Word: gladman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still: plays capable tennis herself, substituted chubby Dorothy May Sutton Bundy for Miss Jacobs, who had done enough for one day. Miss Bundy, daughter of onetime (1904) U. S. Champion May Sutton, squealed, giggled, sprawled, enjoyed herself so thoroughly in her first Wightman Cup match that she and Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn lost to Miss Stammers & Freda James, 6-3, 10-8, only U. S. defeat of the series...
...Donald Budge & Gene Mako, Carolin Babcock & Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn, Alice Marble & Gene Mako: U. S. tennis championships at Men's, Women's and Mixed Doubles respectively; at the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston...
Thirteen years ago a pert, pretty 14-year-old California girl named Marjorie Gladman watched with interest her first tennis match. She thought it "an awfully nice game," coaxed her father for a racket. Four years later, under famed Coach Mercer Beasley, she wielded it with such proficiency that she won the National Girls' Championship. In 1928 she met John Van Ryn who, just out of Princeton, was winning recognition on the courts as a "giant-killer." By talking shop at tournament after tournament, they became fond of each other. In 1930 they were married...
...match with Peggy Scriven, Helen Jacobs let the English girl get as far as 30-all. Then, playing pat-ball tennis to match her opponent's, she won four games in a row for set, match and series - 4 matches to 3 after Alice Marble and Marjone Gladman Van Ryn lost the doubles...
...semifinal, Carolyn Babcock was paired against Joan Ridley. She beat the English girl again in three long sets that took an hour and a half 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. On the other side of the draw, muscular Helen Jacobs had had one shaky afternoon against Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn, who interrupted the match frequently to inquire of press telegraphers about her husband, playing Ellsworth Vines at Newport (see below). Both Van Ryns lost. Two days later Helen Jacobs took the step penultimate to what she hoped would be her first U. S. championship by beating another British semifinalist...