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...Pauline Betz (Sept. 2, 1946), top woman tennis player, lost only one set in seven matches while winning the U.S. Women's Singles Championship in the week of the cover...
...Milwaukee, Gussie Moran over Pauline Betz Addie, 6-4, after nine straight tennis exhibition losses...
Gussie Moran got top billing as the tennis pros opened their winter tour in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week; Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura and Pauline Betz Addie took what poster space was left. As a reflection of tennis ability this made no sense, but the pros knew what they were doing. Their box-office mixture is not tennis alone, but tennis with a brimming jigger of circus stuff...
...great surprise that in the week before the match, prancy Gussie Moran, seventh-ranking U.S. amateur last year, spent a good part of her time in press conferences where she was asked whether she would wear lace panties or a leopard-skin number. Meanwhile, her opponent, Pauline Betz Addie, put in a week of hard practice, polishing up the game that had made her (1942, '43, '44, '46) a four-time national champion...
Women's tennis for the past four years has been dominated by Louise Brough, Wimbledon champion in 1949, and Margaret Osborne Du Pont, neither of whom has ever shown the verve of Pauline Betz or the grace of Alice Marble. Doris Hart, ranked third, has an outside chance of breaking up the Brough-Du Pont monopoly this year. No one expected as much of bouncing Gussie Moran, pressagent product of a tennis era in which mediocrity is often confused with talent...