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...team of U. S. women tennists: the annual matches for the Wightman Cup, for the ninth year in a row; defeating a team of Britons; five matches to two; at Forest Hills, N. Y. It was the 13th U. S. victory since...
...covered, Czecho-Slovakian-goose-quilled birds) like those used by Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Douglas Fairbanks and other Hollywood enthusiasts. Although serious badminton addicts play indoors where there is no breeze to affect the true flight of their birds, many a tournament player, such as Mrs. George Wightman (donor of the Wightman Cup), Tennist Sidney Wood and William Faversham Jr., plays outdoors with heavier birds just...
...tennis. A meeting between Helen Moody and Helen Jacobs in the U. S. championship would add at least $25,000 to the till. Thus the U. S. L. T. A. was very glad to pay Mrs. Moody's expenses to Europe to represent the U. S. on the Wightman Cup and play in the All-England championships at Wimbledon...
Born. To Dorothy Round Little, last year's Wimbledon tennis champion, six-time member of the Wightman Cup team; and Dr. Douglas Little; their first child; a boy; in Dudley, England. Because she was about to become a mother England's No. 1 woman player did not play at Wimbledon this year. England's No. 1 man player, Bunny Austin entered although he was about to become a father, lost in the finals to California's Donald Budge (TIME, July...
...picked team of U. S. women tennists: the Wightman Cup, for the eighth year in a row; defeating a picked team of Britons, five matches to two; before a crowd of 12,000; at Wimbledon. In the singles, Helen Wills Moody won both her matches, but Alice Marble, U. S. No. 1, lost one match to Britain's No. 4, Kay Stammers...