Word: mudford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wightman's protege, Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, began edging their team up by winning the first doubles match against Miss Stammers and Freda James. The next afternoon Mrs. Fabyan, who always plays better in the Wightman Cup series than anywhere else, continued her good work by beating Phyllis Mudford King and when Helen Jacobs was through with Dorothy Round, 6-3, 6-2, the U. S. needed only one more point for the series. It was up to Mrs. Arnold to get it in her match with "Kay" Stammers whose fast left-handed drive has helped make her England...
...semifinals, the Moody adversary was Phyllis Mudford, smallest member of the British Wightman Cup team, who had beaten Sarah Palfrey of Boston in the third round. Wearing an eyeshade and an expression of appealing determination, she looked so eagerly incompetent that Mrs. Moody neglected to put customary pace on her shots after winning the first five games. Little Miss Mudford then played as tigerishly as she could, ran the score...
...Dorothy C. Shepherd-Barron was captain; her civil-engineer husband accompanied the British Wightman Cup team as coach and chaperon. Mrs. Eileen Bennett Whittingstall, once the best woman tennis player in England, was still the prettiest. Dorothy Round and little Phyllis Mudford, whom no British player beat last year, had never played in the U. S. before. Betty Nuthall, plumper and more jolly than ever, was the team's No. i. They arrived in the U. S. three weeks ago, last week at Forest Hills lost the Wightman Cup to a U. S. team five matches...
...first day, her fingernails red and shiny as her racket strings, Helen Wills Moody played Phyllis Mudford. In a match against Mrs. Moody, almost every woman player looks as inefficient as Mrs. Moody would look if she were playing one of the top ten men. She netted one shot in the first set, played the Mudford backhand when she needed a point, won, 6-1, 6-4. Helen Jacobs has not been playing so well as usual this year; Mrs. Moody beat her 6-0, 6-0 a fortnight ago. When Helen Jacobs beat Betty Nuthall...
...needed one more match and got it the next day when Helen Jacobs, wearing a transparent skirt and an intermittent frown, chopped and drove at Phyllis Mudford's weak backhand till she won, 6-4, 6-2. The match between Helen Moody and Betty Nuthall was nothing like the one they played in 1929, when Mrs. Moody decided the Wightman Cup series by winning 8-6, 8-6. Last week, they played more craftily, put less pace on their shots. Betty Nuthall won the first game at love, held her own till the seventh game when she made four...