Word: jessup
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experts thought that the greatest obstacle confronting Helen was not Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, from whom she won her title last year; nor Mrs. George Wightman, her Olympic doubles partner; nor Eleanor Goss nor Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, other members of the American women's team that went to Wimbledon and Colombes; nor Mayme MacDonald, national clay court champion. Experts scrutinized a lithe figure that appeared from secluded practice courts in upper New York State, recognized Miss Mary K. Browne of California, national champion...
Tennis. In the torrid hollow back of Colombes Stadium, scene of the steeplechasers' collapse (TIME, July 21), the Olympic tennis courts were swept clean by Americans. Women's singles: Helen Wills. Women's doubles: Helen Wills and Mrs. George Wightman. Mixed doubles: Mrs. Marion Jessup and Vincent Richards. Men's singles: Vincent Richards. Men's doubles: Vincent Richards and Francis T. Hunter...
...first day Mrs. B. C. Covell (British) defeated Helen Wills 6-2, 6-4; Miss G. McKane (British) defeated Mrs. Molla Mallory 6-3, 6-3; Mrs. B. C. Covell and Mrs. D. C Shepherd-Barron (British) defeated Mrs. J. B. Jessup and Eleanor Goss...
...bosh.' I've played on all kinds of courts and with all kinds of balls, and class will always tell!" In the invitation tennis tournament held at Roehampton, also a suburb of London, Mrs. Molla Mallory was defeated by her countrywoman, Eleanor Goss. Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup of the U. S. defeated Miss E. H. Harvey of Britain. The scores were: 6-4, 6-1 in the Mallory-Goss match; 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 in the Jessup-Harvey match...
Women. Captain, Mrs. George Wightman of Brookline, Mass,; Helen Wills of Berkeley, Calif., national champion; Eleanor Goss of Manhattan, third ranking player; Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup of Wilmington, Del. Alternates: Lilian Scharman of Brooklyn; Leslie Bancroft and Edith Sigourney of Boston...