Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smuggling a perplexing problem. Federal authorities say that marijuana, though a drug, is not a narcotic drug and therefore its users cannot be prosecuted under the Harrison Act. So in Louisiana the Legislature passed its own antimarijuana law. In California, Cornetist Louis Armstrong ("world's greatest Negro cornet player") was sentenced to jail for 30 days for taking poison when caught smoking a "reefer...
Joan Ridley, an English player but not a member of the Wightman Cup team, got as far as 3-a11 in the first set the next day, when a storm interrupted the matches and drenched 2,500 spectators. Mrs. Moody won the next nine games and the match...
...finals, Mrs. Moody's opponent was Eileen Bennett Whittingstall. Before her marriage to Painter Edmund Fearnley Whittingstall, Eileen Bennett defeated Mrs. Molla Mallory in the 1928 Wightman Cup Matches. Still the prettiest and best-dressed of woman tennis players, her game has improved brilliantly this year. But while Mrs. Moody was sweeping through the upper half of the draw almost as easily as in 1929. Mrs. Whittingstall was having a hard time of it in the lower half. In the quarter-finals she played a great match against Helen Jacobs, considered second best woman player in the U.S. After...
...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...