Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-21 | Page 11 | Mrs. Moody Will Receive Reno Divorce on Monday

MrsJVIoodyWill-ReceiYe Reno Divorce on Monday RENO, Nfev, Aug. 21 (UP) The matrimonial career of Helen Wills Moody, former tennis champion, will end Monday in divorce court when she charges her husband, Frederick S. Moody Jr, with extreme cruelty, her attorney announced today. . - 1 Her tenni career practically end-' d after ah won th match at Wimbledon, England, In 1933. So far a was known, neither marriage nor tennis was Included In her future plans. She will go to New York, ah said, to design women's wo-men's clothes. Hrr husband, a San Francisco ell exoeunve, will not ewntee her suit and the deem will he) granted grant-ed about 1p.m. Monday, aesord-Ing aesord-Ing t the usual ResM procedure. Th attorney, Robert Pric, said th complaint had only th usual bar detail of th alleged cruelty that Moody Inflicted upon her. He will file it Monday morning, he said, and th decree will be granted by Judg T. F. Moran or Judge B. F. Curler after Mr. Moody appears In court a few minutes. Th former "Poker Face Helen" of the world' tennis court has spent her interneshlp, establishing Nevada residence, at Glenbrook inn on th shore of Lak Taho, a fash-lonabl fash-lonabl resort In th mountains. Bh learned to play golf and romped with her Sealyham. "Jackie," on th board walk for reducing exercise. 8h marrwd Moody December IS, 1MB, wheal she waa sjueen of th. court, at the height of a csurccr that lacluded six American championships la women' tennl. They met on the French Riviera when she also waa international champion. Th decline of Mr. Moody' game waa first evident at Forest Hills, N. V, In 1034, when she defaulted in a match to Helen Jacobs, announcing an-nouncing she had a back Injury. Her playing th paat two years haa been limited to the mixed double dou-ble matches of California state tournaments, and to exhibition matchea. When she cam to Nevada In July, Mrs. Moody hsd no comment, but her husband announced for print that their romance waa ended. "Helen is a sweet girl, but we just couldn't make a go of It," he aid. I Mrs. Helm Wills Moedy . . . Rhc'U drop the "Moody" section ef the name Monday.,