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...minutes after Katherine Audrey Browne Beasley received a Nevada divorce decree last week from famed Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley, she applied for a license to marry her 22-year-old foster son, Franciszek Andzej Pajkowski, better known to followers of lawn tennis as Frankie Parker. When the license bureau asked Mrs. Beasley her age, she said "over 21"-a statement which she was able to back up by the fact that she has a 21-year-old daughter Katherine, as well as a son Jimmy, 14. By the marriage which followed, Frankie Parker became stepfather as well as foster brother...
...that Frankie Parker came into my life," Mercer Beasley once said. He was referring then to his professional, not his private life. In that year he picked up a likely-looking, $2-per-week ball boy in a Milwaukee tennis club, put a racket in his hand, coached him in caution and style so thoroughly that the Polish-American tennist now stands No. 3 in U. S. rankings. Further, Coach Beasley took Frankie away from Widow Anna Pajkowski, who was busy supporting five children, adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville, kept him well stocked with Mercer Beasley rackets and white...
Priscilla Clark Hodges Scholarship of $400 for study of biology to James O. Beasley 2G, of Wells, Texas...
...Frank Parker, protege of Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley: the U. S. Indoor Championship, 6-4, 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-1 against Frank Bowden in the final which he reached without losing a set; in Manhattan. New women's indoor champion: France's Mme Sylvia Henrotin...
Thirteen years ago a pert, pretty 14-year-old California girl named Marjorie Gladman watched with interest her first tennis match. She thought it "an awfully nice game," coaxed her father for a racket. Four years later, under famed Coach Mercer Beasley, she wielded it with such proficiency that she won the National Girls' Championship. In 1928 she met John Van Ryn who, just out of Princeton, was winning recognition on the courts as a "giant-killer." By talking shop at tournament after tournament, they became fond of each other. In 1930 they were married...