Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University tennis tournament to be held sometime early this fall will be one one of the first events open to freshmen and all other undergraduates and graduates. A cross country handicap open to all members of the University is scheduled for October...
...Brookes, Vinnie Richards. On the distaff side Suzanne Lenglen, the greatest girl player ever to swing a racket, had just gained control of her strokes, if not her temper. Helen Wills, a poker-faced youngster, was on her way up, copped the U.S. Nationals in 1923. In the tournament lists were names like Mallory, Bundy and Wightman...
...Perils of Pauline. Last week they were all in Boston, at suburban Brookline's venerable Longwood Cricket Club, the next-to-last stop on the tournament line. There the National Doubles Championships were at stake. The goal they were all shooting for-the U.S. Singles-begins this week at Forest Hills. The big names: 1) skyscraping Yvon Petra of France, Wimbledon winner; 2) solemn Frank Parker, the U.S. champion; 3) brilliant but unpredictable ex-Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer; 4) jugeared Bill Talbert, best of the wartime tournament regulars. Among the women, there was one whose name...
Hobnobbing with Headliners. She liked the life-checking in & out of hotels, hopping planes, eating in restaurants, hobnobbing with headline names. Winters, when the tournament season is over, she rarely spends an evening in the Betzes' small Los Angeles apartment, where the family serves vegetables in her sterling silver trophies. Usually she is to be found with movie folk, especially the Bill Powells. At the elegant Beverly Hills Tennis Club, she has little trouble beating Cinemactors Paul Lukas and Robert Taylor...
...Face. Last fall, after three years as national champion, Pauline Betz had her first major setback, from 33-year-old Sarah Palfrey Cooke, who came out of retirement to tournament play. Sarah took the crown away from Pauline at Forest Hills...