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...virtually built around a croquet court, Poloist John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Social Cynosure Herbert Bayard Swope, who plays very solemn croquet with Broadway celebrities at his Long Island home, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott and the four Marx Brothers. Most of these play according to the Wimbledon Championship rules* and all of them take the game as seriously as Britons their cricket. One of the best croquet experts in the U. S. is Averell Harriman, board chairman of Union Pacific...
...British Fred Perry. That was in 1934-36, when Budge was just out of the juniors and Perry was the world's No. 1 Amateur. Perry took the redhead over in the Pacific Coast final in '34, the Davis Cup challenge round in '35, at Wimbledon and Forest Hills in '36. Budge beat Perry just twice, in unimportant matches. Then Perry turned professional and Budge went on to unparalleled tennis fame. Last year, for a guaranteed $75,000, Budge joined the pros...
...lumbered out to limber her muscles on Manhattan's River Club court. Her compatriot, 19-year-old John Bromwich, Australia's either-handed, both-handed tennis topnotcher, wandered around Broadway until sheer ennui forced him to do a little volleying on an indoor court. Blond Sidney Wood, Wimbledon winner in 1931 who has been trying for a comeback this summer after two years of minding his nuggets in a California gold mine, visited his relatives in Manhattan. California's Alice Marble, U. S. women's champion two years ago, was a house guest of the Socialite...
...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...