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With that taut solemnity which belongs only to steeplejacks and women athletes playing for their country, Helen Jacobs and Mrs. Wightman's protege, Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, began edging their team up by winning the first doubles match against Miss Stammers and Freda James. The next afternoon Mrs. Fabyan, who always plays better in the Wightman Cup series than anywhere else, continued her good work by beating Phyllis Mudford King and when Helen Jacobs was through with Dorothy Round, 6-3, 6-2, the U. S. needed only one more point for the series. It was up to Mrs. Arnold...
...When "Wimbledon Week"?which lasts two, climaxes the London season? ended, three other championships had been decided: Men's Doubles, Crawford and Adrian Quist of Australia; Women's Doubles. Katherine Stammers and Freda James of England; Mixed Doubles, Perry and Dorothy Round...
...Bobby" Edwards, son of devout Congregationalist parents, was a clerk with ambitions to be a minister. He became intimate with his next-door neighbor, a telephone operator named Freda McKechnie, whose father worked in the same coal company as Edwards' father. Both families attended the Bethesda Church. Three years ago Bobby Edwards went off to school at East Aurora, N. Y., fell in love with a plain-looking teacher named Margaret Grain. Their unusual romance was revealed to the jury of anthracite miners in terms of 172 letters written by Edwards to Miss Grain after he returned to Edwardsville. Mostly...
...went into the record, and helped make the jury believe that Edwards must have been determined to escape his obligation to pregnant Freda McKechnie. On the night of July 30 he drove with her to Harvey's Lake. Although it was raining, they slipped into their bathing suits in the automobile and went for a swim. Freda did not return home. Edwards told police a half-dozen stories of accidental death and incriminating circumstances. The last version, which he gave firmly from the witness stand last week, was that Freda had slipped while stepping from the dock into a rowboat...
When she left the court, Mrs. Moody said she hoped to come back later to play in the doubles final with Elizabeth Ryan against Betty Nuthall and Freda James...