Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Touch of Fame. The Kid from Harlem gave the Eatons a rough time. She hung out in a poolroom. Her table manners were so bad that the Eatons made her eat in the kitchen ("She was underfed, and it took almost a year to fill her up properly"). At...
While she got a polishing from her Southern foster parents, Althea continued to give a pasting to all her tournament opponents. After her first defeat in the A.T.A. women's singles, she came back and won the title, has won it every year since. On the strength of her...
College was a great experience. She played on the tennis team, starred on the girls' basketball team and joined the oldest Negro college sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha. She also made $40 a month cleaning up the equipment rooms in the gym. Most important of all, she found more time...
"Miss Gibson." wrote Tennis Great Alice Marble angrily in American Lawn Tennis, "is over a cunningly wrought barrel, and I can only hope to loosen a few of its staves with one lone opinion. I think it's time we faced a few facts. If tennis is a game...
Unmoved, New Jersey's Maplewood Country Club refused to let Althea on its courts during the New Jersey State championship. But the Orange Lawn Tennis Club in South Orange, NJ. unbent and invited Althea to the 1950 Eastern Grass Court championships. She went, and got whipped in the second...