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...Wightman Cup (Sat. 10 a.m., 1:15 p.m.. CBS). Leading British and American women tennis players in final play described by veteran Tennist Bill Tilden...
...international tennis courts had not seen the last of Mrs. Moody. Packing up her rackets for her first tennis campaign in three years, Mrs. Moody, still nimble at 32, embarked for England. There she will try for her eighth English championship, will play for the U. S. in the Wightman Cup matches against England, next fall will attempt to capture one more U. S. title...
Engaged. Carolin Babcock, 26, ranking U. S. tennis star; to Richard Salisbury Stark, of Santa Monica, Calif.; in Los Angeles. Tennist Babcock has been on five U. S. Wightman Cup teams, was runner-up in the 1932 U. -S. Women's Championship...
...spite of her un orthodox forehand style, 6-2. Then Helen Jacobs got her famous chop working, sent her opponent an endless procession of floating teasers, worried the second set away from her, 6-4, ran out the third, 6-2, for the match and the seventh U. S. Wightman Cup victory...
...were tossing off an easy victory, but lost to Miss Marble, 6-3, 6-1. In the same sort of match, twinkle-toed Sarah Palfrey Fabyan in her well-bred fashion beat left-handed Margot Lumb, English squash racquets champion. For the last doubles match Captain Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, the Cup's sturdy donor who still: plays capable tennis herself, substituted chubby Dorothy May Sutton Bundy for Miss Jacobs, who had done enough for one day. Miss Bundy, daughter of onetime (1904) U. S. Champion May Sutton, squealed, giggled, sprawled, enjoyed herself so thoroughly in her first Wightman...