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...Kansas City. Dallas and Norfolk where a Mrs. Tom Hanes said she saw no reason for women to be "bundled up like eskimos." Even more enthusiastic about the story than any of its rivals, the New York American ran a four-column spread with pictures of Swimmer Eleanor Holm, Tennist Helen Jacobs and Golfer Bea Gottlieb...
When she left the court 70 minutes later, Helen Jacobs had the painful experience of having her dearest ambition completely thwarted by England's No. 1 lady tennist, who learned the game on the lawn of her father's Worcestershire vicarage and refuses to play a match on Sunday. Miss Round won the first set. 6-2. Miss Jacobs won the second, 7-5. There was a moment in the third when Miss Jacobs needed only one point to lead at 3-1. When Miss Jacobs came to the net behind a weak forehand chop and Miss Round...
...George M. Lott Jr. of Chicago,No. 10 ranking U. S. amateur tennist: the Miami-Biltmore championship from Bryan M. ("Bitsy") Grant Jr. of Atlanta, 9-7, 6-4, 11-9; at Coral Gables. Fla. In the semi-finals Grant eliminated Francis X. Shields, No. 1 amateur, and Lott beat Cliff Sutter who ranks...
...golfer won more than one big match, and Robert Tyre Jones's record of 1930 (British & U. S. open, British & U. S. amateur) had not been remotely approached. Frank Shields, who was left off the Davis Cup team for his erratic playing, was named No. 1 U. S. tennist, after Ellsworth Vines turned professional. As picked by the Pulitzer Prize judges, Maxwell Anderson's Both Your Houses might be called Play of the Year. However, it developed early trouble at the boxoffice. George M. Cohan's performances in Pigeons & People and Ah Wilderness ranked high at both...
...game brought its high reward when he was nominated for the presidency of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association with election in February a foregone conclusion. The selection of Mr. Hall, now a part ner in the Wall Street firm of Callaway, Fish & Co., was applauded by many a tennist not only because he is an active tournament player, but because he achieved high rank in his day against practical difficulties. In all his career he took only two weeks vacation each year, made it coincide with the dates of the tournament in which he wanted to play. Between...