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...Folsom did not send me to Eleanor Tennant for coaching . . . It was after I had discontinued lessons with him that a friend of mine, Mrs. Curt Tree, of Los Angeles, recommended Miss Tennant and arranged our introduction. MAUREEN CONNOLLY San Diego...
...Tennis Champ Maureen Connolly, 17, went to work on her first full-time job: as a copy girl on the San Diego Union...
...Australia's Frank Sedgman, new U.S. National men's singles champion, and Maureen Connolly, new National women's singles queen (TIME, Sept. 17), the Pacific Southwest tennis championships; in Los Angeles. Playing on the Los Angeles Tennis Club's cement courts, Sedgman swept to his victory in the final over Cincinnati's Tony Trabert, 6-3, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, while Maureen, a day short of her 17th birthday, defeated Santa Monica's Beverly Baker, 9-7, 6-4. ¶Professional Golfer Betsy Rawls, 23, of Austin, Texas, the Women...
...breezing through to the final without dropping a set, Maureen bowled over Veteran Doris Hart, three-time U.S. runner-up. Only Akron's steady Shirley Fry then stood between Little Mo and the big crown. After a battle fought mostly from the baselines, Loser Fry surveyed the result (6-3, 1-6, 6-4), then ruefully said: "No one can duel with her at the baseline . . . Go up to the net against her? . . . Ridiculous...
...youngest: May Sutton, who, when she won the title in 1904, was 2½ months younger than Maureen was on her day of triumph...