Word: wightman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday's summaries: Vanderhoof (UC) defeated Foster (H) 3-1; Roundey (UC) defeated Wightman (H) 3-2; Webb (UC) defeated McGovern (H) 3-0; Tashjian (UC) defeated Heath (H) 3-2; Lebowich (UC) defeated Foster...
Although his players are hampered by the squash coach's traditional bugaboo of inexperience, Barnaby has a large part of his 1946 Varsity back, and feels he has cause for optimism, Captain Adam Foster returns to grace the number one spot, while right behind him are Bill Wightman and George Stevens, playing two and three respectively. Other veterans with a year's Varsity experience behind them are such dependables as Scotty Stewart, Lane McGovern, Milt Heath, and Jim McKittrick, while Foster's brothers Hugh and Henry have both joined him as sure starters. The former was number...
This fall, with new courts, all but two of last year's Varsity, plus some promising new talent, Barnaby is seeing his long-range plans begin to bear fruit. Top-seeded Ted Backe is back, as are Bill Wightman, Steve Prati, and Howio Swartzman, all dependable in last spring's battles...
Barnaby is running off a series of test matches between these players and several others from the '47 Varsity, but as yet he is making no definite predictions of next season's starting lineup. Either Backe or Brant are almost certain for the number one position, while at present Wightman and Pratt are battling it out for number three, but beyond that the field is wide open...
...Stalling! Stalling!" The day before the matches, the U.S. girls practiced under a blazing sun on the Forest Hills (L.I.) courts, subject to the stern eye and acid comments of Cup Donor Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. When one of them loitered over a courtside conversation, Mrs. Wightman snapped: "Stalling! Stalling!" Sighed blonde Jean Bostock, as she watched Margaret Osborne: "I'll be lucky to even get a point!" The British girls had been experimenting with U.S. menus. Pert Betty Hilton was feeling poorly. "It's because of the cream puffs," confided Teammate Kay Stammers Menzies...