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Show - PLANS ARE COMPLETED FOR FORMATION OF UTAH STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION Holla Mallory Defeated In Sensational Dnltte Helen Will, California ; Schoolgirl, Win. Highest Honors in Tennis P)REST HILLS, N. Y.Aug. 18 (By A. P.). The long reipn of Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory as queen of American tennis, ten-nis, broken but once in the past eight years, came to a dramatie close today when Miss Helen Wills, 17-year-old wonder girl from the Pacific coast, crushed the seven-time titleholder in straight aeta. -t, f-i. tn th filial snatcb of tha touraamant at lh Want 8.t Tannla club. Mra. Mallory foucbt gaUantly la da faat, calling oa all har power and strategy to rhack har youthful rival, but except fop a four minute of tha first aet. .th rnasiery f 1ls Will araa com pi at. Moating tha champion at har own game. A back court durl, tha Barhaley. CaV. school girl, roaa to tha great eat heights of har meteoric; me-teoric; career to maneuver and am a ah her way to vtf tnyy with a tpacUculajr, Irraalatibla attack. CHILD PROOiaV UNBSATABLK. Crlt lea who agar hay flaahlnr trl-trmph trl-trmph doubted whether any woman player In tha world avea tha preaent acknowled god) q uaan H usann Uan g -ton of Franca, could hav stopped th coaat prodigy aa aha played today. It took Miaa Willi Juat II mlnutas to crown wllh aucceaa bar aeocmd attempt at-tempt lo gala tha ebamptonahip and at tha cloa of tha snatch aha waa acclaimed by a re) tary of more than 400g pactatora, tha largewt In tha history of women' tltla leurntmtnui that occupied tha big akwcraia ata-dlum, ata-dlum, Tula honor In tha national doable ehamplonahlp wont ovrseaa for tha first tltma la American woman's nt annala. whan tha British pair, Miaa Kathleaa Mr K ana and Mrs. Nancy Covall vmnqulahed Mias Ela-por Ela-por Goos of New York and Mrs, Haaal Motcbkiaa Wlghtnman of Boston In a three-set gtrvggla !-. Boat In tha flrat sat by tha superior strat-egy strat-egy of their rivals tha fcngliah women wo-men awapt tha America npalr off their feet with brilliantly sustained at tack in tha laat two aula. NOLIBH WOWIN TAKB OOUBLKB Tha loaer tired andar tha awl ft paca and war comparatively aaay victims In tha deciding: Sat. Miaa Wills, In dethroning Mrs. Mallory, Mal-lory, administered tha first aet hack th Nora woman aver hag sustained In tha final round of tha tltla queat and tha second defeat tha latter haa lufferad In nlna yea ra of tournament history In this country. Back In 191. Mrs.. Mallory, then Mis Bjurstedt. was off form through lUnsas, and fall be for a Miaa Marlon Zlnderstela, of W II mlnf ton. Dal., now Mra. John B. Jeaaup. in an aarly round. Mrs, W'ghtman waa tha avantual winner of ifte tournament, tha only one aince lila, until this saaaon in which th Norse woman haa failed to emerge victorious. It waa one of the most decisive defeats, de-feats, too. that Mra. Mallory haa received re-ceived In Her long and brilliant career ca-reer t Last year. In the final round of the world's championship at Wimbledon, Wim-bledon, Mile. Lens:ln overwhelmed the American, t.t, d-e. but the victory vic-tory of Mlas Wills today while she allowed her rival one more gme than did the French woman, waa nooe the less crushing la lui finality. MOLLA WAS BIO FAVORITC, Tha decisiveness of tha triumph hy the coaat girl, who had Barer been able to more than extend Mrs. Mallory Mal-lory came as a distinct aurprlsa ta entice, even thoaa who held out the htchest hones for Miaa Wllia aa a re- spectacular gurtrlermesg Hi the coast -girl's favor, t Filching the lines with her drlvea, e haa rig the champion from aide to side with forehand and backhand thot that whistled acroaa the net, Mlas Wills won four straight games with the log of but one point. Mrs, Mailory rallied, and with the eld of three placement, forced the ft -na fame of the act to deuce twice, but then tossed awajr har chances with two errora fttnrttnr the socrmrt; set-1 with -the -same re lent leas attack. Miss Wills ran throuATh three straight games, giving har a totdt of