Word: wightman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tennis H: Charles G. Benello '49; Arthur S. Ecker '49; Thomas E. Frothingham '47; William T. Kissel, Jr. '44 ocC, Captain; Murray B. Levin '48; William M. Mayleas '46; James S. Roberts '47; James S. Roberts '47; James R. Ware, Jr. '49; Edus H. Warren, Jr. '46; William H. Wightman '49; Norman L. Dreyer '47, Manager...
...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...
Tennis for the King. The Betz Club got its first foreign seasoning in June. For the first time since 1938, the top five U.S. women players-Betz, Osborne, Brough, Pat Todd and Florida's Doris Hart-headed for England to play Britain's top women in Wightman Cup competition. The U.S. team blasted Britain's out-of-practice best off the courts in seven straight matches without dropping a set. Betz won the Wimbledon Singles crown, a glory at least equal to the U.S. championship. In Paris three weeks later, Osborne handed Betz...
Warren and Wightman won over Bronston and Morrison, 6-0, 6-1; Drake and Flickenger defeated Melvin and Doloff, 6-3, 7-5 and Burton and Sadove best Cook and McLaughlin...
Should Fox and McGovern win, they would then be matched in an even battle to determine who will play the winner of the Wightman match...