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...Finley Jr. '25 vs. G. W. Wightman...
Peering intently from beneath her perky white visor, crafty Helen Wills, of California, kept track of every tennis ball that came whizzing her way at Forest Hills, L. I. When she had dealt firmly with the last one, she was still national singles champion and, with Mrs. George Wightman, of Philadelphia, national doubles champion...
Experts thought that the greatest obstacle confronting Helen was not Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, from whom she won her title last year; nor Mrs. George Wightman, her Olympic doubles partner; nor Eleanor Goss nor Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, other members of the American women's team that went to Wimbledon and Colombes; nor Mayme MacDonald, national clay court champion. Experts scrutinized a lithe figure that appeared from secluded practice courts in upper New York State, recognized Miss Mary K. Browne of California, national champion...
Married. Gouverneur Morris, famed novelist, to Ruth Wightman, his secretary; at Salinas, Cal., a year ago. The marriage was made public last week when a second ceremony was held just after Mr. Morris had obtained a final decree of divorce from his first wife, Elise Waterbury Morris, in Los Angeles...
Tennis. In the torrid hollow back of Colombes Stadium, scene of the steeplechasers' collapse (TIME, July 21), the Olympic tennis courts were swept clean by Americans. Women's singles: Helen Wills. Women's doubles: Helen Wills and Mrs. George Wightman. Mixed doubles: Mrs. Marion Jessup and Vincent Richards. Men's singles: Vincent Richards. Men's doubles: Vincent Richards and Francis T. Hunter...