Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played tournament tennis all season, was too busy working as a counselor at a Massachusetts camp. But after finishing her morning camp chores last week, 22-year-old Darlene got back into action, teamed with Jeanne Arth of St. Paul in an unseeded pairing and, volleying spectacularly, upset Wimbledon Champions Althea Gibson of New York and Maria Bueno of Brazil, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 to win the U.S. Doubles championships at Brookline, Mass...
Married. Althea Louise Brough, 35, national women's singles tennis champion in 1947, Wimbledon champion in 1948, '49, '50, and '55; and Dentist Alan T. Clapp, 35, of Pasadena; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Wimbledon it rained, rained, rained, rotting the roses and mildewing many a seeded reputation. Down fast went U.S. Oldsters Budge Patty, 34, and Gardnar Mulloy, 44. Still a hope in the quarterfinals was robustious Ohioan Barry MacKay, 22. But Australia's mercurial Mervyn Rose caught MacKay slew-footed with teasing volleys and adroitly angled passing shots, eliminated him 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. Though Rose wilted in a semifinal rout by Fellow Aussie Ashley Cooper, the men's final was an Australian crawl again for the third straight year, with Cooper beating Teammate Neale Fraser after...
Anarchy prevailed. After a long winter of weight lifting and wind sprints, Christine brightened Wimbledon's No. 1 court with the finest tennis of her short career. Her powerful forehand was unbeatable, her sliced backhand was too cute for Althea to handle, her serve had a vicious hop. And as her confidence grew, her shots sharpened. She ran Althea off the court, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. It was the decisive match; Christine and her teammates forthwith walked off with the Wightman Cup (4-3) for the first time in 28 years...
Abdication. In Wimbledon, England, the juvenile court put a 15-year-old girl on probation after she pledged: "I will get a job and will not sit at home all day running the rest of the household; I will not be violent, swearing and shouting and breaking up the home; I will not strike my mother or order my father out of the house...