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...Jacobs won the first set on steady, well-placed chop strokes. In the second, she got a lead of 2-0, needed only four more games to add the U. S. title to the English one she won at Wimbledon this year. She could not get them. Flicking speedy forehand drives into the corners of the Jacobs court, pounding her American twist serve to force defensive returns, dropping soft shots just over the net when her opponent tried to play deep, Alice Marble won six of the next seven games...
...Eleanor Tennant who, third ranking U. S. player in 1920, had since become Hollywood's best known coach. When she was 19 Alice Marble left her home in San Francisco, went to live with Coach Tennant who hired her as secretary, taught her not only a new forehand but also numerology, bodybuilding, cooking, how to act in the company of screen celebrities and the fundamental points of Bahaism...
...tennist, Helen Jacobs has a game marked less by brilliance or speed of stroke than by steadiness and tactical skill. Her most dependable stroke is a forehand slice, taught her by Tilden. She places it with magnificent depth, tantalizing accuracy. She trains by skipping rope, drinks sherry, wears a hair net, uses little makeup, no red nail polish. She owns a Border terrier named Laetitia of Crendon, likes amusing socialites, has thus far shown no romantic interest in men. She plays bad ping pong. Helen Jacobs is not a Jew. She weighs 124 Ib. She walks with her feet pointing...
...learn that loud chatting and peanut shelling are not good manners at tennis matches. Never likely to rival either Tilden or Lenglen as a drawing card, Ethel Burkhardt Arnold is at least likely to amaze galleries by her size (4 ft. 11 in.), the speed of her awkward forehand drive, her almost incredible stamina. As Ethel Burkhardt, she ranked high among amateur women tennists in 1929 and 1930. She dropped out of major play for four seasons, re-emerged last summer as the wife of a Los Angeles rug salesman, to become the summer's tennis sensation...
...began when the New York Herald Tribune ran a two-column story to the effect that Frankie Parker had decided not to return to school. Instead, he would spend a winter in Bermuda, where Mercer Beasley teaches tennis. Said Frankie Parker: "You know what my forehand shot is or rather what it isn't. . . . I figure that I can't get anywhere unless I give more time to the game. . . ." It continued the next day, with a letter from Holcombe Ward, chairman of the U. S. Davis Cup Committee, urging Frankie Parker not to give up school. Said...