Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the first few days of the National Tennis championship at Forest Hills (L. I.), spectators more knowing than those who come later in the week stroll about among the outside courts, comparing notes on familiar players, making a patter of applause that punctuates the cool syncopation of tennis balls bouncing against turf and strings. There was plenty of material for sideline talk last week. Ellsworth Vines Jr., defending his championship, and Henri Cochet, keyed to avenge the beating Vines gave him at Roland Garros stadium, had first-round byes. . . . Bunny Austin, England's No. i player, wearing...
Spectators at Forest Hills last week were well aware of Frankie Parker, most amazing tennis phenomenon of the year, who has four times this season beaten the No. 2 U. S. player, George Lott Jr. Most spectators knew that he had been tutored by Mercer Beasley, tennis coach at Tulane University and instructor at the Detroit Tennis Club. Beasley's other pupils- Vines, Sutter, Carolyn Babcock-have done so well this year and last that Beasley has become the best known teacher in the history of U. S. tennis. Had he been at Forest Hills last week instead...
...improve the calibre of Notlek tennis, was rewarded by an offer to become tennis coach at the Indian Hill Club in Winnetka, Ill. Said William Tatem Tilden II, when they met for the first time : "Beasley, there are two ways to get to the top. Be a wonderful player, which you cannot be; the other, study." Mercer Beasley, handicapped by poor eye sight, chose study. In 1928 he became coach at Tulane. Since then he has acquired an elaborate methodology, a Persian cat named Baron Kimura, such prestige that the Davis Cup team last spring wired him: "We wish there...
...Frank Shields and the defending champions, John Van Ryn & Wilmer Allison. It often happens, despite careful seeding, that the best match in a national tournament comes in the semi-finals and it happened last week, when Van Ryn & Allison played Lott & Shields. Lott is undoubtedly the ablest doubles player in the U. S. Van Ryn & Allison have been teamed so long that their games mesh perfectly. They ran out the first set easily at 6-3. Then Lott, who has won the doubles title three times (with John Hennessey, 1928; with John Doeg, 1929-30), began to rifle his forehands...
...Helen Wills Moody is so much the best women's tennis player in the world that it is not unnatural for her to behave in ways that, for a lesser player, might seem arrogant. Moreover she is married and tends to be serious-minded. U. S. Lawn Tennis Association officials rather expected her to enter the singles championship at the last minute again this year but Helen Moody decided not to. She stayed in Paris, "to study painting." The U. S. L. T. A., which had paid her expenses abroad to play at Wimbledon, expecting she would return...