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...championship went not to a dark horse but to what the horse world calls a sleeper, i.e., one whose victory comes as a great surprise to all save the very sophisticated. Last year's Champion Alice Marble, who was scheduled to meet Poland's hefty Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska in the final, was instead put out in the quarter-finals by Dorothy May Bundy. Chubby Miss Bundy, who resembles her famed tennis-playing mother May Sutton (U. S. champion 1904, and Wimbledon champion 1905, 1907), more than her rotund and equally famed, tennis-playing father Tom (U. S. doubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Forest Hills Finalists | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...singles Defending Champion Alice Marble faced a domestic field headed by Helen Jacobs, whom she rudely upset last year. But she too was expected to find her chief difficulty with the foreign field, most notably with Chile's Anita Lizana and Poland's 154-lb. Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, who has met Champion Marble five times this year and beaten her four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champions at Forest Hills | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...Pigeon-toed Strongwoman Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, Poland's No. 1 woman tennist: the singles championship of the Maidstone Invitation Tournament, second major preliminary to next month's national championships, in her second week of competition on U. S. courts; defeating Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, U. S. No. 3, in the final, 6-2, 6-3; at East Hampton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 16, 1937 | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, Polish girl tennist: the St. George's Hill Championship; 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the final against U. S. Champion Alice Marble, for whom it was the third consecutive defeat in minor English tournaments the past month; at Weybridge, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 14, 1937 | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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