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...Clarence A. Wills took his quiet pig-tailed daughter to a sunny tennis court in Berkeley, Cal., and handed her a racquet which she swung at first like a nightstick. She missed the first ball. She changed her grip and hit the next one. Within a month she could defeat her father. Four years later, when she was 15, she won the U. S. junior singles champion ship. Before she was 17 she drove back the shots of burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory and became champion of the U. S. Two years later she met her most glorious defeat at Cannes...
...three doubles matches, the Harvard University tennis team defeated the Yale netmen at New Haven Saturday by the narrow margin of 5 to 4. It was the twelfth consecutive victory for Captain B. H. Whitbeck's team, but it was earned only after some intensive struggles with the Blue racquet wielders...
...Blue, defeated by Princeton last Saturday, still is conceded to have one of the strongest teams in the country and comparative scores give it a slight edge on the Harvard netmen. The Elis defeated Williams, 8 to 1, and the Purple should furnish no stronger opposition to the Crimson racquet wielders, so that today's match may help to forecast the outcome of Saturday's contest...
...Harvard tennis aggregation will be attempting to extend to ten its string of victories when it journeys to Providence this afternoon for a match with the Brown University racquet wielders. The Brown coach has not announced either his doubles combinations or the sixth man of his singles players, while Coach Cowles seldom picks his doubles groups until after the singles matches have been played...
...Harvard tennis team will stack up against the M. I. T. racquet wielders at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon on the Divinity Courts. The visitors, after losing to Amherst and Wesleyan, conquered Tufts and B. U., but the local aggregation should have no trouble in extending to nine its string of successive victories. Coach Cowles has not yet announced his doubles combinations, although Ogden Phipps '31 and W. H. Breese '31 will undoubtedly play...