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Twice she trounced 22-year-old Pauline Betz, second-ranking woman tennist. In the Longwood Invitation tournament this week she humbled San Francisco's fourth-ranking Margaret Osborne the second time. At Maidstone, she wore sixth-ranking Helen Bernhard ragged...
...Suzanne Lenglen, no Alice Marble, no Helen Wills among the women either. Helen Jacobs, the nearest thing to one, was tired. Little Sarah Palfrey Fabyan ("Twinkletoes") Cooke ran over Jacobs in the semifinal, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1. Then good-looking Mrs. Cooke tangled with good-looking Pauline Betz in the final. Result: first championship for Twinkletoes in a good many years of trying, 7-5, 6-2. At 28, she is the oldest first-time winner of the Forest Hills singles...
...literal interpretation of your article would indicate that Miss Betz was violating the amateur regulations of the U.S.L.T.A...
Inasmuch as there are many followers of amateur tennis who may find it difficult to reconcile your statement with Miss Betz's activities in amateur tennis, I believe it only right that you, correct this erroneous impression...
...TIME was misled by an unclearly worded report from a correspondent. Pauline ("Bobbie") Betz, national women's indoor champion, and other stars at Rollins, including Dorothy Bundy and Jack Kramer, do some work in return for their scholarships, but that work does not include tennis instruction, so their amateur status is intact...