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Frankie Parker is a 19-year-old tennist from Milwaukee. Two years ago, his promise made such a profound impression upon Mercer Beasley that that famed coach not only undertook to improve his game but legally adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville. Last week, at Forest Hills, N. Y., Frankie Parker played Champion Fred Perry in the fourth round of the National Men's Singles Championship and lost, 4-6, 2-6, 0-6. Other things being equal, he should therewith have disappeared from public notice. Instead it rained for four days...
...began when the New York Herald Tribune ran a two-column story to the effect that Frankie Parker had decided not to return to school. Instead, he would spend a winter in Bermuda, where Mercer Beasley teaches tennis. Said Frankie Parker: "You know what my forehand shot is or rather what it isn't. . . . I figure that I can't get anywhere unless I give more time to the game. . . ." It continued the next day, with a letter from Holcombe Ward, chairman of the U. S. Davis Cup Committee, urging Frankie Parker not to give up school. Said...
...radio college" could claim Irene Beasley who at the National Electrical & Radio Exposition in Manhattan last week was crowned Queen of Radio for 1934. As a child in Whitehaven. Tenn., she used to play the bass while her 85-year-old grandmother played the treble. When she grew to a gangling 5 ft., 10 in., she started vocal lessons, hoped only to cultivate poise. But singing obsessed her even when she started school-teaching. Her radio début was over Memphis Station WMC. For two years she sang free in Chicago. Then Columbia Broadcasting System gave her a contract...
...three young hopefuls most mentioned as candidates for next year's Davis Cup team are red-haired Donald Budge, Junior Champion Gene Mako, and Coach Mercer Beasley's prize protege Frank Parker. Yet last week not one of them lasted beyond the quarterfinals...
...Wills fasts: "Ho! Ho! Ho! Does the Missus fast? I'll say she don't. She eats everything she can lay her hands on." Crawford Burton, 48, dean of U. S. hunt riders, twice winner of the Maryland Hunt Cup, said: "I see that John Beasley won the Punchester Steeplechase in Ireland at the age of 72. His son, who is 49, finished second. So you see, I'm really just a kid at the game. . . . Training? The real ones train on love...