Word: tennist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice she trounced 22-year-old Pauline Betz, second-ranking woman tennist. In the Longwood Invitation tournament this week she humbled San Francisco's fourth-ranking Margaret Osborne the second time. At Maidstone, she wore sixth-ranking Helen Bernhard ragged...
...intimate adviser of Edward VII and George V; in Edinburgh. He was Lord President of the Court of Session (the Scottish Supreme Court), a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords. Besides, he claimed to have been the first Cambridge undergraduate to ride a bicycle, was an expert tennist, cricketer and fencer, remarried at 73, and celebrated his 90th birthday by throwing a cocktail party...
Baron Gottfried von Cramm, graceful tennist, onetime jail bird (on a morals charge) has returned to Berlin from the eastern front and resumed his tennis...
...still unable to bend his elbow without wincing, its cast includes most of this generations best shotmakers. Favorite among the field of 32 is Don Budge, now a physical education director at Miami's Embry-Riddle Aviation School and still considered America's No. 1 tennist...
Handsome Patty, a product of Los Angeles public courts and protégé of Movie Stars Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, is the National Junior champion. Equally handsome Bob Falkenburg, kid brother of much-photogled Jinx, and a boy friend of Shirley Temple, is the only tennist ever to win both the National Boys' Singles and Doubles championship two years...