Word: bostock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the matches, the U.S. girls practiced under a blazing sun on the Forest Hills (L.I.) courts, subject to the stern eye and acid comments of Cup Donor Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. When one of them loitered over a courtside conversation, Mrs. Wightman snapped: "Stalling! Stalling!" Sighed blonde Jean Bostock, as she watched Margaret Osborne: "I'll be lucky to even get a point!" The British girls had been experimenting with U.S. menus. Pert Betty Hilton was feeling poorly. "It's because of the cream puffs," confided Teammate Kay Stammers Menzies...
Margaret Osborne, 1947 Wimbledon champion and the world's ranking amateur, Jean Bostock got much more than the single point she had hoped for. With a tenacious retrieving game, she took the second set, lost the third and deciding one, only when Miss Osborne got her forecourt game going full blast. With an earnest manner and a well-displayed figure, Mrs. Bostock succeeded in making the Forest Hills crowd unmistakably pro-British...
...Wimbledon, red-haired Pauline Betz of the U.S. Wightman Cup team slammed drive after drive past 23-year-old Jean Bostock, best of Britain's women players. The U.S. team did not lose a set in seven matches...