Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...budget is God-controlled. There is a real thrill and purpose in teas and dinner parties"-Mrs. Howard Reynolds. "I took time off from studying the part to listen to what God had to tell me. All fear of competition vanished"-Marion Clayton Anderson, bit player in Mutiny on the Bounty...
...licks," pass it on to Eddie Edwards' trombone. Henry Ragas' piano set the tempo. Tony Sbarbaro's drums rattled a furious counterpoint. Other New Orleans bands had similar technique but none developed it so highly as the Dixieland, whose members rehearsed so often together that each player could almost mind-read the others' musical intentions. In 1916 they were offered $125 a week to play in a Chicago cafe. In the history of the nation's native music, this engagement marks the date when real jazz went North...
...less than five feet, lost her second-round match to Elsie Corlett of Lancashire. Other favorites fell even more quickly than Patty, whom British bookmakers had backed as the No. 1 U. S. entrant in the Women's British Golf Championship, never won by a U. S. player. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, five-time contender for the title, lost her temper, then her first-round match to her close friend Charlotte Glutting. Defending Champion Wanda Morgan was also eliminated in the opening round. As it turned out, best of all the ladies was London's 19-year...
...been selected or had qualified in a preliminary tournament, assembled in the Hotel Astor to fight it out. Most intent spectators wrere moppets who paid 50? to study such intricate maneuvers as the King's gambit, the Alekhine defense. Busiest spectators were waiters who brought the players sandwiches, pitchers of milk or coffee. A scheduled exhibition between a 97-year-old player and a ic-year-old failed to take place when the oldster fell down in his home day before the match...