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Show HELEN THROUGH AS FIGHT FAN Witnessed Recent Walker-Willis Walker-Willis Bout at Frisco. Miss Helen Wills, women's tennis champion, who attended the recent Mickey Walker-Jack Willis prize, fight at San Francisco, made known afterward that she never wanted to; see another ring battle. ' "Unless," she added, "I might have, the opportunity to see Mr. Tunney some day. I understand he boxes and does not fight. I think I might like that" Miss Wills attended the bout after she received the approval of her parents par-ents that it was "perfectly all right for women to attend prize fights if they wanted to." "The fight was very Interesting,' said Miss Wilis. "But I do not want to go again. Tennis is the only game, and I do not believe that anyone who really loves tennis like I do could ever become a fight fan. The two sports are so different it Is hard to talk about them together. "But I really was agreeably surprised sur-prised at the way things were handled. han-dled. It was so much nicer and more comfortable than 1 expected it would he, but I was surprised that there were so few women there. "What particularly interested and fascinated me was the beautiful play of muscles displayed during the fight and the footwork. "Yes, I am glad I went but I am quite sure I shall never go to another fight. You know, I have yet to see a six-day bicycle race and an Ice hockey game. I want to see everything in the line of sports, at least once." |