Word: mathieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Paris, 28 de Lesseps, including Ferdinand's two surviving sons, Mathieu and Paul, attended the family preview. When it was over, despite the implied reflection on themselves and their parentage, the de Lesseps were not shocked enough to bring suit, suggested a few minor changes. Relieved, Twentieth Century-Fox officials agreed to make them...
Except for England's No. 1 Dorothy Round Little, whose recent marriage prevented her from defending the championship, all the best women tennists were entered: Chile's Anita Lizana (U. S. champion), France's Simone Mathieu (French champion), California's Dorothy Bundy (Australian champion), Poland's Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska (last year's runner-up at Wimbledon), Denmark's Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, California's Alice Marble, Helen Jacobs and Helen Wills Moody. Of the two most famed rivals, Helen Jacobs, out of recent competition because of an injured shoulder, was not even seeded...
First favorites to drop out were Helen Jacobs, Anita Lizana and Hilda Sperling. While they were losing to Dorothy Round, Simone Mathieu and Alice Marble, respectively, Jaja was busy beating the weakest sister among the quarter-finalists, England's Peggy Scriven. Two days later, Jaja defeated erratic Alice Marble, 8-6, 6-2, in the semi-finals after being behind at 3-5 and set-point in the first set. This achievement made her a strong favorite to bring Poland its first title in Wimbledon history...
...expression on Jaja's face when she faced Dorothy Round, who had outsteadied Mme Mathieu 6-4, 6-0 in the semifinals, made it unthinkable that she would fail to rise to this historic opportunity. Truer to feminine tennis tradition than to her somewhat unfeminine exterior, Jaja did the unthinkable. The match, as ragged a women's final as Wimbledon had seen since the War, proceeded as though each contestant, far below her best form, were trying to give points to the other. When it finally ended, Dorothy Round, champion in 1934, was champion again...
...summary: HARVARD '39 TUFTS '39 Williams. g. g., Goggin Bradley, r. f. b. r. f. b., Gorman Sheridan, l. f. b. l. f. b., Stratton Macneil, r. h. b. r. h. b., Burden Jacobson, c. h. b. c. h. b., Mathieu Phillips, r. h. b. r. h. b., Boyee, Atlas Mansing, Witkin, Roosevelt, r. o. r. o., Duckworth Hammond, Johnson, r. i. r. i., Ward Johansen, e. f. e. f., Dulker (Capt.) Lewis (Capt.), l. i. l. i., Bellard Harmien, Sinnett, l. o. l. o., Rockwood...