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Tennis for the King. The Betz Club got its first foreign seasoning in June. For the first time since 1938, the top five U.S. women players-Betz, Osborne, Brough, Pat Todd and Florida's Doris Hart-headed for England to play Britain's top women in Wightman Cup competition. The U.S. team blasted Britain's out-of-practice best off the courts in seven straight matches without dropping a set. Betz won the Wimbledon Singles crown, a glory at least equal to the U.S. championship. In Paris three weeks later, Osborne handed Betz...
...Osborne and Brough, who have not lost a national doubles championship match in four years, beat Betz and Doris Hart. Score...
...Brough and Tom Brown captured the mixed doubles from Geoff Brown and Bundy...
Hefty, healthy Dorothy ("Dodo") Bundy wore down Britain's left-handed Kay Stammers Menzies, 32, not the player she once was but still the prettiest thing on the courts. Freckled, pudgy Margaret Osborne, a hard hitter, and Louise Brough (rhymes with rough), a big doe-eyed blonde, inseparable off the courts, were unbeatable as a doubles team. Best of the California four: hard-driving Pauline ("Bobby") Betz...
...finals, Pauline sailed into fellow-Californian Brough, with Queen Mary and Prime Minister Clement Attlee looking on. She won, 6-2, 6-4. The doubles were a triple triumph for California...