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...year-old Frankie Parker (né Pajkowski), the sensational Milwaukee ball boy who rose to No. 2 ranking in 1936, clinched the Davis Cup for the U. S. in 1937, slumped last year after marrying his foster mother, Mrs. Mercer Beasley, and this year-cannier, more confident, and equipped with a new forehand-has shown promise of returning to his top-notch form...
...minutes after Katherine Audrey Browne Beasley received a Nevada divorce decree last week from famed Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley, she applied for a license to marry her 22-year-old foster son, Franciszek Andzej Pajkowski, better known to followers of lawn tennis as Frankie Parker. When the license bureau asked Mrs. Beasley her age, she said "over 21"-a statement which she was able to back up by the fact that she has a 21-year-old daughter Katherine, as well as a son Jimmy, 14. By the marriage which followed, Frankie Parker became stepfather as well as foster brother...
...likely-looking, $2-per-week ball boy in a Milwaukee tennis club, put a racket in his hand, coached him in caution and style so thoroughly that the Polish-American tennist now stands No. 3 in U. S. rankings. Further, Coach Beasley took Frankie away from Widow Anna Pajkowski, who was busy supporting five children, adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville, kept him well stocked with Mercer Beasley rackets and white flannel pants...
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