Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with tennis rackets under their tanned trained arms. They gathered to determine who is the best player in the U. S. Most of them felt that Helen Wills was the best, with the others ranked in fairly predictable groups behind her. Matters went as expected through the early rounds. Miss Wills won, Mrs. Molla Mallory won, all the visiting Englishwomen won except Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfree who defaulted to save herself for doubles...
...quarter finals came the first surprise. Mrs. Mallory, winner last year of the championship from Elizabeth Ryan (Miss Wills did not play), fell before the skill and determination of Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin. Tennis followers saw in the defeat the eclipse of Mrs. Mallory, who came to this country from Norway as Molla Bjurstedt in 1915, and through the years until Helen Wills appeared, monopolized the U. S. women's tennis spotlight...
...same round Holland's champion, Kea Bouman, was ousted. She took only three games in two from the relentless Miss Wills...
...born. U.S. readers, scanning the list, wondered. The six: Leone Krause (dramatic soprano) Chase Baromeo (basso) Olga Kargau (soprano) Elinor Mario (mezzo-soprano) Lucille Meusel (mezzo-soprano) Delia Samoiloff (soprano) It was not until they had read further to the effect that Miss Krause is the daughter of a Michigan clergyman; that Mr. Baromeo is a native of Ann Arbor, a graduate of the University of Michigan; that Miss Kargau went through a Chicago high school; that Miss Mario was trained for opera in San Francisco; that Miss Meusel is the daughter of a Wisconsin traveling salesman-that U.S. readers...
...Married. Miss Nancy Waterbury, daughter of Lawrence Waterbury, onetime (1902-14) U. S. International Polo Player; to one Harry Carter Milholland Jr., at Saratoga Springs...