-0 6-2
Nuthall d. Chapin 6-1 4-6 6-3

Final
Wills [1] d. Nuthall 6-1 6-4

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Godfree withdrew from singles because of a recent tonsilitis operation.

August 20 to 27.

First Round
Helen Wills [1] bye
Mrs. J. Saunders Taylor bye
Anna Harper bye
Anne Townsend d. Rosamund Newton 6-0 6-2

Charlotte Hosmer Chapin [?] d. Mrs. T. Johnson 6-0 6-0
Mrs. Andre Russell d. Sarah Wright 6-1 6-1
Mary Greef d. Viola Doeg 6-2 6-3
Clara Zinke d. Ruth Oexman 6-2 6-2

Edith Cross [?] d. Mary Heaton 6-3 7-5
Marjorie Gladman d. Alice Francis 6-3 6-1
Mrs. Stenz d. Edith Tough 6-4 6-1
Mrs. Willliam Sheddon d. Florence Leboutillier 6-0 6-0

May Sutton Bundy [?] d. Charlotte Miller 6-0 6-0
Eleanora Sears d. Mrs. H. Walsh 6-2 4-6 6-2
Clara Greenspan d. Cecelia Riegel 2-6 6-1 6-1
Hazel Wightman d. Mayme MacDonald 6-2 6-1

Molla Mallory [?] d. Jean Burritt (Canada) 6-0 6-2
Caroline Swartz d. Sarah Palfrey 8-6 1-6 6-2
Mrs. J. Bailey d. Mrs. Harrison Smith 6-3 6-4
Virginia Hilleary d. Mrs. Walter M. Hall default

Marjorie Morrill [?] d. Dorothy Blodgett 6-1 6-1
Mrs. J. Dallas Corbierre d. Dorothy Andrus 6-0 6-2
Gertrude Dwyer d. Virginia Rice 3-6 6-4 6-1
Mrs. William Endicott d. Florence Sheldon 6-0 6-3

Helen Jacobs [?] d. Marie Fenesterer 6-0 6-0
Mianne Palfrey d. Mrs. F. Letson default
Barbara Duffy d. Mrs. William Pritchard 6-2 2-6 6-1
Lilian Scharman Hester d. Mrs. Philip Hawk 6-0 6-4

Penelope Anderson [?] d. Mrs. Charles Hitchcock 6-0 6-4
Evelyn Parsons d. Agnes Sherwood Lamme 6-1 6-4
Elsa Taubele bye
Mrs. Christian Muhl bye
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Second Round
Wills [1] d. Taylor 6-0 6-1
Harper d. Townsend 6-1 4-6 6-3
Chapin [?]d. Russell 6-0 6-2
Zinke d. Greef 6-3 6-3

Cross [?] d. Gladman 6-2 12-10**
Stenz d. Sheddon 6-2 3-6 8-6
Bundy [?]d. El. Sears 6-1 6-1
Wightman d. Greenspan 6-4 6-3

Mallory [?] d. Swartz 6-1 6-1
Hilleary d. Mrs. J. Bailey 6-2 6-1
Morrill [?] d. Corbierre 6-4 6-3
Endicott d. Dwyer 6-1 6-4

Jacobs [?] d. M. Palfrey 6-1 6-1
Hester d. Duffy 6-1 6-0
Anderson [?] d. Parsons 6-4 5-7 7-5
E. Taubele d. Muhl 6-4 2-6 6-4
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Third Round
Wills [1] d. Harper 6-0 6-2
Chapin [?] d. Zinke 6-2 9-7
Cross [?] d. Stenz 7-5 6-0
Wightman d. Bundy [?] 6-4 11-9

Mallory [?] d. Hilleary 6-3 6-1
Morrill [?] d. Endicott 6-0 6-3
Jacobs [?] d. Hester default
Anderson [?] d. E. Taubele 6-1 6-2
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Quarters
Wills [1] d. Chapin [?] 6-2 6-4
Cross [?]d. Wightman 6-3 6-4
Mallory [?] d. Morrill [?] 6-2 3-6 6-3
Jacobs [?] d. Anderson [?] 6-4 6-1

Semis
Wills [1] d. Cross [?] 6-0 6-1
Jacobs [?] d. Mallory [?] 6-2 7-5**

Final
Wills [1] d. Jacobs [?] 6-2 6-1
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Doubles

Draw of 64. 6 foreign.

