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Next to Helen Wills Moody, Wimbledon's favorite U. S. lady tennis player is brown-eyed little Sarah Palfrey Fabyan who, almost singlehanded, beat the British Wightman Cup team in 1934 by winning two matches which everyone expected her to lose. Last week, 10,000 of Mrs. Fabyan's admirers gathered in Wimbledon's uncomfortable old stands to see whether history would repeat itself. It was the second day of the Wightman Cup series. England was leading, two matches to one with four matches left...
Women. The absence of Helen Wills Moody gave her archrival, Helen Jacobs, a chance to become the first woman who has ever won the U. S. Singles Championship four years in a row. Her major obstacles were Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, Carolin Babcock and left-handed Kay Stammers of England...
...Stammers took care of Carolin Babcock in the quarterfinals. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan took care of Kay Stammers the next day. On the afternoon of the Allison-Perry match, to which her characteristic bad luck made her own triumph an anticlimax, Helen Jacobs quickly and calmly took care of Sarah Palfrey Fabyan herself...
...beat one Gertrude Dwyer 6-0, 6-2, after winning eleven games in a row. For her first opponent, Helen Jacobs drew Mrs. H. Walter Blumenthal (the onetime Baroness Levi), fifth in U. S. women's ranking, had a hard time winning, 6-3, 6-4. Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan played the best tennis of the women during the week, avalanching Helen Pederson with hard drives and volleys in two love sets...
...veterans among veterans, Frederick C. ("Pop") Baggs and Dr. William Rosenbaum, were finally ousted as champions by a pair of oldsters from Boston named Raymond B. Bidwell and Richard Bishop. Mixed doubles winners, after a polyglot final against Kay Stammers of England and Roderick Menzel of Czechoslovakia, were Sarah Palfrey Fabyan of Boston and Enrique Maier of Spain. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan and Helen Jacobs won the women's doubles for the third time when they ran through Dorothy Andrus and Carolin Babcock, 6-4, 6-2. The most important match of the week-final...