Word: tennist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wimbledon (Fri. 11 a.m., 2 p.m., CBS). Finals in No. 1 women's tennis matches described by veteran Tennist Bill Tilden...
...haired Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif.: the French hard-court tennis championship; in his first attempt; trouncing Czech Roderich Menzel in the final, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4; at Auteuil. Champion of the U. S., England, Australia and France, Budge at 23 is the first tennist in history to hold the "Big Four" titles at one time. Australia's Jack Crawford and England's Fred Perry each held three simultaneously, never could capture the fourth...
Engagement Reported. Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (Yah-dvee-ga Yed-drze-yoef-ska-"Yah-Yah"), 25, Polish typist-tennist who eats beefsteak for breakfast, hits tennis balls as powerfully as a man; to Captain Laskswski Karinier; in Warsaw...
Wightman Cup (Sat. 10 a.m., 1:15 p.m.. CBS). Leading British and American women tennis players in final play described by veteran Tennist Bill Tilden...
...international tennis, world's No. 1 amateur is Donald Budge, No. 2 is Baron Gottfried von Cramm. While Donald Budge is tuning up his game for the coming season, Gottfried von Cramm is languishing in a Nazi prison. Last week a group of U. S. athletes, headed by Tennist Budge, demanded von Cramm's release. Criticizing the failure of the Nazi Government to amplify their charges of "moral delinquency" on which the baron was arrested last March, the U. S. athletes protested that the Nazi accusations were a "mere subterfuge . . . that the secrecy of methods employed suggests...