Seeded players
American seeds
1. Helen Wills
2. Helen Jacobs
3. Edith Cross
4. Molla Mallory
5. May Sutton Bundy
6. Mary Greef
7. Mrs. Harper
8. Gladman

Foreign Seeds (-all but one British)
1. Betty Nuthall
2. Phoebe Watson
3. Peggy Michell(maiden name Saunders)
4. Shephard-Barron
5. Olive Wade(Canada)
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1rd:
(1)Helen Wills d. Katherine Lamarche 6-0 6-0
Mrs. Chapin d. Mrs . Corbierre 8-6 6-1
Alice Francis d. Mrs. Letson 6-0 6-0
Mrs. Martha Guild d. (6)Olive Wade(CAN) 10- 8 6-2
Marjorie Gladman d. Margaret Blake 6-0 6-2
Marjorie Sachs d. Jean Burritt 6-0 6-2
Mianne Palfrey d. Elizabeth Warren 6-4 4-6 6-4
(3)Peggy Michell(GBR) d. Miss E. R. Sears 6-1 6-4
(4)Molla Mallory d. Mrs. Dorr 6-4 6-2
Mrs. J. S. Taylor d. Doris Balk 6-2 6-2
Dorothy Blodgett d. Eleanor Holton 6-4 6-3
Virginia Hilleary d. Mrs. B. F. Stenz 2-6 6-2 6-3
(5)May Sutton Bundy d. Catherine Jones 6-0 6-1
Helen Marlowe d. Mrs . W. M. Shedden 6-3 6-2
Gertrude Dwyer d. Mrs. O. E. Gray 6-0 6-3
(1)Betty Nuthall(GBR) d. Cecelia Riegel 6-2 6-2
Bottom half:
(2)Helen Jacobs d. Penelope Anderson 8-6 6-4
Eleanor Goss d. Virginia Rice 7-5 6-4
Mrs. Endicott d. Gladys Hutchings 10-8 6-1
(4)Mrs. Covell(GBR) d. Mrs. D. A. Alston 6-1 6-0
(6)Mary Greef d. Dorothy Andrus 9-7 6-4
Clara Greenspan d. Carolyn Swartz 6-0 6-3
Sarah Palfrey d. Ruth Bailey 6-3 6-1
Mrs. Shepherd-Barron(GBR) d. Anne Page 6-3 6-0
(3)Edith Cross d. Marian Hunt 6-1 6-0
Marie Fensterer d. Miss M. Falkenburg 6-3 6-3
Mrs. W. V. Hester d. Tackan Thomasson 6-1 6-4
Clara Zinke d. Carolyn Babcock 6-1 6-1
(7)Mrs. Anna Harper d. Anna Hubbard 6-3 6-1
Marjorie Morrill d. Ethel Burkhardt 8-6 6-3
Mrs. A. J. Lamme d. Evelyn Parson 6-3 6-1
Phoebe Watson d. Josephine Cruickshank 6-1 6-1
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2rd:
Wills(1) d. Chapin 6-1 6-0.
Francis d. Guild 2-6 6-1 6-1.
Gladman d. Sachs 6-3 7-5.
Michell(3) d. M. Palfrey 6-4 6-3
Mallory(4) d. Taylor 6-2 6-1.
Hilleary d. Blodgett 6-0 6-0.
Sutton(5) d. Marlowe 5-7 8-6 6-2.
Nuthall(1) d. Dwyer 6-3 6-1
Jacobs(2) d. Goss 6-0 6-4.
Covell(4) d. Endicott 6-1 6-2.
Greef(6) d. Greenspan 6-0 6-3.
S. Palfrey d. Shepherd-Barron 8-10 6-0 6-4
Cross(3) d. Fensterer 6-3 3-6 6-2.
Hester d. Zinke 3-6 10-8 7-5.
Harper(7) d. Morrill 6-1 6-1.
Watson d. Lamme 6-2 6-0.
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3rd:
Wills(1) d. Francis 6-0 6-0.
Michell(3) d. Gladman 4-6 6-0 6-1
Mallory(4) d. Hilleary 6-0 7-5.
Nuthall(1) d. Sutton(5) 7-5 6-1
Jacobs(2) d. Covell(4) 10-8 6-2.
Greef(6) d. S. Palfrey 6-3 6-2
Cross(3) d. Hester 6-2 6-2.
Watson d. Harper(7) 11-9 6-4
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Quarters
Wills(1) d. Michell(3) 6-0 6-1.
Mallory(4) d. Nuthall(1) 6-3 6-3
Jacobs(2) d. Greef(6) 6-2 6-2.
Watson d. Cross(3) 2-6 6-1 6-3
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Semis
Wills(1) d. Mallory(4) 6-0 6-0.
Watson d. Jacobs(2) 6-1 3-6 6-4
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Final
Wills(1) d. Watson 6-4 6-2
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Notes:
A good field with 5 top notch Brits because of the
Wightman Cup.
May Sutton was US champ in 1904! This is her last US
Nationals at age 42. Surely one of the oldest seeds.
Shepherd-Baron is the only foreign entry unseeded. She
was considered a doubles specialist.
9,000 saw the finals.

