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...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...
...Brother of England's Wightman Cupwoman Betty Nuthall...
Californians all were the three youngest members of the U. S. team, and California-born was the fourth member, their coach and leader, donor of the Wightman cup, patriarch of U. S. tennis for women. As Helen Hotchkiss she first won the U. S. championship in 1909 before Betty Nuthall and Helen Jacobs were born and when Helen Wills was a tot. She kept the title until 1912 and then, though "they never come back," rewon it in 1919. Her score of other national titles were amassed in doubles courts and indoors. She gave the Wightman cup six years...