Word: wightman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English Wightman Cup team: their matches with the Wightman Cup, from the U. S. team, at Wimbledon, four matches to three. Mrs. L. A. Godfree and Mrs. Phoebe Watson beat Helen Wills Moody and Helen Jacobs in the doubles 7-5, 1-6, 6-4. Phyllis Mudford beat hard hitting Sarah Palfrey of Boston...
...Merion, Pa., Mrs. George W. Wightman of Brookline, Mass., mother of five children and winner of 31 tennis titles, won the Women's National Squash Racquets Championship by defeating Miss Ruth Hall of Merion...
...play at tournaments in the clubs around Boston, the John Gorham Palfreys took their swarm of brown-haired, blue-eyed, wiry, sunburned children to the matches. On their own court they practiced what they had seen. In 1926, Elizabeth won the indoor doubles with Marjorie Morrill. Mrs. George Wightman, a resident of Brookline, holder of 31 national titles, came over in the afternoons to give them lessons. The Palfreys had learned by themselves those parts of the game that players not taught by a professional always get first-serve and forehand drive. Mrs. Wightman taught them footwork, volleying, trained them...
...Hill '30 and his partner Miss Annette Hollis lost to Mrs. George Wightman and G.P. Gardner Jr., 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, after gaining the third round by defeating Miss Gertrude Dwyer and W.W. Weld '16 in two hard fought sets...