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...Ethel Burkhardt, she learned tennis in San Francisco, went East at 20 in 1929, reached sixth place in national ranking in 1930, then married a carpet salesman and dropped out of major play. She called attention to her reappearance this year by winning in quick succession the Seabright, Manchester and Maidstone tournaments, in which all the best women players in the country except Mrs. Moody and Miss Jacobs were entered, and which are the major preliminaries to next week's National in which she is not entered...
...played the most graceful tennis in the U. S. for the last four years but who has always, out of some childish nervousness, failed to do her best in important matches. Last fortnight Sarah Palfrey beat U. S. Champion Helen Jacobs in the final of a tournament at Seabright, N. J. This made it look as though her game had finally grown up. Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, who put up the trophy for a series between U. S. and British teams because she felt that women's tennis needed something to correspond with the Davis...
...Sarah Palfrey of Boston, 12th Ranking U. S. woman tennist: her match against U. S. Champion Helen Jacobs, in the final of the Seabright Invitation tournament; 6-1, 2-6, 7-5; at Seabright...
...experts who had seen her beat Dorothy Andrus Burke, Mary Greef and Joan Ridley of England at Seabright last month, what dark, 20-year-old little Carolyn Babcock of Los Angeles did last week was exciting and satisfying. To the rest of the gallery which had never heard of her before, it was amazing. She had a hard match in the second round against Mrs. Burke which she won 10-8, 10-8, but her first real test came two rounds later against Mrs. Lawrence Harper who was runner-up in 1930, when Helen Wills Moody stayed in California. They...
...Seabright Tennis & Cricket Club suggested that players who were dissatisfied with its hospitality could withdraw. The 14 players "respectfully" withdrew...