Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What interested people most about it this year was why Helen Wills Moody had decided not to defend her U. S. championship. She has been married eight months. In this period she has spent three months in Europe playing tennis. A brash guess was that the title she has won...
Thick-legged and firmly fleshed over her solid muscles, ebulliently British in manner, conveying an impression of good nature by her obvious healthfulness and a smile far better dentifriced than most English girls', Betty Nuthall was the tournament's only box-office attraction. At the West Side Tennis Club she...
The only upset of the early rounds was the beating which a 20-year-old Sacramento girl named Dorothy Weisel gave famed and able young Sarah Palfrey of Boston, 6-2, 6-8, 6-4. That day Betty Xuthall put out Edith Cross, 6-0, 6-3. Her shots were...
Marjorie Morrill gave Betty Nuthall her hardest test of the tournament. She won the first set after the English girl had had her set-point twice. As though this had definitely decided the way the match was going to go, tall Marjorie Morrill took a lead of 4-2 in...
The tournament was virtually over. After a postponement for rain, Betty Nuthall played Mrs. Harper, who had disposed of the Baroness. There were a few minutes in the second set when Mrs. Harper put up fight. Before and after that there was nothing to it. Betty Nuthall had won the...