Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home was Welby. "Next year," they said. In the women's singles, Alice Marble breezed through with scarcely a challenge, stood off a grim Helen Jacobs in the final, to the enjoyment of practically everybody but leathery oldster Molla Mallory, who said Alice would never be a tennis player until she learns to put some spin on her forehand...
Langdon Gilkey was the outstanding performer of the series, turning in two singles victories and teaming with Dave Burt in a doubles triumph in his three appearances. Gilkey was the no. 1 player on the combined American squad, while Burt and John Palfrey held down the no. 2 and 3 spots. Palfrey was the workhorse of the series, participating in five matches...
...Gerald Balding, high-goal polo player, who was to have played in next week's open championships at swank Meadow Brook Club, L. I., reported to the British Embassy in Washington for instructions...
...Among lenitives of other kinds many people will give a high place to the daily cross word. . . . Specially fortunate in wartime evenings is the chess player with a friendly opponent on the other side of the table. . . . A lenitive wisely used will lessen strain, will increase courage and composure, will help us through the hours of darkness, literal and metaphorical, to the sunlight that surely lies beyond...
...Australians were 3-to-1 favorites to regain the Cup they had lost in 1920. Ambidextrous, 20-year-old John Bromwich (Australia's top-ranking player) and stocky, 26-year-old Adrian K. Quist (Australia's No. 2) have been considered the world's best amateur tennists since California's Donald Budge turned professional last winter and Germany's Baron von Cramm retired to the sidelines...