Word: skeen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benefactor No. 2 was Dick Skeen, one of the shrewdest teaching pros in the business. For $25 down and $5 a month, he began teaching young Jake how to swing a tennis racket. Each day, the youngster spent three hours on trolley cars, traveling the 18 miles between his home and Skeen's Beverly Hills court. Gradually his strokes took on a Skeen sheen. At 15, Jake easily beat Alice Marble, who was then women's singles champion...
...Admiral. > Tennist Fred Perry, onetime British Davis Cupper now teaching tennis in the U.S.: an invitation Professional Round Robin Tennis championship (10% of receipts for British War Relief); defeating creaking, 48-year-old Bill Tilden (4-6, 0-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2), up-&-coming Dick Skeen of Hollywood (6-1, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3) and jaded Don Budge (6-4, 6-2, 6-3); at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y. For Bridegroom Budge, practically invincible during two years of professional barnstorming, it was the second defeat in two weeks. On closing...