Word: jacobses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the sun came out and the strange epic of Frankie Parker's adolescent turmoils vanished from sports pages, editorials and columns as quickly as the puddles on the West Side Tennis Club's courts. Frank Shields, playing better than ever before in his life, took one...
Women. Left-handed Kay Stammers, prettiest girl in the tournament, warmed up with Perry, beat one Gertrude Dwyer 6-0, 6-2, after winning eleven games in a row. For her first opponent, Helen Jacobs drew Mrs. H. Walter Blumenthal (the onetime Baroness Levi), fifth in U. S. women'...
Doubles. Chestnut Hill last week was the scene of no fewer than five simultaneous U. S. doubles championships- men's, women's, mixed, veterans' and father & son. The father & son tournament was distinguished by the performance of the Davis Cup's donor, 56-year-old Dwight...
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...
Tennis, a game in which size and muscle would appear to be indispensable, always includes one or more practicing peewees. Like Bill Johnston and Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, Mrs. Arnold, 120 Ib. and just 5 ft., often looks absurd when she comes out on the court, smiling shyly up at her...