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That set the stage for the preordained finale. But first Sarah Palfrey Cooke, back at Forest Hills after four years, recovered her abdicated singles throne. With green-ribboned pigtails flying, she beat Pauline Betz 3-6, 8-6, 6-4, and earned a husbandly kiss from Elwood...
...last gasp of the tennis season was an encore to the national championships at Forest Hills: in the Pacific Southwest finals at Los Angeles this week, Sergeant Frank Parker again topped 4-F Bill Talbert (6-4, 6-8, 8-6), and U.S. Champion Pauline Betz again bested Runner-up Margaret Osborne...
Thus the U.S., in 1944, had its two most colorless tennis champions in two decades. For the winner of the women's title was California's strawberry blonde, Pauline Betz, whose strokes are less brilliant than those of any first-ten competitor, but who rarely makes a mistake. She is also good-looking...
...first na tional clay-courts tennis championship ; by defeating fourth-seeded Mary Arnold 7-5, 6-4 ; at the Detroit Tennis Club. Daughter of May Sutton and Tom Bundy, both former national-title holders, the new champion scored the upset of the year by eliminating National Champion Pauline Betz, 7-5, 6-3, in the semifinals...
...Ladies Only. The women's final brought together two red-gold coiffured stylists, sturdy Louise Brough (rhymes with rock) and the trim 1942 champ with the trigger backhand, Pauline Betz. Miss Betz had a tough three-set tussle to renew her title...