Word: lenglen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just become President, Jack Dempsey was Heavyweight Champion and Babe Ruth was playing his fourth season with the New York Yankees the year she won the U. S. Women's Championship for the first time, in 1923, against nutbrown, iron-muscled Molla Biurstedt Mallory. By 1927, after Suzanne Lenglen had turned professional, Helen Wills, at 21, was admittedly the ablest amateur woman tennis player in the world. In 1929, she was presented at Buckingham Palace in a shin-length ivory satin dress, exhibited her paintings in London, won the Wimbledon title for the third time, married Frederick S. Moody...
...Manhattan. He took up professional baseball, became an accountant, was rejected by the Army because of poor eyesight, squeaked through a second examination to become the champion machine-gun marksman of the Tenth Division. After the War he studied osteopathy, trained Harry Greb, the French Davis Cup team, Suzanne Lenglen, Red Grange, Richards, Hunter, Tilden...
...Elizabeth ("Bunny") Ryan won her first tennis championship in 1912. She went to England for the summer of 1914, stayed abroad to drive an ambulance in the War. Since the War, she has won 20 titles at Wimbledon (doubles and mixed doubles), innumerable minor championships, played Suzanne Lenglen in a Wimbledon singles final. Last week, equipped with a British accent and a contract to write about the tournament, Elizabeth Ryan, 43. was entered at Forest Hills. Playing in shorts for the first time in her career, she lost to Helen Jacobs in the quarterfinals...
...first time Henri Cochet visited the U. S., in 1921, he was a member of Suzanne Lenglen's entourage. It was his job to run out on the tennis court with smelling-salts when she felt indisposed. The last time he left the U. S., in 1932, he had just lost to Ellsworth Vines in the finals of the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills. He denounced tournament, courts, officials, vowed never to come back. Last week Cochet broke his vow when he and stubby little Martin Plaa, for five years trainer of French Davis Cup teams, started...
...Suzanne Lenglen, after losing a set to Molla Mallory, defaulted when she developed a hacking cough. That set the pattern for the extraordinary way in which Mrs. Moody's supremacy in women's tennis, unchallenged for seven years, ended last week. In the first game of the third set, she double-faulted twice, so feebly that the crowd grew restless and Umpire Benjamin Dwight had to hold up his hand for silence. Helen Jacobs won that game and the next, from 0-30. Serving again, Mrs. Moody won one point and then lost four...