Word: tennist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Manuel Alonso, tennist, long-time Spanish Davis Cup player, to Mrs. Ginetta Traini Huck; in Manhattan...
Married. Mrs. Lillian Stokes Bostwick McKim, sister of polo-playing, steeplechasing George H. (''Pete"), Dunbar and Albert Bostwick, to Ogden Phipps, court-tennist. stable owner, nephew of the late Ogden Mills; quietly and to the surprise even of Mr. Phipps's household servants; in a Manhattan apartment...
...route to a Los Angeles exhibition match against Ellsworth Vines, Amateur Champion Tennist Donald Budge fell asleep at the wheel of his auto, ten miles north of Bakersfield, Calif. The car bumped off the road, careened across a five-foot ditch, turned over three times, came to rest on the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Tennist Budge clambered out of the wreck with a few cuts on his face and bruises on his ribs, flagged a motorist to take him to Bakersfield...
Engaged. Carolin Babcock, 26, ranking U. S. tennis star; to Richard Salisbury Stark, of Santa Monica, Calif.; in Los Angeles. Tennist Babcock has been on five U. S. Wightman Cup teams, was runner-up in the 1932 U. -S. Women's Championship...
From then on a confirmed and even relentless careerist. Tennist Wills found the University of California an irrelevant interlude until she heard about Phi Beta Kappa. Then she ascertained "what average was necessary" and for three years did just enough work, in between tournaments, to win her key. "Pride," reflects Autobiographer Wills, ". . . gave way to a much colder thing. Ambition." Other Wills revelations...