Word: wightman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finals of the National Indoor Mixed Doubles Tournament to be played on the Longwood Covered Courts at 4: 30 o'clock this afternoon will have a decided Crimson tinge. Miss Sarah Palfrey and M. T. Hill '30 will meet Mrs. G. W. Wightman and G. P. Gardner '10 for the title. The first pair reached the final round yesterday by defeating Miss Margarer Blake and Karl Pfaffman '24, former Crimson tennis captain, in a close match, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. Mrs. Wrightman and Gardner, however, won decisively from Mrs. F. V. Roeser and W. W. Ingraham...
...week, a gallery received Miss Helen Wills when she stepped on the courts of the West Side Tennis Club to play with Miss Mary K. Browne against Miss McKane and Miss Colyer of England in a doubles match that would decide the international women's series for the Wightman Cup. The match score stood at 3-all. Mrs. Mallory, after half an hour of sturdy driving with her leathery right arm, had trounced Miss Joan Fry of England, 6-3, 6-0. Miss Wills had mustered enough reserve on an off day to resist a determined rally of Miss...
...Finley Jr. '25 vs. G. W. Wightman...
Peering intently from beneath her perky white visor, crafty Helen Wills, of California, kept track of every tennis ball that came whizzing her way at Forest Hills, L. I. When she had dealt firmly with the last one, she was still national singles champion and, with Mrs. George Wightman, of Philadelphia, national doubles champion...
Experts thought that the greatest obstacle confronting Helen was not Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, from whom she won her title last year; nor Mrs. George Wightman, her Olympic doubles partner; nor Eleanor Goss nor Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, other members of the American women's team that went to Wimbledon and Colombes; nor Mayme MacDonald, national clay court champion. Experts scrutinized a lithe figure that appeared from secluded practice courts in upper New York State, recognized Miss Mary K. Browne of California, national champion...