eight In aucceaa ion. before be-fore she wag momentarily checked. But though Mrs. Mallory won the fourth, after It had gone to deure, on hr aw n service. It proved only the final courageous stand of a fallen champion. Miss Wills quickly took the offensive to win the neat three fame and clinch the match. Mrs. Mallory forced tha sixth game to deuce throe limes before yielding and In tha last game netted 'three shota, while h pretty placemnt down the side Hnea gave Ilia WUla her other winning- point. VOUNOtaT TO WIN HONOR. Tha new champion, who take rank with Mrs, Button Bundy aa the youngest young-est player to win the national women's wo-men's title has risen to high eat com-petltkm. com-petltkm. She flrat attracted attention In If 21 when she captured (he national na-tional giiie' ehamptenahlp. repeating1 her victory last year whan she also entered the women title events for the first Ome, winning the national doubles with Mrs, Marie Zlnderatem Jeesup aa har partner and reaching tha final round a-! net Mra. MaUvry. who won by e-1. , Though har game showed vast Improvement Im-provement she had been beaten twice this year, first by Miaa Eleanor cioae In an Invitation tourney at Baabright, N. J., and two weeks ago hy Aire. Mallory In the final of the New York . state women's tournament at Rye. N. T. Almost overnight, howoyer, she reached new heights, defeating Miaa McKane and Mrs. R " Clayton, Clay-ton, of England In the international ma ton laat Saturday and Monday and then starting national tournament, Slayed at tha earn a dassllng pace, ha loot but one set, all week In her triumphant march and that t Mlas McfcUne la the fourth round Thursday. MOLLA MAS OR BAT BKCORO. - Mrs. Mallory made her first appear , ance in American tournament play In It la, coming- to thig country from Chrtetlenla, Norway. Her flrat victory vic-tory wag In the national Indoor champion cham-pion eh I p which she followed with a eertaaj of triumphs Unprecedented In women's court annals. 0he won the turf court tournament of lvil and lilt and then, with official championship cham-pionship abandoned because of the war, won a patriotic tournament In 117. Sha repeated In and after bar aet back In resumed a gway unbroken for three mora year, she has tried unsuccessfully for the past three yedra ta lift the worid'a title at W lm Medon. h ar near eat a pproa n h coming- In 112 J when aha fell before Mile. Xanclciu suit of her sensational march to victory vic-tory through the international field that started tournament play last Monday. There waa no question that aha hag reached the topmost heights of her Sitne all week, but few expected Mrs. allory, who also had been showing her beat form to be swept aside so easily. But where ahe had seemed nervoug uncertainty in opposing ths veteran titleholder prevtouaiy, Mies Wills today waa the picture of confidence. con-fidence. zcept for a few momenta of Inaccuracy at the start, she played with superb skill and oool general nip. OIRL SHOWS QRnAT SKILL. It wag this iwsoureefulnsos, this lm. perturbablllty under the hottest of the champion's fire, coupled with the all rvuira irmnmiun VI auvniiisj " cast the verdict In Miaa Wills' favor. fa-vor. One of the hardest hitting; players play-ers ths game aver known Miss wills matched drive for drive putting. If anything more pace Into her shots than Mrs, Mallory could muster, while time after time she whipped across placement shots that the caampioa could barely get her racquet on. Mrs. Mallory fought her hardest, bringing off many remarkable returns re-turns and prolonging many brilliant rallies from the haee line but Inevitably Inevit-ably she was forced to the defenalve, giving Mies Wills a chance for a mashing cross court ace or being forced into errors by the eheer power of her young rival a atrokea, StOI TURNS FOR OIRL. i Neither was able to make har eervlce eerv-lce effective in the first four games of the opening set. Mrs. Mallory breaking through at love In the third game while Miss Wills retaliated In similar manner on the champion's delivery In the fourth. At this stags of the match the tide turned with |