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...world. Of 16 tournaments she entered, she had reached the finals in all, won the cup and singles titles in thirteen.* When she overpowered Britain's Angela Mortimer (6-0, 12-10) in Paris last week to win her 13th, the French women's singles championship, Althea Gibson, 28, flew over the net like a happy starling. In all Althea's long map-girdling season of success, the only woman she had not been able to beat was Angela Mortimer...
Merely getting to Paris was a signal achievement for Althea Gibson. She is a Negro, and she entered the aristocratic world of international tennis by the back door. Althea sneaked up on the game by playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem. She was 14 when she so impressed a Police Athletic League supervisor that he bought her a full-size racket. Later the pro at Harlem's Cosmopolitan Tennis Club taught her court tactics and coaxed her into daily practice. By 1948, at the age of 20, she was Negro women's champion. The prim...
...Merion Cricket Club, Wimbledon Champion Tony Trabert whipped his Davis Cup Teammate Vic Seixas and took away the Pennsylvania State Grass Court championship, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. Earlier, in the Pennsylvania and Eastern women's final, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough beat New York State Champion Althea Gibson for the women's title...
When lanky Althea Gibson, Negro women's tennis champion, cracked the tennis color line in 1950, she soon proved that she could hold her own with the nation's best women players. Althea, then 22, reached the finals of her first National Indoor championship before losing to Nancy Chaffee. Fast improving with the chance to play against topflight competition, Althea went on to win the Good Neighbor Tournament (in Florida) and an international invitation tournament (in Germany). Last week, already enjoying a No. 9 national ranking, Althea became the first of her race to win another honor...
...Althea were divorced. Their daughter, Rosemary, has just finished her sophomore year at the University of Pennsylvania. She has shown marked acting talent, perhaps inherited from her paternal grandmother. Thurber is an affectionate father; he and his daughter get along splendidly. Althea is now the wife of Dr. Allen Gilmore, head of the history department at Carnegie Tech...