Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winning a three-set quarter-finals match over tennis mentor Bob Ashley, Bill Wightman, one of his star netmen, last week advanced to the semi-finals of the University summer tennis tournament. Ashley, graduate student, had been the favorite of the tourney...
Bill Wightman, Varsity Coach Bob Ashley's number three singles man, became the first player to enter the quarter-finals of the University summer tennis tournament this weekend, when he won a three-set victory over Edus Warren, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. Play in the tournament thus far has been held up by inability of opponents to find convenient dates for a meeting, and Wightman is the only racqueteer to enter the final eight...
...Ashley, a graduate student and the favorite in the tournament, won his first round match over Ed Finkestein with little trouble, dropping only a single game in a 6-0, 6-1 triumph. Ashley is slated next to meet Hal Melvin, a member of the Varsity squad, with the winner scheduled to face Wighman...
Lady Sylvia Stanley, ex-Lady Ashley, widow of Douglas Fairbanks, sued her titled third husband for $14,732 of household pin money, which she now considered a bad debt (recently he filed a separation petition, charging adultery). A London court awarded her $431.60. Lord Stanley's attorney, Sir Patrick Hastings, summed up his idea of the case: " 'Hell hath no fury...
...competition last Wednesday, players from the Graduate Schools won a 7 to 2 victory over the Crimson crew. Ashley, Douropulos, Fox, and Burns from the graduate schools won singles, and all three graduate school doubles teams, Ashley and Fox, Greespan and Martin, and Burton and Sadove, were victorious...