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...director, who had been in charge of the tourna- ment for more than 25 years, explained thatonce she had received an entry form from a womanwho had included only one recommendation.Reluctantly, she decided to let the woman play inthe tournament...
...Forest HilHills, N.Y., the governors of the West Side Tennis Club, long a shrine of amateurism and site of the U.S. National grass court championships, voted to convert the Nationals into a U.S. Open and ante up prize money for the pros. With a whole series of open tourna ments in prospect, there was talk of such old pros as Lew Hoad, Frank Sedgman and Althea Gibson coming out of retirement. And the thought of making an honest living from their sport -as golfers do - seemed pretty good to the younger amateurs...
...Malory or even a T. H. White (The Once and Future King) Author Fadiman is a cut above Lerner & Loewe (Camelot). His grave young hero seems to sense that he is on the threshold of a mythic destiny. Fadiman's Merlin is a wiser Polonius. His courts and tourna ments are a pageant of medieval glory as if they had been clipped from the film sequences of Olivier's Henry...
...dropped, gasps were heard, tongues wagged long and loud. Such prowess in a comparative novice was unheard of. In the final, against seasoned Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, of Philadelphia, twice before champion (1909-10), Miss Browne "cracked." On a soggy course, she sliced with her brassie, lopped her irons. Tourna ment nerve had pulled her through thus far, but Mrs. Hurd had tourna ment nerve, too,* and a sounder game than the tennis apostate had had time to develop. Mrs. Hurd romped off 7-and-6 with the title. Even so, Miss Browne's glory was inviolate. Edith Cummings...
...TOURNA- MATCHES. PERMENTS. WON. LOST. CENT...
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