Margaret, the eldest, used to be the best. Then Elizabeth learned to beat her. Mianne was next in line, but for some reason Sarah, two years younger, made headway faster. Helen Wills played Sarah last summer at the Essex County Club Tournament and said afterward: "She is the best girl player of her age I ever saw." Mianne's main trouble was that she had no confidence in her backhand, became nervous at the wrong moments. Last week in the finals of the Women's National Indoor Singles Championship,...
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