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...been nearly champion often enough to get it some day.' Of course it is absurd that I should say such a thing when, as everyone knows, William Johnston was champion in 1915 and 1919. Also, the article had me speak twice of an English player, named Mrs. McKane. No such character exists. One would not think that Collier's with the third largest circulation among U. S. national weeklies, would make such a stupid error...
...courses; "Pop" Fuller had stimulated her interest in drawing; he owned some good pictures and took her every year to the exhibition of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco. In 1924 she won the U. S. national title again, but lost in the Wimbledon finals to Kathleen McKane...
...failed to mention the women who were competing there. After a two-column story about some match in the men's singles, there would be a sentence or two mentioning a "taut white skirt" and, perhaps, tucked under one of Tilden's feet. a picture of Kitty McKane, British champion in 1924. Miss McKane is now, resolutely, Mrs. Godfree, and this year her picture was at the top of every spread. Over the shadows of Helen Wills (scratched), of Suzanne Lenglen (retired), of Molla Mallory (beaten), she stepped forward to win the "Women's Wimbledon...
...before the supreme test of the intercollegiates. The encounters will take place on. Thursday and Saturday of this week against a team made up of North Share sportsmen. The same Crimson team that sees action today will probably be in the saddles at Myopia. Against them Dudley Rogers, Shaw McKane, his brother Harvey McKane, and Frederick Prince will ride, all Poloists of considerable experience...
Married. Miss Kathleen McKane, unquestionably Britain's foremost woman tennis player, to L. A. Godfree, noted British Davis Cup star; at Kimberley, while touring South Africa with a British tennis team of which Mr. Godfree is captain...