August 18 to 24.
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Draw of 57.

Foreign seeds
1. Betty Nuthall-Britain
2. Baroness Levi-Italy


First Round
Marjorie Morrill [2] bye
Clara Zinke bye
Dorothy Workman bye
Katherine Wolf d. Mrs. J. Scherber (GB) 7-5 6-4

Ethel Burkhardt [5] d. Marjorie Sachs 6-1 3-6 6-3
Carolyn Roberts d. Theodosia Smith 6-2 6-0
Virginia Rice d. Edna Hauselt Roeser 7-5 6-1
Mianne Palfrey d. Cecelia Riegel 9-7 6-4

Sarah Palfrey [4] d. Laura Pittinher 6-1 6-0
Mrs. Bernard Stenz d. Elsie Gabel 6-3 6-0
Dorothy Weisel d. Norma Taubele 6-1 4-6 6-3
Virginia Hilleary d. Grace Surber 6-1 6-3

EdithCross [7] d. Mrs. Philip Hawk 6-8 6-2 6-0
Alice Francis d. Clara Greenspan 6-1 6-3
Agnes Sherwood Lamme d. Mary McHale 6-1 6-1
Betty Nuthall (GB) [1] d. Louise McFarland 6-1 6-0

Anna Harper [1] d. Dorance Chase 6-0 6-1
Carolyn Babcock d. Virginia Cross 6-1 6-1
Mrs. J. Dallas Corbierre d. Margaret Blake 6-3 6-2
Marjorie Gladman d. Mrs. William Sheddon 6-1 6-2

Mary Greef [6] d. Anne Page 6-1 6-4
Elizabeth Warren d. Beryl Robinson Cape (Ber) default
Ruth Oexman d. Mercedes Marlowe 6-1 8-6
Mrs. Christian Muhl d. Gladys Hutchings (Ber) 6-3 6-4

Eleanor Goss [3] d. Eleanor Cottman 6-2 6-2
Helen Marlowe d. Jean Burritt (Can) 6-4 7-5
Penelope Anderson d. Dorothy Andrus 11-9 6-4
Edith Sigourney d. Mrs. Frederick Letson 6-2 6-0

Josephine Cruickshank [8] bye
Louise Packer bye
Florence Le Boutillier bye
Baroness Levi (Italy) [2] bye

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Second Round
Morrill [2] d. Zinke 6-0 6-0
Workman d. Wolf 1-6 6-3 6-3
Burkhardt [5] d. Roberts 6-2 6-2
Rice d. M. Palfrey 6-2 6-3

S. Palfrey [4] d. B. Stenz 6-1 6-1
Weisel d. Hilleary 9-7 6-4
Cross [7] d. Francis 6-3 2-6 6-3
Nuthall [1] d. Lamme 6-1 6-1

Harper [1] d. Babcock 6-4 6-3
Corbierre d. Gladman 3-6 6-3 6-4
Greef [6] d. Warren 6-2 6-3
Oexman d. Muhl 7-5 4-6 6-1

H. Marlowe d. Goss [3] 7-5 8-6
Anderson d. Sigourney 7-5 7-5
Cruickshank [8] d. Packer 6-2 6-1
Levi [2] d. Le Boutillier 6-3 6-1
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Third Round
Morrill [2] d. Workman 6-0 6-0
Burkhardt [5] d. Rice 6-2 6-2
Weisel d. S. Palfrey [4] 6-2 6-8 6-4
Nuthall [1] d. Cross [7] 6-0 6-1

Harper [1]d. Corbierre 6-0 6-3
Greef [6] d. Oexman 6-3 6-2
Anderson d. H. Marlowe 4-6 6-2 6-4
Levi [2] d. Cruickshank [8] 7-5 1-6 6-1
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Quarters
Morrill [2] d. Burkhardt [5] 4-6 6-3 6-2
Nuthall [1] d. Weisel 6-1 6-1
Harper[1] d. Greef [6] 3-6 6-1 6-4
Levi [2] d. Anderson 4-6 6-4 7-5

Semis
Nuthall [1] d. Morrill [2] 6-8** 6-4 6-2
Harper [1] d. Levi [2] 6-2 6-3

Final
Nuthall [1] d. Harper [1] 6-1 6-4
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Draw notes:

Baroness Levi was born Maude Rosembaum of Chicago.


Betty Nuthall becomes the first foreigner to win the US title for women. Though Cahill (Ireland) and Mallory (Norway) might also be considered foreign they were living in the US at the time they won their titles. A slim gathering of 4,000 watched the finals. Crowds were down noticably as Helen Wills opted not to defend her title and Helen Jacobs was absent because of a year-long illness. Molla Mallory is now retired and not entered for the first itme since 1915. There is no first class American female standing between Nuthall and her only slam. The field is so weak that none of the 57 seeds was seeded at all at Wimbledon.

Nuthall's toughest match came in the semis, where she blew two set points in dropping the opener and was down 2-4 in the second.

The Baroness "who chops almost every ball she hits, including her service", provided some flair this year's event sorely lacked.

August 17 to 24

First Round
Helen Wills Moody [1] d. Edith Sigourney 6-0 6-0
Mary Greef d. Alice Marble 6-2 6-2
Ruby Bishop d. Katherine Winthrop 6-1 7-5
Joan Ridley (GB) d. Clara Zinke 6-3 6-4

Dorothy Weisel d. Dorrance Chase 6-3 6-4
Penelope Anderson d. Mrs. T. Johnson 6-2 6-0
Gracyn Wheeler d. Mrs. Harrsion Smith 6-1 12-10
Dorothy Round (GB) d. Mrs. A. J. Lamme 6-3 6-3

Anna Harper d. Olga Kallos 6-1 6-0
Norma Taubele d. Mrs. J. Dallas Corbierre 4-6 6-2 7-5
Dorothy Andrius d. Virginia Cross 6-3 6-2
Elsie Goldsack Pittman (GB) d. Mrs. R. Morris 6-3 6-4

Midge Van Ryn d. Elizabeth Rebold 6-3 6-0
Sarah Palfrey d. Charlotte Miller 6-3 2-6 6-4
Cecilia Riegel d. Ruth Oexman 7-9 6-1 6-2
Phyllis Mudford (GB) d. Anna Fuller Hubbard 6-3 6-0

Helen Jacobs d. Mae Ceurvorst 6-2 6-2
Virginia Rice d. Mary Cutter 6-3 6-3
Carolyn Hirsch d. Mrs. Christian Muhl 7-5 8-6
Virginia Hilleary d. Baroness Levi (Ity) 6-3 6-4

Marjorie Morrill d. Mrs. W. Endicott 6-3 6-4
Alice